kick in the butt

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:07:59 EST

Hi Friends!
Long time no talk ;) as some of you know i have been blogging over at www.banksyface.wordpress.com you can head on over there if you wanna check out what ive been up to food and fitness wise.

The reason im posting on spark today?
I need some help, some motivation A KICK IN THE ASS if you will..

A month ago TODAY I ran my very first half marathon and i got injured. Up until this weekend i ran 4 miles the entire month. I strain...

How are ya!?

Wed, 2 Feb 2011 20:49:58 EST

Hey Guys! Its been a while since i stopped in to say hi!

I have been blogging diligently over at www.banksyface.wordpress.com and i am loving every second of it!
Feel Free to stop by and say hi!
I enjoyed some really great food today and had a great 3 miler!
My half marathon is just over 3 weeks away and i Couldnt be more excited!!!

Some of todays food:

from SUNRISE to SUNSET

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:45:13 EST

My day began and ended beautifully.
RISE

SET

Im SURE you agree these are 2 BEAUTIFUL ways to begin and end the day.. BUT lets not get ahead of ourselves. I woke up at 645 for that sunrise and promptly fell back asleep for a couple more hours. When i finally DID rise, I made myself some whole wheat toast with maple almond butter, rai...

Last Minute Trip

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:57:57 EST

While I was getting ready to run i realized i hadn’t eaten breakfast haha, thats RARE, i mean of course i had my coffee but i got wrapped up in the phone so i FORGOT TO EAT! wow…. i ended up munching on some blueberries before my run… I decided to get my run over with before we left because I wasn’t sure if i would be able to fit it in when we arrived. I ran 5 miles on the treadmill in a litte under 50 minutes. I felt great a...

mini goals

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:50:59 EST

This morning while my coffee was A BREWIN i got heavily in the mood for CINNAMON toast. I knew i had ONE more cinnabon bread in my freezer so i grabbed that and a piece of whole wheat toast and threw them in my toaster. The only problem was, they didn’t toast. My toaster died today. Im in mouring. Scott and I have had that taster since we moved into our first apartment over 4 years ago!! Sad, but im pretty sure it cost less then 20$, we definitely got our moneys worth haha

R.I...

15 days to be thankful

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:14:00 EST

yesterday I came across a blog and she is doing a post a day for 25 days. One thing a day that she is THANKFUL for. In honor or Thanksgiving! I LOVE this idea and I have decided to incorporate it into my blog until Thanksgiving. Because i have missed the first 10 days of this I have decided to do 15 days of things I am thankful for, instead of back tracking! So, here we go!

Day 1:

I am VERY thankful for my family.......

You can now find my blog at w...

Peanut Butter Pumpkin Pie Oat "muffins"

Tue, 9 Nov 2010 10:49:35 EST

I had fun in the kitchen this morning! I was excited to create something so i just started grabbing ingredients! I stuck with what i know and just made it new and fun! Im REALLY excited about this recipe it came out AMAZING!

You will find the recipe on my new blog www.banksyface.wordpress.com
I proud of this one its delicious, check it out!

Sometimes all a girl needs is some cherries

Mon, 8 Nov 2010 20:48:06 EST

Going though my google reader last night i came across caitlins pumpkin rice pudding and i KNEW i had to HAVE it for breakfast today! It was nice waking up with a new fun recipe already planned! You can get the recipe and instructions on her blog.

MY BLOG HAS MOVED! please finish reading at www.banksyface.wordpress.com

tea, of the cookie variety

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 20:27:32 EST

25 hours days are NIIIIICE…. i woke up “early” because well, not really with the time change the whole day felt off and the fact that it was dark by 5:30 was freakish if you ask me, i equate dark nights with snow, wheres the snow? I was bored and laking inspiration this morning so i just had a bowl of cereal. I bought a box of the wheaties fuel and mikxed it with special k honey granola. nice combo!

PLEASE FINISH ...

9 mile DOMINATION

Sat, 6 Nov 2010 20:52:28 EST

Yes, Today i managed to completely dominate my first 9 miler. Yes, twice before i have run 10 miles but both were treadmill runs with walking breaks. TODAY i took my feet to the streets and DIDNT STOP to walk ONCE! I felt GREAT energy wise! Around mile 6 i got a pretty bad cramp in my left hamstring, the one thats been giving me all the trouble this week!

JUST ONE MORE REMINDER my blog is now at www.b...

