Tune In

What we are tuning into:

1. Books

Trevor is just finishing up the first book of 

The Hunger Games.

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We are very excited to go see the movie when it comes

out!!

I have finished The Hunger Game series and am now

reading:

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It is very interesting so far.  A lot of "technical" terms, but I am

beginning to become very interested in how we work out and what we eat

effects our body.

2. TV

Bethenny Ever After started a couple of weeks ago.  

Bethenny and her husband, Jason 

are so funny and we love to see their interaction.

American Idol has just begun the Top 24.  We are a little unsure of the talent

this season, but we will see.

3. Movies

Trevor took me to see The Vow last weekend :)

He is such a great man with a lot of patience for the things that make

me happy.  

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This weekend we are most likely going to see Safe House.  I promised Trevor

we can go see if after he sat through the vow and even said "It wasn't

that bad" at the end. 

4. Music 

A slightly embarrassing fact ... I put "Rack City" by 

Tyga on my Workout playlist.

Please don't judge me. 

Can't wait for this weekends events ... Gym Date, Troy's Farmers Market, Dinner with Trevor's co-workers, Bridal Show and quality time with my sister, brother-in-law and of course the cutest little man ever, my nephew. 

xoxxo 

Falling In Love All Over Again

Valentine's Day 

Valentine's Day was another great day.  We decided against fighting the crowds at restaurants and stayed in for a romantic evening.  Last year for Valentine's Day I made Trevor red velvet cupcakes and he insisted on them again this year (I am beginning to think this will be a tradition he would like to keep). 

Glorious Treats has a lot of great recipes for desserts.  I used both the cupcake and the frosting recipe from this site.

-  cupcakes

-  frosting 

For my chocolate garnishes:

1. Lined a baking sheet with parchment paper 

2. Melted chocolate chips in the microwave ( 30 seconds then stir then 20 seconds and stir)

3.  Filled a squeeze bottle with the melted chocolate and created my designs on the parchment paper

4. Put the baking sheet in the freezer for about 2 hours

5. Once the chocolate set, they came off the parchment paper very easily

Trevor surprised me with beautiful roses and chocolate! What a guy :) 

We originally planned on cooking dinner, but after making the cupcakes a mess in the kitchen we decided to order in sushi from Duo.  We have never actually been in the restaurant, but they are just down the road and deliver.  

Sushi, wine, cupcakes, chocolate and my love ... definitely my idea of a perfect Valentine's Day.  

Can't wait for this weekends getaway to NYC!! Have a fantastic weekend 

xoxxo

Looking forward

We have some excited adventurous coming up that we are looking forward to:

1. Valentines Day

Nothing like a day that says I Love You all over again!  Yes, I realize how corny that is and before Trevor I HATED Valentines Day.  Loving someone special can be the most amazing thing in the world so don't ever pass that up no matter how "corny" people think you are!! We don't go all out for Valentines Day, but a nice home cooked meal, red velvet cupcakes, a bottle of wine and possible a movie is all we need.  

Oh yea ... lots of chocolate too!

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2. NYC!!

February 18th we are going down to NYC for the night for a little romantic get-a-way!!!! YAH!!!  We haven't decided on where we are going to have dinner yet, but we are open for suggestions ... please share some!!!

We are going to see a musical called Memphis. 

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A little extra bonus for this weekend in NYC is going to brunch Sunday morning with one of my best friends, Michele. 

She is currently going to school at FIT and I haven't seen her since last summer :( ... Can't wait to catch up and for her and Trevor to meet.  

3. Stay-Cation 

We have planned a week long "stay-cation" in March to relax and spend some QT together.  We are also trying to get at least one item on our Bucket List crossed off during that week.   We are thinking either go to a gun range or ride in a hot air ballon.  There will also be lots of relaxation, spring cleaning and wedding planning going on this week!!

Opinions:

Gun Range or 

Hot Air Balloon Ride??

