Lately

Here is a glimpse of why I have not posted in a while.......
My brother got married this past weekend. I have been attending showers and working on getting ready for the big weekend. Everything was perfect and fun! I'll post wedding pics later.

Lauren (my best friend from high school who is married to Brian's best friend from high school) and I hosted a shower at Lauren and Justin's house. We did a "Home Depot Gift Card" Shower and watched the Hogs play Georgia.

A few pics of the decor....

This is Brian and Sydney (Brother and Sis-n-law) at their couples shower in LR hosted by my parents friends.

I forgot to take a pic of dinner last night but I'll still post the recipes.

We had grilled chicken, sweet potato fries, and a salad.

For the chicken, we just thawed it out, let it marinate in Italian dressing for a couple of hours then Dan grilled it. I have no clue how to grill or I would post some tips :) SORRY!

Sweet Potato Fries (my absolute favorite side dish)

2 sweet potatoes

Olive Oil

Natures Seasoning & Tony Cacheres Seasoning

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Wash potatoes and cut into steak fries. Put in a large gallon bag with 1/4 cup (estimating) olive oil. Shake till all fries coated. Pour onto a baking sheet and spread out evenly. Sprinkle with Natures Seasoning and Tony Cacheres. Bake 10 minutes and remove. Flip with spatula, season other side and bake 10 more minutes. Total baking time is about 35-40 minutes but you need to flip them every 10 minutes.

They are good for you & DELICIOUS!

Exercise

A couple weeks ago Dan and I decided to do a new workout together and for those of you who don't know...that is VERY rare. Dan works out on his own and does his own thing. He does not like to work out with me. I was so excited when he asked if I wanted to try this new workout he found in his Men's Health magazine TOGETHER. We were both pretty sore the next day from it. It only took us 20-30 minutes to do the whole workout so it definitely doesn't take much time to get in a good workout. What I loved about it was that it combined resistance and cardio so you got a little bit of both. If you're a runner it would be a great exercise to do if you do 2-a-days or if you're just trying to workout and stay in shape then its a great, short but beneficial workout.

Find somewhere you can mark off 40 yards to sprint. We went up to the community softball fields and just ran down the baseline.

1. Do 10 squats (no weights)

2. Sprint 40 yds

3. Do 10 push ups

4. Sprint 40 yds back

That is one set.

Repeat 5 times (magazine said 10 times but we had never done it so we started out with 5 and we were sucking wind by the end for sure)

We gave ourselves 1-2 minute break between each set.

Until next time....