It was tapas night in our household!

We were going to go out to a local wine bar and order some tapas but I suggested we stay at home and use the money to drink our own bottle of wine and make the tapas we want! I want to try something, so we set out for grocery shopping.

But, before that I got some ab work in..Leo coached me..

Don’t let the eyes fool you, he’s tougher then Jillian!

I did:

-Planks (3 sets, 20 seconds each)

-Pelvic lifts (3 sets of 20)

Okay and then I stopped..it’s hard working out at home! I went to our apartment gym and it was full. :-\ Easy to do in a tiny gym..so I did a little. A little is better then nothing!! Though I wish I did more. We left for Publix and got some things for dinner then got to cooking!

I made a savory pastry but mixing 1/3 of a small tub of Philadelphia cream cheese and 1/3 cup goddess dressing.

The sauce was yum! Don’t knock it till you try it!

I also micro-ed some turkey bacon to crisp up to top the pastry with. I grew up on turkey bacon, and I like it way more then real bacon.

I layer two sheets of paper towels and a few pieces of the bacon and cover with one sheet. Micro for one minute at a time checking and flipping after each minute.

It comes out crunchy and all the extra grease is soaked away!

We also baked up some of these crabcakes.

A little spinach dip with crostinis..

A glass of this, Barren Ridge 2007 Meritage. This is a vineyard in Viriginia that Adam’s dad played(he’s a musician) at this summer and will be playing next summer. This is some yummy wine, we may have to tag along next summer!

Two glasses of wine tonight.

The crab cakes with pastries covered in the sauce I made with some turkey bacon crumbled on top. It was last minute, and I would have stuffed the pastry instead and maybe had some sausage in there as well, at least they tasted good!I had 5 of the little crabcakes and two of the pastries.

I also snacked on this spinach dip with Adam, had about half!

This was a such a rich meal, and lacked veggies and many things healthy that were needed!! :-\ I ended up grabbing a bag of baby carrots and munched for a while at the end. My body needed something fresh and healthy. This was our splurge night for the week, and worth it but my body still knew it was missing something. I did have to have dessert though.

We also picked up these mini-desserts from Publix! How cute right? They were the perfect amount of sweetness, and considering the richness of our meal the smaller the better!

We each had 1 petit four, 1 mini eclair and one chocolate covered strawberry(my FAVE!!). Perfect and yummy.

For all of the mini desserts it was maybe $5! Not bad! So decadent too..I could 10 of those petite fours.

My announcement!

Okay so I have an exciting announcement! I feel like I need to get it out there to give me the motivation to really do it.

I am going to start training for the ING Georgia half-marathon!! YAY!! It’s March 21st, a week before my birthday next year. I am so excited and scared but I know I can do it! I have some friends running in it as well and it will be fun. It’s in Atlanta where my dad lives actually. I watched this and just got SO excited.

Watch through mile 7(the rest is the marathon course) I will be running that!! Past Martin Luther King Jr.’s childhood home! Crazy right?

I hope you will all join me as I train. I am starting to train just having run a 5k. I am really a beginner. I am going to work on my training plan this week and I plan on training smart and hard! I need your encouragement, and I can’t wait to share my training with you! AH!

Watching Biggest Loser, It makes me feel like I can do it more then I felt before. So yay!!

EDIT: Make sure you head on over to Ashley’s blog and check out the vegan bake sale!! Head on over and check out what I am auctioning off!!(Thanks Lindsey for the recipe) Join me tomorrow as I bake it up to send out to one awesome bidder!! Lots of yummy things baking up over there so hurry on over tomorrow at 2:30 EST. and bid away!! Your tummy (and team in training) will thank you!! Sweets for an awesome cause, what more could you want??

Good night friends!!

Katy