Hope Saturday is going well for all of you! Mine has been enjoyed by doing some little things and not leaving our place.

Shrek face mask happened, love this mask and use it twice a week.  No shower has happened yet today, I am still debating on if I am going to actually take one, so I may be known as “dirty diva” today 

I baked up some kale chips today using these 3 loves. I made a batch of garlic ones and a batch of nooch flavored ones. They turned out awesome! I still wish for a dehydrator one day, but do not ever want to waste money on it if not going to use it daily.

Kale Chips- Line cookie sheet with parchment paper, spray chips with cooking spray or you can use regular olive oil to put on them, shake seasoning on all over, bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes or until crunchy!

They were just as good as the store bought ones that I buy sometimes and end up costing me about 7 dollars for a bag! Crazy expensive, I don’t know why I ever did buy them at the store already made. I have been snacking on these all day, I have garlic and nooch breath 

Lunch of champions for Anthony today, he loves mac and cheese. I used to eat this daily when I was younger, growing up with 4 sisters we didn’t have much money and lived off mac and cheese and ramen noodles! We knew how to make it on our own, so in the summer was when we had this,  my mom would make us dinners nightly, bless her soul! Lunch tis when  we were on our own, my mom was always super busy with her job!

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I am currently watching this, best movie ever, haha! I remember when I first ever watched it I thought it was SO stupid, but I got talked into watching it again and loved it.

*Random Fact- I partied with Pedro at a club in Columbus , OH, he had a gig there and I was working the event as a promotional model. Pretty funny, haha.

Even though I didn’t shower, I still had pretty shoes on my feet that made me somewhat not so gross today 

Have a great night loves! Ahhhhhhh “Along Came Polly” is now on, love this movie! Going to watch a little before making dinner!

Katie xoxo

Did you shower today?

Anyone watching a good movie tonight?

Good Morning!

Snowed here last night, just enough to cause a little stress for me! Anthony and I were at my parents last night, but had to cut the night short because of snow coming. See, I live on the hill of death where I live right now, when it snows it is death. Seriously, no lie. Mike and I both have been stuck trying to get up the hill tow times this winter and it was pretty scary. I am stuck home today because of the hill unless it stops snowing and clears up!

Breakfast

My most FAVORITE meal of the DAY! I was switching up breakfast this week, and I did a good job of having some variety too. Today I had waffles, nope not homemade, I am not that fancy! I do need to make some homemade ones and just freeze them to have for the week. Today were Van’s Waffles, I love this brand and when I buy freezer waffles, they are the ones I get.

Breakfast had 2 very good friends to go with it as well…

MaraNatha Almond Butter and Love Crunch apple crumble 

They made the waffles very pretty, I topped the waffles with protein frosting mixed with the almond butter and might of ate a spoonful too out of the jar. Healthy fats are ESSENTIAL! I am learning that I need more in my diet and that is fine with me 

Dried apples, apple crumb granola, and protein frosting on top of the waffles was fabulous!

Granola can be so good but so evil! You really want to eat the whole bag. I resisted though , especially when the granola costs 6 bucks a bag! I need to savor it!

Last night late night munching went on with the love grown crunch I picked up yesterday, damn dangerous! Sex in a bag, yup I said it and I am proud  Its totally okay to cheat on your significant other with granola, I checked.

See this delicious stuff?! I found myself picking out the chocolate pieces. I think the bag is now just full of granola, but hey I can add some carob chips or bits of dark chocolate into it.

Ok so this brings up a question……

What 3 foods can you eat and eat and never seem to get full?!

1. Ice cream/frozen yogurt, I could eat non stop and It seems my stomach just has a extra storage for it, never get full from it.

2. Tortilla chips with salsa/guacamole, I am a champion tortilla chip eater. When Mike and I go out for mexican, I plow the chips every time. I get full from dinner but then continue to eat the chips still, lol.

