Morning! I am back, bright and early this morning. I slept awful last night. I have a huge paper due tomorrow that is weighing on my mind big time! I have to get it 100% done tonight after working at my part-time job, so I am just a little stressed about it! Wish me luck!!!

Ok, back to the weekend. I last left off at breakfast on Thursday. Around 1pm, I went to my parent’s house and had my first Thanksgiving dinner of the day

Yummm! The stars of the show were the stuffing

and the mashed sweet potatoes with toasted pecan butter, that I brought. You can see the recipe for those here.

Around 5pm, when Adam got home from work, we headed to his sister’s house. I had a yummy glass of eggnog with rum while chatting about running with Adam’s brother in law Grant.

Around 6pm, I had my second Thanksgiving meal…. mostly veggies.

I only ate about half. My eyes were bigger than my tummy. I just got a little too excited when I saw all the veggies.

The dessert spread was just as impressive as the meal. Oh my Gosh!

My healthier version of dark chocolate pumpkin pie. You can get the recipe for that here.

Peanut Butter pie…my favorite!!!!!!

Brownies and Apple Pie.

Pumpkin Pie…obvi!!

Pastries that Adam brought from a bakery near his station.

Cookies!

I had a cookie:

and a small piece of peanut butter pie!!

Adam’s sister CJ made this pie, but you can get the recipe from this post. If you like peanut butter, you will LLOOOOOOVVVEEEE this, trust!

Grant tired my cheesecake and gave it two thumbs up!!! YAY!

Throughout the evening, I also snacked on some celery and olive cream cheese. Adam’s mom makes this for Thanksgiving and Christmas every year, and I just love it!

On Friday morning, I got up at 5:30, got dressed and headed out for my Annual Black Friday Shopping Trip with my dad. Every year, my dad and I go out there and battle the crowds to get some good deals. We do a lot of shopping for my mom done usually. This year I actually got a lot of shopping done for our nieces and nephews. We have 11, I got 7 of them their gifts! I felt good to get that done and get such good deals. Dad and I were out shopping for 9 hours!!!!! Around 7:30 we went to Sound Bites to have breakfast.

I started off with a pumpkin spice coffee.

For my breakfast, I ordered a Greek egg white omelet (spinach and feta). It came with Sound Bites delicious “No Place Like Homefries”. SO GOOD! They are like mashed potato homefries.

I ate the whole thing. Dad and I also spit a side of whole wheat pancakes.

I had one with a little butter and syrup.

Around 3:30, when we were done shopping, Dad and I stopped and grabbed a late lunch. We split a small cheese pizza.

When I got home from our shopping trip, I had a small slice of peanut butter pie (I took the leftovers home with me… uh-oh!) and then took a nap, I was pooped!

When I woke up, I headed to my bestie May’s house to hang out. I tried the new bud light wheat. I like it a lot!!!!!

it reminded me a lot of a Blue Moon, but was a lot lighter! We spent most of the night playing Rock Band!

Me on base, May on vocals, Colin on drums, Abby on guitar!

Ali and May on vocals= not so great, but really fun!

We got kind of into it

There was also a few bud lights consumed:

and some gold fish.

After Rock Band, a few of us headed to the Black Rose to meet May’s roomate Gabe’s cousin who was here visiting from VT. I ordered a Sam Winter.

Here is a picture of May’s college roommate Brit and I!!! Love her!

I also had a Blue Moon before heading home.

Saturday morning I got up and headed back to May’s before brunch. I brought Oscar with me, he was excited to play with her boyfriend’s dog Stolki. Although Stolki is huge and Oscar is tiny, they always play so well together!

Rick (May’s BF) made us all eggs and bacon. Turkey bacon and whites for me please

(ugh my Mac is refusing to rotate this picture!!!!- sorry, to make you strain your neck)

There was also a cup of coffee, but, I forgot to take a picture…sorry. I hung out for a few hours before heading home and working on some laundry. Around 5pm, we headed to Adam’s mother’s house. Every year, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, we all get together and put up their Christmas tree. It is really fun seeing all the old decorations that Adam and his siblings made as kids and all the newer ones made by their kids.

Dinner was Adam’s mom’s homemade spaghetti sauce, with some pasta.

I also had two small meatballs, I totally paid for eating that red meat! I haven’t eaten red meat in almost a year, so my tummy felt a little yucky around bedtime!

I grabbed a piece of garlic bread too, I only ate half it was a little greasy. Adam graciously took the other half off my hands

For dessert, there were tons pies, cookies and brownies left over from Thanksgiving. But, I opted for the mini ice cream sundae Adam’s mom was making for the kids I know, I am a 26 year old child!

I requested mine with maple walnut!!! YUMMMM!!!

After dessert, we made gingerbread Christmas trees!!! and by WE I mean all of the children under 10 and myself. Yes, I am a child!!!

Look at little Ben with his shirt tucked into his diaper!!!! Isn’t he adorable!

Here is our niece Emily decorating her tree!

Here is my tree, Can you tell I watch Ace of Cakes?

Our nephew David took one look at mine and exclaimed, “Uncle Ali’s is the best!!!!” I think he is a little confused when it comes to the difference between “uncle” and “aunt”. He is so adorable!!!!

While I was decorating my tree Adam, his brother-in-laws and oldest nephew Justin went up to look at our new house (can you believe our oldest nephew is 19?! Justin was a little tiny guy when I first met him!!!!) Grant took this awesome picture.

My grandparents wrote that in the cement on one of the walls the year they bought the house. Hunna and Zonk were their nicknames for each other. It’s that adorable! They all agreed it is a cool house, but will be a lot of work!!!

At around 9pm, we headed home and went to bed…we had a busy weekend, so bed early on Saturday night was surely called for.

Yesterday morning, I got up and worked on more laundry, I still have laundry from my NYC trip that had to be done…I know, I know slacker!!! Around noon, I met Wicked Bride and her mom for Brunch at Max and Dylans.

I started with coffee and water.

I ordered and egg white omelet for my meal.

It was filled with spinach, tomato, asparagus and feta.

I ate the whole thing and even had room for a piece of carrot cake!!!

After brunch, we took a ride to the new house so they could see it. I actually ended up locking my keys in the house and had to call my dad to come and let me back in! Daddy to the rescue, story of my life!!! After I retrieved my keys, we I drove around town to show them the church we are getting married it and my reception site. Showing them where our wedding will be got me so excited about it I hope it is a beautiful as I imagine!!! I am sure it will be!!!! I know I have posted this before, but here is our wedding website if you want to check out the details.

The rest of the afternoon was spent getting our apt. and my life back in order (including more laundry) and blogging. Dinner was some homemade pizza. My side had spinach, artichoke hearts and olives.

Well, this weekend has been full of rich foods and a little too much alcohol. I think I will be working this week to get in a few more workouts, and get back to my normal eating. Do I feel guilty at all? No way, I always splurge a little bit during the Holidays. I don’t normally eat heavy and rich foods so when I do every once in a while, I enjoy it- guilt-free and get right back on track.

Oh, look at this comic strip Adam ripped out of the paper yesterday!!!! Cute right?! I hung it up on the wall above my desk at home!!!

HAHAH! Love the little blogging comic! Well, I will be back a little later with a breakfast post. I just haven’t made it or eaten it yet. See you guys a little but later!!!

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