Sunday, December 29, 2013

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!

4 comments:

  1. The kitties are soooo cute! I ate my oatmeal today in the car on my lap too :) All of your pics are so good! My phone takes better pics than my camera, lol!

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    1. I know, they are soooo sweet too! And thank you - once the newness of the phone wears off, I'll probably go back to my camera. But it's really convenient to have the phone camera to be such good quality!

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  2. Looks like you had an awesome weekend! Hooray for Instagram! I'm so excited to see pictures of your runs and oatmeal ;)
    I am definitely with you on spending money on novelty nut butters. We order from Naturally Nutty, and we can make a hefty dent on (my mom's) wallet. heh heh. I eat nut butter at least once a day though, so it's money well-spent!

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    1. Haha I love Instagram! And oatmeal/runs will probably be my main Instagram feed, lol. I'm glad someone agrees with me on the nut butters - I've looked at Naturally Nutty too! And I also eat quite a bit of nut butter so that will definitely be worth my money. :)

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