Tis the season

For eating!  So this past week was Thanksgiving, I made two Pumpkin Pies...

Two of these delicious bad boys... double chocolate peanut butter pie and I made peanut butter whipped cream.  I had a food baby to the max!  It was so delicious. 

This is Sam!

My cousin Bryanna and I worked off some of those calories by playing Just Dance on the Wii, I am the WORST at this game.  The key to winning is only moving your hand that the controller is in, I however move my whole body which results in losing, every single time.

My cousin's 2 year old Everett, he LOVES Sam.

So now that Thanksgiving is over, it's back on track with the core diet, speaking of which, they're giving away one free nutrition plan today, so go try and win it, it's a $275.00 value... WORTH it!  I've also decided to try juicing, there are certain dark greens I cannot eat, because I do not digest them... at all.  Juicing makes it easier to digest foods like spinach, kale, beets, etc.  So I'll try and get a juice somewhere in town to try it out before investing in a juicer.  There used to be a delicious place called All Juiced Up that offered smoothies and fresh made juices, I should have been brave and tried one before they closed.  Why is it that all the good healthy options close around here?  This town needs to get healthier!  I ended the weekend with a chicken burrito bol from Dos Amigos with no rice, extra black beans, roasted red peppers and portobello mushrooms, yum!  Oh and on a side note, I tried fresh pomegranate for the first time yesterday... AMAZINGNESS!  Seriously, try this fruit if you have not yet.  It's a sweet, tart crunchy seed.  So, SO good.

Double switch, triple switch, golf... huh?

So, we're nine days into November, two short weeks away from Thanksgiving!  A day of eating, drinking, napping, eating and drinking!

It was a nice relaxing weekend after a first week back to training.  Three days of lifting weights, which I've never done until now.  Man, was I sore!  I also got back in the pool after almost a month of being out of it, started it off with some crazy weird drills, thanks to QT2!  Skate, zipper skate, sweet spot, golf, etc.  The golf stroke requires you to count how many strokes it takes you to do in 50 meters plus your total time and that equals your score... voila, you have a swim stroke called golf.  The less strokes you do plus the faster time you do, the better your score (the lower the better, just like golf).  I managed to get faster on the four 50's I had to do, with less strokes each time, the last one ending on 34 strokes.  It's tough enough remembering the names, and then having to remember how to do them and in the right order.  The first day of doing those drills took us about an hour, just from stopping and looking at the paper where we had the descriptions written down.  Tomorrow should be a bit faster.  However, these drills are meant to be SLOW, and they are tough!  It feels so good to be back in the water though, I've missed it. I even remembered how to do flip turns, wooweee!  Did some nice rides on the bike trainer and sweated like a complete pig.  The weather this weekend is looking like it will be super nice, nice enough for an outdoor ride--up at the beach!!

This past weekend I made some delicious ratatouille -- eggplant, and lots of other veggies in a tomato based sauce -- delic!  Core diet to the max.

                           Sunday we took a hike up to Mt. Kearsage, it was GORGEOUS outside.

                                                                 True blue skies...

                                                               Sam was loving it.

                                                  Some big mountain way off in the distance

                                                                 and some more