How I Get my Way, The Tuxes and Costco Highlights

Thursday Workout:

AM- stair mill 40 minutes

PM- taught HIIT class and strength class at Y

In the strength class we did lots of lunges and squats and v-sits.  It was fabulous.

Friday Workout: 60 minutes on the elliptical at home (watching Gossip Girl from Netflix)

I did the whole roasted jicama thing again last night.

Had it with a little broccoli slaw BBQ bake and roasted brussel sprouts.

Scarfed down the last of my second batch of STUFT NuttZo Monkey Balls afterwards. They’re a little addicting (and not very photogenic at night) so here’s the perfect ball topped with a little extra NuttZo from the other day.

So….

Friday mornings are our only family mornings around here with our crazy schedules. Way before kids, on days when I didn’t have to teach Fridays, we’d sleep in, have coffee in bed while I read magazines and STUFT Daddy watched Sports Center. You know, living the life.

It’s a little different these days. In the best way possible of course.

Today, after we “slept in” until 6:15, we started planning our day. My hidden agenda was for us all to go to Costco at some point so I slipped a little hint. I wasn’t sure quite how my hint was received, so I thought I’d just try to get everyone out the door and butter them up before they knew what was happening.

(Side note- I am a brat. I get my way 99.9% of the time. I’m spoiled and I know it.)

We went out to breakfast.

The Omelet House had just a few omelet options to choose from (90 total).

There were too many choices for me so I made my own instead- whites only with artichokes, spinach, onions, jalapeños, bell peppers and mushrooms.

(Picture taken before all the hot sauce obviously.)

After breakfast, it was time to get the men some tuxes.

Pretty funny stuff. My sister-in-law is getting married next month and the boys get to be ring bearers. Fingers crossed they behave. When they got asked to do the job awhile back their responses were something like this:

“Can’t you just do it? I have to take a bath.”

“No thanks. Judah can do it.”

After tuxes I dropped another little hint. I mentioned we could stop at Starbucks after Costco.

It was go time.

No pictures of the actual Costco experience because if I whipped out my camera it may never happen again.

But….

about $350 later we survived

and made sure to hit up Starbucks on the way home.

Not to brag or anything. but we’ve got some STUFT skills.

When we were unpacking I felt the need to take a few pictures of some things I was excited about. (It may have had something to do with the venti café americano).

So, not that you care, but the highlight items of the family Costco trip were these.

Berries

Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze

(I usually buy Silk brand, but after a quick little calculation in my head I realized this was cheaper so I stocked up.)

Sweet Kale Salad 

(What? Too much? It’s good and is fabulous roasted like this.)

Flatout wraps

(I need to make a Flatout cinnamon crisp bowl or this Flatout STUFT dessert pizza very soon.)

my favorite bread 

(Alpine Valley Organic Multi-Grain Omega-3 is so darn good. It freezes really well too so it’s okay to buy 4 loaves at a time.)

our new favorite salmon obsession

(My favorite way to eat it is as salmon seaweed snacks.)

Okay. Time for bed.

Tomorrow morning I’m attempting to get up early and do a little cardio while everyone else is still sleeping before I head out to teach boot camp.

I’m going to say I have a 50/50 chance of that actually happening.

Hope your long weekend is off to a good start!

There’s one more day to enter the Quest Bar giveaway. Enter here.

Do you bribe your family to get your way?

Any new fun favorite finds from Costco?