a quickie

Get your mind out of the gutter, will ya? Sheesh - y'all are sick tickets!

Anyways, this post is going to be short and sweet, mainly because my reader is piling up with many many posts of yours which I have yet to read. I have been getting behind. I swear I am going to read and comment on them all! :)

Today I dropped the Rugrats off at a VBS in the next town over (they need to socialize with other kids besides themselves!). I had previously mapped out a 3.65 mile run on a trail nearby. My legs felt good today - must have been those blueberry pancakes...::drool::

oh yeah 8:30 pace - what what!

I then ran around like a crazy person getting in as many errands as I could before noon when I had to go back to get the kiddos. When we got home, I whipped up some lunch for us all.

blurry plate - sorry. massive grilled zucchini slices, carrots, peapods, radishes with loads of hummus.

I was feeling really snacky for lunch today - I also had some unpictured crackers. This afternoon I made zucchini bread - I'll post the recipe tomorrow. I didn't get a chance to take a picture of the bread today. Forgive me, please?

This evening I had the opportunity to meet a lot of my family on my mom's side - her cousins live in Maine and if I met any of them before I must have been really small. Her aunt (my great aunt) was also in from Florida. I just love love love one of mommasita's cousin's. She was a riot. Unfortunately, the circumstances which our family was getting together for was not the best. There was an unexpected and tragic death in our family last weekend, and the family flew out for the memorial this evening. There are a lot of unanswered questions surrounding this particular situation, so please pray for peace of mind for the family. Pray they are surrounded by others who lift them up in this time of need.

After the memorial, mommasita, my aunt, uncle, and I went to Sweet Tomatoes!!! This could possibly be one of my favorite places in the world. Buffet? a SALAD buffet? Sign me up!

my salad can probably beat your salad up.

Nope, you've got it right. I ate four plates of food. I was a hungry girl! I only had an (unpictured) apple for a snack... plus a couple of pieces of that zucchini bread shmeared with sunbutter :)

Off to go catch up with you lovely ladies!

Question: What is your favorite foodie friendly restaurant?

this was anything BUT a lazy sunday

Where in the world did this day go?? Thank you for all your comments about my little "blue" dress - it's actually kind of purpley in person. How versatile! I bought it a couple of years ago from The Loft for New Year's Eve and loved it!! The Loft used to be my favorite store - until I had to buy a house and pay for a wedding! :)

After church, FH's aunt, uncle, and cousins came with us to our house to pick out paint colors. His uncle owns a painting business and will be painting in there all week long! His aunt just has really great style so I wanted her input. I am really happy with the colors we ended up choosing. I cannot wait to show you the pictures! I also get something I have always wanted: a red door!!!

I was debating whether or not I wanted to go to the beach, but it was starting to look a little cloudy. FH and his cousin were the only ones going, so I let it be a "boys" trip - I went out and ran some errands with mommasita. We had a mission today: get a closet organization system to install into the master bedroom. We mosied over to Menard's because I had a gift card there. We found the perfect one, had it in the cart, and I got out my gift card only to find out my gift card was to Lowe's. UGGGGH!!! It would have been fine, but we went totally out of our way to get it. Before I could get frustrated, we decided we needed to get food in our bellies to make the situation seem better. So, we went to Chipotle (unpictured). One ginormous burrito bol later, we were off to Lowe's!

Long story short, today's shopping trip was a total bust. I came home with nothing and felt like I wasted my afternoon. I was aggravated, so I had a snack.

first off - lighting in this pic is absolutely stunning, no? grapes, a naner, almonds.
another snack included unpictured hummus and crackers

After I had some food in my stomach, I was feeling nice and sleepy - nap time! I find that Sunday afternoon naps are perfect. I cozied up with a book and read until I drifted off for a good 45 minutes.

I putzed around for the rest of the afternoon doing random wedding things and an abs video was thrown in there. Around 6:30 I decided to make dinner despite my kind of "off" stomach. It was probably from all the fiber in that burrito bol I ate earlier. I eat when I'm not hungry - I know I have to, so I kind of force it down. Once I start eating though, I am glad I did!! I kept dinner light and fresh.

baby spinach salad

sweet tater halves

After dinner, I went over to FH's (parent's) house where his mom helped me do the seating arrangements for her side of the family. That was a HUGE help - if you have never planned a wedding, the seating chart is the most DIFFICULT part of it all! It has given me the most stress (which is so minimal it's almost funny) of the entire planning process.

While I was there, she was making zucchini bread - yum! Would you like to know why? She wernt to her garden yesterday to get the two of us some fresh produce (for this, i love her) and came home with the most massive zucchinis you will ever see in your entire life!! To show you a comparison, I have paired my zucchini up with a roll of paper towels.

mr. zucchini

I see lots of zucchini in my future - I have that huge one, two normal sized ones, and my mom and I got two zucchini yesterday! I am planning on making bread tomorrow. Any more ideas on what to make with zucchini?

When I left FH's it was raining like nobody's business. I got drenched when I was walking running to my car. I couldn't see when I was driving - perfect! When I got home, I also had to make another run for it! Moments like that just make me laugh. I feel like a little kid and have to just giggle. My FMIL asked me if I wanted an umbrella, and I said, "No! It's more fun this way!" - which it totally was.

After I got home, I felt a small twinge of hunger, so I decided it was best I made a snack. An apple sun butter "sun" with raisins. I am currently eating it, and just got sunbutter on my keyboard - whoops! Guess who's at my feet - Chagall! He knows the crunch of an apple from a mile away.

i miss you natural sunlight....

I'm off to go enjoy the thunder and lightning - I may watch a movie or just read myself to sleep!

Question: Do you like storms? Why or why not? Have you had a scary incident with storms?