Heading Home

Tonight the hubs and I took a little road trip. It was a three hour road trip to be exact with WV as our destination. We did some rushing around after work and managed to leave our house before 6:00, a huge win for us! We packed up Carrie and Harlow to drop them off with their Grammie and Grampy (IE: The hub’s parents). The dogs were pretty jazzed about the car ride incase you cant tell by the look of crazy joy on their faces. 🙂

After getting the pups in order the hubs and I were finally on the way. I am probably weird in that I actually enjoy a road trip, especially ones that are 2-3 hours. You just have some time to talk, relax, sing, be silly, and enjoy the beautiful scenery (in our case a beautiful evening).

About 30 minutes into our little adventure I realized I was starving. I did not want to make a lengthy stop nor did I want to destroy my diet so we stopped at “Subway” for a flat bread sub. This was maybe the least efficient Subway on earth as I was in line for a little over 30 minutes. We could have gotten real food in that amount of time. 🙂 When we finally took off again, it was more night than evening. Luckily the rest of the drive went by quickly and (dare I say) was a lot of fun!

We are all checked in to out hotel and the hubs has set up a little blogging area for me in the corner. My parents hooked us up with a pretty nice suite and we are looking forward to a mini weekend away.

I am heading to bed (Yes I know its only 11:40) and getting rested up for a full day of family time tomorrow. There really are fewer more comforting feelings in this world than heading home.

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Just Us Girls

So my precious pups Carrie and Harlow have been my primary source of company this weekend. With the hubs out on his mountain biking adventure I had some free time to just relax (that is kind of a foreign concept in my world lately).  I had the opportunity to completely veg out on Friday night and spend Saturday with some great girls in Roanoke. Here is my weekend at a glance…..

At Home Mani and Pedi

Bubble Bath and Facial

Yummy Breakfast (egg on toast)

A Day in Roanoke with Faves - Say hi to Lori!

Lunch at Wasabi

❤ Sushi

A Visit to Bubblecake

Black and White Cupcakes are the bees knees!

Scored these $100 LUCKY sandals for $20!

City Cash = Super cute chords for 15.00 🙂

A Great Run

Snuggle time with the worlds greatest pups

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Sunday Funday

Sunday is usually my hang out at home, go to the grocery store, maybe see a movie, lazy day. However, today I had a Sunday jam packed full of fun and happy goodness.  I am much too exhausted to give you all of the details but it involved

• A favorite (quick) breakfast
• Traveling to Roanoke
• Brunch at a place I love
• A trip to BubbleCake (which I will not be partaking in the consumption of until later in the week)
• Fall clothes shopping (including some really cute sweaters from The Limited)
• Movie watching with the hubs when I finally made it home.

One of today's fall purchases (LOVE)

How was YOUR weekend??

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One (The Sequel)

Remember earlier in the summer when I went to celebrate the birthday of one of my best girlfriend’s baby? Today was part II as another great girlfriend had another sweet baby turning one.  After my weigh in and run this morning the hubs and I rushed around to get ready for the 2 hour drive up to Richmond. I decided this would be one of the last weeks I could get away with a really summery dress so I took full advantage! It seems like only yesterday I was buying this thing.

We packed up the car and headed on our way.

We arrived (fashionably early) to an Elmo Birthday Bash! Tiff and Robert had the house looking completely adorable all decked out in Elmo swag!

There was tons of food (and plenty of healthy options) though I was glad that Saturday is my “flex” day in terms of calories because there were tons of goodies too. I also tried a new cheese which was fabulous. It was a white cheese with cranberries. I’m not certain if it was a Stilton or Wensleydale but it was fab!

After lunch Tiff and Robert “helped” the baby open his mountain of gifts. There were lots of Elmo themed toys but the baby was most interested in a book. 🙂

After the Birthday boy finished inspecting all of his new loot everyone headed into the dining room for cake from Chandlers Bakery in Charlottesville, VA. This cake was amazing. It tasted more like fab wedding cake than Birthday cake.   Even better is that I planned for it so there was zero guilt in having a slice.

The Birthday Baby was not as pleased with the cake as I was. He refused all bites of cake (adamantly refused- heh) and opted for yogurt instead. Maybe he’ll be a healthy living blogger one day! 😉

It was great to share in the family’s special day. Tiff and Robert and have been in my life for so long. I was so thrilled to celebrate their sweet guy’s first Birthday!

After the party the hubs and I spent another two hours in the car chatting and made it back to Lynchburg. We had planned on another date night but nixed it in favor of a night at home.  Ever since our trip to Margaritaville I have been craving a BBQ Bacon Cheeseburger. Obviously the calories are out of control so we decided to recreate this meal with lean beef, center cut bacon, fat free mayo 1/2 tsp, BBQ sauce 1/2 tsp, 2% cheddar, lettuce, tomato, pickles, and onions sauteed in olive oil. We paired it with some organic shoe string potatoes. Fab! To see how the swap works out click HERE. The main difference tonight was the addition of sauteed onions, and larger wheat buns.

Have a Happy And Healthy Weekend!

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Weigh In #14

So I “made good” on my promise and headed into Weight Watchers to face the music this morning. Apparently its been nearly two months since I weighed in. (What’s that noise I hear?? Oh yes it’s 80 bucks going down the toilet. Ahem.) Needless to say this shook me up enough that I was fearing a horrible gain. I had summer, the beach, Chicago and about a million other things going on since I last set foot on a “real” scale. But there I was anyway-standing in my yoga pants and tank ready to face what I had done.

This week’s weigh in was a gain of 2.8lbs bringing my total loss down to 32 pounds. There are a million excuses reasons that I gained nearly three pounds-late dinner last night, sharing salty popcorn with the hubs, drinking too much caffeine. The truth is I went off plan. I worked out, watched my food intake, stopped weighing in and tried to live “normally”.  The good news is I was able to maintain my loss (more or less). The bad news is I have a long way to go until the maintenance phase and the sooner I accept that the faster this is going to go.

It felt good to weigh in and walk out. Having time to process before the meeting on Monday will help me tremendously. Now, I am off to run. My mileage is increasing which I hope will be great for my weight loss/fitness. Even though today was somewhat disappointing I will still be the first in line for Weigh-In 15 next week. Facing the music is so much better than trying to block it out. True Story!

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Peace Out Summer- We’re Done

I know I know, it is insanely selfish of me to get through my trip to the beach and my visit to Chicago and then declare I am through with summer. Summer is great of course. There are vacations, longer days, swimming, flip-flops, sundresses and cookouts, which are all wonderful. I would be lying though if I did not acknowledge fall as being the very best time of year (at least in my eyes). So in the spirit of bidding farewell to summer (at least summer “reserved” as it does not officially end until September 23^rd) here is a list of things to love about fall.

Pretty Boots

Got these last year. LOVE them! (& love Gossip Girl)

Sweater Shopping

Hot Coffee (Iced Coffee and I are breaking up)

Leaves Changing

Football (Go Cowboys!)

Last season my face was a little rounder. 🙂 Ahh progress!

Soups, Chillis, and Stews (Oh My!)

Disney in the fall

Wine and Dine ½ Marathon (Who else will be there??)

Christmas shopping (I start early!)

Baking

Hallowscream

Cool afternoon runs/bike rides/walks

Wine Festivals

(source)

My Wedding Anniversary

What is your favorite thing about fall?

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