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Mom In Mom Out

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What a delicious whirlwind of a weekend.  And it’s not over yet!

First thing first, Sunday morning breakfast!

I usually eat oats or yogurt but today was an eggs day.

With leftover black beans and quinoa.  It was exactly what I needed on this wet morning.

My mom arrived in town Friday evening.  She and I had a really nice and tasty dinner at Milan Indian Restaurant, the service was attentive, the presentation was lovely, but the “medium” was NOT hot at all.  Next time I will order hot and tell them that I am serious about my spice!

Yesterday was my mom’s birthday and we hit up the Farmer’s Market and the Vegetarian Festival, both in downtown C’ville.  I did something very unusual for me and didn’t eat a real lunch, just snacked.  It was HOT and my appetite was not super high anyway.  There were loads of take home samples from Nature’s Path and Mary’s Gone Crackers and the representatives kept saying “take as many as you want”.  I took them seriously.


My momma got a plate of food from the Whole Foods stand that included this little chocolate tofu pudding thang.

Check out this creepy pumpkin from the Farmer’s Market

So anyway, after sampling crackers, granola bars, chocolate (Equal Exchange chocolate=AMAZING), coffee, tofu, cheese, and bread my mom hit the road back to West Virginia and I hit the workout.

After a quick exercise dvd full it was time to get ready for the next round of mom, Tate’s mom this time!

Tate’s brother, Gavin, lives in C’ville too so he came over for dinner and brought me flowers!

The sunflower is from my mom and the yellows in the back are from Gav-o

I love having fresh flowers in the house!  It livens everything up.

Gavin also got into my weights and did a very creative 2 minute workout 😉

My mother-in-law brought us this awesome pumpkin from her garden.  Apparently the seeds are “hull-less” and great for roasting.  Yummy.

Mission Get Moving went great this week.  Zumba and Pilates classes didn’t happen for these reasons but I feel like I more than made up for it with 7 days of great workouts (well, number 7, today, WILL be a great workout).

The weather prediction for the first half of the week is rain. Yay!  It’s been so flipping hot and dry that a few rainy days sounds lovely.  Enjoy your Sunday!

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Whey’t For It…

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I have been waiting nearly a year to say this next sentence.  Here it goes…

I LOVE Charlottesville.

We moved here just over two weeks ago and prior to moving day I had only visited a couple of times to house hunt.  C’ville became our chosen home last fall while still living in Lima, Peru.  After being SO far away from family for a year (well, 9 really because it’s not like Utah and Oregon are close) we knew it was time to come home.  While Tate and I both love West Virginia we weren’t interested in actually being home but more like an easy road trip away :).  C’ville looked really good on paper and is 2-3 hours of easy driving to 99% from our immediate family so we picked it practically sight unseen.  And THANK GOODNESS it seems to be working out!  Honestly, I was really skeptical during our house hunting excursions and our first few days of living here.  But, obviously, our (C’ville and I) relationship is blossoming into something beautiful!

Today was the first day in a long time where I woke up dreading my workout.  I just didn’t want to do it.  My body was a bit sore from many days of great workouts and I knew it was going to get hot fast.  But I remembered the quote “no one ever regrets their workout” and laced up my shoes.

That’s my run course written on my wrist.  I used Map My Run to chart out a 4.08 mile run in the opposite direction than I usually go.  Map My Run is awesome, especially since I can’t afford one of those fancy running watches right now.  It was really nice to not think about my course and just follow the plan, knowing what my final distance would be.  In fact, I didn’t even time it which is very rare for me.  As soon as I started moving I was glad I did and really enjoyed my (HOT) run.

Post run was all about the yoga and 30 minutes of vinyasa flowed.

Between the heat and the physical exertion I was super ready for a snack after yoga and here’s what I whipped up.

Into the blender went frozen strawberries, frozen peaches, whey, and a pinch of stevia.

I have been straining my homemade yogurt to make it nice and thick like greek yogurt but you are left with a cup full of whey also.

It seemed like a shame to throw away the whey (try saying that one 10x fast!) since it is chockfull of calcium and friendly bacteria so I thought a smoothie would be the perfect match.

It had been way to long since I’ve had a smoothie!  I used to make them really regularly but our freezer didn’t really work in Peru so I guess I got out of the habit.  This one turned out delicious!  A little banana would have gone a long way but I am determined not to buy bananas until at least November when there is no such an abundance of local fruit.

Lunch followed an hour or two later

Fresh and delicious.

Yowza! Look at the time, I need to clean the house and run some errands before my mom arrives for her first visit to our house.  Have a great Friday!