If I could sum up today in one word it would be relaxing.
Ryan returned from a two-day business trip last night and arrived home quite exhausted. He requested a laid back weekend and that sounded good to me, especially since our calendar is quite full for the rest of December and I’ll be out of town next weekend. “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!”
After we awoke, we took our time eating breakfast and doing some chores before heading out of the house for a workout. While Ryan went to the gym, I stuck to running and followed the distance on the agenda for the day according to my half marathon training plan. I did a big six-mile loop without my favorite furry running buddy.
(I absolutely love the Run Keeper app and all the information it displays!)
My hamstrings and butt were so sore today thanks to yesterday’s Winter Circuit Workout, which made the first couple of miles of this run a little challenging. Lead legs!
I felt so bad leaving Sadie at home while I went running because I know how much she adores being outside and trotting along with me. The vet said I shouldn’t run with her until her sutures are removed, but assured us walking was perfectly fine as long as she seemed up for it.
Sadie’s energy level has almost completely returned, so Ryan and I took her on two long walks today which she seemed to enjoy.
After my run and a quick shower, Ryan and I drove to the grocery store to buy some food for the day before I headed into the kitchen to bake something very special.
My grandma’s sugar cookies!
My grandmother’s sugar cookies are a family favorite and I made a double batch because I’m sending a dozen cookies out to three different bloggers through The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. One batch of the cookies easily makes three dozen cookies, but Ryan and I needed some for ourselves, too!
My first batch of Christmas cookies this year! Startin’ early!
In between baking batches of cookies, I made a quick lunch that included some holiday-appropriate red and green roasted Brussels sprouts and cherry tomatoes.
I tossed the tomatoes and Brussels sprouts in olive oil, garlic salt and pepper and roasted them for 20 minutes at 400 degrees. While they were roasting, I sautéed chopped chicken breasts in olive oil and seasoned them with salt, pepper, rosemary and basil.
It was such a simple meal, but Ryan and I both loved it!
After lunch, it was time to decorate for Christmas.
I brought the decorations out earlier this week, but never got around to decorating until today. The outside of our house still needs some work, but it’s looking awfully festive inside!
By the time dinner rolled around, Ryan and I were both in the mood for one thing and one thing only.
Pizza!
Now I’m off to eat pizza and snuggle up on the couch. We have a happenin’ Saturday night on the agenda that features DVRed episodes of Modern Family. Oh yes!
See ya in the morning!
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We’re having a laid back weekend too – it’s our only free weekend of December as well! Thanks for the info on the app. I had lead legs today too!
Great run!
Glad to hear about Sadie 🙂
Sounds like a great night ahead. I’m hoping to settle in with some movies/blanket/hot chocolate!
oooh! and now i must have hot chocolate tonight, too. yes!
That pizza looks SO tasty! Actually, all of your food pictures look yummy. Sometimes its nice to have a relaxing weekend. I hope Sadie can run with you soon!
-AJ
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that pizza is LOADED! and is making me drool, I love pizzas like that.
well i didn’t run but i racked leaves for about 3 hrs today! guess that counts as a workout???
mmmm pizza! my fav! 🙂 we had pizza for lunch!!! 🙂 veggie lovers cheese stuffed crust from little ceasers!! mmm!!! i love cheese stuffed crust!!
ur pizza looks delicious as well!
have a wonderful rest of the weekend!
🙂
Sounds like a great day! The rest of our December is pretty booked so this weekend is a pretty laid back for us as well. I did your Winter Circuit Workout earlier (I’m sure I’ll be feelin it tomorrow!), did some Christmas shopping, cooking, and Christmas decorating! I love that it feels so festive around here now. 🙂
Relaxing weekends are the best. Thing will get crazy soon with the holiday parties and meetups, so it’s definitely wise to rest–that’s my plan for tomorrow. Glad to hear Sadie is doing better!
Nice run!! I’m sure Sadie will be good to go very soon.
That pizza look straight up a-m-a-z-i-n-g!
We’re having Christmas Eve at our house this year so my mom and I have been decorating and planning center pieces and table favors. The goal is to make it like a winter wonderland in the house. 🙂
I also love Runkeepe
Hmmm not sure what happened there…thanks iPhone….
Trying to say also that I like RunKeeper also, so much in fact that I basically dedicated a post to it a couple weeks back. It’s cool, right?
Also pizza looks Delish. 🙂
These types of days are the best! I adore relaxing days with my fiancé-cooking, decorating, being lazy!
That pizza looks amazing!!! The cookies look amazing!!! I sure hope you are going to share the recipe with the rest of us!!
