A Resurrection!

It has been ages since we've posted, and I'm truly having best friend withdrawals. With our busy schedules and time zone differences, it has been hard to keep in touch, but I hope that we can try to stay a bit connected through this. 


This past week I have been on "spring break" which translates to "time to assign our students an ungodly amount of homework" in professor language. My brain is started to hurt after this week. It has been intense. But I am down visiting Drew right now which makes things bearable:) I've been doing homework during the day and then we've been doing fun things in the evening. The weather is not completely cooperating though. There has been rain every afternoon/evening. Tomorrow is supposed to be our beach day, so I'm hoping the thunderstorms hold off for us!


In other news, I downloaded Catching Fire onto my kindle so I've been reading a few pages of it each night before I go to bed. I don't have much time during the day, but it is my little reward to myself for getting through another busy day. Yesterday Drew and I were at the mall, and we stopped in Hot Topic...don't ask why...but we always go in that store haha. They had a bunch of different Hunger Games paraphernalia. I'm not sure if I'm that much of a fanatic...


So, I feel like since I'm writing a post, I had better mention something about exercising. I have been jogging almost everyday and biking on the days that I don't, but it is just so difficult staying motivated. I'm taking 6 classes and doing an internship in a 4th grade classroom, so I barely have any leftover energy. I really, really want to start up 6 week-6 pack again, so maybe I can convince myself to commit to it even just twice a week. I did try the 30 Day Shred, but I felt like I wasn't getting as much out of it as I did when we were doing the 6-week-6 pack. 


Well, I'm sure I will find more exciting things to write about in the upcoming weeks, but for now, it's nice to be back!


Time to go find some meatless dinner...yay Lent! 


P.S. ...can't remember if I asked you already, but have you been watching Downton Abbey?! It's my new favorite show! Sadly, I finished the second season and the third won't be out for awhile!

My Weekly Workout Plan! Week of September 18th Edition

I've decided to plan my workouts in advance. When I plan in advance, because of my obsessive personality, I feel like I have to 100% follow the plan or else I'm a complete and utter failure. Usually this personality trait works against me but hopefully when it comes to working out it'll prove to be a help rather than a hindrance…basically me peer pressuring myself into exercising. It's worth a try, right??

Sunday, September 18th- 2.5 mile run, Abs DONE
Monday, September 19th- Rest Day. Exercise stomach muscles by going out to frozen yogurt with Chris and Sarah DONE
Tuesday, September 20th- 3 mile run, Abs (To be completed tonight)
Wednesday, September 21st- Morning Yoga + 1 mile treadmill run
Thursday, September 22nd- 3 mile run, 50 squats, Abs
Friday, September 23rd- 4 mile run OR 6 Week 6 Pack
Saturday, September 24th- 4 mile run, Abs

I'll check back in later in the week to update as to whether this is working for me or not! Anddd when I check back in I'll share my ab workout. It's been killing me….when I sneeze, my muscles ache. I take that to be a good sign.

Bonus- Since no post should be without a picture here's proof that I actually worked out on our honeymoon!

My New Obsession.

Pinterest. I just discovered Pinterest yesterday and I am already absolutely positively addicted. It doesn’t elp is awesome that there is also an iphone app. It enables me to mobilize my crazy!

Pinterest is basically a huge universal inspiration board. If you are a member on Pinterest you can save basically anything you see on the internet that you like or would like to come back to in the future with just a click of a button. When you save, or "pin," it the picture/recipe/article that you've pinned is posted to a large newsfeed-like homepage. You can save, or "repin," items from the big board to your own personalized inspiration boards.

So far I have 7 boards: Home Sweet Home (home décor, etc.), Ten Little Fingers (everything baby), Fall Must Haves (fall clothing that somehow will end up in my closet this year), Marriage (that's obvious), Quotes, Recipes, and Family Pictures.

Here's just a little sample of the beauty that I found while browsing yesterday…

Cuteness overload right??? Now hop on over to my full boards and get ready for more!http://pinterest.com/elleycross/

Ready to play catch up!

Anddddd I'm back to the blog.

 

Here's a quick picture recap of what's been going on in my life since last time!!!

 

We got married..

 

We honeymooned!

We traveled to Ohio on a whirlwind weekend for a family reunion.

We celebrated our birthdays with homemade pizza...

And lots of cake!

We went on a birthday mini golf date.

And we got sunburnt at a baseball game!

 

 

 

I'm ready to jump back in with some recipes, some workouts, some home improvements and some fashion!

 

My goal is to start posting at least once a day and I'm always going to post my workouts to keep myself accountable because I've slipped into a little bit of a rut (which I'll be sure to mention in it's own post) so be ready to hear a lot from me!

 Stay tuned :)

I'm kinda FREAKING out...

ONE DAY!!! ONE DAY IS ALL I HAVE LEFT!!! Okay...I'm 25 hours away from my exam. I am completely nervous and terrified because I still have so much to cover and I need to write my presentation. I finished the paper that I am presenting at like 2:30am on Friday (even though it was due Thursday) and I have not looked at it since then. 


