flashback friday round eleventeen million and three.

i lost track, so sue me.

no don’t~ then i won’t have any money to buy a house. or go on a honeymoon. no lawsuits please.

FRIDAY! did you ever think we would make it?! i sure didn’t. it has been a week, to say the least.

but none of that matters, because it is the weekend and fun things are planned for every second of the next 60 hours and 39 minutes (that is exactly how long i have until it is back to the daily grind).

thank you for your input on which dresses you liked! they are all made by the designed alfred sung and i cannot find any of them locally.. ugh.. but i am working on it. i love that i can show you guys some options and get a zillion opinions. it is so helpful and i appreciate each and every one of you, so thank you!

real quick, i will show you today’s meals & moves thus far…

before i begin, if it was not flashback friday today, the title of this post would be “i ate four brands of greek yogurt today.”

yoats!

 

for those of you who aren’t sure what yoatgurt is all about.. basically it is equal portions of COLD greek yogurt and HOT oatmeal (protein oatmeal if you are me) and adorned with nut butter and/or fruit!

this particular batch had 1/3 cup oats, 1/2 scoop chocolate protein powder and a squirt of sugar free maple syrup for the oats part, and the yogurt was 3/4 cup plain brown cow greek yog.  there was a new contender on top:

barney butter! special thanks to lauren for sending me this stuff in a sweet care package. she is the best ever. seriously, thank you sweet pea!

how did i feel about the barney butter?

mmmm. how could i not love it? i love almond butter so much and this brand is no exception. i also i love built in portion control with nut butter so that was appealing. and only 90 calories for that whole packet? dang. that’s not too shabby~ it was definitely more than enough!

lunch came and went and i didn’t eat. it was a busy day and it was one o’clock before i knew it. i managed to grab a couple things from the kitchen…

siggi’s icelandic yogurt.

i LOVE how creamy and thick this stuff is (TWSS)

i love the stats and ingredients!

i don’t love how expensive it is.. but it is a nice treat now and again :) 

i also had a flat out+classic sabra+smoked turkey wrap…

yeah. pretty boring.

lower body workout today! it was fanfreakingTASTIC!

• 1 mile (8 minutes 40 seconds) warmup on treadmill
• circuit #1:

move	weight	reps	sets
bench step up w/ knee raise	8# dumbbell each hand	24 alternating	4
barbell deadlifts	40#	12	4
stability ball hamstring curls	body weight	20	4
barbell sumo squats	40#	12	4

• circuit #2:

move	weight	reps	sets
reverse lunges off step	15# dumbbell each hand	24 alternating	4
stiff leg deadlifts off step	15# dumbbell each hand	12	4
bridge w/ feet on step	15# dumbbell on hips	20	4
lying leg lifts	5# plate	12 each leg	4

• circuit #3:

move	weight	reps	sets
hamstring curl (machine)	50#	12	4
donkey kicks	body weight	12 each leg	4
hip adduction	80#	12	4
ball against wall squats	12# dumbbell each hand	12	4

• 20 minutes intervals on stairmill (slow pace, 1.5 miles total)
• stretching

total workout burned 500 calories and took just over an hour including warmup and stretching.

i am going to try to stretch more often! the comments in my last post made me realize that maybe one day i could actually touch my toes :) i have never done yoga.. i have done pilates a few times and quite frankly looked pathetic doing it. i am definitely the most inflexible person in the state of utah. hopefully one day i can touch those tootsies.. until then, i will live vicariously through averie~ who, by the way, had the best answer to my touching the toes question:

Averie (LoveVeggiesAndYoga)

February 26, 2010 at 1:53 am | #14

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can i touch my toes? you mean while balancing on my forearms with my legs wrapped behind my head? yes. I can. :) sorry to be a smartass but i had to!

hahah. love her.

i came home and had a special delivery!

the fabulous lizzy from healthy bites conquer athlete appetite sent me her AMAZING PROTEIN BARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

check out the BALLER stats:

she also threw in some fun goodies~

and two cute notes~

in case you can’t read it, that says “i always write way too much for these little cards.. so i included a note! :)”

haha, that is awesome. i immediately tried one of her bars that she has dubbed “pow wows”~ specifically, “won’t make your monkey chunky!” powwow bar.. haha, i love that name!

the ingredients are gluten free oats, organic brown rice protein powder, organic maranatha PB, organic free range egg whites, sun organic farms raw peanuts, organic banana, nunaturals vanilla.

wow.

WOW.

WOW.

pow wow, that is.

     

this might be the best protein bar i have ever had in my life.

not joking.

lizzy! you are a genius! thank you thank you :D

i also had some MORE greek yogurt.. vanilla oikos+plain chobani

adorned with some of beek’s chia granola~

i can’t get enough of this granola. go make it, now. here is the recipe!

  

and that brings us up to date!

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in my last post, i mentioned that today is my biggest sister marisa’s birthday!

for this installment of flashback friday, i decided to flash back to february of 2009~ when my parents, marshall and i went to california to visit marisa and her family.

you may recall flashback friday round 7 when i showed you our trip to dublin, california for my brother-in-law’s birthday.. i guess we like to visit them on their birthdays!

not only was it marisa’s birthday, it was also my oldest niece, kaylee’s, baptism.

you can read a full on recap of the trip here, on my old blog.

the trip began with my sister getting a lemon tree for her birthday. that really set the theme of the whole weekend… you can imagine how many times i burst into song~ singing peter, paul & mary’s classic “lemon tree” ballad.

you can see mister lemon tree behind marisa and my niece, lucy.

we celebrated her birthday with some delicious mexican food (and churros with chocolate!)

and then we went home where she opened gifts and we had lemon sour cream pie~

we got pedicures~

and went bowling~

 

we finished that day off with my mom and i singing a duet of “lemon tree”~ sorry i don’t have the audio recording. it was epic.

and i made about 100 cream cheese filled cupcakes!

of course i didn’t take photos. sigh. this was before the food bloggin’ days.

oh, here is proof that my dad was there!

that saturday, we went to kaylee’s baptism. it was so great to be able to attend.

she got her first set of scriptures and had a super cute dress~

i can’t believe she is NINE now. and we won’t say how old marisa is ;)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARISA! love you!

i got her a year subscription to real simple magazine. :)

okay~ i gotta jet! marshall and i are going to get some dinner and go to my friend’s to hop in the hot tub. and i have tons of prep to do for out engagement party which is tomorrow night! yay!

hope you all have a terrific weekend! love you all!

Qs~

1. favorite brand of protein bar? or if you prefer home made ones.. give me your recipe! my new favorite is lizzy’s.. ahh.. too bad i only have one left! they are so good! but i also love luna bars.

2. weekend plans? ready, go! hot tub, caterer appointment, wedding vendor open house, cooking up a storm, engagement party, snowboarding, house hunting, family dinner and maybe a movie! dang.

xo. janetha b.