LOCK PICKER

Fri, 5 Nov 2010 23:22:22 EST

Let me start by saying that 12 hours after the door LOCKED ITSELF… Scott came home from work and picked it hahaha after 5 minutes of playing around with screwdrivers, credit card and tweezers, he requested a wire hanger and began picking away.. and it popped open!

Please finish reading on my new blog www.banksyface.wordpress.com

THE return of baked oats

Fri, 5 Nov 2010 12:17:35 EST

I haven’t made baked oats since JULY and yes i do realize July is not the optimum time to BAKE YOUR OATS because its HOT and all you want is a smoothie… A chilly rainy november morning, yes OPTMUM TIME!

I am now blogging over at www.banksyface.wordpress.com
you can finish reading about this AWESOME recipe there!

just reminding you ;)

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:50:45 EST

a few minutes after i hit post this morning i got a phone call that i had a cupcake order for THIS SUNDAY…. now, the disney princess’ that i make for these parties need a week to dry out! SO NATURALLY i got stressed and freaked out… i obviously took the job anyway because i love it and i need the money! SO, headed out to the store to get the supplies do i could make the fondant immediately. I think fondant is disgusting so i made homemade fondant which is quite YUMMY!

I came home...

2 year chance-aversary!

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 11:29:30 EST

Last night I enjoyed some ice cream while watching an LA INK marathon. I wanted something healthy.. and yes i do REALIZE that ice cream isn’t healthy but it was PUMPKIN!!!! and i topped it with a caramelized BANANA! You see, its been a LONG TIME since I went to the grocery store and the last piece of fruit i Had in the house was a banana. :) I also topped it with some WHEATIES FUEL cereal that i got in a race bag a little while back, it definitely has some similarities to kashi go lean cru...

To continue reading....

Wed, 3 Nov 2010 19:11:11 EST

Today started with a classic oatmeal pancake. AS usual my smoke alarm went off.. you see, my smoke alarm goes off almost every single day. I cannot turn my oven on over 375* without it going off. IT IS RIDICULOUS!! Mind you, there was NO SMOKE, just heat…. u can only imagine the pain that shoots through my head when there actually IS SMOKE in the kitchen… BAHHH! ok smoke alarm rant over

tivo failed me :(

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:09:22 EST

Lets see, where did we leave off? oh yea, after yesterdays breakfast i did a tempo run on the treadmill. I did 10 minutes at 5mph 10 minutes at 6mph and 10 minutes at 5 mph again. I didnt want to push myself because the IT band pain i had this weekend... BUT it looks like mondays rest day did a body good! NO PAIN woooop. I had a million errands to run yesterday so i showered and made myself a DELISH pumpkin smoothie TO GO
almond milk
pumpkin
molasses
pumpkin ice cream :...

laziness!

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:13:04 EST

Sunday Night we went to see MUSE.. it was a LONG TIME coming! I bought the tickets in May and it seemed SO FAR off when i bought them..but now its come and gone. THE SHOW WAS GREAT..The beginning and end of the show were AMAZING.. played all my favorite songs.. the middle was OK they played the songs i dont like but i knew they were gunna play so it all worked out! I was impressed! LOVE THEM!!

2 day catch up

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:12:02 EST

Yesterday i started my day off with a salt bagel and pumpkin cream cheese. Now when i ordered this salt bagel i thought it would have a couple pieces of sea salt on top and be a nice addition to something sweet... WRONG!!!! It was COATED in salt BLEHHH, i had to scrape it off ...NEVER AGAIN

Lunch was the SAME AMAZING salad i had on monday just solo and bigger :) YUM
Mixed greens
herbed goat cheese
ch...

Goat cheese makes it better.

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:17:08 EST

Yesterday, nothing fun happened! It was rainy it was cold BORINGGGG I did however have some "old and not so new and fun anymore" pumpkin oats ;) CLASSIICOOOO Obviously layering your oatmeal with a coating of granola makes it all better :)
I got my workout on and did 50 minutes on the elliptical followed by 15 minutes of strength training. All while watching...

Birthday weekend comes to a close.

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:44:12 EST

Yesterday my family was coming to celebrate my BIRTH. BUT, before they came i had to make my first delivery :)

I did my first delivery for my princess cupcake connection :) and got PAID!! Ill take all the money i can get right now! BRING ON THE CUPCAKE JOBS!! In fact as i was typing this i got an email from the woman who got me the job telling me i did a great job ;)
Breakfast was Toast with almond butter, pu...

