Happy 3 Month Birthday Nathan!

My nephew is 3 months old today!  Here he is in his first pair of jeans, I told my sister they look like mom jeans hahaha!

Marathon medal is finally here!

I finally got my Chevron Houston Marathon finisher medal in the mail!  They apparently underestimated the number of participants this year so I was one of the unlucky ones that didn't get my medal when I finished.  Here it is!  Bad pic I know, its with my iphone.

 

Last nights crossfit class was a good finale.  We were allowed to bring someone for free to try it out, of course no one wanted to go lol, but one person did bring someone.  This was our workout:

AMRAP (as many reps as possible) 

situps

burpees
box jumps
squat thrusts

lunges 

I had to use a 15 lb medicine ball for my workouts whereas everyone else used a 10 lb, so my numbers are obviously smaller than some of the others.  We had to do each station for one minute and then after all 5 stations were completed we had a  minute break, and then repeated 2 times.  And of course we had abs at the end.  Here is me doing my toe touches, I'm on the right in black pants and a navy top.

 

Today I went to the regular gym and did chest and shoulders workout, followed by a 30 minute 7% incline walk on the treadmill.  I have pilates tonight at 6.  Fun day! 

Oh I almost forgot, I had lunch with my friends Kristel and Kim today at Luby's.  I got the grilled fish, a side of green beans and sweet potatos....the total was 13 dollars!  Since when did Luby's become such an expensive restaurant!

Dinner with Anahita

Sorry for the late post, I totally forgot about blogging today, not like I was doing anything interesting!  lol!  Tonight is my last night at crossfit, we are going to try out a different location that is closer to home.  This location takes us anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour to get to depending on traffic.  And the new one I can as many days a week as I want, not just twice a week!  So I really need to get back on the eating clean track, its so hard with girl scout cookies in the house!!

Here is my dinner with Anahita last night.  I love sushi!

Its snowing everywhere but Houston!

So everyone has texted me today from san antonio, austin and dallas talking about the snow they are getting.  I want some snow here!  Jay Z concert last night was awesome!  We had great seats!  If I had knows that we could bring cameras in I would have, but normally you arent allowed, so I was stuck with crappy Iphone shots.  Here are a few from the night!

Our seats

 

  

  

I did pilates this morning.  It was nice, not too hard today.  Was going to go for a run but too cold for me! hehe!  

Jay Z Concert Tonight!

I'm super excited, we are going to the Jay Z concert tonight!  Been waiting for this for several months!  So needless to say there will be no crossfit tonight.  I am leaving soon to go for a 6 mile run to make up for it!

Here is a recap of some of the weekend events.  We attended a birthday happy hour for our friend Kate.

 

Yes I know I need to lay off the fake tan :-)

Then Therese and I went to go eat crawfish, but they were sold out!! So we went and had Korean food instead.

  

It was yummy, but I couldnt get the taste of garlic out of my mouth for a whole day!

I will update you all later, hopefully sneak some pics in from the concert tonight!

Some Sun Finally!!

I woke up this morning, it was kind of overcast, but was hoping the sun would come out.  I went to pilates reformer class, it was killer, it was all abs, 50 minutes of non stop abs.  Torture!  I walked outside and saw that it was nice and sunny, so I decided to go for a run, which I havent done in forever!  The weather was perfect!  I ended up doing 4.5 miles.  A nice start to my return to running.

Last nights crossfit was a good arm workout.  We started out doing 5 minutes on the rower machines, which tired out my arms really well.  Then it was 5 rounds of half squat thrusts with 15 lb weights in each hand, and then 20 lb kettle ball squats and then pull the arms up to your chin.  We had to do as many as we could in 30 seconds with a 30 second break in between.  Then we did another 3 minutes on the rower machine.  Then it was time for situps.  I had a 15 bound weight in my hand, we had to do as many full sit ups as we could in 20 seconds, with 10 seconds off, we did 8 rounds of these, followed by the usual plank and side plank.  Here I am in all black doing my side plank :-)

 

 

I love nutritional yeast!

I had read on so many blogs how they make a faux cheese sauce with nutritional yeast.  Well I finally broke down and tried it.  On its own I wasnt so sure, so I made myself a little salad of spinach and spring mix, grilled chicken, grapes and some almond slivers.  For the dressing I mixed 2 tbsp of hummus, 2 tbsp of nutritional yeast, water to thin it out and a tiny drizzle of tahini.  It was so good on the salad!  I am hooked!  Once I find the blog that I found the original recipe on I will share with you!