When it comes to side dishes, who else votes they all need a delicious glaze?! 🙋🏼‍♀️ Growing up, I’d always request cooked carrots for holidays (who am i?!) but quickly, i got bored of just buttered carrots, so as i grew up and needed to bring sides to festivities and potlucks, i brought cooked carrots …

Surfing Madonna 5k/10k

Leaving footprints in the sand… Yesterday was one of the best fitness-related afternoons I’ve had since we moved here in February. It was a BEAUTIFUL day with temps in the high 70s, a perfect ocean breeze, and time for the Surfing Madonna Run! http://surfingmadonnarun.org The race was held on Moonlight Beach in Downtown Encinitas at low tide …

Naner Taco

Once again I was inspired by a delicious TIU Nutrition Plan recipe, banana roll-ups, to recreate an even easier, quicker, less messy, more mama-on-a-quick-mission version. Ingredients: 1 Whole wheat or Ezeikel wrap 1 organic banana (can also add other organic fruit “toppings” like strawberries or blueberries) 1 tablespoon unsweetened, organic coconut flakes 2 teaspoons organic, …

Glitter, Pumpkins, & Painting…Oh Yes!

“Wait, so none of you actually even know each other in ‘real life’”?! said my husband as I told him 15-20 of my TIU sisters would be coming over to our house yesterday afternoon… …and that is exactly what I love about the TIU community so much. Besides a sorority, family reunion, or maybe even a …

Yoga for One

Wooo! Things got super wild today when I left to do my FIRST solo yoga class since Tanner was born…yep, ladies and gentlemen (not that I think gentlemen would be browsing this blog, but ya never know!) you heard that right…my first solo yoga class in ONE FREAKING YEAR. ONEEEE YEAR!! And oh.em.gee. it felt …

Pumpkin Spice Parfait

All my recipes these days are inspired by the Tone It Up way of life, and I LOVE when Karena & Katrina come out with new goodies for members of their nutrition plan, like this Pumpkin Parfait.   What’s a Tone It Up mama to do? This week, my husband & my little munchkin both came down …