Runs, Friends, and Instagram

Hello darlings! I've had quite the fun past few days - let's play a little catch-up, shall we?

All pictures are from my iPhone, as I'm obsessed with the camera on it - it takes almost better-quality pictures than my Nikon! (Hey you should be my friend on Instagram ;) Pretty please?)

Thursday morning: my favorite breakfast - Chai Spiced Pear Overnight Oats and cofffeee.

After a couple of hours, I headed out for a 35 minute run. I actually got sweaty on this one! Now that I'm pretty much over my cold, my runs have been feeling really good again! 

After my run and shower, I headed out with my sister and friend for a girls' day. We stopped for lunch at Chic-fil-e and then went shopping at all of the crazy holiday sales!!

After shopping around a bit, we walked around downtown Woodstock for an hour or so. It has a lot of cute coffee shops and boutiques to browse around in - I also loved the giant ornaments hanging on the trees!

We slept over at a friend's house that we were house-sitting for. She has two adorable kittens that were completely crazy and fun! I really miss having kittens - they were quite a handful in a really cute hyper kitten way.

We were supposed to be helping Sara study for the ACT buuuttt.....when you put 3 girls in a house together, not much studying is going to happen. Especially on break. Fact of life!

Even though we barely slept, Sara and I had to wake up really early to go take care of some dogs we were watching, and I was starving when I woke up. So breakfast was eaten in my lap, in my pjs, in the car - naturally. And of course I brought the ingredients for oatmeal. :)

We had to be home soon because my aunt and uncle were visiting, and I was greeted with this really amazing surprise:

It was a letter from my very best friend that I was in a recovery center with. We were the closest in age, and practically inseparable. I love her to pieces, and we used to write all the time, but kind of lost touch once our lives started "normalizing." It's been a good year since we've written each other a letter (and almost 2 years since we've seen each other), so I was sooooo happy to get this! Writing letters is such a unique and special thing - something about it makes you feel loved. It's a lost art.

It was also really nice to see my aunt and uncle - we had dinner and played poker together! I lost. :) But they gave us a couple of gift cards, one to Amazon - is it sad I want to spend some money on novelty nut butters?!

Still want this Wild Friends almond butter!!

Saturday I was up {relatively} early for a run with my friend!

We ran a great, easy 7 miles. I loved running outside of my neighborhood and exploring around. I live in a pretty rural-ish area, so there was a lot of pretty countryside scenery!

Can you see the bikers in the distance??

I refueled with Julie's Banana Bread Protein Pancakes and a chocolate almond milk.

Literally the rest of the day was spent lounging around - it was rainy and gross outside (betcha didn't see that one coming!!). I leave you with these adorable pictures:

Have a wonderful Sunday!