Well Christmas 2014 is long gone…moving on to 2015! We had a wonderful Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We were lucky enough to see my cousins from Wichita this year along with their 18 month old daughter, Brystol. She was born 3 weeks before our wedding and was teeny tiny! Now she is the most adorable little girl…so cute. We also got to spoil Donny’s nieces and nephews over the holidays, which is always fun. Apparently the theme for 2014 Christmas was Frozen, as in the movie. I love that movie along with about every child in the world. Santa got Donny’s 3 ½ year old niece Carlie a Frozen karaoke machine that plays three different Frozen songs. Awesome. We had a small Edson concert. We don’t sing on key, but boy do we sing loud! [Read more…]
Archives for December 2014
My New Way of Eating
Merry Christmas! That is our Christmas tree. One of my favorite parts of Christmas is turning my tree on (it’s on whenever I am home and awake) and firing up my fireplace while I eat breakfast or dinner. It is so peaceful to me.
I cannot believe that it is Christmas Eve already…which means 2015 is just a few days away. Yikes. I have had a fantastic year and look forward to 2015 for sure. I mean, who knows what shenanigans will come Donny & my way over the next 365 days!
For the past few weeks I have been eating quite a bit differently (and no I do not mean extra holiday goodies…). I track my eating most days using My Fitness Pal on my phone. I was going through it the other day looking at how much protein I consume and I was surprised to see the real numbers. I wasn’t consuming as much as I thought! [Read more…]
Minestrone Soup
It was 65 degrees here in Colorado last Friday, so naturally it makes sense that it would snow eight inches on Sunday night. School closures all over northeast Colorado! Almost makes me wish I was still in school…..almost. We have had about a week of extremely cold weather and then it was just beautiful for a few weeks. When I was going through the weekend weather forecast on Friday (which I do several times during my show), it said that it would be windy, cloudy, and chance of snow but less than an inch was possible. Well let’s just say they were about 6-7 inches off from that forecast. It was windy though! Snow drifts were all over the place. [Read more…]
Kale-Brussels Sprouts Salad
Oh man, have you heard Taylor Swift’s new song “Blank Space”? I am addicted. It is so catchy and so good. I mean, it’s Taylor Swift so why should I expect anything less…but if you have not heard it, then listen here. I turned Pandora on before I got started on the treadmill this morning and the first song to play on my Pop Fitness station was: Blank Space. I had to legitimately keep myself from singing out loud to the song….it was difficult, but I bet those other gym-goers appreciated my silence. So basically what I am saying is…you’re welcome gym-buddies. [Read more…]
Full Body Pyramid Workout
Officially back from Tennessee. Officially into the holiday season. Thanksgiving is over….now on to Christmas and New Years….crazy to think about it! Can you believe it is already December?!?! I hope you had a fantastic Thankgiving! Mine was awesome. We had so much fun in Tennessee with Donny’s family and we got a lot of Cathy-and-Jay-time, which was awesome. [Read more…]