It was a beautiful wedding and we had a great time!

This morning, we woke up craving smoothies!

This was the star of the show!

I love this Amazing Grass product! It is full of nutrients and vitamins and it goes great in a green monster!

This smoothie included:

• 1 scoop Amazing Grass Green Superfood powder
• 1 scoop of EAS light vanilla protein powder
• frozen strawberries
• huge handful of spinach
• 1 huge kale leaf
• 3/4 c. Almond Breeze – unsweetened

It hit the spot and gave me the fuel I needed to get through a morning run!

Tomorrow:

• Back to daily eats for a little while since I am on summer break
• A review of Amazing Grass products!

Tonight is the first night that it has sunken in that I don’t have to be at school – or be anywhere for that matter, tomorrow!

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Veggies with Hummus:

Bulgar Salad:

Fruit – YUM!

Chip Buffet – Katie’s Favorite

Dessert Tray

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Before:

After:

Before: a cream colored- dirty spotted, plain seat cover. No pic, sorry it wasn’t pretty.

After:

Then she rearranged things:

Moved the picture from the kitchen to here.

Added a pink candle to tie the pink from the party into the house.
  

Fresh pink peonies from her garden that she stuck in my red wine carafe- how cute, right!
  

Plus she made a tablecloth with the fabric from the chairs!! Talk about talent – !

We tied all of the silverware a few days ago so it would be ready and we could just set it on the table.

To better prepare for parties, my mom always sets out the dishes she is going to use on the table with a post-it note to make what food is going on each dish. Then you can see spacing of dishes and what you need to change before you put the food on the dish. I highly recommend this trick!

Cut up all of the fruit the night before the party and put it into containers. This is a MESSY job and shouldn’t be done right before you have guests over because there is always lots of juice and rinds that need to be taken care of.

We power washed the deck to get it ready for summer. This makes a huge difference! It is in need of a coat of paint, but we didn’t have time for that!

Doing all of these things ahead of time will make the morning of the party fun and easy!

I’m off to go for a run before the wedding !

I’ll be back with the table and food!

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Here is the bride to be:

We had a great night out in our 20 person limo bus! There was tons of great snacks and drinks and a few other special treats for the new bride!

Here is one of the treats I made:

Rice Krispie Treat Rings!! They were semi-healthy and super yummy!

Katie wearing one:

It was a great weekend and I am looking forward to hosting her bridal lunch on Friday!

I have a lot of great recipes and meals from the past few days that I will put up this week…as soon as school is out – TOMORROW!

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Here is the process of my dinner…

1. Fill bottom of my bowl with spinach and top with sprouted spelt.

2. Cover the spinach and sprouts with my veggie mixture: chickpeas, squash, zuc and broccoli. Plus more sprouts.

3. Add a Laughing Cow Light and fresh tomatoes.

Enjoy with a huge smile

This dinner was amazing! It reminded me of summer! I ate while I finished packing up the pretzels for Katie’s wedding. Brady was at his soccer game so he unfortunately missed out on the sprouts, until tomorrow at least!

A sneak peak at the pretzels….

A close up of the cute sprouts!

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Before we started the process and after we went to 2 Krogers to get the pretzels and chocolate, we need to fuel up with some healthy cookout food! We had:

• boneless skinless pork chops(marinated in Carribean Jerk) on the grill – I had baked tofu
• corn on the cob
• baked potatoes and sweet potatoes
• Peanutty Cabbage-Apple Slaw
• guac with chips for snacking before dinner

Here is the Slaw:

Peanutty Cabbage-Apple Slaw

• 1 small head of green cabbage
• 2 small apples
• 1 jicama (optional – I added this to make more slaw for my lunch)
• a sprinkle of peanuts

Dressing:

• 1 tbsp. light miracle whip
• 1 tsp. sesame oil
• 3 tbsp. rice vinegar
• salt and pepper
• sesame seeds

Put the cabbage, apple and jicama into the food processor to shred. Mix with dressing and serve!

Pretzel Time

After dinner was cleaned up we set to work on the 20 bags of pretzels, 15 lbs. of chocolate and 600 yds. of ribbon. The goal was to make wedding favors that consisted of 2 pretzels each for 260 guests =over 500 pretzels! We started around 8:30, after a relaxing dinner on the deck (we probably should have started working a little faster but we were enjoying the summer weather!). While we worked the boys watched the CAVS game and cut ribbon.

Pretzel Preview:

Working hard, and accurately – you can see them measuring each one!

The pretzel party concluded around 10:30, just in time to watch the end of the CAVS game. Bummer.

The plan for tonight is to bag and bow the pretzels!

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