Rodeo 2013 - Dierks Bentley

 

 

Barrett and I were lucky and received suite tickets last Wednesday to the rodeo to see Dierks. This was my first time being in a suite at Reliant. Not too shabby :) The suite had chipotle potato salad and that was pretty much my entire dinner. It was so good! Can't wait for another round of rodeo fun tonight!

Camo Baby-Q Bash

This was more of a meet the baby shower. My cousin's wife was due in Feb, but the family couldn't all get together until March so we were expecting to meet a 1 month old. Instead, she had him in December so he was already 3 months old! But no matter what we were celebrating!



The invitation made with Publisher

This was the card I made for the gift I was giving them

This is the card I made for my Mom to give with her gift

Of course I had to get burp cloths made. I think I got them done back in October! Elizabeth and her mom did an awesome job (like always)!

When I was cutting letters for the banner I forgot I changed the phrase from welcome to hello so I had all these letters and nothing to do with them to I taped them to ribbon and put it on the back door...problem solved.

It was so bright outside that it made taking this picture very difficult. The banner reads Hello Baby Garrett. I cut the triangles by hand, the letters were cut with my cricut, ran the letters through my sticker machine, stuck them on the pennants, made to hole punches in each and used bakers twine to string/hang them.

My mom and I put this together. We tried to find plain white diapers, but I swear everything has a design on them. However, I really like these little tigers and they matched the decor :)

Camo Brownie Pops...I wasn't a huge fan of how they turned out but they tasted amazing!!! I think I like them better than cake pops!

Camo cupcakes...Camo wrappers, white cake, white icing with green and orange sprinkles. I tried a new way of using a pastry bag and it made clean up a breeze! I will never put icing directly in a pastry bag again. Click here to watch the tutorial!

Table layout (clockwise starting from the left)...gifts for the winners, pens and paper for the games, baby gifts, brownie pops, diaper cake, cupcakes and dinnerware 

Lastly, I decided on 3 games to be played. Name the baby animals, word scramble using Garrett's name and the baby food game. Watching my cousin without any kids taste the different food was hilarious!! Just by looking at the jars can you guess what all they had to taste?!?!

The shower went great! I think this is the last shower I will be putting together for a while since the next one should be up in Dallas in June, but we shall see! My mom keeps telling me I should be a party planner, but for now I think I'll stick with my day job ;)

What My Day Off Looked Like

I'm one of the lucky ones who works a 9/80 schedule allowing me every other Friday off! It's definitely worth getting up before the crack of dawn for that Friday. This past Friday I had a busy day getting ready for a baby shower I was hosting Saturday so I thought this would be the perfect time to document. Now if only I had remembered to take more pictures...

Here we go...

Woke up for the first time at 6 am because I forgot to turn off my alarm :(

 

 

Finally got out of bed

 

 

A little vanilla greek yogurt with chocolate chips and a hot cup of tea for breakfast while catching up on Glee

 

 

Let the baking begin! By this time my brownies were in the oven and while I waited on those I whipped up the Baked Potato Ranch Dip

 



While still waiting for the brownies to finish, I strung together the banner I made for the shower

 



Once the brownies came out of the oven, I walked over to the gym to get my sweat on. I didn't make it very far on the treadmill, but some is better than none. And yes I was watching Full House ha ha.

 

 

 

After checking the mail and walking back to my apartment, I ended my HRM's workout. I always let it run until I get back to my apartment so that I'm not stopping it while my heart rate is still elevated.

 

Leftover spinach ravioli for lunch

 

Next up was a quick shower (didn't think that needed a pic ha ha)

 





 

After my shower, I was off to my massage appointment. It feels so good to have someone get all my knots out.

 

After my massage I completely forgot to take pics again until dinner. My bad. But I started on the cupcakes.

 

While the first batch were baking, I whipped up the fruit dip.

