Lasagna Recipes & Diva Half Marathon

How has your weekend been? It has been a busy & wonderful weekend over here. Friday night, we had our dinner party. The food turned out great (both my lasagnas and the dishes our guests brought as appetizers, sides & desserts). I used a Rachael Ray recipe for the Mexican Lasagna and used the ricotta filling from this recipe for the Italian Lasagna. I made my own version of the meat sauce.

On Saturday, I headed up to my parents to visit and so that I could be closer to the Diva Half Marathon that I ran this morning.  Kaylin, my Mom, and I headed to the expo:

 

Then we went for a walk:

 

and went to dinner with my Dad, Aunt & Uncle:

 

 

I had shrimp and more shrimp:

 

Bedtime reading with Pop Pop:

 

This morning, it was race time:

The race started at 7:

I started with the 8 minute pacer, figuring I would drop back when it got to be too much. Thanks to her awesome spirit, and the enthusiasm of two other runners, we all finished in under 8 minutes!!! My official time was 1 hour 43 minutes 14 seconds! A 7 minute 53 second pace! A BIG thank you to our 8 minute pacer:

They had lots of water, fruit, bagels, and cookies (??) at the finish line:

 

Such a great day! A HUGE thank you to my parents for watching Kaylin during the race and for letting me crash at their house. Tell me about your weekend?

I’m ready to eat and spend lots of time with Josh & Kaylin :)!!

Runaway Brides

This morning was amazing! Kindal and I ran the Color Me Rad race in our wedding dresses to raise money for Special Olympics (donations still welcome!!):

 

I’m happy to report that we raised $705 for the cause!! It was a cold (for South Carolina) morning…but we braved the temperatures (thank you Kindal/Dan for all of the pictures):

 

It was a great, fun 5K: 

 

I held my dress the majority of the run:

 

In case you wanted to know what a color bomb looks like:

 

 

And the end results:

 

 

Goof balls:

 

Thank you again to everyone who donated! And a HUGE thank you to Kindal for letting me be a part of this effort.

Now, I’m getting ready for a little dinner party at our house (yikes!!). What are you up to?

TV Debut & Weekend

AH! So, I told you how I’m running the Color Me Rad race in my wedding dress to raise money for the Special Olympics, right? Well, tomorrow, Kindal, Tracey (from Happy Wheels), and I will be featured on Lowcountry Live! We filmed our segment today. 

 

I wore my new Lulu top and my Ellie capris (Kindal wore her whole Ellie outfit!!) .

I think the segment went well? I don’t think I said much haha. I will post the video if I can get a hold of it.

 

A BIG thank you to Lowcountry Live for having us.

How was your weekend? I enjoyed lots of time with Kaylin and Josh, went out to eat, and I taught at the gym. Few pictures from the weekend:

The wonderful Caroline took my Body Pump class on Friday:

Kay tested out the new Chobani Champions tubes. She is a big fan:

  

 

Weekends always involve Starbucks (ok…maybe most DAYS involve Starbucks). Loved the first trivia question (the answer is A):

 

We went to the park:

 

 

Hope you have a wonderful Monday!!

 

Reminder: You have until Wednesday at noon to enter my five giveaways!!

Charleston Half Marathon

Do you have a bucket list? I haven’t written mine out, but I have a lot of items in my head that I consider on the list. One of them: Run a half marathon. Today, I crossed that item off!

Yesterday, I drove over the bridge to pickup my race packet:

I love that they put our names on our numbers (plus we got tickets for free beer and shrimp and grits ;)):

Then…I got nervous. Wonderful surprises from friends and family (including a sweet note):

and a container of Grill 225 Brussels sprouts to eat post race (thank you Cookie, Hardy & Josh!!) calmed my nerves.

Then it was time:

 

I ran and ran and ran! I met a lot of awesome people throughout the race and finished strong (despite a tummy ache that started around mile 8):

 

Final time? According to the website I chipped at 1 hour 51 minutes and 34 seconds!! An 8 minute 30 second pace!! SO excited I finished, SO glad its over ;). A BIG thank you to my Aunt Lori who picked me up.

I used this training plan, but only followed the long run portion (I have been teaching 5 or 6 days a week and couldn’t do the other runs). It worked great.

What is on your “bucket list”?

Weekend & Coleman Public House Brunch

A little late to the game…but here is what happened this weekend:

I went shopping…for myself! This rarely happens these days, but I picked up three tops, two tank tops and some under items:

We took our yearly trip to the SPCA to make a donation. This is Kaylin’s second trip with us (finding this post reminded me that we’ve gone twice this year ;)):

   I wanted to take this cutie home:

 

 

We had a couple delicious meals out, including brunch at Coleman Public House with our good friends Bryan & Mandi. Josh and I LOVE CPH, but had never had their brunch until this past weekend. We started with their rosemary popcorn. I have blogged about this popcorn before….it is the BEST! I could eat it every night:

  

I got the no frills breakfast with scrambled eggs, sourdough toast and fruit. Very yum! Josh got the pancakes (I forgot to get a picture) and they were FANTASTIC!

 

I ran 10 miles! I am training for something…but refuse to talk about it because I’m strangely superstitious. I did 7.5 with Kay in the stroller, followed by 2.5 on my own:

 

Kaylin’s Mimi & G-Pop got her a kitchen for Christmas! Josh and I (mostly Josh while I distracted Kay) put it together. Her favorite features are the microwave and telephone…:

 

I finally got my ornament package together for Christina’s 2012 Ornament Swap:

 

 

Hope my ornament buddy likes the package!

What did you do this past weekend?