Happy Thanksgiving

Here is our Fall Décor. How crafty are we? 

Twin 1

Twin 2

What I Wore To Work This Week

We got this idea from another blogger and thought we would do it too just to add something "different" to our blog as we've been pretty slack.

Twin 1 wore this to work this week:

Monday - October 2
Pants from Gap outlet
Navy sleeveless shirt from Suzy Sher
White Blazer from Dynamite
Shoes from Twin 2 from Winners I believe (Marc Fisher)
Earrings from Dime Salon

Tuesday, October 3
Pants from Marshalls
Tank from Walmart
Sweater from Gap Outlet
Shoes from Winners (Ralph Lauren)
Earings from no idea. (had forever)

Wednesday, October 4
Pants from Rickis
Tank from Rickis
Sweater from Superstore (Joe Fresh)
Shoes from Winners
Earrings from my first ear piercing - regular studs (had forever)

Thursday, October 5
Pants from Suzy Shier
Shirt from Suzy Shier (a gazillon years ago)
Sweater from Twin 2, I think from the Superstore (Joe Fresh)
Shoes from Walmart (a gazillion years ago)
Earrings from Walmart I believe
Belt from Walmart

Friday October 6
Pants from Gap Outlet
Sweater from a Golf tournament pro shop in PEI
Shoes from Target

Friday Funny

Wha'd UP?

We've been keeping up with our running 3 days a week!!!  We've been upping our time every two weeks and now we're up to running 5:30 and walking 1:00.  We've been getting faster due to consistency, colder weather (that one time) and upping the run time.  Hard work pays off.

And CF made us Pumpkin Cookies!!!! YUM!!!! We love her.

Tip Tuesday

From an email received from Jen Comas.  Her blog can be found here: http://jencomas.com/

 

A few years ago, I was listening to Joy Victoria give a fantastic presentation at The Women's Fitness Summit, and she referenced a quote from Dave Dellanave regarding some advice that he had given her regarding deadlifts:

 

"Just make it easy."

 

Something so simply, yet so profound, because how often - especially when it comes to health and fitness - do we completely over complicate things?

We allow ourselves to get tripped up agonizing things such as whether asparagus or broccoli is better. Or should I eat my post-workout meal 10 minutes or 15 minutes after training?

In truth, nutrition and training are simply not that difficult.

If we can manage to drown out the noise for just a few minutes, the equation for success for most people looks like this:

Nutrition:

• Eat only when you're hungry,
• Eat protein with most meals,
• Eat lots of veggies with most meals,
• Eat enough carbohydrate to sustain your unique activity levels,
• Add just enough dietary fat for flavor and satisfaction,
• Drink lots of water,
• Stop eating when you're satisfied; not "full"

Pretty simple.

Fitness:

• Resistance train three times per week,
• Walk a lot (or do other non-exercise movement) daily,
• Keep your sessions short, but intense,
• Challenge yourself, but don't crush yourself

Lifestyle

• Prioritize sleep,
• Create stress management techniques,
• Spend more time in nature,
• Give/receive more hugs

It's actually all this simple.

We don't need to complicate things, or add to our stress levels by overthinking it. Keep it simple, be consistent, and the results will come. 

 

When in doubt, ask yourself the ultimate litmus question:

"How does this make me feel?"

And I don't mean at surface level. I mean, deep down, how is what you're doing really making you feel? Do you feel energized, happy, confident, proud of yourself, and like you're getting the most out of life?

Because aren't those things really the only ones that matter?

Let it be easy, friends. 

In strength,

Jen 

#truth

Motivational Monday

Friday Funny

The Luddington Invitational

This past weekend was our annual family golf tournament.  The Luddington Invitational!  We have been playing every year since 2005 (if we remember correctly).  The winner of the previous year gets to pick the golf course we play at the following year.  Sometimes we travel and spend a weekend away together and sometimes we just take day trips to a course.  Last year Twin 1’s husband won the tourney and he’s a member at Ashburn so we decided to play there. 

We booked tee times for 3 pm this past Saturday.  All day leading up to our tee times was kind of overcast and misty at times, not the best weather but not hot.  UNTIL we pulled out of our driveway on the way to the course and the clouds decided to part and all’s we had was blue sky and sun and it got HOT!!  Most of us weren’t dressed for the temps once we got to the course but we struggled through.

