My First Birthday Present, Twilight, C25K, Pre-Cooking for a Long Weekend!

THANK YOU for your sweet comments on my last post - interesting to hear your take on success, and of the ideas about our blogs, efforts and goals. I don't know about you guys but this has been a super stressful week for me! Lots of stuff, at work and at home, has been keeping me working around the clock! So glad I have a holiday on Monday - I'm going to need it! Backing up....

Yesterday, while LONG, was great! I got up, worked, walked 3 miles before lunch and had a working during the lunch hour (Jason’s Deli – I ordered the turkey wrap with tortilla chips/salsa… but had a cookie!) After lunch I worked more, then headed over to our parent company’s gym for 3.5 miles, P90X ab ripper and upper body ST. For the mileage, I did 3 minutes at 4.0, 21 minutes at 6.3 and 1 minute at 7.5, then I walked at 4.0 until 3.5 miles! So 22 minutes/straight – still building back up! After the workout I showered at the gym, then hit up Trader Joe’s for a few items Austin couldn’t find at lunch at the other store, then met my mom at Nordstrom. I ran in and they were having a major sale – grabbed Austin another pair of Sevens & 3 Lacostes and a pair of shorts – great prices! Then we went out to the car and my mom gave me my first birthday gift for my upcoming 28^th birthday on 7/7. OMG – greatest gift ever!!

Mini back story: I think I’ve mentioned that we’re trying to do more with the outdoors (i.e. color scheme: navy, apple green and yellow; bought a green umbrella; bought navy pillows… still need to do more). Well mom bought us GREAT Pottery Barn outdoor entertaining flatware (24 pieces in yellow/white), a large navy Tag bowl (for salads) and an awesome Pottery Barn condiment set with classic ketchup, mustard, relish and mayo. LOVE IT. Now I just need to have peeps over. LOL Thanks, Mom!!!

image found online - she got me 2 sets of these!

image found at PB - how CUTE is this?! Love!!

Taken with iPhone as my upload cord is at work - grrrrrrr!

After receiving the best b-day present ever, we walked over with our Twilight lanyards to see an early preview at 9 p.m. (before the opening at midnight). The entire theater – seriously – was Twilight. Just wear your lanyard and sit where you want. We sat down at 10 til, mom grabbed some popcorn and drinks for us and then BOOM it started – no previews. SWEET! I don’t want to ruin the movie for anyone but I will say that the boys looked cute, this was one of my favorite books of the 4, there were a couple of lines that were laugh-out-loud funny and I’d definitely see it again (for free of course). :)

After the movie me and mom got lost in the parking deck, got found and then headed home. I got in at 11:30 p.m. beat, but not too exhausted to make Austin try on all of the clothes. The shirts were a hit, the pants too big and the shorts too long. 3/5 – I’m down with that! Then we opened up my gift – Austin loved it too!

I ended up at 2,045 calories, 177 fat grams, 97 carbs and 54 protein grams. Here’s what I ate. Too many calories fo sho but I admittedly can’t pass up movie theater popcorn (which partly explains why I rarely go! Haha j/k).

Today I just worked, stressed out a bit, walked 4 miles during lunch and read 50 more pages of Wildwood, worked then headed straight home to do the following:

• hung out with Reuben & Austin - duh
• Pre-cooked the following: 4 fiesta chicken, 4 beef taco mixes, 6 sausage and egg casserole (new!), 6 sausage and potato bake (new!), and 4 bacon/ranch slowcooker chicken pastas.
• Reorganized my kitchen cabinets (they were a mess! did this while the above was baking!)
• Ran a load of laundry
• Gave Reuben a new toy!
• Watched Make it or Break It (so glad it's back!)

Great night! And now I have 12 breakfasts and 12 lunch/dinners ready to go! I ended up at 1,516 calories, 177 carbs, 67 fat grams and 68 protein grams. Here's what I ate.

Q: What are you doing for the 4th? We're headed to the lake on Friday - gotta get Reuben's life jacket ready!

Q: Can you believe it's already July?! I'm in shock! Where did June go?!