Oh Hey Friday's Five

Like what I did there in the title lol so let's get straight to it 

 

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I have been detoxing from my vacation and this has been my breakfast of choice lately a green Protien smoothie and a slice of cinnamon raisin Ezekiel toast.  So good! 

 

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Staying strong in my detox mode I have fought these urges.  Not that it's horrible but I had already eaten my lunch, so I popped some gum in my mouth and just said no. 

 

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It is finally sweater weather here, if you can call 65-70 degrees cold...sorry my mid west and northern friends. 

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In keeping with the name of my blog I need to stay on track and get to losing because I must borrow this outfit from TaTa... So cute and I am digging her new pixie cut.  Sorry for the shitty pic.

 

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And lastly this first week back has been the longest week ever!! So I had a at home happy hour.  It was so yummy and I kept the portions under control to minimize any damage. 

Have a great weekend!! 

 

 

 

 

5 on Friday

So glad it's 5 on Friday I don't think my brain could handle any more right now. I  am so ready for this weekend, the only bummer is I'm not feeing 100%.  I think I have  something brewing *figures* but better now than in 3 weeks I will not be sick for vacation so…

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I am doing everything I can to get this thing knocked out

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I finally picked up some beets at the farmers market last week and tried roasting them.  Gotta say they weren't bad I made a great little goat cheese and salad thing with them.  

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Yup I'm sure your tired of hearing it but it is still hot here.  I shouldn't complain really I mean hitting the pool in (almost) mid October some people would kill for that.

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TaTa and I workin' it old school.  We had a few Just Dance workouts this week.  I forgot how much fun it is :)  We even busted out all four of them.

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This is what breakfast looks like when you forget your lunch at home not for one but two days ugh!!

but on the flip side a PBJ is still pretty damn good.

HAve a great weekend all and I can't wait to recap the LongBeach race this weekend.

Oh Hey Friday…Dance Party

I have been doing really well at getting in my 30 minutes of activity and most of the time I am doing more than that. I guess the no expectation is working (so far).  The thing that has always helped is my tunes if I have good music I can do just about anything.

So for this Fridays Five I  put together my faves for the last few weeks.

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I LOVE this song besides being fun and catchy the message is pretty damn awesome!

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This is my new anthem.  The older I get the more I really don't give a you know what!
It's kinda liberating :)

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This is my high school self coming out, 

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I can get down and work up a good sweat to this one enough said!

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another great sweatin' song but every time this comes on when I'm run I lose my rhythm,
cause the latin in me just wants to dance! haha

So  there you have it the music of my life :)

Linking up with September Farm, That Friday Blog Hop, and Friday's Favorites.

Oh Hey Friday!

Hey there it's Friday!! 

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 This week has marked the end of summer for us as DQ started 2nd grade on Wednesday.

It's only been 3 days but so far so good :) she seems to like her teachers and is happy to be back with her friends.

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Even though school has started that in no way means the summer weather has left us.  In fact it has been even warmer here lately.  This was my too hot to cook dinner. 

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DQ still can not get enough of the chicks she is always in my office watching them or playing with them.  They love to just sit on her and sleep.  Who knew they would be so snuggly.

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Finally made it to the gym yesterday with Carrie for our standing Thursday girls night. I really wasn't feeling it but I couldn't stand her up :) and she promised my froyo after so how could I say no.

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and just because it's too cute I had to show you this flashback friday.

My dad actually sent this to me the other day.  Aren't I a cutie lol.

Linking up with Paula, That Friday Blog Hop, and Karli.

Fridays Five…Totally Random

I am still riding on that awesome wave of losing 2 pounds this week! Instead of how I would normally give into temptation a bit and have a few "extras" here and there, I am staying the course and making better choices,  moving my ass and keeping busy (that is big for me I tend to eat cause I'm bored).

Here are some things that been keeping me busy this week.

