New Directions+A Fabulous Weekend

Heyyyy, happy Monday! Which I hope most of you had off, because that’s the best way to spend a Monday, right?

Fun

Thanks for all the well wishes on our huge party: it was a massive SUCCESS. There was copious amount of delicious and healthy food! I so wish I had taken more photos! But you know I was just so caught up with being with friends and enjoying the food I didn’t want to have to worry about the blog, y’all understand 🙂 I tried a bit of everything, or most things, but definitely went heavier on the vegetables and proteins. Yum! My favorites 🙂 Don’t get my wrong, I love my carbs too 😉 So moral of the story, I had a great time—swimming, running around, and spending time with friends. Twas delightful 😉

This morning my family was invited to a brunch! Which included even more delicious food. I love tasting little bits of everything, or what looks most appealing, verse trying three huge servings of something. That takes all the fun out of it for me 😉 The brunch included lots of fruit! I literally went back multiple times just for the fruits. Fruit overload…? Nahh 😉 I have been going easy on it for the rest of today!

Food

My brunch was definitely lacking in protein, so before yoga this afternoon I had a chicken burger topped with provolone and homemade (not by us, someone else brought it!) salsa! Mmm! This was all from leftovers 🙂 With ketchup, too, of course 😉 Yesterday’s breakfast was the ever-so-fabulous oats in a jar! I love how the DCD gets all melty! Like eating pure dark chocolate. Can you say scrumptious?!  

Sunday’s lunch was another favorite, ham n’ cheese on a multi grain w/ flax flat-out. My favorite 😀 Along with grapes and applesauce!   Fitness

Sunday’s workout was another P90X DVD—Plyometrics. Oh. my. word. SO challenging. My t-shirt was soaked after words. It focuses on quads and hamstrings especially. Let me tell you, it hurts so bad to sit down today!

Even though, I managed to do 60 minutes of Dave Farmar Baptiste Power Yoga. I love this yoga session! Definitely check it out on yogadownload.com , an awesome site as well!

Here’s this week’s workout schedule!

• Sunday: Plyometrics
• Monday: Yoga
• Tuesday: Yoga
• Wednesday: Strength+Cardio
• Thursday: Strength+Cardio
• Friday: OFF
• Saturday: Strength (possibly cardio…)

A New Direction

I love blogging, I truly do! And I can’t imagine my life without it, seriously!! But I have some new ideas for the blog, which you can see portrayed in this post. I want to have categories, which will include my interests and passions. That was a really rough description, but I think you get what I’m saying! Here are some of my categories I’m thinking about! I think it will make my blog much more organized and fun to read!

• School
• College Talk
• (I’m excited about my class’ upcoming trip to a fabulous college with a gorgeous campus and some other fantastic offerings! More on that in another post!)
• Car Talk/Driving
• Fitness
• Food
• Faith
• Fun
• Job Talk
• Health/Nutrition

That seems like a lot, but I surely won’t be talking about each one in every single post! 🙂

Faith

Verse of the Day: Psalm 103:11-12

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

I love these verses! It shows His great love for us and how he’s removed our sin as far as the east is from the west. Isn’t that amazing?

In giveaway news…

Heather is having an awesome giveaway! By the way, if you haven’t already, check out her blog. She’s a total sweetheart! 🙂

Have a great week everyone! Just think, it’s practically Wednesday, and then Thursday…and then the weekend again. Well, kinda 😉 I’m a glass half full type girl!

❤ jess

xoxo