Happy Monday! How was your weekend? Even though our weekend was busy, I woke up this morning feeling rested and refreshed. I thought it’d be fun to share some highlights from our weekend with you guys to start off the week.
Celebrating – On Saturday I made the 2-hour drive to West Chester, Pennsylvania to celebrate my friend Colleen’s upcoming nuptials. One of my college sorority sisters, Colleen and her fiance live and work in Atlanta but his West Chester based family hosted a lovely backyard wedding shower for her. Since I can’t make it down to Atlanta for the wedding weekend, the time we spent together on Saturday was very special. We were able to spend some quality time together, laughing and catching up in between enjoying a lovely lunch spread with her friends and family.
Smoothies – Since Bo and I are both loving smoothies these days, I whipped up large batches of smoothies Friday, Saturday and Sunday. While I love our Magic Bullet for making individual smoothies, it was so much easier to make the larger batch in our VitaMix. This weekend’s flavors were pumpkin spice, strawberry peach and cherry vanilla.
Fall Flavors – The Farmer’s Market was overflowing with produce yesterday as the tables featured both the final bits of Summer tomatoes, squash and corn along with the first Fall flavors of the season. Inspired by the tables of local apples, we decided to make a Fall themed dinner last night. We started things off with a small cheese plate, including my favorite Cowgirl cheese followed by a dinner of smashed sweet potatoes served alongside pan-roasted pork chops topped with caramelized onions and apples.
Running – Sunday morning I laced up my shoes for ten miles, my longest run since the NYC Half Marathon in March. As you guys know, I’ve been increasing my long run mileage by two miles each week in preparation for the RNR Brooklyn Half Marathon. Luckily I had friends to motivate and keep me company along the way, making yesterday’s 10 miles fly by! Zoe, Nicole and I ran the entire ten miles together while Katie joined us at the halfway point. If you ever have a hard time finding the motivation to log your miles, call a friend for company as I swear logging miles with friends, especially those who are faster than you, is the best way to crush your training!
Decorating – Even though we’ve lived in our apartment for over a year, we still have decorating and final touches that we want to do. This month’s project is our master bedroom. In addition to painting the crown and bay window moldings bright white, we also moved one of our rugs into the bedroom and are going to mount the television on the wall next weekend. This morning we ordered the finishing touches from One King’s Lane (<– Save $15 with that link) – a chair for the bay window as well as flowers and coasters for the bedside tables.
Sounds like a great weekend! Those smoothie flavours all sound so yummy. I couldn’t agree more about the benefits of training buddies! I’ve started running with a faster friend on Friday mornings and it really helps especially when this past Friday was dark, rainy and windy.
I love home decorating; one kings lane has a lot of great stuff! Our house in Antigua came furnished, but I’m still having fun with plants, flower decor, and incorporating all of the typical Guatemalan textiles.
Yes we’re in love with One Kings Lane – so great! Oh Antigua life 🙂
Running with you ladies really made the miles fly by! Thanks for joining me!
Thank you thank you!! Have a great week Nicole!