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I love my job! Where else can you "play" all day and get paid (ok not all the time but summers are lite and laid back most of the time).  We are doing a great outdoors/camping theme this week and we painted rocks so I made these beauties for my garden.  Aren't they cute!

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speaking of garden this is the other side of my yard.  The palm trees were getting out of control, so I decided to take things into my own hands and clean it up! Another unconventional workout, I was sweating like a beast when I was done…turns out gardening is hard freaking work, that and having some dull ass clippers makes you really use some muscles.

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I feel like I haven't seen my mom in ages so we were chatting… this was too funny and also a reminder I need to get going on training.  The Long Beach 1/2 Marathon is only 2 months away Yikes!!

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This is also a boredom buster for me.  I swear my mouth just likes to move (some who that sounds naughty) whether  it's talking or eating,  so chewing gum has really been helping with the mindless snacking.

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and it is official we are really getting chickens. We are  driving up to Dare 2 Dream Farms in Lompoc next weekend to pick them out, I was going to have them delivered but we decided to make a day of it and drive up the coast, hit the farmers market in Santa Barbara and maybe lunch in Solvang. I also really wanted to show DQ a real farm this is so exciting and a little crazy.  

Linking up with That Friday Blog Hop, Friday's Favorites, and Oh Hey Friday.

Friday Five....Refrigerator Surprise

Yup I am still doing Fridays Five I can't help I like it :)  this weeks five is pretty much a little recap of my week so let's do this.

 

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I have been doing great in my food choices and staying on track.  Sometimes it's really hard since my school serves up some pretty tasty snack for the kiddos ie. pot stickers, bean and cheese burritos, English muffin pizzas...so much food.  But I am staying strong and my  goal is to only eat what I have brought in my lunch  bag (yes I pack a lunch every darn day).

 

apples + pb = best combo ever

berry chicken salad
 

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and as far as food goes it is not the only thing in my fridge at the moment thanks to DQ.  She is my own Dr. Doolittle.  This girl loves every creature under the sun (except maybe spiders but can you blame her) so some times I find things like this.

dand I need to go to the grocery store...

 

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continuing on that path I think I'm slightly to blame for her creature/animal obsession.  I was like that too when I was younger and still am a bit the only thing that stops me now is that my mom isn't here to take care of the animals when I tire of them lol just kidding sort of  hence how we ended up with a dog after the hubs swore we would never have any more (just had to give him the sad eyes... works every time how do you thing I finally got my dish washer).

 

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which brings me to my new pinterest board

Yup we are getting chickens.  Not right this minute probably in the next month or two. We need some time to get a coop (hello those thing can be pricey, any one out there want to donate to my farming dreams lol)  and all the other necessities for being "urban" chicken farmers :)

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add that to my little plot of a garden and I am a happy little "wanna be" urban farm girl!

isn't my cantaloupe cute

Now I'm off to celebrate Carries Birthday with a few margaritas and some paddle boarding.


Linking up with, Oh Hey Friday, That Friday Blog Hop, and, Sincerely Paula

 

Oh Hey Friday

It's (almost) the freakin weekend!!

So that means it's time to link up with Kari from September Farm for

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This week started out well enough.  I always started out feel enough with good food choices for breakfast and lunch.

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Then dinner came and all that good planning went right out the window.  

not dinner so much as dessert.  I made this cool little pinterest project for a homemade s'mores station.

Ya it was a hit with the kids and a danger for me! I love me some charcoal marshmallows.

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Even though I was off for a week I had to take off Thursday for a doctors appt. It was time for my 6 month check up (after surgery).  Nothing like rocking a hospital gown :0)

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Since Ashleigh was here for just this week I made sure to get everyone (aka TaTa)  all together for a quick family photos shoot.  I don't want to totally give it away but this year's Christmas card is going to be epic!