My game plan is to finish the study guide by about 9pm. I have done most of it and as I was doing it, I also memorized it....thank goodness my brain works like that. If I write something down, I can be pretty sure I will remember it. So, after I finish the study guide, I will figure out what I'm going to say in my presentation...then I will practice like two times and hopefully be in bed by midnight...hopefully...but no later than 1am. Theeeen the next morning, I will get up at 8 and start going over my study guide and presentation until about 12:30pm. My exam is at 1:30 so I think I will just give it a rest until then....


Anyway, not that you needed to know all of that.....haha


Here's my funny story of the day.


As I was walking to the cafeteria for lunch, I saw a huge group of high school aged girls dressed in work out attire. About 10 minutes later they walked into the cafeteria to eat lunch. Drew is on duty for security right now, so I figured he would know what they are all doing here, so I texted him.


Me: Why is there a mob of high school girls here??
Drew: They're not after me! I swear!!!!!!!


hahahahahaha


Well, back to the books for me! 

"No key, push to start."

Black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow. I may be addicted to that song. And our colors!!!! I've developed a *slight* addiction to yellow shoes.

I mean, how could you not with examples like these????

Those are what inspired me to buy these shoes that I'm currently having a great love affair with!!!

So I've been thinking....wouldn't it be cute if the bridesmaids wore yellow shoes??? How cute would those pictures be?! (That was a rhetorical question, they would be VERY cute)

So I've been searching...and I found a few different options.

I'm THIS close to buying these for myself...

I'm totally ok with you guys wearing flats and I LOVE these!

Hello my precious...

Then I remembered that yellow is not the only option. How could I forget about this??

If it's good enough for Victoria Beckham it's good enough for me!! A little off topic but haven't I mentioned how I love her and her adorable family so much??? And I almost cried from excitement when I found out that she and David (yes, David Beckham and I are on a first name basis, thankyouverymuch) are having a baby girl!!!!!! Anyhoo..

'Ummm...perfection? I think yes.

I don't expect you guys to buy Gucci but isn't this shoe fun to daydream about?

And of course the more practical, yet chic, option.

Or maybe a little black AND pink?

I think I had a mini panic attack from excitement when I just found these....

I also found a few really cute (and cheap!!) options here in all of the colors I've mentioned!

I'm pretty sure that I could spend millions of dollars on shoes...thoughts??

P.S. I didn't include alllll of my favorites. If you want to browse during a study break my favorite sites for shoes are http://www.endless.com/, http://www.6pm.com/. http://www.dsw.com/, http://www.zappos.com/, and http://www.aldos.com/!

I feel like an apple just fell on my head...

Today I had an epiphany. I was reading that new blog that I told you about that I'm addicted to and I've *almost* talked myself down off of the calorie counting ledge.

 

I have a handy app on my iphone called my fitness pal. I enter what I eat and the exercise that I do. In order to lose weight I'm supposed to eat 1200 calories/day (according to the app) but I'm given more calories when I burn calories, etc. I *MAY* delete that app today. Yikes!

 

Last week when we went to Disneyland I did not take my scale. I've been weighing myself daily for over a year now. We spend quite a few weekends at Josh's dad's house and I PACK MY SCALE. It's sick. When I was in between jobs and at home all day I would weigh myself every day. When I decided not to pack my scale for the Disneyland trip I had a horrifying though. I can't take the scale to Mexico for our honeymoon. It would be ridiculous to do so. I couldn't even imagine not weighing myself for a whole week. Well, right now I can almost imagine it. I'm right on the brink!

 

I've noticed in the past few weeks as I've been running longer distances that I'm MUCH hungrier. I feel like 1200 calories isn't enough. I think that this starvation feeling is my body telling me something. Lately I've been much less restrictive with my calories. I've been focusing on eating healthy and wholesome foods when I'm hungry instead of counting calories. Being on this vegan diet has made me be really creative and I love the foods that I've been making! I haven't been feeling guilty when I eat 2 snacks between breakfast and lunch because the foods that I'm eating give me energy and making my body happy! Last week I made garbanzo bean quesadillas and last night Josh and I made shrimp tacos. This food is delicious! I don't need processed cheeses, sour cream or meat for food to be good. With the energy that I'm expending in running my body needs the nourishment and my metabolism burns the food really fast!

 

I haven't stopped weighing myself (yet?) so I've noticed the number creeping down on the scale. Fancy that! Eating more wholesome, healthy calories (the calories that my body needs) has been making me healthier.

 

This is kind of rambling-ish but I'm so excited!!!! Instead of counting calories I want to listen to my body! As long as I'm eating foods that make my body happy and are good for me (without binging...which I'm sure will still happen sometimes) and not going overboard I don't need to count calories! I used to think that if one day I had 1205 calories instead of my allotted 1200 I would gain 5 pounds instantly and be fat again and I'm glad I've finally realized that that's just not the case.

 

Plus all of this food experimenting is fun!!!

 

Okay, sorry for that disjointed/bad writing post! I just had to get it out!!