Running through the weekend

…no, not the real kind of running.  Who do you think I am?  

Here’s my weekend in review…

Friday:

Right now, I’m not working Fridays.  It’s rather glorious.  Instead I catch up on all the chores I neglect in the week, spend quality time with the bean, and meet up with my mommy friends so our boys can ‘play’ together:

Friday evening I met Zach and his coworkers for a drink.  And rather than make dinner, we hit up Yoppi.  Again.  And, yes, I had the cake batter froyo.  Again.  It was everything I wanted and more.  Who needs dinner when you can have dessert?

Saturday:

I woke up ‘early’ ( as in 8am) to get in 40 minutes of cardio and about 10 minutes of weights/abs before Zach and bean got out of bed.  I wanted to check it off my list before I met up with my fab friend Miss Shayla for lunch in Palo Alto.  She introduced me to a new restaurant by Top Chef Art Smith (love), called Lyfe.  Because great minds think alike, we both ordered the Napa cabbage salad and split the side of butternut squash and brussel sprouts.  Delish and healthy too.

We putzed around PA for a bit, and clearly had to make a pit stop for froyo at Yogurtland.  Oh, what, you don’t have froyo twice in less than 24 hours?  Pssht.  Yoppi won the battle between the two.

Saturday afternoon Zach and I hit up Trader Joe’s for a massive grocery shopping trip.  Unfortunately we never meal plan all that well, so let’s hope we aren’t stocked up on snacks only.

That evening we did a spaghetti meatball dinner followed with the Easter egg dying:

Sunday (Easter):

Ahh, Easter.  Sadly we didn’t have any grand plans with extended family or friends, so we created our own little holiday, which started out with opening our family Easter basket and a gift from his Obbie:

What a lucky little boy

For our activity, we went for a hike at Quicksilver canyon in San Jose with the dog in tow.  Our time was somewhat limited as Zach had grand plans of watching The Masters finale (yawn).  So while he did that, I prepped a Greek quinoa salad for the week, bathed bean, did massive amounts of laundry, and planned this week’s outfits.  Productivity at its finest.

And now it’s Monday.  Let the fun begin.

How did you spend your Easter holiday?

 

Sawyer has something to say

Happy Easter!

And because I couldn’t just post one adorable picture, here are some others:

Our Easter Sunday will likely be low key.  Perhaps a hike, a nice dinner, and eating some Easter candy from bean’s Easter basket

Have a lovely holiday weekend!

 

Easter, party of 2

Good Monday morning to you!  How was your Easter weekend?

Rice Krispy treats scream Easter, no?

Mine was very UN-holiday-ish.  I miss being a kid!  The excitement of waking up and running through the house to find the hidden basket full of sweet treats (and if you’re me, you probably got a pair of shoes or two over the years )

But alas, I’m old.  And no Easter basket awaited me this morning.  Just a wet snout urging me to get up to feed her.

I saw this on last week on Fashion Fitness Foodie and had to repost — What does your candy say about you?

Jelly Beans:  You are a kid at heart.  You have to dig deep thru an Easter basket to get them, you big kid!!

Peeps:  You always hope for the best.  A never say die optimism.

Chocolate Bunny:   Fans of these guys, maternal feelings run very high.

Cream Eggs: You are a deep thinker, maybe because you have to dig in there to scoop out the cream.  YUM!

Seeings how they obviously missed the best chocolate candy of all:

Alyssa agrees, just check out her post!

My go to would then be jelly beans.  I’m somewhat of a jelly bean hoarder if you will.  Once the bunny decorations hit the shelves, I’m scoping out my beloved beans.  As I have to do with candy corn candy hearts, I limit how many bags I allow myself to eat per season.  This year it was 3: 2 Brach’s traditional jelly bird eggs and 1 bag Starburst.  But back to the above, yeah I guess I am a kid at heart, hence my immediate thoughts yesterday AM

Though this weekend didn’t include a family get together (boo!), I did get a bit in the baking mood and made something I’ve never made before: Rice Krispy Treats.  Can you believe I’ve never made the simplest of all desserts?  I suppose it was never high on my radar because admittedly I’m not a huge fan of rice krispy treats.  Does that not make me a kid at heart then???

I decided to jazz ‘em up.

Fixins

Cranberry White Chocolate Rice Krispy Treats:

• 6 cups Rice Krispies
• 4 heaping cups mini-marshmallows
• 1+ cup  white chocolate chips
• 1 cup dried cranberries
• 3 tbsp butter
• 1 tsp salt

1. Heat butter on low, gradually add in marshmallows and continue to stir until all is incorporated and melted
2. Remove from heat and fold in cereal and salt (I mixed my salt into the 6 cups of cereal in a separate bowl)
3. Fold in dried cranberries and then white chocolate trying not to let the chocolate get too melted
4. Spread into a greased 9×13″ pan and let cool for a few hours at room temp

Easter-y treat

The verdict?  My hubby thinks they’re great.  I’m not a converted rice krispy lover quite yet, but maybe some day

What of the above candies are you?  Is it accurate?

Rice Krispy treats, yay or nay?

Best thing about Easter for you?  I must admit my Bikram class was a great zen way to start the day!  And the chocolate Reeses PB Egg was the best way to end it!