My heart is so full right now. Being back home in Iowa and surrounded by my family was exactly what I needed. I'm still recovering from laughing so hard and crying so much. Even though my trip was short, we fit so much in. I had to break the trip into two parts. Today, I'll be sharing my journey to Iowa, some fun activities we fit in, and my cousin's beautiful ...
Peachy Fig & White Bean Arugula Salad with Sweet Roasted Pecans & a Honey Mustard Vinaigrette 🍑🍯
The Ultimate Summer Salad: Peachy Fig & White Bean Arugula Salad With Sweet Roasted Pecans & a Honey Mustard Vinaigrette. It's officially summer in the Carolinas. When I stepped outside to walk the dogs this morning at 6 am, I was expecting a little breeze. Instead, I was greeted with a heat wave of humidity. My hair instantly fell flat, and I was once ...
Sweet Rhubarb & Pomegranate Orange Dressing + Salad
My 2017 New Year's Resolution was to eat more whole foods, eliminate the time spent at restaurants, and focus on happiness. I can proudly say I have accomplished those things. I can count the number of times spent at restaurants on both hands, I've spent more time cooking delicious and nutritious meals at home, I've been much kinder to my body when it comes to ...
Fitness, Food, and Fun: August Adventures in Charlotte
I'm not sure if I should say "good morning" or "goodnight." It's 2 am here and I've never written a blogpost this late, especially not a recap one. These take some serious remembering skills (considering I don't do them frequent enough.) My brain is usually sleeping before my body at this hour, but the culprit is posing in the photo below. ☕️? I just turned on one of ...
Beautiful Reasons to be happy.
Hi Everyone! I hope you all had a great weekends and I can't wait to hear all about them. Mine was pretty relaxing, yet productive! We had a lot of fun celebrating Mr Grumples's birthday, we made some yummy food and even found time to fit in a couple workouts. I have several posts lined up for the week and before those go live, I want to catch you all up on my ...