3.  Sourdough Pretzels, specifically Rold Gold brand. I could eat a whole bag, I even just eat them plain. Sometimes I dip in hummus too, so good! Ok, all pretzels really but lately the sourdough ones are all we buy here.

Now, you share 3 foods that you could eat non stop and not get full!!!

Have a great day friends! Hoping it clears up weather wise so Anthony and I can head to Target! We want to buy Puss in Boots!

Katie xoxo

Happy Friday!

Popping in quick before I head to my parent’s house,  wanted to wish you all a wonderful Friday night! Today has been an okay day, I was in a funk all day but feel somewhat better right now. We all have our days where we feel crappy and emotional, its normal! Here is to a better night!

Friday Five

1. Heated Power Vinyasa Flow class was awesome to start the day with, I was a sweaty and happy hot mess. I can not say enough how much I love yoga, especially hot yoga! If you never tried it, you should for sure, don’t be shy or nervous. All of us in a yoga class our at different levels, just get on your mat, let go, and focus! Yoga is great for the mind, body, and soul!

2. When In a funk,  a funny email from someone can make your day! My friend sent me this, haha!

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3. Met a good friend for coffee and for some shopping together at Sunny Bridge, one of my favorite local stores. I got some good stuff , the granola I saw and caved and bought! It fits our weekly budget so I was able to get the natures path love crunch chocolate yum! The apple crumble one is awesome but feel this will be even better!

4. I am going to see my family tonight, I am excited to spend time with them. We all have our crazy families, don’t you agree….

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5. Do you ever have a snack and you find yourself eating the whole bag? Yup that was what I did with these today, I dipped some in almond butter too, best idea ever!

Happy FRIDAY!!! Love all of you!

Name one thing you are looking forward to this weekend!

Katie xoxo

Good Morning! Happy weekend loves! I woke up to the sun shining and was so happy, but then my son turned that around in 0.5 seconds! Got to love being a parent, haha! Hope everyone has a great day and enjoy some random as ever diva facts!

Diva Facts Friday

1. Breakfast was awesome, oatmeal pancake with protein frosting smothered on top, banana slice, carob chips, and cocoa almond butter drizzle. The cocoa almond butter drizzle was cocoa powder, almond butter, cocoa bean extract, and milk mixed together. Warmed up the almond butter and milk in the microwave for about 30 seconds and then mixed in the cocoa and cocoa extract.

2. You need to  see another picture of my breakfast, just had to share when I actually have a day where I eat when the sun is up already.

3.  I have wondered this many times and have thrown out milk or eggs if it was even just a day before expiration, because I have a fear of it being bad. I had a wonderful moment one time,  I had no milk in my house, ran down to the 7-11 to get milk to have with my cereal. I came home, poured the milk in my cereal bowl and took a bite and it was SOUR! The milk was expired and I JUST bought it, I was scarred for life, haha!

4. Michael gifted me this little hello kitty ring about 5 months before he proposed to me, I actually loved this ring so much and he could of just proposed with it, damn he could of saved lots of money, haha! Money means nothing, its the man who gives you the ring, and that hello kitty ring would of been just fine 

5.  I love nail polish and I am kind of obsessed lately with Deborah Lippman’s colors. I love this one for spring/summer, glitter rocks!

6. I am going to my parents house tonight to see my family, well thats what they think anyways, I really am going to see Dolly! Hahaha! 

7. My son’s @** is going to be grass when he gets home! He thinks he is SO sneaky, well he gets caught every time trying to be sneaky, so he needs to give it up and realize he can get NOTHING past me! Oh the joys of parenting  His face turning beat red gets him every time too, he needs to practice to not turn red when he is fibbing.

8.   I have been jamming out in the car to one of my favorite soundtracks recently, I love this play and want to see it again soon.

9. I would love this in my home one day, preferably above my bed 

10. I have been listening to this song non stop on my laptop the past couple days while doing computer stuff, I am in love with it. I hope it never gets old to me, anyone else hear this song?