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Finally tomorrow we will be heading out to Phoenix to drop Ash off back home I will miss her.  We do not see her nearly enough, I really hope now that she is older that will change a bit.  She is just the most polite and sweet girl.  She is as quite as Syd is crazy the seriously are total opposites.  But I love them both and it's fun to watch their relationship blossom.

also linking up with Paula and Jennie

Fridays Five...Oops I Did it Again

Ok were you all as sad as I was about the girls over at 5 on Fridays taking a summer break!!
I loved friday's post because it was quick, fun and didn't need any rhyme or reason to it. I totally understand though it can get crazy in the summer. So even thought they are not doing the link up for the summer I'm still gonna do a Friday's Five post, cause I'm kinda a rebel sometimes!



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Yup the hubs and I went to happy hour again.  Now that summer is here Grammie is keeping DQ over night on Wed. which means a date night for us.  Time to start researching healthy happy hours....is there even such a thing??  

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This is freaking delicious!! Not even lying I received a coupon in my TLC VoxBox from Infulenster for a free one. I got the Carmel Truffle and it's seriously amaze balls, and only 140 kcal for a half a cup (if you can stop at that) and so creamy.  I'm going to be picking up the Tiramisu and Raspberry cheesecake flavors soon! What's summer with out a little gelato..so fancy.

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 So bummed I don't know what happened,  but when we came home last night our patio umbrella was lying about 20 feet from where it belongs and is now broken.  Go figure it happens two days before a swim party ugh.

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I got a great deal on some Jennie-O turkey the other day at Albertson's. They were on managers special for $2 each!! Holla looks like I'm meal prepping some turkey for the next few weeks #gobblegobble

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So now it's off to clean up the house for said non-birthday swim party, party.  Yea I'm a sucker I said I wasn't going to have a party for DQ's B-day and it's not really just a few like seriously only 2 other family's coming over for pizza swimming and so what if there's is cake!

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5 on Friday

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I got in a couple good workouts this week. I went for a run, did some weights and even went for a bike ride (I haven't done that in years) I guess it actually makes it more enjoyable when my butt is not trying to eat the seat lol.

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I also have discovered I actually like veggies in the morning...who knew??

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This happened

I was so sad, luckily I was walking out to my car at the end of the day.  But on the flip side I get to go shoe shopping  this weekend, a girl needs her Havaianas! and I've had my eye on a black pair for a while now.

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Went to the doctor yesterday about some pain I've still been having (normally when I wear pants random I know) He said it shouldn't be from the surgery it was to low.  So now I have to go get another ultrasound.  It may be a hernia caused by the surgery or possibly nerve damage from the surgery.  Or worse case another tumor.  Lord give me strength I do not want to do this again!

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So after hearing that from the doctors I went out and had one, two, ok three of these with the hubs at happy hour.  Probably not the best choice but we were kid free and well damit it's been a rough week!


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Five on Friday

Wow what a long week but I survived so glad I have NOTHING to do this weekend.  

It's gonna be pretty much laying by the pool and I may take DQ to see Malificent but that is it!

This weeks 5 on Friday is short an sweet (Kinda like me haha)

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Dobby is doing much better, my vet could not find anything wrong with him.  They are guessing he was probably stung by a bee and because he is so little (3.2 pounds) it affected him pretty quick.  

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As most of you know I have a major sweet tooth (I still can't shake it no matter what I do) and durning the warm summer months all I want is froyo and ice cream.  So I came up with this little replacement.  Plain non-fat geek yogurt mixed with 1TB. sugar free cheesecake pudding mix topped with blueberries.  all I can say is YUM!

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Have I told you lately how much I love Body Pump.  I think  lifting to music is so much better!

Pretty much everything is better with music and chocolate 

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Last night at Carries I got to go through her hand me downs.  No shame in my game!  I was so excited some of these were mediums and I totally fit in them YAY!!  

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I have hit my goal of replacing one cup of coffee for green tea.  

Hope you all have a great weekend.  Are you doing any thing fun?