After babysitting ended so late last night, we decided to sleep in. Unfortunately, having a dog (or dogs) is sort of like having children and sometimes they are not going to let you sleep. I walked Leo super early this morning, and then fell asleep on the couch so he could sleep next to me. Adam is completely against dogs in the bed. That’s all I am going to say about that. Love you babe!

Adam woke me up and I went back into bed and passed out for another couple hours. I woke up and knew what I wanted for breakfast.

I’ve been bitten by the oat bug. This time I used mostly the same mix as yesterday:

-Oats

-Soymilk and water

-1/2 scoop protein powder

-One banana (I can’t have oats with a banana)

-Vanilla

-Stevia

Once it all started to combine I added some frozen berries. Big mistake. It turned the consistency all grainy, but I still ate it all. I am guessing the liquid from the frozen berries didn’t mix well with something. I am still experimenting.

Right after breakfast, we FINALLY decorated our Christmas tree!

  

I LOVE our star!! We had searched a few places for one and Target had this one. I absolutely love it, it looks like twigs and holly!

We decorated the tree at first with multi-colored lights but they did not match our star at all. Luckily they were free lights, and I mentioned that I would much prefer white. This morning he turned the lights on and he had replaced them to white without me knowing! Good husband. Here are some of our ornaments, we only have a few but our collection will grow..

This Jelly Belly ornament we got on our honeymoon. My aunt used to live near wine country and she lived so close to the JB factory. I knew it would be one place Adam would really enjoy(we watch Unwrapped all of the time). It was so fun! I will have to recap the honeymoon another time, but we picked this up there. The swing literally hangs on a branch. It’s Adam’s favorite.

This one is MY favorite..

“It’s a major award!!”

We got this last year at Hallmark when the ornaments were on sale. It lights up as well and quotes lines from the movie, A Christmas Story.

If you didn’t know what movie this was from, go watch it! It’s my favorite Christmas movie. It’s not the holiday season without watching this movie!

Sorry it’s not the clearest, I wanted to show it with the lights on.

We kept it really simple with the solid ornaments. I really love it. We also added candy canes for more decoration!

After we decorated we changed and headed to the gym. I ended up doing 30 minutes on the elliptical.

Later in the day I headed to a blogger Christmas party! Meghann invited us all to celebrate the holidays with good food and friends. It was at Sarah’s house, she was a wonderful hostess. (thanks Meghann and Sarah!!)

We all brought something. It was a pot-luck “linner” since it began at 3. I brought the cookies next to the candle. I actually brought paper plates, bowls and utensils but I felt like I couldn’t arrive with something to eat. I guess that’s the foodie in me. Okay it was only Pillsbury “simply” cookie dough that I had in the fridge. Hey, it was something! I had a coupon from the paper a few weeks ago and picked it up knowing I would need it sometime.

Ashley is beautiful! I also got to meet Katy for the first time. When you share a name that people usually tease for being spelt strangely (i.e-Catty) you bond.

Sweet Ryan let me try out her 35mm lens. I LOVED it!! I am currently deciding on a 50mm or 35mm.

I had a bowl of delicious 15-bean soup that Meghann made with some of Ashley’s quinoa on top.

Here is my dessert plate. Before you judge, I just wanted a small bite of everything. I honestly barely made a dent. Ask Adam, I asked him to take it away after I had a few bites.

Those wantons were DELICIOUS!! I want to say they had marshmallow and chocolate with peppermint. SO yummy! Meghann made pumpkin cornbread, and Kelly made Christmas cookies.

Ryan made raw cheesecake. Honestly it was phenomenal. It tasted like a coconut chocolate torte. It was so rich and creamy!

Adam and I also shared some hot apple cider which was delicious!

Leo came to hang out with the dogs! Of course, that means he hid from them most of the time. He stayed pretty close.

I loved meeting everyones “children” here’s Sam, Sarah’s dog.

We also played a “White Elephant” present exchange.

I was number 7. Out of 8!

Adam and I ended up with a bottle of wine!! Not too bad if I say so myself.

Leo stayed close and sat between Meghann and I. Spoiled puppy.

The gift I brought was a cute/silly one. I bought this piggy bank at Target. It was too cute, I couldn’t pass it up!

We headed home after a fun time and needed something fast and easy to make for dinner!

Enter: leftovers and veggies! I headed up some of the chicken enchilada from lunch the other day. Also headed up some extra chicken from dinner with Adam’s parents to bulk up the protein value. I split the enchilada in half and shred the extra chicken into the cheesy pile. I also cooked up some frozen veggies and cut some slices of the five grain bread I bought for dinner on Friday. I ended up stealing more of Adam’s veggies so that they filled half my plate. It was a free dinner!! Okay, not totally free. But making my Friday lunch stretch into three meals really made me happy.

For dessert, I had two of the cookies I brought to the party and a cold glass of organic 1% moo-milk. I usually get skim, but Adam ran into Publix and grabbed that instead.

One of my favorite desserts. Simply wonderful. Of course, I dunked. Who do you think I am? An amateur?

Tomorrow starts day one of training for the half-marathon. Okay, it’s a rest day. But still..here we goooo!

I’m off to relax with Adam. Have a great night!

Katy

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