Have a fabulous Friday! I am off to hot yoga, sweat so good time!

Katie xoxo

( came home to this when I got back from yoga this morning, haha! Mike can be so damn cute and funny! )

Happy Thursday evening friends! Today was a fabulous day! Our house stress is now gone, we officially have the house! We had some problems with the appraisal and the past 5 days were not so great for us. We were being hopeful but the house could of been gone and it was very stressful, we had to go back into negotiations and such. Just so happy the stress over that is gone, yay! Grateful for every moment stressful or happy!

Diva Approved, damn I miss doing the vlog style BUT I hope to return to that very soon! I hope you guys are still enjoying the diva approved just as much though! Here is this weeks, with a little muscle thrown in too!

Diva Approved 

Chobani passion fruit

Love the crunchy seeds in this, I saw some peeps did not like that. I love crunch so I am all about it, and the flavor is so good! All 3 new flavors of chobani are a must!

Mint Extract

Mint extract is awesome in some chocolate oats, a chocolate smoothie, or in a mint chocolate pancake!

Organic Green Tea from Whole Foods

When I go to whole foods I always get a box of this, its cheap ( like 3 bux for that big box ) and its good! I drink green tea daily, so I go through it!

Biochem Chocolate Fudge  Whey Protein Powder

I am a sunwarrior whore as all you know, but its always nice to have another protein powder around too. I love this one, it tastes amazing and its even good just mixed with water to make a protein fudge style treat! I used to buy only this before sunwarrior, I buy it here and there still to have a different protein powder option.

Trader Joe’s Organic Black Beans

Black beans are the best, so simple and so good! I  like these in a salad with chicken! I saw these the other day and realized how long it has been since I had some. I think these would be awesome in a egg scramble too.

Trader Joe’s Dried Strawberries

Eat them out of the bag, in cereal, or top on waffles or a pancake. Dried fruit can be expensive,  trader joe’s has the best prices on dried fruit!

Van De Kamps Parchment Bake Roasted Garlic Tilapia

These are brand new, I just bought them at the store the other day ago and can not wait to try! I love that its a quick and easy parchment paper fish meal! I used to love the tilapia in parchment paper at Red Lobster, and when I saw this I knew it was a must try. I will have to let you guys know how it is! There are other flavors too!

**There is a dollar off coupon on the site if you want to try it! Click Here!

Cindy’s Kitchen Fire Roasted Red Pepper with Goat Cheese Dip

Found this little gem at Whole Foods last weekend , the goat cheese popped out at me! I had some with some crackers and it was SO good! I love the flavor and I wonder if this would be awesome over a piece of chicken or fish?! I think so!

MUSCLES!!!

Those are diva approved every single day! I am proud of my toned arms and yoga does a damn body good by the way 

Strength training is my BEST friend! I do miss Insanity so much but am glad I am doing what is best for me right now. Yoga 3 days a week, strength training, and little cardio.

Have a great night everyone! All the new readers that have been popping in have been making me SO happy! Welcome and please come back too! <3

Katie xoxo

Yay Yay! I was able to put some cute fashion boards together for you loves today!

Please link up any fashion loves you have had recently! Shoes, dresses, or whatever!

Good Morning!

Happy Thursday friends! I am currently listening to the Today Show and sipping coffee, good start to the morning.

Breakfast

Berry Coconut Flour Pancake 

Ingredients- 2 tbsp coconut flour, 3/4 cup egg whites, 1 tsp baking powder, stevia, cup of berries, 3 tbsp almond milk

Blend all together in a blender and pour on a skillet!

Topped with sunwarrior protein frosting and bear naked berry granola 

True That Thursday

Some true things to share with you peeps today, I think this should be a weekly series 

I miss Chicago and miss these amazing pretzel rod stick yummies from Tavern on Rush there. These are the BEST and I need a reason to go to Chicago soon, of course when it is a little warmer out too. I like Chicago in the spring <3

I will be rocking the post hot yoga look today, sweaty and happy! I can’t wait to go to class today, much needed!

