WIAW {6.19.13}

 

Greetings friends!!

As I write this, we’re gearing up to take a road trip to the vendor who is building our kitchen! They finished building the vanity for Kenzer’s bathroom so we’re picking that up and making the finalized plans for our kitchen. If you remember from the other day, we were taping areas off in the house to make sure we liked the layout:

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I’m so excited for the kitchen to start being built!! We are SO READY for this project to be done!

Yesterday was filled with some pretty good eats! I’ve been making an effort to make sure I’m getting enough lean protein (more on macro nutrients tomorrow!):

Breakfast:

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Cottage cheese, raisins, cinnamon, stevia and Bear Naked Heavenly Chocolate granola= Heaven!

 

More of the same in the snack department! These almonds are amazing:

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I had the privilege of having lunch with my dear friend Bob and opted for a salad (you may see a similarity to the salad I had last week!) I’m obsessed with strawberries in my salad. And you know what? Bob didn’t even flinch when I pulled my camera out to snap a picture of my food. You know you’re a blogger when………

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Knowing that I was going to be working late at the house putting putty in nail holes in the crown molding after work, I decided to eat another “mini-meal” before I left work. Garlic roasted cauliflower and chicken breast:

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And there ya have it!! Looking forward to sharing our road trip experience with you. I hope the vanity turned out beautifully! *fingers crossed*

#MIMM {6.17.13}

 

Morning friends!!

And Happy Monday. Thank you to the always beautiful Katie, and her precious baby bump for hosting!

 

Lets just start with how Marvelous in My Monday this picture of Rango is:

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Ha ha, I have no idea what he’s doing here, but he made me nervous being that close to our door in the breakfast room considering we haven’t put the deck on yet. (You also get a view of the lovely weeds in what will someday be our backyard.) ;-)

 

Speaking of our house, marvelous is getting the hood dry walled and putting final touches on the placement of our cabinets before we meet with the cabinet maker this week!

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NOT marvelous – finding a bee in your house that’s as big as your thumb!

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Alfie said I was crazy for putting my thumb that close to the thing, but hey—it just goes to show how much I love my blog and it’s readers, right?!

 

Marvelous is getting to celebrate Father’s day with your mini-me and the love of your life with a Dairy Queen ice cream cake! Oh yes, it was epic:

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Marvelous is officially starting my half marathon training this weekend!

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This will be my 4th half marathon, and I am super excited for it since it may be my last hoorah for a while!

And last but certainly not least!!!!!!

Marvelous is………….

 

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Have you checked out our new digs here at TWJ?! We have just a bit more tweaking to do, but I really love how it’s taking shape!! Feel free to let me know your thoughts and many MANY thanks to Sarah at Wildflower PR for all of her hard work on the site and the header design she is a miracle worker!!!!!

 

What do you think of the new digs? How was your weekend?! Are you running any upcoming races?

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