Weekend Recap... a few days late!

So this weekend we went up to Albuquerque to watch Nate fight and also to visit my lovely sister!

Jess and Kylie took us to Bobcat Bite, which is AMAZING!

It's a little converted house/restaurant in the hills of beautiful Santa Fe, and it's called "Bobcat Bite" because bobcats used to (and maybe still do) come down from the hills and beg for scraps from local restaurants. They had tons of pictures of little bobcats that have come to beg for delicious meat!




The menu is simple and very meat-based, because the meat is fresh ground chuck that is locally made, so you can get it as rare as you want without having to worry about the bacteria that typically goes with hamburger meat. We all got ours rare and they were AWESOME.

My only complaint is that the chile wasn't very hot. The cheese was delicious and even the bun was great, but I wanted a little more heat for my green chile cheeseburger. Also, I wish they had french fries. But other than that, one of the best burgers I've ever had!

We checked into our hotel (Hyatt Place Uptown, right by the Coronado Mall and Trader's Joe's! What more could I want?) and then rushed over to watch the fights, where we met...




THE LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD!

If you're a UFC fan (which I never was until I started dating Fiance, who LOVES UFC), you know who this guy is. If you aren't, let me tell you. This is JON BONES JONES, who is one of the best fighters in the world. He has come through and beat some of the best fighters in the world, including Sugar Evans. He fights out of Jackson's camp in Albuquerque, so it wasn't SUPER weird to see him there, but it was definitely exciting!

He was so nice, too. There were a few of us waiting to talk to him and he kept looking over at me and smiling and then asked what I was drinking. I told him a margarita and offered him some. He laughed and said no, that's he's still in training. But he talked to us for a while and was SO nice and courteous. It made me more of a fan than I was before.

We spent the next day shopping a little and then came home. I'm ready to get back to our routine of eating healthy and getting some real sleep... we didn't get a lot of sleep this weekend!

Have a great Wednesday!

11 Years

It's been 11 years...

And I can still remember where I was, the worry I felt about my family in New York, the stricken looks on my teachers' faces, the serious voices of the people on the news as we all speculated and worried and cried.

It's been 11 years...

But I don't think I'll ever forget.



Thank you to all those who protected and served us after this horrible day, and who gave the ultimate sacrifice in the War on Terror.

Football!

Does anyone else think...

That sometimes...

Football players jumping to make a fumble recovery...

Kinda looks like a cat pouncing on a toy?






In other news, football is back! GO BALTIMORE!

Engagement Photos!

Fiance and I are going to be out of town for a bit (with our good friend Thomas staying home and taking care of our puppy!), so to tide you over until we get home tonight, here are some ENGAGEMENT PHOTOS!

Raider and Raven fans!

Fiance's favorite things: Batman and me!

I love this because it was so real and not posed at all!

Look how cuuuute our puppy is!!!!

I love this last one because I think I had just said something sassy because Fiance is giving me a LOOK and I'm smirking! Lol!

Friday!

FRIDAY!

Dark Clouds:

• I'm SUPER tired. Nap this afternoon? I think yes.
• I still have to work out.
• The puppies have chewed TWO pens this week which means... ink stains. SO FUN.
• I've been slacking with cooking this week... and with eating healthy. I need to get back on the wagon.

Sunshines:

• I'm off today! Yay!
• Fiance and I are going to watch a fight this weekend... we're going to have so much fun, I'm so excited!
• We got our engagement photos back! I'll post some soon, we're just trying to decide which ones we want for our Save the Dates first so they can be a surprise :o)
• FOOTBALL IS BACK! YAY!

Have a great day!

And Then I Almost Passed Out

So here's a little math problem for you:

What does one girl, plus 500 calories, plus one hour-long workout, plus no food for eight hours equal?

A very close call.

Yesterday I was a genius and didn't eat from 11:00 in the morning until 7:45 that night. I was just so busy all day and then as soon as I got home, I hurried to change and then rushed off to Zumba. It was a TOUGH class with one of my favorite instructors: she's a great teacher, but she is super hard and made us do a bunch of jump squats. I was pouring sweat but feeling good.

Then when I got home, I felt sticky and awful, so I decided to shower before making dinner. I showered, washed my hair, then spent some time French braiding my hair to get it off my face. THEN I started making dinner.

I made baked ziti, and I made a double batch of it so I could freeze some for my friend Blairre who is just days away from having her baby girl Kennedy. While I was at it, I made Fiance some lunch for today, which included two peanut butter and honey sandwiches with some new local wildflower honey I bought recently.

Here's the embarrassing part. The honey lid was stuck SO tight that I practically popped my arm out of the socket when I was struggling to open it. When I finally got it, I felt this intense pain on my shoulder. Then my vision went black and when I opened my eyes again, I was clutching the counter and kneeling on the floor and felt AWFUL.

I went to the couch and sat down for a second. Thomas brought me some water and that helped SO much that I was able to get up and finish dinner and Fiance's lunch. I finally ate something around 7:45 (though I did have a small spoonful of peanut butter after the near-fainting.

I think it was a combination of being dehydrated (from all the Zumba and then the hot, hot shower), being hungry, and being tired. I felt 1000% better after getting some water and eating a little something.

So that's my fun story. I'm the coolest person in the world, right? I feel like Pooh-Bear, struggling so hard to open a honey pot that I almost passed out. COOL.

But I'm all better now and that's what counts! :o)

Labor Day!

What a wonderful weekend. We were busy ALL weekend, but now we are getting to relax because it is LABOR DAY and, thanks to thousands of people who fought for safe working conditions, labor laws, and unions, we have this day to appreciate their struggle and rewards.

Also, we get this day off work, which is always nice.

We started off this weekend with our engagement photos! We took them with The Sweet Spot Photography and it was SO much fun. I've known the girl, Melissa, since high school, and her husband Koko came with us for lighting and help with posing/staging.

We had a blast. We went to several different places, like pecan trees (with my little Shadow!), a local theater (for Fiance's love for movies), a local used bookstore (for me!), and a grassy area for photos in our favorite football jerseys! :o)

Here's a sneak peak of our photos:



We LOVE this one, but there are so many others to look at. I can't wait!

Yesterday was a family day. Fiance's mom came into town, and so did my sister, so we tried to split time between breakfast with the mom-in-law, and then a bbq with my family. We had a great time. Then Fiance and I just relaxed and watched Dexter because I was feeling a little sick.

Today, we hung out, napped, and then went to a cookout at Fiance's uncle's house where, again, we had a wonderful, relaxing day. I love that I can hang out with Fiance's family so easily... they'll be my family soon, too, and I just think we are so blessed to get along so well with each others' family!

Although they did joke with me that my future mother-in-law already named our first child SOLOMON.

I was like, "No. That's not happening." lol :o)

Guess we better go to the gym. Hope you had a wonderful long weekend!