I have a juicer but I am lazy sometimes and like to buy prepared juice, this trader joe’s one is awesome! Just carrots, no other funky ingredients added!

I need to make these protein carob chip  cookies today, its been too long. I want to make some so I can have my sister taste them tomorrow night when I go to my parents house.

I have a great husband and am lucky, BUT we are not a perfect couple. We have our arguments, times I want to go on a getaway with just myself, and times I feel like I want to be single. Guess what guys?! NOBODY has a perfect relationship, if they say they do then I call ” Liar! Liar! Pants on Fire!”  Please don’t ever think anyone has a perfect life and lives in a dream land, haha!

I do dumb things when I have too much wine, Mike catches them on camera sometimes too. I am so thankful he has not taken photos of some of the dumb things that have happened when you mix Katie+Alcohol.

I really want to find a anti-gravity yoga studio here, maybe one day a studio will pop up.

I think it would be awesome if I lived on the beach and this was my view every day. Would be fantastic and beyond amazing.

Everyone have a wonderful day, make love not war, and love yourself!

True That!

Katie xoxo

Diva Links to Love….

-  15 beauty problems solved, check it out!

- Will be buying this movie tomorrow to add to our family movie collection.

- Loving this pink color for spring! Nails so pretty 

Hope everyone had a fabulous day! I am so happy you guys were loving the mint chocolate breakfast, it has been great to switch up breakfast this week! I wonder what tomorrows will be? I still have to figure that out!

Happiness today came in many forms!

Lunch Form ….

Tuna mixed with hot and sweet mustard on a whole wheat pita with cauliflower. Loved this combo, a good switch up for lunch.

I had my first blood orange today for lunch as well, it was very good! It has been forever since I had any type of orange, and I figured I would try blood oranges. I am glad I bought a couple 

Happiness in the form of finding out about  Ben and Jerry’s new greek frozen yogurt…

Hello amazing! I can not wait to find these!  Peanut butter and banana or raspberry would be my top picks!

Happiness in the form of snacking…

Apple cinnamon chobani with a crushed up rice cake and sugar free maple syrup <3

My favorite flavor right now! Can’t get enough!  Don’t forget to enter my giveaway 

Happiness in the form of a sweet tweet from a friend with a link for this….

How adorable is this Hello Kitty apron? I have never seen one and I think this would be perfect for me one day! She found it here, etsy has the best stuff! I am addicted to just browsing that site for hours.

Happiness is a great thing, and you should have happiness every single day in your heart no matter what the day brings <3

I am off to grill up one of these as part of my dinner…

Have a good night everyone!

Katie xo

I love love love TOMS!

Comfy, cute, and charitable!

I spied some new TOMS colors on Nordstrom today, the purple and yellow I heart the most!

So cute! I am ready for spring, Toms is too 

Which pair are your favorite?

Do you have a pair of Toms?

Good morning! Happy Wednesday to everyone, this week is going extremely fast!

If you read my blog daily, you know my blog is just a big tornado of fashion, fitness, food, and happiness. I don’t post my fitness every single day or all my meals every day either. I am just not that kind of blogger, I don’t want to stress if I forgot to photograph a meal or always having my camera glued to me. I do like to take pics of meals I think that are awesome that I make, I need to make some more awesome ones, but  breakfast I do photograph daily.

Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day! I feel breakfast always gets love on here because I do love it. I think its great other bloggers do post all their meals and its great for people to who enjoy seeing that, I am just not that person anymore. I will post highlights of food I think deserves to be on here, but not everything every single day, hope your ok with that!

Since breakfast is the BEST to me, I am going to highlight my breakfast today with….

WIAW Breakfast Only 

Dark Chocolate and a grater were involved 

I would say it was everything I wanted in a pancake