WIAW, Quinoa...

I actually had some new eats this week, not just boring same old foods this week. For my WIAW post I thought I would talk about what I did with the cheesy broccoli quinoa I made and talked about last Wednesday.

Main dish on Wednesday, but a side dish on Thursday.

Paired with pas and fake chicken nuggets. You can't have too many green foods on your plate.

On Sunday morning I added some to a fritatta that I baked.

I love fritattas. What ould be easier than throwing some egg whites, chia seeds and whatever veggies you want and bake for about 30 minutes. You can eat it by itself, put it on an English muffin, or like I did on Sunday, make a breakfast burrito.

Half an avocado, quinoa fritatta, a little cheddar cheese and salsa. I am seriously loving avocados now. Why did it take me so long to discover my love of avocados?

I love quinoa. It's always good to love a food that is packed full of good stuff like protein, iron, calcium and potassium.

It wasn't all healthy last week.

I went a little over board with the mini Reeces pieces and M&Ms, but it was still really good.

I picked up a boxed brownie mix yesterday. Sometimes you just need brownies, but you don't want to go to all the trouble of making them from scratch. I did add extra semi sweet chocolate chips. Yummy!

So there you have it, another week of eats. It is almost May! Next week I should have some pre and post race week eats. Oh how I love race week.

 

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Girls Weekend...

Josh headed to the lake this weekend with my brother-in-law so Camy and Carson had the weekend to hang out this weekend.
Carson didn't want to go to the Kumon awards ceremony Friday night, so I let her pick where we were going to go out to dinner. She decided we were going to go to S&B Burger. We have decided the best thing on their menu is the Fried Spicy Cheese Cubes.

Check out that cheese cube! It was huge. The girls thought this was really funny.
I got up and got in a ten mile run on Saturday morning.
Camy had practice with her fast pitch team she is playing with this summer. They practiced sliding at the end and she as filthy when I picked her up.

She asked me if I was gonna take a picture of her to put on my blog. She actually doesn't look very dirty here, but trust me everything that she had on at practice went straight into the washing machine when we got home.
After she got cleaned up we headed to the outlet mall. Carson wanted some red Converse high tops. We did find these.

Too bad these were in kid sizes, they would be perfect for Josh.

I got to torture the girls while I tried on purple shorts. And I bought Carson the funniest t-shirt.

We had quit a few laughs when we found this.
Any time that involves just me and the girls would have to include a stop at Cherry Berry for frozen yogurt.

Saturday night with my girls, frozen yogurt and The Big Bang Theory. While the mood swings happen minute to minute I love days like this one.

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Running, a Movie and Frozen Yogurt...

Today was my last Saturday run before the Cowtown Marathon. It was in the 20s this morning, the coldest it has been in a while, but there little wind. It's funny how the cold can seem intimidating for me. I was going to go with my cold weather gear under my Brooks running tights, but decided that I would just wear my new Injinji compression socks. (I am loving my compression gear now.)

When I was deciding on which marathon I wanted to run back in December, I decided that I didn't want to get all stressed out about a training plan. I have basically stuck to my three days a week of running with two or three days of yoga for the last few months. My long runs have been determined by my favorite running store owner, Craig, and in all it has been a pretty stress free training cycle for me.

Since the Route 66 half marathon in Tulsa before Thanksgiving I have ran two 20 milers, one 16 miler and two 18 milers. While they have not all been super fantastic long runs I have made it through the miles. The lone exception was last Saturday when my 20 mile run turned into just over 18 and a sinus infection. Not fun.

When I meet up for today's run I noticed that my lack of stress throughout my training was all catching up with me. What if forgoing stress up until this point doesn't serve me well next Sunday? What if people follow training plans for a reason and I end up regretting not having a more formal plan over these last months? What if I can't make it? What if it's too hard, or too painful? What was I thinking?

We set out on our 10 mile run in the flats. Really, it's not all that flat, there is one killer hill. It was cold but my lungs adjusted to the air and my legs settled in for a little faster than marathon goal pace run. I had fun. 10.4 miles in 1:30, right at about 8:39 pace. Sure that hill was painful, but overall it was a great run. It was a day that reminds me why I love to run. It was cold, but the sun was out. Most of my running friends were not there, but I got to run with new friends and people in our group that I don't usually get to chat with for ten miles.

Best part of today was instead of an ice bath, I soaked in a hot bath Epsom salt. What a nice change of pace.

Later today, the girls and I headed out to the movies. We had talked all week about seeing Beautiful Creatures.

It was a pretty entertaining movie. I think the girls and I will have to read the book, I imagine it is much better than the movie.

Worst iPhone picture ever.

We picked up pizza from one of our favorite places, Sandro's, and even went by Cherry Berry to get some frozen yogurt for dessert. That place is so good, it's hard to drive past it without stopping.

Chocolate, Cookie Monster, vanilla, red velvet, white chocolate and salted pretzel. Yum.

Oh yeah, and there was this...

Sometimes dealing with two 12 year olds and you need a glass of wine.

Today was the best kind of Saturday.

 

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Lazy Sunday...

I love Sundays. I love not having anything to do or anywhere to go.

I decided to start the day in a really exciting way, by cleaning out the freezer, refrigerator and the pantry. There comes a point when you just have to go through it all and get rid of things you don't need and organize the rest of it.

Then Josh and I decided to start watching season 2 of Downton Abbey. Season 3 has already started and our DVR is recording the new episodes, so we need to get caught up.

Such a good show. If you are not watching it then you are missing out.

I got Camy to get out of bed at about noon with promises of taking them to Cherry Berry for frozen yogurt. I got a Groupon last weekend and they have asked almost daily if we could go use it. We made a pit stop to drop off a care package for a sick friend.

The flu is bad news. What could be better than tomato soup and chocolate chip cookies? We did a drive by and I made Camy drop it off on their front porch. We are going to have to work on speed if I am ever going to take my kids toilet papering. Not that I would condone that sort of behavior, but by the time I was their age we had convinced some of our friends' moms to drive us around in the middle of the night to distribute toilet paper around town.

I am not lying when I say that this is the best place for frozen yogurt. There is a new place in Norman that I have not tried yet, but it is hard to change when you have found the best.

There was only mild moodiness in the car on the way there and on the way home. Whats better for moodiness than chocolate?

The rest of the day will involve, hot yoga, Once Upon A Time, and the Golden Globes.

 

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