Living on Hopes, Dreams, and Peanut Butter.....

Happy Monday Loves.... sorry I am late but I have been kind of suck this week. Better late than never I guess. Last week saw the demise of not one, but two run leashes. The first bit it in the last 3 miles of the long run, I ended up tying it together to finish it out. The second one bit it yesterday when Dante decided to charge a bird. It wasn't too fun chasing him down. I fixed him ... I went to Meijer and bought a bear bag rated carabeener and a leash with no elastic. It worked pretty darn well, although there were a few birds today that about had me on my butt.  Excuse the photo layouts, they are being silly.

                Workouts since last post.  

this is my excitement over broken leashes

I have been rocking out the yoga, I finally got myself into a groove.  In the class I am doing on beach body we have finally got into more advanced moves so I am happy and super flexy now :) I got my tuesday yoga in before work and then Wednesday we woke up late but got our long run on the trail, time was pretty good too. I finally got back into a stride after the issue with my knee.  Thursday I ended up taking the time off to focus on catching up on house work... darn that being an independent woman, there is no one to clean my house for me LOL. 

Friday Fun Day was a little different this week, Dante had to come to work with me so he got to play fire pup for the night. We went for a 2.5 mile run around the back parking lot, where he decided to lay down in a mud puddle so he ended up getting a hill billy bath in the hose at the end of our run. I got my yoga with good natured heckling in and I made it through the 3 rounds, 15 sets with full gear.  Then 6 flights of stairs in we  got a call and I had to scrub the rest of my mission.  Not getting a proper cool down actually kinda threw me this week and I have been tired/ sore since. 

 Its pretty awesome, that I have a boss who supports my health, and lets me bring my pup to work once in a while.

Saturday was a hard day for waking up but the yoga felt SO GOOD.  Sunday must have been a comedy relief day for someone... I woke up kinda of late with a migraine, I took Dante out for his just woke up, potty time and it was rainy, I figured barefoot was not a bad idea... oh it was. my bird-brained goofball was all over the place and pulling like crazy. While I was bent over someone walked up behind us, Dante pulled to them and I ended up flat on my back with poop on my sweater and a flying poo bag... it didn't help that migraine any! after all that I ran out of time so I decided it was only going to be a speed mile we hit a nine minute mile, after the leash broke I just wanted to throw in the towel for the week. 

Yeah he thinks he is cute....

Drill Sergeant face in full effect

Today I woke up a little better, I tried to get a little lazy couch time but the Drill sergeant didn't think I was too cute and made sure to let me know. We got out and got 3.5 miles in 47 minutes, not too bad since my bird crazy butt head wanted to chase every bird we came across.

Recipes From this week 

This Week I needed Cupcakes, so I took a cake from scratch recipe, changed it around to make it a little healthier and came up with Cherry Protein Cupcakes with a Light  glazing of frosting... so much yum.

I never figured out the calories but they were a lot less because I used stevia in the cupcakes :)  

Friday was all about Avocado toast and Peanut butter... I gotta have all of the peanut butter, this week I also made cauliflower tacos with corn and black bean salsa. 

Also for the daily I made a whole chicken in the crock pot with carrots, celery, and onions, I used the stock and veggies and made chicken soup too. 

Recipe for the cupcakes 

Cherry protein cupcakes 

2/3 cups of butter

1 3/4 cups of zero calorie stevia

4 egg whites 

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 

1 1/4 cup all purpose flour 

1 1/4 cup vanilla protein powder 

2 1/2 tsp baking powder 

1 small container of greek yogurt 

1/2 tsp kosher salt 

1/2 jar maraschino cherry juice 

1/2 jar maraschino cherries chopped 

1. Preheat oven to 350°. Line 18 to 24 muffin cups with paper liners.
2. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with cherry juice and yogurt beating well after each addition.
3. Fill prepared cups three-fourths full. Bake 20 -24 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely. Spread with frosting. Yield: about 18 to 24 

Or you can do it the April way and mix everything together willy nilly and hope for the best…… 

Half assed but tasty frosting …. 

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

3 table spoons of butter or margarine, melted 

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

1 to 2 tablespoons milk ( I skipped it because I didn’t have it and used water …)

Steps

• 1 : In medium bowl, mix powdered sugar and butter with spoon or electric mixer on low speed. Stir in vanilla and 1 tablespoon of the milk.  or water. 
• 2 :  Gradually beat in just enough remaining milk or water to make frosting smooth and spreadable. If frosting is too thick, beat in more milk, a few drops at a time. If frosting becomes too thin, beat in a small amount of powdered sugar. 

Have a great Week Loves, I will Try not Suck Friday this week.