good morning starbucks

Today is super windy, cold and gloomy. I am crossing my fingers for snow, but we'll see what mother nature brings us. 
Nick has to get up early on Saturdays to go to rehearsal for the choir that he is in, so I am up early too. So since I am up early, and it's cold, I definitely felt like a Starbucks run was in order. I feel like I may be becoming a regular at Starbucks. I have 2 very close to me, the one is like 2 minutes away from my house, and I may or may not have gone for the past 3 days and have gotten the same thing. The girl that is always at the register is always so chipper and happy, and it always makes my day better, cause working at Starbucks that early in the morning... I don't know if I would be that happy. But I love Starbucks, and once the holiday season is over I will miss my grande salted caramel hot chocolate and coffee cake, I guess their regular hot chocolate will do, with a shot of caramel ;)
But every time I go to Starbucks, I can't help but think of You've Got Mail and how spot on Tom Hanks is about Starbucks. Just watch here. And here is the infamous quote:

"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are, can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall! Decaf! Cappuccino!"

It's so true, there are just some people who walk into Starbucks and can't make a decision. And then they order something extravagant. Tall, skinny vanilla latte, soy milk, light, and whatever else they want in their drink. You think how long they are in line for they would be able to make their decision. 

But, Starbucks is a wonderful thing, especially in the winter. I love the smell, the atmosphere (great place to do homework) and their delicious bakery items. 

So good morning to my lovely grande salted caramel hot chocolate and coffee cake, I think I will go sit in my sweats, cuddled up in a blanket and enjoy my morning. 

monday

Today was my first day of doing my daily exercise. I woke up, showered, got ready for work and made me a protein shake. I was a little groggy this morning so I decided it would be best for me to do the work out when I get home from work. 

So I got home from work, and got ready for my work out and wow, I am seriously out of shape. I did the push ups and lunges fine... but the planks were actually a bit challenging for me, so I did one set of those and decided to do some crunches instead. I will have to start gaining some more strength so I can do the full set of planks. Guess this is what happens when you sit on your butt for a long time... time to get up and move! 

daily exercise

So I have decided that I need to get my lazy bum out of bed in the mornings and exercise. Since it's getting colder I can't really run outside aka I don't like running in the cold and neither does my asthma. So I was on Pinterest one day and decided to make a "getting fit/motivation" pin board. It's been fun to look up different exercise routines, quotes, and I have also found some really good protein smoothie recipes. But I finally found a perfect daily exercise routine that I can do every morning before I get ready for work:

So tomorrow will be my first day starting this exercise routine. I am actually really excited to start doing this and getting up and doing this before work. I think it will help me a lot, and also help me loose a few pounds. I'm going to start drinking more water while I am at work, and drink a protein shake before work instead of skipping breakfast all together. I may invest into one of these beauties: 

The Oster My Personal Blender. We don't really have a blender at all so this would be easy to just take on the go. I have the "blender bottles" but those I can't really add fruit in them, all I can use those for is just the protein powder. 

It's time for me to take care of my body, and to get back in shape. I'm excited to do this and I am sure I will blog about this along the way, maybe it will help me to start blogging more! 

snow!

Snow.

Need I say more? :)

this is halloween!

Well, Halloween came and went to quickly this year! But we had a fun Halloween. We both had to work, Nick was lucky enough to be able to dress up at work! (he probably doesn't think he is so lucky though) But I got off work and did some last minute shopping with the Parkers, and went home and started getting ready. I was so excited to dress up this year, I think Nick and I did really well with our costumes:

Yup, we were Mary Poppins and Bert! It was so fun! When I was at Wal Mart later that night with the girls, one of the workers asked me where my "magical" umbrella was... I'm glad he knew who I was though!

We had a fun night with our friends, we went to my parents house to show off our costumes, and went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner.

Bert (nick) Mary Poppins (me) Buttercup (lolly) Wesley (todd) Spiderman (scott)

Later that night we went back to our house to watch a movie. So over all we had a fun halloween night! And this year since we are living in the Dastrups old house, I had so much fun decorating it: 

We also had cute stickers and lights in our window, and we had strobe lights that we turned on too! I loved being able to decorate! Can't wait for the holidays to decorate here too! 

Here are some other fun pictures from our halloween! Enjoy!