26 years young PART II

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:16:42 EST

Birthday weekend is officially coming to and end. I woke up saturday feeling a lot better then i felt friday. I Had 2 pieces of toast with pumpkin butter, jelly and granola sprinkled on top with a side of blackberries

I also started my day off with my first of MANY of these:
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My 26th Birthday :)

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:04:55 EST

Yesterday I turned 26 :O I woke up feeling a little off and within an hour of being awake i was full blown SICK... reallly bad cold

Scott made me open my presents IMMEDIATELY!

I asked for a red blender to match my mixer because my blender is TERRIBLE and takes foreverrr to make smoothies so he got me a ultra powerful one and it blen...

They forgot my Veggie roll :(

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:32:54 EST

I slept like a LOG, literally. I don't think i moved the entire night. I woke up hugging my body pillow and not ready to get up but the dogs thought otherwise. Today was suppose to rain all day and when i woke up to sun i knew i had to get my run in BEFORE it rained so i had one of my homemade cinnamon raisin bagels half with pumpkin cream cheese, half cinnamon raisin peanut butter and half a banana. it was delicious.

The 8.5 mile Hike to the Stairway to Heaven. PICTURES

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:08:43 EST

hey guys sorry i disappeared for a few days ive been pretty busy! Yesterday I had a bowl of cereal and then took off on a 4 mile run. I took a wrong turn and it ended up being a 4.5 mile run.. which obviously IM OK WITH! :) When i got home i did some strength exercises for about 15 minutes and then i got ready for my hike!! We were headed to THE STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN. We had no idea how long the hike was suppose to be so i brought my garmin so we would know just how far we walked. It was th...

here i come!

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:29:05 EST

i am OFFICIALLY signed up for the disney princess HALF MARATHON!!!!!!!!!! YYESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS im soooo excited i wish i could run tm haha, ok maybe not but a little! I posted on facebook that i was registered and an old friend of mine saw and might sign up to run with me! that would be FUN. I am TOTALLY going to dress up too in case you were wondering :)

Anyway today started with my own version of a pumpkin smash.
soy milk
canned pumpkin
ICE
molasses <...

Im going to do it!

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:22:06 EST

I decided last night i'm going to run the DISNEY PRINCESS HALF MARATHON in february! I'm REALLY excited about it... It looks like such a FUN atmosphere to run 13.1 miles in :) I haven't officially registered yet but im going to very soon! i have been looking up prices and where to stay etc. WOOOOOOOOT! I will OBVIOUSLY be keeping you informed on all of that goodness..

Now on to the other things going on in my life:
Last night at the birthday party i bonded with the kiddos :) ...

bagels and 5 milers.

Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:27:30 EST

HI! Sorry i never made it here last night! I Spent the day with scott at his office and while theyre i was invited to a birthday party for TODAY and decided i needed to bring cookies. SO i got home around 7pm and baked until 11 where i made myself go to bed because i had a race this morning!

But lets hold up and go back in time a minute. Yesterday started bright and sunny with one of my homemade bagels with pumpkin cream cheese.

Breakfast Bread Pudding recipe

Fri, 1 Oct 2010 21:03:46 EST

I finally did it! I slept past 830... i work up at 10!! But that maybe because iw as up until 3 am watching one tree hill yes i still watch that show and yes i still enjoy it haha you can judge all you want!

ANYWAY, last night i was looking around for some breakfast ideas and came across something i HAD TO TRY!
ENTER: Breakfast Banana Pudding
Original source found here....
www.foodbuzz.com/blogs/2680007-break
fast-bread-pudding

SHALL ...

Throw it alll in

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:35:44 EST

work up to rain. rainnn pourrringgg down. good thing i got to stay inside all day :P I came downstairs and sat my butt down on the couch and started reading blogs for some breakfast inspiration. Scott made some coffee so i had a mug of it. next thing i knew 2 hours had passed i was only a little hungry and it was almost 11 am! WHAT where did the last 2 hours go!? At this point i decided i was no longer in the mood for a long fun breakfast adventure so i went to the freezer and pulled out t...

Vegan Donut love

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:14:37 EST

i was feeling GOOD when i woke up! I even looked in the mirror and didnt HATE my stomach! I think all this running and strength is FINALLY starting to show some improvement? I just MAY meet my goal of fitting into those jeans by my birthday! a little over 2 weeks away :)

breakfast was EARTHY

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