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Chicken Ballotine, or “Stuffed Chicken”

April 30, 2013

Sometime last week, Neil woke me up to watch a YouTube video of Chef Jacques Pepin deboning a chicken. Before you ask, this is totally normal for us. Despite being groggy, I was completely enthralled by how little time it took for him to completely debone a chicken making minimal use of knives. When the [...]

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Weekly Workout Recap (4/22-4/28)

April 28, 2013

Well, as you can see below, Neil had a rough week. After doing back squats (the athletes are in a strength cycle and building new PR numbers every week with certain movements), he pulled a hamstring doing a cycle of sprints. He’s doing better, but is on limited movement workouts until his hamstring heals. Our [...]

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Week in Pictures

April 27, 2013

We’ve had a pretty good week so far, but are thrilled the weekend has arrived again. My camera was acting funny, affecting my posts this week, but I think I have it figured out, save for a few images in this post. Fingers crossed! Lost of yard work this week — well, whatever we could [...]

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Weekly Workout Recap (4/15-4/21)

April 23, 2013

I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a weekly workout recap for a while, and some changes to my programming in the past week have finally convinced me it would be something fun and worthwhile to document. For the past few months, I’ve been doing extra strength work aside from my 4-5 WOD’s a [...]

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Friday Link-up

April 20, 2013

Another week comes to a close! I am home this weekend, and so excited to bum around and get some work done, especially around the yard. Maybe some baking too. And napping. In the mean time, here are some things I’ve come across this week! Above is the workout we did today. Super tough! A [...]

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Spring Bride

April 18, 2013

Last weekend marked 3 weeks until my best friend Rachel gets married. I made the drive down to Springfield for her amazing wedding shower and hilarious bachelorette. Kasey, one of the bridesmaids put together an awesome shower that included lunch, games and painting. Lunch was an amazing array of sandwiches, snacks and dessert. I loved [...]

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April 16, 2013

I wasn’t going to join the blogosphere in writing posts about the bombing at the Boston Marathon yesterday. I’m usually without anything profound to say when terrible events like this happen, and honestly, my immediate anger response is less than graceful and not very becoming of the person I aspire to be on a daily [...]