Waiting for Wilco...

We are sitting on the top of the hill at the Lawn at Riverside Park in Nashville waiting for Wilco to come onstage. 

Is it horrible that I really don't care if I see Bon Dylan?  I am all about Wilco. This is the fourth time Josh and I have seen them; Tulsa, OKC and Denton so far. 

It is an absolutely beautiful night here in Nashville and I am excited for the girls to see Wilco for the first time. 

We got downtown early and had dinner at the Rockbottom Brewery. The highlight of the meal was dessert. 

Yum!

Now it's almost Wilco time! 

Have a good night. 

Let's Start With Some Music...

We decided to spend the first night of our vacation in Tulsa. Not only were we dropping off the pups, we got to listen to some pretty amazing music. 

Tedder, mentioned at the top of the flier is my sister-in-law's amazingly talented boyfriend. He plays or has played the saxophone in three of the four bands that were scheduled to play last night. 

I had never been able to see him play before and I am kicking myself. The event was a fundraiser, raising funds for Ryan (boyfriend) and Jordan (sister-in-law) who are moving to Chicago in a couple of weeks. I would pack up and move with them in a heartbeat because I love Chicago, but sadly their new place is pretty small. 

Back to last night. 

The first band features a cello, banjo, saxophone (Ryan) and a rapper. I was skeptical but it worked and they were very good. 

This is Ryan, yes he was wearing a tuxedo, with the third band. He had never played with them before and he sounded amazing with these guys. 

Jordan had some her friends from Studio 7 Fitness, where she has developed some amazing abs pole dancing come out and perform during the show. She has sure come a long way from the eight year old she was when I first met her 21 years ago!

Carson with the worlds best mother-in-law. 

Josh and the girls. They enjoyed their first show. I think they are ready for Wilco tomorrow. 

We are almost to Memphis, had some serious traffic outside of Little Rock that slowed us down. 

More to come...

On The Road...

Blogging from the road. We have been on the road for approximately 16 minutes and we are already on the turnpike. 

We are headed to Tulsa tonight to drop off this guy. 

He is being amazingly calm with his sister Penny. They are going to have their own vacay at the Doggie Do in Grove with Aunt Connie. Fun times!

There is also a concert happening tonight that we are getting to see. Two birds and all. More on that tomorrow. 

For now its the open road. 

Well keep your fingers crossed its all open. 

Cheers to vacation and the next eleven days with the family, Wilco and the beach. 

I wonder if we forgot anything. 

Pre Vacation WIAW...

I have been seriously slacking when it comes to the blog lately. It is not there hasn't been anything going on, it's just that the things going on haven't been blog appropriate. As things develop they might become appropriate, until then let's start with a little WIAW.

It has not been a very memorable week of eats, lots of same old thing.

I have become quite the Pinterest stalker lately. I have been pinning a bunch of yummy looking recipes and then not doinganything with them. Until last week, when I made Bubble Pizza. The family liked this one, we made part of it vegetarian friendly (Read: no pepperoni) and I made some zuchinni chips to go with mine.

My favorite yogurt is still this Chobani key lime, so good with the graham cracker and white chocolate chips.

I introduced the girls to my new favorite beverage at Starbucks. Iced green tea. I will not bore you with all of the pictures we took before we got one with all three cups in the picture.

With softball over, I feel like our evenings are getting back to normal. Just in time for vacation. After spin class on Monday I came home and made some rissoto that I topped with roasted veggies. Tuesday night was leftovers and for some reason I decided to top the rissoto and veggies with a fried egg. I don't eat fried eggs very often anymore, but every once in a while I can't resist. It might not look fabulous, but it was absolutly delicious.

I keep saying I am going to get back on track, but I mean it this time. There is still some interesting things happening in these final days of June, so check back to see what happens.

 

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WIAW, or What Did I Eat?

If you happen to be one of the couple of people that actually read my blog on a regular basis, I almost used handful but thought that might be a bit of a stretch, you may have noticed the lack of activity on this little corner of the net.

In short, live has been pretty in eventful (Read: boring) lately. Don't get me wrong, we have been pretty busy it just hasn't been what I would think people outside my household would find interesting. I do have some things to share but I thought I would see what I could put together in the way of an WIAW (aka what did I eat Wednesday) post. 

This was so yummy!  Baked (or nuked) sweet potato with roasted broccoli and Brussels sprouts and mushrooms. Just thinking about this makes me want to eat it again. 

I have been craving burritos for some reason. This one had a little blue potato, egg whites, roasted veggies from previous pic, spinach and a little cheddar cheese. It was a borderline fail though as we were all out of salsa. Oh yeah, and there was avocado...

I am posting this picture because I really want to eat this. I got a new vegetarian cookbook for my birthday last week and I fell in love with this recipe!  Now I just have to remind myself how to turn on the oven and actually make this. 

While I have been very unmotivated in the kitchen lately I did manage to get it together to make these Brookies. 

I have never made blondies, but this recipe with brownies/blondies all together is just amazing. 

There you have it. Can someone please tell me how to find my kitchen motivation?

Saturday...

I got up to meet Anne and Carrie at the Y for a nice Saturday run. My quads had been sore all week from our two morning runs and some weights, but I figured it might be a shortened long run bit it would still be a run. 

Boy was I wrong. 

We got through the first at a 10+ pace and it was shortly after that I decided irritation in my quad was not shared equally in both legs and could only mean one thing. 

I'm not 100 percent yet. 

So after a little over a mile I ended up walking about three miles. I was glad to not be responsible for ruining anyone else's run. Anne and Carrie went on without me and got in six miles. 

I finished up with some arms and then headed home. Not the morning I thought it would be but I am resigned to the fact that I want to run, but I don't want to run if it feels like crap. It seems like an eternity since my last really good run and it feels like it will be as long until I have another one. 

So I'm going to bike, spin, swim, get in some strength training and even try out deep water running. Am I bummed?  Sure. But crappy running is way worse than being sidelined for a little bit. 

We will be at the beach in a couple of weeks and I am hoping to be able to get a few miles there. I love running at the beach. 

Lunch today was awesome. 

Breakfast burrito with egg whites, potato, broccoli, spinach, cheddar cheese and avocado. Yum. 

Now Carson and I are hanging out watching the last two episodes of Revolution. 

Penny has been hanging out with us. 

Have a great Saturday!

Frozen Yogurt...

The Tweens had an appointment at the dermatologist this afternoon so I thought we would check out a new frozen yogurt place that we have driven past quite a few times. 

Our first trip to Earth Fruits Yogurt was a roaring success. 

I got a little dark chocolate, vanilla, salted caramel pretzel and something with Greek and fruit. 

Don't tell Cherry Berry but there might be a new froyo place on the top of my list. It was quite a bit cheaper (Josh aka Dave Ramsey will like that), and they had a bigger selection of toppings. 

The customer service was great too. Even when Camy broke the cookies and cream. Okay, she didn't really break it, but they fixed it really fast. 

I think we will be back here. Soon. Maybe tomorrow.