Hope everyone is having a GREAT weekend!!  Don't forget to fall in love with someone or something on Tuesday ♥

xoxxo

Tuning In

Books, Magazines, Music, Movies, TV, Social Networking, Blogging ... ( I think you get where I am going) are all great outlets.

Here is what we are Tuning In to right now:

Books:

I am currently on the 2nd book of the Hunger Games.  I have equally liked both the first and the second book, but I have heard that the last one is a lot more depressing.

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Trevor is on the last book of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series.  He has loved these books, but I could not  get past the 2nd chapter of the 1st one.

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Trevor plans on reading the Hunger Games next.

I am going to read the last book of the Hunger games, but then I have no idea what to read!

I was thinking about reading another series written by Suzanne Collins(author of the Hunger Games), but I am not sure if I will enjoy it.  They are called The Underland Chronicles which is a five books series of fantasy novels about a boy that falls under the earth.  I have never been into "fantasy" but I do like similar ideas (Harry Potter, Twilight ...).

Movies:

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On Friday, we plan to rent 50/50 for date night.  Any thoughts about this movie?

We both would also like to see:

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Hopefully I can get through the movie, I heard it's a little scary... ekkk!

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When it comes out on March 23rd! Can't wait!!

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I am thinking about reading this book first and possible waiting to watch 

this one at home when it comes out to rent.

Blogs:

I am so excited to see some of my friends join the Blog World!  Some new Blogs that I am super excited to start following:

Cooking Wright with Donna 

Life lessons with Mrs. Stewart 

The Little Things   

-Jessica has actually been blogging since October, but

I am still excited about it!

Have a great suggestions for books, movies, blogs or anything else for us?  Let us know! We love hearing new ideas. 

xoxxo

Run, Run, Run

Recently, I have been trying to get into running.  As mentioned here I did a 5k last year with my sister and would really like to do a 10k this April and possible a half-marathon in September.


I have been using the Couch to 10k app on my phone:

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So far so good :) I have even been running a little more than it says so hopefully I can be ready in less than 14 weeks.


I found this awesome 5k in New York that I would also love to do called The Color Run

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Here is the run down ... It is a 5k for any level ... runner or walker ... young or not so young.  Everyone starts off the run in a white t-shirt and at each kilometer a different color is thrown from the crowd.  

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Don't worry it is not paint.  It is a "magical color dust" that is 100% natural and safe. 

Anyone interested in running this with me?  The New York race is on August 25th and registration starts February 1st.  

Let's Run Peeps!!!

xoxxo

Weekend Rewind

Hello All!! This past weekend was the first weekend we have had in months to just hang out together.  With the holidays, holiday parties and work it has been impossible.  Now that things have slowed down we are excited to get back into the swing of things.

Friday night we ordered food from one of our favorite local places, Legends Cafe.  The menu is great, food is inexpensive, but delicious and they deliver!!  Since it was delivery, we refused the leave the apartment to go to red box and paid an outrageous amount to rent a movie on demand.

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Lucky it was a really good movie, both Trevor and I enjoyed it a lot.  Perfect date night movie.


On Saturday, we did our second wedding registry at Bed, Bath and Beyond.   Registering is so much fun(for me anyway)!!

Last night we even got all of our save the dates ready to be sent out (my sister made it the easiest task ever by printing return and address labels for us!! Love you!)  Trevor was great and volunteered to pick up stamps:

Unfortunately, this is what happens when you send a guy

out to buy stamps.  He swears they were the only ones they

had other than Christmas themed stamps.  I don't know about you, but I

find it very hard to believe that the Post Office ran out

of regular stamps.  Gotta love him :)

Sorry I digress with wedding ranting, back to the weekend... Saturday night we went to the movies to see Contraband:

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Who doesn't love Mark Wahlberg? 

The movie was pretty good, but we went to the new Clifton Park Theater and it was PACKED.  We thought we spent a lot renting a movie On Demand, but $22 to see a movie plus $10 in snacks is just CRAZY!! 