There were 7 of us playing so we teed off in a group of 3 and a group of 4.  We decided to get carts as well because it was hot and the course is so hilly.  You are either going up a hill or down a hill.  It didn’t ever feel like you leveled out at all anywhere on the course. It was difficult. 

Twin 1’s husband is quite the amateur golfer and has represented Nova Scotia in Nationals a few times.  He always has a handicap when he plays in our tournaments so it gives the rest of us a slight change to win. This year he had to beat us by 18 stroke to win.  It’s getting closer as the first year he had to beat us by 24 strokes.  Either he’s getting worse or we’re getting better LOL.  This year Dad ended up with only 15 strokes behind his score so that made Dad was the winner!  AND Twin 2 gave up the last place trophy (she has only given it up twice in the past 12 years) to Twin 1!  Golfing at Brunello must be helping a little bit anyway.  But both of us still have a lot of work to do if we want to join the Nova Scotia Golf Association and compete in tournaments. 

After the tournament, we had the trophy presentations and the green jacket presentation and had some yummy food!  

 Now we wait for next year.

Tip Tuesday

Motivational Monday

Friday Funny

Wha'd up?

Smile Cookies are Back!!!

Beautiful morning at Point on the weekend and the whole weekend turned out pretty nice.

Its almost fall and look what has made the appearance.

Meal prep on Saturday and look how pretty this is.  Reminds us Christmas is on the way

This is what Sunday afternoon looks like in Twin 1's house.   LAZY

Tip Tuesday

Motivational Monday

Friday Funny

Wha'd up?

Not much happening this week.

Most of it was spent:

Hurricane Watching

Meal Prepping

Egg, Spinach, Broccoli Bake for Meal 1

 

Sauerkraut and Sausages for Meal 2

And fresh peaches from the In-law peach tree and tomatoes from the garden.

Tip Tuesday

Motivational Monday

Friday Funny

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Kansas City Chiefs produced a stunning performance to beat New England Patriots 42-27 and silence the defending Super Bowl champions in the opening game of the 2017 NFL season.

http://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/12118/11024844/kansas-city-chiefs-42-27-new-england-patriots-super-bowl-champs-stunned-in-season-opener

Wha'd up?

 

September is upon us and that means Fall and PSL’s!  We have not had a full one yet but Twin 2 got a sample of one as the Starbucks down town was passing out samples on Sept 1.

Twin 2 also went away this past weekend to our cousins wedding and Twin 1 stayed behind.

It was a great long weekend for sure.  Now we have a long weekend every month until the end of the year which makes us very happy.

This is a picture of Long lake at 8am on Sunday morning.  Twin 2 took the dogs out for a walk and there was not a sole there other then the guy that lives in the woods which she never runs into and doesn’t really know where abouts he puts his camp now but his Beemer (BMW) is always in the lot.  No wonder he can afford a BMW is he doesn’t have to pay rent 😉

Saturday Twin 1 and sister Wi went out to spend her HSC gift card she received for her bday back in July.  She remembers why she doesn’t’ go to the mall anymore….everything is SOOOOOOOOO expensive and not her style anymore LOL but she managed to find two pair of pants and a blazer.  Of course everything is too long so Sister Wi is hired to come over on Sunday and hem them all for her. $5 a pant

 

Also Twin 1 had a huge problem with paying FULL PRICE for anything but she saw these shoes at Winners and has been looking for pointy flats for a while and so she got these.  Technically they weren’t full price as the tag said “original price $110 but Winners sold them for $69.99 she still feels like throwing up every time she thinks about what she paid for them. 

 

Also Sunday evening the Twins were allowed to join a Fantasy Football Draft with the boys which was quite exciting.  They were going to be a team together but last minute someone else wanted to join the team so Twin 1 was asked to see if she wanted to put her own in to make the Teams an even number.  Sure. she was quite excited until she sat down to do it and THIS HAPPENED!!!! Lucky for her it “autodrafts” but she wanted to pick all her own.  She got about 2 of the 15 picks in and was quite upset but what can you do.  That is why she never uses her home computer and even the phone app for it sucked.  Anyway we will see how the Twins do in the pool and will let you all know.

Twin 2 and her hubby are off to Cincy for their 10 year anniversary tomorrow  Here's to hoping they don't get delayed by any rain or hurricane. 

Football starts TOMORROW NIGHT!!

 

Tip Tuesday