flashback friday round fifteen.

WOW you guys all really want to win some chobani!  i have a setting on my blackberry to get an email every time i get a comment and it has been dinging non-stop since yesterday at 4:30 PM.  every comment was filled with delicious chobani recipes and it was making my mouth water!  i think i better turn it on silent ;) remember, you have until monday, december 7th at midnight to enter my chobani giveaway.

so, since i didn’t post a legit post yesterday i have piles and piles of photos of meals & moves and even a video!  instead of posting ALL of it~i will just talk about the highlights.  mmmk?

yesterday’s eats included lots of greek yogurt and some leftovers.. i can promise you that my chicken & white bean salsa soup is better the next day!  i love leftover soups.  marshall assured me that he could easily eat a crock pot dinner every night so i am sure you will be seeing more and more crock pot meals. 

here is an angharad-inspired collage of the eats!

 

i was heading up to marshall’s house last night so i stopped by my mom’s for a workout (her house is on the way).  i love to work out in her gym any chance i get because it is sooo nice AND she will take photos for me so i can add them to my moves page :)  you can check out the couple new pages i added, i didn’t have time to add them all. the ones i did post are linked in the deets:

• 2 minute jumping jack warmup

cycle 1, 3 times through:

• bicep curl to shoulder press (standing on bosu) x15
• skull crushers on stability ball x15
• ball crunches x50

cycle 2, 3 times through:

• dumbbell 21’s x1 set
• single leg bench dips x10 each leg
• plank on bosu x45 seconds (i do NOT know how you do a 3 min plank tay!)

cycle 3, 3 times through:

• reverse dumbbell flyes x15
• incline pushup x15 (pushups still really hurt my injured arm~it has almost been THREE years since the injury~wonder when it will stop hurting???)
• elbow-to-knee crunches on bosu ball x15 each side

not a very long workout, it did end up taking about 45 minutes but that is mainly because the dogs were distracting me :)  but i do have some DOMS in my upper body today so i know i did some good for my little muscles!

randy got a really good cardio workout in while my mom and i were strength training:

yes, he got on there all by himself.

after awhile my mom joined him~

is it safe to have two people a person and a dog on the treadmill at the same time?  probably not. what is even less safe is all three of them!

whew. what a workout for all of us ;)  *note~no, the treadmill was never running and no poochies were hurt during the gym session last night!

next up: a good stretch! my mom has something we call the “stretcher machine” but i have since been informed that it is called an inversion table.

  

basically, it stretches out your torso and back and helps you relax.  i have always wanted something like this for after meals that leave me ultimately full!  i actually filmed a video of my first experience with the device (i don’t know how to make it right side up so just tilt your head ;)

 

well that was fun, no?

i refueled my body with a post-workout drink~

and then went to marshall’s and did some baking!

as i mentioned before, today is national cookie day so i wanted to bake some cookies to take to work and i also wanted to make some for marshall’s roomies AKA “the vegans”.

first i made my favorite chocolate chip cookies~

  

and next up was a recipe i have been dying to try, holly’s vegan pumpkin molasses cookies!

 

she was right about the dough being delicious.. i may or may not have had a few tastes..

THESE COOKIES ARE INCREDIBLE! run to the kitchen and make them now!

sooo.. guess what i had for breakfast?

protein oats+pumpkin butter+one of holly’s incredible cookies :)

 

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flashback friday!

tonight i have a holiday party at my friend’s house.  she also used to be my old roomie.  we used to live in an incredible house and i miss it a LOT.  actually my really good friend offered to buy my friends and i a house to rent so we were able to pick the house out, he bought it, we rented it.  nice situation, eh?  well, times changed and people moved.. but we were able to have two REALLY stellar fancy christmas parties at that house~in 2006 and 2007.  today, in honor of christmas parties everywhere, i am flashing back to those two fancy shmancy shin digs. enjoy :)

2006~

the roomies!! jaime, lindsay, summer, me, allie

  

the OLD roomies! before the house in these photos, i lived with summer, mike and j5.

 

sooo much food! good food! cheeseball boobs, can you spot them?

they are a little easier to spot here ;)

  

cheers!

friends, fun, being dressed up is rad.

 

in front of the glorious treeeeee~

if you look to the left you can see my dear mable’s tail~RIP honey pie.

2007~

i was dating marshall this time around.

mistletoe!

 

the roomies again~with our landlord. love him.

randy had a santa costume!!!!

friends in front of the tree once again~

he’s cute.

clearly i was excited for christmas!!

for 2008 we did not have a house big enough to hold all of us so we took the party on the road and ended up having our annual friend holiday party at a bar.

 

welp. there you have it. that concludes flashback friday round 15.  did you participate this week? let me know and i will link back!

well i have a lot to do before tonight! i plan to make a few appetizers and/or desserts for tonight’s party and i have to knock out some HIIT.  all i can say about this weekend is PRAY FOR SNOW!!!! i would like to get some use out of my season pass!

Qs~

1. do you and your friends have an annual holiday tradition? is there a theme~do you dress up all fancy schmancy for it? or maybe it is an ugly sweater party? see above.

2. what is the latest recipe you have tried that knocked your socks off? feel free to leave links :) holly’s vegan pumpkin molasses cookies FO SHO!!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYBODY!!

xo. janetha b.