Sunday was a day of football and crock pot chicken wings.  They turned out ok, but we had to put them in the oven for about 30 minutes to crisp them up.  We enjoyed them, but decided fried wings are so much better and sooo worth it!

After watching football, I couldn't sit down anymore!! Trevor tells me I don't know how to relax.  So we dusted off the Wii and played Michael Jackson the Experience for 2 hours.  Who needs the gym when you can dance for 2 hours?  So much fun!!

Weekends off are seriously the best!!

xoxxo

New Favorites!

I have recently become obsessed with a few things.  All these things help with my commitment to wellness!

1. Quinoa ( pronounced keen-wah).

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We replaced couscous with quinoa in one of our favorite dinner recipes and I fell in love.

Please ignore the horrible presentation (as my brother so kindly pointed

out when I sent him this picture) I was starving!

I made it with shelled edamame for lunch and it gave me tons of energy for the rest of my day.  Quinoa is a great source of protein and dietary fiber.  It is also gluten-free!!

According to this site you can also make popcorn from quinoa!! Popcorn is my favorite food, I am definitely going to have to try this!!

2.  Apple Cinnamon Chobani

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I LOVE Chobani and was so excited to see this new flavor.  It is the perfect blend of apple and cinnamon.  I just purchased the Blood Orange today and can't wait to try it.  Chobani is on sale at Target for $1 for the next two weeks,  I have been stocking up.

3. Up by Jawbone

I purchased the Up by Jawbone right after the new year and it has been great.  The Up is a band you wear that tracks your sleep, activity and meals.  I need to get better tracking my meals, but I find the sleep tracker and activity tracker fascinating:

this is a typical day working in retail, but

you can also put it in activity mode and track your workout

The Up by Jawbone can do so much more, but I haven't used it enough to write a full review.  To read more about it just visit the website:  Up by Jawbone

Anyone have good recipes for Quinoa?  Own a Jawbone, what do you think?

Hope everyone has a great day off tomorrow or if you are working like me, try not to hate everyone who posts about their great 3 day weekend!! 

xoxxo

Random

This post is going to be very random and all over the place, so my apologies for the scattered thoughts.

Random Thought #1

We got our new, king size bed today!! Can't be more excited!!! EKKK!!

Sleep ... Good Sleep ... Finally!!!!!

We have been sleeping on my old queen size and it has slowly been falling apart (probably didn't help when I cut the box spring in half to fit in my old apartment, oops!).

Ok, enough about the bed ...

Random Thought #2

We had a FAB four day weekend

Friday we had a wedding to go to in Troy, NY.  Congrats Jason & Courtney!! We had so much fun and danced a lot.  It was a beautiful wedding and great to see some friends.

((those are some serious dance moves right there))

On Saturday, we drove down to Newburgh, NY to see my parents.  Every year my parents throw a Christmas party with all of our close friends and neighbors from when we were younger.  It was great to see everyone.

Random Thought #3

As a part of my New Years Resolution commitment to wellness I am going to run a 10k in April.  I really want to be able to run a half marathon by September, so I figured I better start somewhere.  Last year I ran a 5k with my sister and loved the feeling of finishing it.

More next time about eating clean, training mean and living lean!!

Now it is time to get some great sleep in our new bed. 

xoxxo 

Resolutions

Resolutions .... Lame or Motivating??

For us ... MOTIVATING!!!  We each made  2 resolutions each for this year.

Laura's:

1. Become healthier ... mind and body

2. Absolutely NO texting and driving!!

I really try not to do it, but at stop lights I get bored.  

From now on ... 

My phone will go in my purse the back seat.

Trevor's:

1. Learn to golf 

2. Don't be so defensive in arguments 

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Do you think resolutions are lame or motivating? What are you resolutions? 

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!!

We are excited to welcome 2012, it is going to be another GREAT year!  We spent our New Years Eve at home this year and it was perfect.  PJs, home cooked dinner and drinks.  

Happy New Year to all!!

xoxxo