That sounds like a pretty perfect night to me! I had pizza last night and realized that it had been waaaayyyy too long! That won’t happen again.
Delish!
Have you seen the Modern Family episode with Phil making “friends” with Matthew Broderick? It’s HILARIOUS!
I absolutely love sugar cookies. Frosted sugar cookies always remind me of Christmas time!
That pizza looks amazing!! It looks like it has about a million toppings! 😉
Those cookies look so delicious! I’m curious if you can post the recipe? Is it posted elsewhere? My sugar cookies always turn out… flat. 🙂 I would be so grateful!
Wow! Holy pizza!
I ran my first half marathon today! It wasn’t a race, just to see if I could do it. It was a huge achievement for someone who hadn’t run more than 5K in Sepetember and absolutely hated it!
Do you have the cookie recipe 🙂
Laid back weekend over here too! Absolutely necessary before holiday craziness kicks in.
Wow, that pizza looks amazing!
looks like a very relaxing day! you are so lucky ryan doesn’t want to watch football. my boyfriend has been glued to the tv all day due to all of the conference championships! does ryan not care about that? lucky!!
I love that you’re making your grandma’s recipe! Is that her handwriting in the picture with the cookies? There’s something so precious about seeing my grandparents’ writing, in cards or recipes like that…it sounds silly, but I love it!
After a crazy weekend last week and a busy next few weeks, this weekend was a relaxing one for me too…Modern Family defo featured!
That sounds so nice! And that app looks awesome, ill have to check it out! My boyfriend and I also ended up ordering pizza tonight and watching football, so relaxing!
We had a relaxing day too… I’m snuggled up in my new cupcake throw that I found at TJ Maxx earlier today. Those sugar cookies look amazing… and so does the pizza, yum!!
I hope Sadie feels better soon! I love those relaxing days… I got a whole free day to myself today, and spent some time in the gym and playing with my own pup. Definitely a winner! 🙂
Drooling over those cookies and the pizza! Sometimes laid back weekends are the best 🙂
I’m glad Sadie is starting to feel better!! My goodness that pizza looks amazing. Glad you had a lovely relaxing weekend. Sometimes it’s just what we need 🙂
Relaxing weekends and/or weekends where hubby and I just hang at home and get things done around the house, are pretty much my favorite! It’s always go, go, go during the week so it’s nice to enjoy our home on the weekends. Plus, we like to be home with our big baby doggy on the weekends 🙂 And poor Sadie – I totally know how you feel though, after our dog had a cartiledge stroke last year, he can’t really run at a steady pace for too long anymore, so I have to leave him at home. It kills me when I see how excited he gets when I come downstairs in “walking” clothes, and then I leave the house without him 🙁 At least she’ll be back to her old self soon! 🙂
*cartilage
Relaxing weekends are the best! Especially admist all the busyness around the holidays!
This weekend is surprisingly busy for me. Yesterday I went downtown to my salon to get my hair cut, then finally found new parka for the deep cold (in Edmonton we need a lighter winter for regular cold and a heavy duty one for -20c and below). Then my guy met me for lunch and we went to the west end shopping at West Ed Mall where I proceeded to buy a new goose down duvet (I am using a double on a queen size bed since I bought new bed and mattress this summer. Then two new pairs of jeans. My visa got a workout, I think put almost 900 dollars on it but everything was on sale and needed desperately. And tonight (Sunday) is my book club meeting. So yeah not much rest for me.
Brussels sprouts never looked soo good. Thanks for sharing the recipe, I need to make that stat!
I love Christmas decorating! We wanted pizza last night too but my husband had a wisdom tooth pulled 🙁 So he couldn’t eat it and I sure couldn’t eat a whole pizza! Or maybe I could lol
Is your grandmas sugar cookie recipe on the blog? I’d like to make them for Christmas!
Sugar cookies are probably my favorite cookie. I like the simplicity of them. Those look heavenly!
do you have a recipe for those?
Those cookies look so yummy. What a great way to start December!
Baking cookies, decorating for Christmas, and ordering pizza? Sounds like a pretty great Saturday to me!
So wish I could get Run Keeper to work. I use it manually but EVERY time I use the GPS on a run, it loses signal and is totally off by the end :-/ The sugar cookies look great!
I need to look into runkeeper. I am trying to incorporate longer running distances because I have always been a fan of just doing HIIT sprints.
I made the bf some homemade pizza today! Relaxing sounds good- I could get me some of that tonight 🙂
I started making cookies this weekend too 🙂 The sugar cookies don’t come out until Christmas Eve as a decorating activity for my family. Tis the season, I know what you mean about being super busy and I also appreciate a weekend in!