 

Put in the second batch of cupcakes (I only have one muffin tray so I can only do 12 at a time)

 

7 pm dinner with my guy at BWW...surprisingly we only waited 5 mins!

 



 

After dinner it was time to roll and dip my brownie pops (don't mind my gigantic hand I was having difficulties)

 

While the pops were drying I vacuumed and started making the orange candy coating to go on top of the green

 

Put the orange over the green and stuck them in the fridge

 

Put up the cupcakes

 

Wiped down the counters

 

Took another shower

 

Crawled into bed at 12:15 am



 



 

 

There you have it...a day in the life of me! Granted I'm not usually this busy on my days off. Most of my fridays off  I wake up, eat, go to the gym or run outside, eat/watch tv, get my massage if I have a credit, watch tv/clean/do laundry, eat, tv, bed...ha ha

 

 

What does your day look like??

It's back!!!

After a year of waiting, Whataburger's spicy ketchup has finally made its return! To say I'm excited would be an understatement. If you're ever at Whataburger and feel like picking up a tub of it for me I will love you forever :) or at least until I eat it all...ha ha

WWU: 7

Thursday, 2/28 - Decemburrr Circuit (426 calories burned) this completely destroyed my hamstrings for about 3 days...ouch

Friday, 3/1 - 30 min stride machine (337 calories burned) not sure if it was because of my hamstrings hurting or lack of energy, but I had a hard time getting my heart rate up this day...I've actually noticed lately that I'm burning fewer calories than normal....hmmmmm

Saturday, 3/2 - Rest

Sunday, 3/3 - Rest...now I had every intention of working out or at least going on a run BUT instead I sat on the couch all day watching the entire first season of Homeland...talk about addicting!!!

Monday, 3/4 - Monday Night Circuit (created by moi on the fly) followed by a little ab work (356 calories burned) I didn't add what weights I used to the below exercises, but for non cardio ones I used 10 pound dumbbells. Probably should have gone with 15 pound dumbbells for the two chest exercises, but since I hadn't done chest work in a while I didn't want to over due it. I was/am still a little sore so I know I was working something!

Tuesday, 3/5 - Cardio Barefoot Flow (didn't wear my heart rate monitor)

Wednesday, 3/6 - Rest...Going to the Rodeo!! woo hoo! Maybe I should count all the walking I'll do there as my workout?!?!

WWU: 6

Tuesday, 2/19 - 30 min elliptical with 5 lb. bicep curls during commercials (374 calories burned)

Wednesday, 2/20 - 30 min treadmill...1 min warm up walk, 4 min run at 6.0, 5 mins of 30 second sprints at 7.0, 5 mins of 30 second sprints at 7.5, 3 min run at 6.0, 2 mins walking lunges with kick back, 1 min cool down walk (478 calories burned)

Thursday, 2/21 - Rest

Friday, 2/22 - Rest

Saturday, 2/23 - RACE DAY!!! 5k (478 calories burned)

Sunday, 2/24 - Rest

Monday, 2/25 - HIIC plus 9 minutes walking on the treadmill to round out my time to 45 mins total (526 calories burned)

Tuesday, 2/26 - 40 min elliptical with 5 lb. bicep curls during commercials, 1 set 20 windshield wipers and 1 set 20 v-ups (478 calories burned)

Wednesday, 2/27 - Rest

How Do You Eat a Cupcake???

Do you eat it like my brother???

Or like me???

If you eat it like me...then you can find a little surprise in the middle!!

Can you believe this was my very first Nutella cupcake?!?! I can't believe I waited so long...ha ha!

My brother found a new bakery by the house called Sweet Cakes and picked up 12 for his own birthday...ha ha. These were good little cupcakes...just the right amount of icing to cupcake. The flavors he got were... Nutella (2), Cookies n Cream (2), Red Velvet (2), Chocolate Delight (2), Birthday Cake (2) and White with Pink Icing (2). I can't wait to eat the other Nutella one and try one of the chocolate ones. Yum!