Heather, also known as HEAB or Heabie after her blog, Heather Eats Almond Butter, has such as sweet authentic spirit.  Heather is a massage therapist specializing in deep tissue, neuromuscular therapy, and sports massage.  She also loves yoga, hiking, walking, and getting out in the warm sunshine.  A down to earth girl she also spends a [...]

Let me tell you a secret.  I don’t loooveeee veggies. At least not in the same way I looooveee pizza. (I know it’s almost heretical.) But when my friend sent me this recipe from the Food Network I actually thought “here is a veggie recipe I can get excited about” or something sort of cheesy like [...]

I was planning on finishing up Part 4 of my Climbing the Ladder Series:  (Tools to Keep Your Weekend Interesting) but while I love lists (that was one of my first and all time favorite posts btw) I’m just not “feeling” my scheduled post today.  Instead, I want to talk about the 10KChallenge I just completed [...]

This month I set out to complete the 10,000 swing challenge. This meant I “have to get  my swings in” be it the In-N-Out parking lot or rest stops. Never mind if people stared at me as if I was insane or I was embarrassing driving my family nuts. No siree. I won’t quit. The great [...]

Every girl has a story to tell and sharing those stories is by far my favorite part of blogging.  So when Cherie wrote me telling me she was making her own figure competition suit, something only crazy people do, I had to know more about her.  I’m glad I asked because I just love Cherie’s [...]

This year for Lent my husband and I decided not to eat meat.  Through that experience I learned some things about myself and I came up with a few new recipes including my Mediterranean Stuffed Peppers.  That sort of sounds like I stuffed them with the Mediterranean.  That would be one big pepper. (Okay that joke [...]

(Source) I’m going to continue with Climbing Up the Ladder Part 3: Tools to make workouts painful Keep Workouts Interesting.  In part 1 we talked about rep (repetition) ladders and part 2 we talked about weight and time ladders.  This week we are going to talk about reverse ladders and pyramids. A reverse ladder is simply [...]

Ten years ago today a brand new chapter of my life was opened. I gave birth to my son via an emergency c-section. I was a senior in college and struggling with a severe mental illness but with his birth I God birthed a new me. While life has not been perfect since (it never [...]

I love Mexican food.  LOVE Mexican food.  Out of all the cheesy spicy goodness to choose from, one of my favorite dishes is Chile Relleno.  A friend gave me a recipe for a chile relleno casserole that uses 2 pounds, TWO POUNDS, of cheese as well as numerous whole eggs, and condensed milk. On occasion, [...]

The window is clean.  In fact, I’ve stepped out of that small room out into the sunshine again!  (Big cheesy grin.)  I’m excited for this week!  I have a new recipe and another Girl Hero (always my favorite posts) lined up. Today, I want to continue my series on program design tools, a fancy way [...]