Week 2 Recap and Show Me Friday

First off....Happy Valentine's Day!

Show Me Friday

People You Love

Week Two: Nourish 

Monday: Go Meatless 

Skip meat today! Try vegetarian/vegan meals.

Vegetarian meatloaf, a sweet potato and carrots.  Yum!

Tuesday:

TYLTW! - Take Your Lunch to Work today! 

PB2 sandwich, and popcorn

Wednesday:

Write it down! - Journal your food today and share your WIAW with us!

My stomach wasn't doing to well this week so my food was a little odd

Thursday:

Smoothie Day! - Happy Thirsty Thursday! Make a healthy smoothie today!

A smoothie made with Greek yogurt, skim milk, strawberries, blueberries, spinach and banana

Friday:

Go Raw Friday! - Choose a recipe from movenourishbelieve.com and go raw!

Brad's Raw Kale Chips.  They're really good. Very earthy tasting {which I don't mind} and they taste just like kale.  

How was your Valentine's Day?

Recaps and Photos

Lorna Jame Active and SweatPink are hosting a challenge during February,  The MoveNourishBelieve Challenge.  There's a different challenge every day monday - friday.  The theme this week was MOVE.  But before I show you my posts from this week let me do NaBloPoMo's Show Me Friday picture. 

NaBloPoMo Show Me Friday:  

My Most Prized Possession

My body and my health are honestly my most prized possesions.

Lorna Jane Move Nourish Believe Challenge

Monday: 

Sweat-it-out! -Show us your favorite way to sweat!

My favorite way to sweat is anything outside....except running.  I hate running.

Tuesday: 

Change it up! - Sweat a new way! 

This is actually the only day I didn't participate in.  I really don't have any new ways to sweat.  It's been too cold to try anything new.  

Wednesday:

Let's get planking! - Plank for at least five minutes today! 

Half of my planking time I had Buddie under me.  Talk about performance anxiety!

Thursday:

Buddy Up! - Workout with a friend today!

This is my favorite workout "Buddie."  We went for a long walk yesterday.

Friday:

Fave Friday! - Show us your five fitness favorites! 

My 5 favorite things are PB2 {I'm addicted, as you already know}, my weights {best investment I've made}, summer {I moved to Florida for the warm weather.  I don't like the cold}, big fruit salads {if a fruit salad was a complete meal I'd eat 3 a day}, and health a fitness magazines {they are my guilty pleasure.  They are also where I get my new routines and tips}

The one favorite thing that I left off the list was my house by the beach and everyone who lives in my house.  

If you want to get involved with the Lorna Jane Challenge click here or check out   http://lornajane.com/   The theme for next week is "NOURISH from the inside out."

What are your 5 favorite things?  Leave a comment below and let me know!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Photos

Christmas Eve Dinner

The girls on Christmas Morning

Here are some of the photos from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  The girls made out like bandits.  Actually everyone in the house did!  All my gifts were either food related (cake pop mold, waffle iron, cookbooks) or workout equipment (a new set of dumbbells), which I LOVE!  The girls received a ton of cool toys.  They have been busy playing and exploring all their cool stuff for the past few days.  Mr. Amazing was given a heavy bag, a new grill cover and tools.  It was a great day.  

How was your Christmas?  Did you get everything you wanted?

Donut Date Night

I might be a health nut (or freak if you prefer) but, I'm also a mom that occasionally enjoys spoiling her kids.  Tonite was one of those nites.  Mo went to a birthday party so I decided to indulge Kay's sweet tooth (which will be her downfall later in life, just like me.)  I took her to the nearby Dunkin Donuts.  Okay, I can't lie, I also enjoyed spoiling myself with coffee.  

 
Why no donuts?  It's a Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins combo store.  Kay decided that she wanted ice cream instead of a donut.  

I ordered a Pumpkin White Chocolate Latte.  It was delish!  Perfectly pumpkin-y and just the right about of chocolate.  Plus, a medium only has 280 calories and no fat!  

Tonite was a nite about learning, not just desserts.  Kay learned that her tummy has adjusted to our new diet way of eating.  Her stomach is very upset right now from the hot chocolate and ice cream.  She even told me she wished she had gotten a donut instead. 

I look out for my kids healthy 99.7% of the time.  Indulgences should be no different.  Next time I won't even offer to let her get the unhealthier option.  I've always said you can indulge in a healthy way.  I need to start applying this to my kids too.  

Do you indulge your kids in ways you wouldn't indulge yourself?

Vacation Picture Post

I was going to start doing "What I Ate Wednesday" today but I forgot to take photos after breakfast.  It still bothers me that I can't find my ring.  

Since nothing worth talking about happened today besides getting a wicked sunburn on my shoulders at the beach I'll leave you with a photo post from the trip.

Before I leave you with the photos, the prompt today is "What makes your heart leap?"  And honestly it's my family.  The people in these photos.  They "make my heart happy" (as Kai-Lan would say)

Our fridge before we left.  I used up everything that could go bad. 

Mr. Amazing and the girls in the hotel room

Mr. Amazing, Kay, Baye and me.  Mo wanted to take the picture

Pile up on daddy!

Kay and Mo being silly

 Mr. Amazing kills spiders.  He's the best spider killer I know.

 The girls under the manta in front of the aquarium

Big fish 

Glad that croc's behind glass.  It stared Baye right in the eye.

Bird

We kept joking that there would be a mermaid and low and behold there was!

Seahorse

 Baye and the manta

 Looks like a face doesn't it?

I want to hold my vow renewal ceremony here.  In front of this big window 

A SHARK!

Sea dragon

Jelly fish

Isn't this beautiful?

Kay at dinner

Mo at dinner

Baye 

Excellent place.  If you're ever in Clearwater, FL I highly recommend it.

Mr. Amazing with his oysters and beer.

My super grouper sandwich. I had them cook it with cajun spices and grill it.

Mr. Amazing also got wings.

Kay's burger and fruit

Baye had chicken tenders and fries

Mo's fried shrimp and fries 

We played on the playground by the Pier after dinner

She loves to climb

 Being a good big sister

The Acromaniacs 

Gorgeous sunset.  This was one of the things on my bucket list.  To see the sunset over the water.

The clouds were amazing

Sunset.

Me and Mr. Amazing with the sun setting behind us. 

My whole world.   

Mr. Amazing relaxing by the pool

Mo pretending to be a shark.

The breakfast at the hotel

The waterslide on the cruise ship at the Port of Tampa

Mr. Amazing and Baye playing shop

Me and Baye playing shop

I used the swings as workout equipment.  

Driving to the beach makes me go crazy!