Superbowl Monday

What? You didn't watch the Superbowl on monday morning??

Because we did.

We were supposed to be travelling this week, but it didn't work out (much to our disappointment). So we decided to kick our Monday off right by going out to eat for breakfast and trying to watch the Superbowl.

The commentating wasn't in English, which I'm sure some of you wouldn't mind, but I actually really like listening to the commentators. It makes it easier to follow the game if you're not actually watching it.

Anyways, between my french toast and coffee (with real sugar-I use splenda at home), I pretty much got the shakes and bordered on slipping into a sugar coma. Somehow, I pulled myself together long enough to go grocery shopping and getting nothing on my list because the store had nothing on my list.

After an extremely productive morning of eating....I decided to study because I have class tomorrow. And I get nervous going back to class after such a long break.

Then to put the icing on the productivity cake, I went for a run.

Sidenote: Daniel and I walked 6 miles on Saturday. I strapped on the Garmin and off we went. The big deal of the day was getting a fresh pineapple for less than a $1. It tastes amazing!

So the weather was very unseasonably nice today. It actually got up into the 50's and felt pretty good. The weather is supposed to return to 'yucky' by mid-week, so I knew I needed to push myself. So I ran 4 miles. Which if you're keeping track, you'll realize I haven't run over 3 miles in almost 2 months. Just call me consistent.

So pushed I did. And I realized something......you can't run 3 miles once a week for 2 months and expect to keep a respectable pace. At least I can't. I was slow. But in my mind running 4 slow miles is better than running 3 fast ones (more calories.)

After my run, I showered and made Zuppa Toscana soup. It was super yummy!

I might end the day by studying more and drinking some hot chocolate!

Happy Superbowl Monday!

love

laura

Road Trip Day 6 & 7

When we left Wyoming on Tuesday morning it was cold and it snowed later that day. We drove to Nebraska to see some family and it was 95. Go fig.

Sadly, this is the only pic i took on Tuesday. We had such a good time chatting it up with Daniel's cousins once we got to Nebraska, that i forgot to take any pics!! But we did have a wonderful time and loved seeing family!

It was a long drive to Wyoming. I've realized on this road trip that most gas stations have coffee stations with coffee mate creamer options. This works well for me on the road since i'm a coffee creamer addict. Nothing like finding good news like this weeks before leaving the country. Score.

Also, i have ALWAYS wanted something with my initials or monogram on it. This is the closest i've come so far, ha!

WISCONSIN!!! woo hoo!!!

We got up early on Wednesday to drive to Green Bay. For those of you who don't know, my mom's side of the family are HUGE Green Bay Packer fans. Like legit fans. A few of our relatives live one block away from Lambeau stadium. I'm pretty sure Green & Gold runs thru my veins. I have a cheesehead. There is no shame.

After getting to Green Bay, we headed to the only logical place.

I kind of entered a cheesehead high if you will. I was instantly giddy and talking nonstop about how great the Packers are, their history, the many Superbowls, my pride to be Nothern and so forth.

We ate at Curly's Pub INSIDE the stadium. i was pretty much beyond ecstatic at this point. It's like the place where dreams come true, ha!

Tuna melt with cheese, yes please!

I might've peed my pants a little from the excitement. ha, kidding.

After one of the best nights of my life EVER, we caught up on TBL at the hotel and stayed up till midnight talking. Our lives our changing drastically in 3 weeks, we have talk a lot about it, ha!

love

laura

Weekend rewind and everything else

I know it's Wednesday, but we've been busy. But we're both home today bc of the snow. We only got a few inches, but they were expecting us to get 10 so everything closed just in case. I'm off on Friday so I'm REALLY hoping to be off again tomorrow but it looks doubtful. Doubtful, very doubtful (name that movie!)

Last Friday i got out of the house for the first time in days. Nothing like a shower and make up to make you feel like a woman again, ha!

We went to a friends house to play games with 3 other couples from church. Sadly no pics :(

We played Catchphrase and Apples to Apples. Catchphrase is one of my all times faves, i don't really ever tire of this game. This was also my first time to play the Apples game. We had a great night just hanging out, having fun, and enjoying conversation. Everyone did give me a hard time about blogging/twittering. At one point during the game, our friend Mike stopped the game and asked if i need to go tweet about it. Funny.

Anyways, we did have a great time and enjoyed being out of the house and seeing friends.

Saturday was an interesting day. It was a day where everything went wrong, we were both annoyed, and nothing seemed to go right. We finally seemed to clear things up and get on the same page before going to bed. But the whole day i think we were both just wanting to get back in bed and start all over.

Sunday was church. Because of all the snow we just had big church. That night we went to a friends house to watch the Superbowl. If i haven't mentioned it yet, i am a huge Packer fan. My mom's family is from around there, and all of us have followed the Pack for years. I do have a cheesehead. So we were all pretty excited that they were in the Superbowl.

I made a new dessert and loved it. It was SO easy and yummy! They're called No Bake Smore Brownies. yum yum!

I got the recipe from here.

Here are a few pics of my family in all their gear for the game:

(Sarah, Grant, Ethan, Mike)

Sarah showing off her Packer spirit!

Mom and Dad!

In case you've lost connection with the outside world....we won!

Sidenote: Dad fell last week on the ice and landed on his back. He refused to go to the dr's. Sunday night he felt something pop in his ribs that started spasming. He ended up in the ER on Monday for a couple of fractured ribs. They put him on muscle relaxers (to stop the spasming) and pain killers. I'm glad he's okay but i did give him a lecture about not being so stubborn and going to the dr's when you're in pain!

Yesterday was supposed to be Day 1 of half marathon training. But it looks like this outside.

I haven't ran at all this month. I'm hoping to get a Sunday afternoon run in and then hopefully find some consistency once the snow finally goes away.

Monday night we made TPW's Beef with Snow Peas. We loved it!!!! I would've cut back a little on the soy sauce, but other than that, i will def make this again!

I'm currently reading Laura Bush's Spoken from the Heart. She writes a little differently so sometimes it's hard to follow, but i have learned more about the 9-11 attacks that ever. She has so many good stories of people reaching out and so much more detail that you hear on the news. I'm hoping to finish it today.

We watched TBL last night. Arthur....what were you thinking?!?!?!!?!? He is just plain crazy And i think he needs to buck up and start losing the weight and stop making excuses over and over. Also, i felt really bad for Q's wife after all those promises he made to her last week. I totally think he deserved to go home, but i felt bad for her that he didn't keep up his end of the bargain.

Also, i think i've gotten spoiled with all this time off from work. By the time i got home monday night, fixed dinner, cleaned up the house and stuff, it was time for bed. I was annoyed that i didn't have a few hours to read, ha! It felt so weird to go from reading every day and having time to catch up on things, to be rushed again and trying to get it all done!

We're having chicken tortilla soup for dinner, and i can't wait! Now off to find something to eat for lunch!!

Did you watch the superbowl?? do you have snow??

love

laura