Tyler and I didn’t wake up until about 9:45, so breakfast was late. I wasn’t in the mood to cook anything for myself, so I ate a White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Clif Bar with a Clementine and a glass of soymilk.

After lazing around a bit Tyler got into gear, while he shoveled ice from the driveway I vacuumed 90% of the house – I’m calling that my workout for the day. I was definitely sweating.

After we both finished our “chore” of sorts, we packed up and drove to Tyler’s parents house. I had a lunch/snack of a Clif Kid Twisted Fruit, half a bag of Cocoa Roasted Almonds, and Cheez It’s.

We chatted with Tyler’s parents and watched football for most of the afternoon. Then at 5:30 Tyler and I drove to a local YMCA for his basketball league. It was a lot of fun to watch Tyler play basketball. He’s pretty good, I must say, and he really enjoys playing, so he’s fun to watch.

After basketball, we headed back to his parent’s house for dinner. Tyler’s Mom had put together a combination of healthy choices. I had a side salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers, with lite Honey Mustard dressing, and croutons.

The rest of my dinner was a piece of marinated grilled salmon, rice pilaf, some macaroni and cheese, steamed broccoli, and a roll.

Tyler’s Mom makes some awesome homemade macaroni and cheese that I cannot say no to. I guess it’s ok since I only eat it every once in awhile, and I didn’t have a huge portion of it (although I definitely wanted to haha).

Dessert was a low fat version of key lime pie made with lite cool whip, lime jello, key lime yogurt, and lime juice, with a graham cracker crust.

It was delish! I love key lime anything!

I’ve also snacked on a few mini chocolates throughout the course of the evening – they avoided the camera.

Tomorrow I’m heading into Grand Rapids with Tyler when he goes to work, then one of my parents is picking me up and taking me back out to the lakeshore so that I can make my 1pm appointment with the potential caterer.

I hope you had a relaxing weekend. I’m still winding down from all the holiday hub bub. I still have a few more days in Michigan before I head back to warm California. I hate to leave Tyler, but it will be nice to be in 50° temps again and able to run outside.

Do you still have more holiday time left, or do you have to head back to work/school tomorrow?

Have a great Monday either way!

Tyler and I woke up and got a late breakfast – some Kashi Island Vanilla Cereal with soymilk and a clementine for me.

The rest of the morning was spent on the computers doing some New Year budgeting, and making some New Year’s Resolutions.

Some of my resolutions include:

• Sticking to my food and grocery budget ($130) each month.
• Keeping a minimum amount of money in my savings account.
• Putting $50 each month towards some big ticket purchases that Tyler and I want to make this year.
• Working out 25 days per month (about 5-6 days per week).
• Staying on top of my thyroid problems (I have hypothyroidism).
• Running two half marathons.

Tyler also set a few goals of his own, and we set some joint goals, mostly about saving money for the big ticket purchases I hinted at above.

A lot of our goals were financially-motivated as you can tell. With our wedding coming up this summer we are both starting to look further into the future and the possible purchases we will make then.

Lunch time interrupted our resolution making and scheming. I had V8 Butternut Squash Soup and a piece of toast with butter spread.

I also snacked on a Clif Kid Twisted Fruit, some Runts, and a few Dove Dark Chocolates (no picture sorry).

After lunch Tyler went outside to clear off the driveway with the snowblower, while I did laundry and dusted the entire house.

The driveway took longer than we anticipated, but we managed to get ready and get out the door around 4.

We drove to Grand Rapids and went to Kohl’s to return a few things, then we drove to the gym.

At the gym, we stretched and did abs for about 10 minutes, then we got on treadmills next to each other. I ran 3.1 miles in 25 minutes! I was hauling! After more stretching, we headed out.

On our way back to the lake shore, we stopped by my cousin’s house to pick up a Christmas gift…

My cousin Danielle got me these two Hungry Girl cookbooks for Christmas! I can’t wait to use them!

We were invited to stay for turkey dinner (which smelled delicious), but we were super sweaty and smelly from the gym and cleaning the house/clearing the driveway, so we decided to pass.

We got some quick Jimmy John’s Subs on our way back to the house so that we wouldn’t have to cook.

I ate my #3 Totally Tuna Sub with a serving of Blue Corn Tortilla Chips.

For dessert Tyler and I shared 4 chocolates his mom had given us, each filled with a different liqueur. Mine had Kahlua in one and either a coconut flavored liqueur or Bailey’s in the other.

It was like dessert and a nightcap all in one…except that I couldn’t resist having a real nightcap – Kahlua White Russian – yum!

We’re heading to bed shortly – in the morning we’re driving to Tyler’s parents house to go to church with them, and then spending the night there – hopefully I can sneak off to get some blogging in – it is sooo nice to be back at it.

If I don’t get a chance to post be excited for Monday – I’m meeting with a potential wedding reception caterer to go over menu and budget ideas, and I’ll be telling you all about it!

Have a great rest of your weekend!