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Home Sweet Home

Today is a fun day for Brandon and me. It’s our one year anniversary of closing on our house!

One year ago we left this…

The temporary apartment that we lived in for 10 months while we were house hunting. Can you believe that I did the majority of my 68 Days of Gourmet project in this kitchen? Notice there is no counter space…or dishwasher! It was not ideal!

Packed up the car…

And popped champagne in our first home!

We were so excited about our new house that we “camped out” the first night.

I can’t believe we’ve been in the house for a whole year! We had a really long and hard house hunt with several houses that fell through but we have said to each other a million times that it was so worth all the drama to end up here. We are so happy with our first home!

We have a pretty long list of things that we want to do to the house this coming year so expect more house-themed posts coming! 😛

Now for today’s update.

I set my alarm with the intention of practicing ashtanga this morning but I was up until after midnight last night and just wasn’t feeling the 5 a.m. wake up call. I ended up sleeping until 7:30! Oh well…

Breakfast was {unpictured} overnight oats at my desk and I came home for lunch.

Leftover quinoa from last night’s dinner topped with Greek yogurt and avocado and served over a bed of spinach. Strawberries and fizzy water on the side.

My snack before teaching BodyPump was an Odwalla Chocolate Peanut Butter protein bar and an Honest Green Dragon tea. BodyPump was good tonight but the Thursday class numbers have definitely been dwindling a bit since the weather has gotten nicer and the “Alive After Five” happy hour events have started! 😉

Brandon requested tacos for dinner (the boy would eat tacos once a week if I let him!). I agreed so I could feed him quickly and then get him on his way to go watch the NFL draft with friends. I had no interest in watching it tonight!

Soft tacos with organic ground chicken, organic refried beans and fresh corn (first of the season – good!). I wish I could say this was it but I definitely went back for round two on tacos!

HAPPY FRIDAY! This Friday marks just two weeks until our vacation in Jamaica. I’m getting so excited!

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