~Did not get a thing done~

I confess, skipped out on yoga tonight, with the idea of organizing our, what seems to be, endless clutter from when we moved. Crazy but I really like to clean and organize, when I am in the mood and today was the day. I decided a quick dinner was a good idea if I was going to get some work done before bedtime.

I love pasta, really who doesn't? Whole wheat pasta was in the cabinet and as I looked around I grabbed a can of diced tomatoes and sun dried tomato basil paste. Cut up some mushrooms that were in the frig. and added them to a pan with some olive oil. I added the the diced tomatoes, paste, garlic, onion salt, and some red tomato sauce to the pan with the mushrooms. Topped off the sauce with some Italian shredded cheese mix and YUMM it was delicious. 

 No we do not eat on those place mats, nor do we even eat at the kitchen table, but it sure makes a good picture. =)

Lets just say after dinner, taking the dog for a good long walk, and cleaning up dinner, the enthusiasm of organizing the clutter was diminishing. Then any hope of getting anything done was thrown out the window because a pick up softball game was where I ended up. So everything will sit until another day. I know I am not the only one that would turn down cleaning up over being outside with friends and family... =)


<3 ~Britt*~

~Practicing Yogi~

(http://fajriumami.blogspot.com/2012/03/yoga-in-weight-loss-plan.html)

Now its time to talk a little about what I love to do, Hot Yoga/Vinyasa. Honestly I do not know what I would do without yoga. I have ridiculously high anxiety and this is the only activity that I do everyday that helps. If I have any "quiet" time all I do is think, and thinking for me is very bad. I worry about everything, mostly things I can not change.

Hot Yoga(Bikram) and Vinyasa are 90min classes usually 110 degrees and about 60 percent humidity. The place I practice at also has radiate heating in the ceiling which also heats up the room and bodies. After the first couple classes I did, the heat became tolerable and I was wanting to go back to class because of the way I felt when I left. Mental clarity and the reduction of anxiety/stress is what keeps me going back.


Class tonight was perfect, just what I needed after a heck tick Monday. I was also feeling very stressed today, so when I got into "forward fold" pose and the teacher says "let go", then that is exactly what I do, let go. I accomplished, for the first time without help, a tripod headstand from a wide leg forward fold, I was ecstatic, oh and still am! =)

(wide leg forward fold)

(http://www.beerasana.com/index.html)

(tripod headstand)

(http://thelife.buzznet.com/user/photos/strike-yoga-pose-tripod-headstand/?id=45626171)

I hope my enthusiasm for yoga will get you to take a step into a studio and try it. I'm sure I will blog more about yoga and hopefully get some pictures of me doing some of the poses.

<3 ~*Britt*~

~Relaxing Weekend~

9 am wake up call Saturday morning, trying to find the snooze. Rolled myself out of bed to get my yoga gear together and out the door I went. Hot vinyasa was just what I needed to get my morning started, "namaste".

I was losing my tan, the sun was shinning, and the puppy needed to get out of the house, so off to Mommoms we went for a lake day with the family.

This is one thing that was great growing up at mommom and poppops, the lake! The summer times are always the best, because the family always gets together by the water.

My cousin Lindsey grew up right next door and she was my little buddy. Now she is growing up to be such a beautiful young lady.

Blazey girl it not a very good swimmer so I bought her a doggy life jacket which works out very well. She loves being at the lake and runs around like a nut!

Beautiful niece Taya was there too.

It was a great Saturday at the lake. My sister-in-law had my brother and hers wedding video so we watched it later on after dinner. Its really funny watching everyone dancing and being silly, not knowing they were on camera.

Sunday=Lazy day. Laying around after softball game watching the Phillies, nothing too exciting! Cleaning and Laundry later, then back to Monday...ugg I do not like Mondays..

Hope everyone had a great weekend..

<3 ~*Britt*~

~Baking; Banana Bread~

The Love of Food...and Baking, but mostly Food.

 It has been a while since the oven has been used for baking, but tonight is the first night in a long time we have not had something planned. We are usually getting home from work on Fridays, showering and running out the door. I am catching myself tip toeing around the house, hoping Brian doesn't come up with a plan for tonight, because my plan is sitting my butt on the couch and finding a movie. The baking begins..

I got the recipe for the Banana Bread from bettycrocker.com. This is the first time I made banana bread so I just did a search on Google and this one had the most amount of stars. Note to self: Buy a mixer asap. I had to do all the blending by hand with a spoon and hand beater, so the prep part took a little longer than expected.

It smelled so good whille I was prepping, that I had to taste it! ;) So after all the mashing and mixing it was time to put them in the oven.

The cook time was an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes. So time to eat our dinner which was pizza and french fries, yummm! I was craving pizza all week so why not have it on our cheat day.

 After some pizza I got a change to catching up with a great friend and her two beautiful baby girls via Skype. What a great invention, I have not seen her in forever and yet to meet her girls so it was nice to chat it up with her and the little ones.

So the buzzer rings on the oven...

  

and "bam" master piece..

Well maybe not a prize winner but I am very happy with the final result. Only thing I would change is less flour. The recipe called for 2 and 1/2 cups, I would probably just go with 2 cups.

 I'm eating it as I write this blog, and Brians asleep on the couch so my hope for a night in and a movie might actually happen!!! =)

<3 ~*Britt*~

Here we go...

Well I was planning on coming home from work, eating dinner then sitting down with my computer to write my first blog, but I had some visitors....

My brother, sister-in-law and niece Taya came to drop off some things so I was consumed with this crazy twenty month old. The funny thing is she is just like me when I was younger! I honestly do not know how my mommom and poppop kept up with me, because Taya is so exhausting. She needs to be constantly entertain so outside it was with some sidewalk chalk.

Taya and Blazey girl are bestest buds. They follow each other everywhere, so where you see one, the other isn't far behind. I think they just go on adventures together in their own little worlds. They love to give each other big kisses.

It was a great end to a long day at work. Now Blazey girl and I are resting on the couch watching some tv, waiting for "daddy" to get home.

<3 ~*Britt*~