It’s chilly, won’t you come inside?
Tonight Eric and I dug out the Christmas decorations and got to work!
Tuesday night, we went to Dollarstore. Unfortunately, they didn’t have a ton of stock out yet, but I am confident that they will step up their game as the month goes by. ;)
I got these two Christmas bears for $1 each!!! The scarecrow was also from Dollarstore last month, but he is now packed away for the season.
Christmas decorations are like building a Lululemon wardrobe. Slowly, overtime, you build up a nice collection and they last forever. ;)
Eric’s mom gives her sons at least 2-3 Christmas decorations every year at Christmas. Eric has acquired a huge collection over the years!
I got this Snowman placemat for $1!!!!!!!!! It’s so cute! Expect to see it lots over the next 2 months. ;)
We need to clean out the fireplace so Santa doesn’t get dirty this year…
I am looking forward to our first fire of the year.
When my mom and I first moved to Ontario, it was just us two living in a small apartment. This mini tree below was the only Christmas decoration that we had! It has since been with me to University, our old condo, and now this house. Sketchie can be found sleeping under it when he is not knocking it over…
My favourite Santa is on my desk watching over me.
We had Mariah Carey’s Christmas CD blaring!!!! I LOVE THAT CD!!!!!!!!!!! I know every word, I think.
Dinner tonight was easy-peasy since we were busy decorating. I also blew off my cardio workout in favour of decorating…priorities, people, priorities! ;)
Chickpea Spinach BBQ Pita Pizzas
Ingredients:
- High Protein Pita
- 2 T Mr. Spice Organic, no salt added, BBQ Sauce
- Orange pepper
- Tomato slices
- spinach
- Zucchini
- Roasted chickpeas
Directions: Place all ingredients onto pita to make pizza. Broil in oven on medium for 3-5 minutes watching it carefully.
Organic grapes. These tasted sooooooo good.
My second dessert was a Present Glo Bar. So addicted.
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Whittle My Middle 30-Day Challenge:
Can I just say that I am SO excited for this challenge!?! It feels so awesome to be doing this challenge with all of you! I love how you are as excited as I am about it. I am seriously pumped for December 10th!
I have had a few questions about the Whittle My Middle 30-Day Challenge. Here are my answers:
1. You can follow along my ab workouts each day on the new ABS page. Keep in mind that everyone will be at a different level. My best advice is just to do it for as long as you can, while still maintaining good form.
2. Don’t have a stability ball? Simply sub the stability ball exercises for other ab exercises. Google it and you will find a million. As long as you are challenging your abs in new ways, it doesn’t entirely matter if you are doing every exercise in the video.
3. Concerned about doing abs 5 days a week? If you are sore then by all means, take a day off in between. You can even double up your workout and just do it 15-20 minutes, 3 times a week.
4. Yes that is me in the picture above, lol. It was taken at the end of the Bikini Body Boot Camp on June 1st 2009. I vow to get my strong abs back! I’ve also been told that strong abs reduce back pain (which I have been having a lot of!).
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Glo Bakery:
1) There are only 5 more Glo Bar Variety Packs left! This will likely be the last Variety Pack that I do before December since I will be busy with Holiday prep so Get em while you can!
2) Stay tuned later today for the release of the Holiday Gift Packs and special referral and blogger promotion! You will be able to pre-order your Christmas gifts and learn about how you can save money on your orders. Will post Thurs. afternoon.
3) You can now follow Glo Bakery on the official Facebook Fan page!
4) TWITTER: Follow Oh She Glows, Glo Bakery, and Green Monster Movement on Twitter!
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Whew! Long post. If you are still reading bless your kind heart. ;)
Ciao lovies!
Love the decorations! So warm and cozy :-) Makes me want some hot chocolate!
Love the placemats! Decorating for Christmas is one of the mini things I miss. Due to our teeny apartment limitations, we really can’t decorate. Although, last year we finally bought stockings and I can’t wait to put them up.
Love your decorations! I wish we had room in our teeny tiny apartment for a tree :P
Strong abs do prevent back pain!! At least, strengthening the deep transverse abdominals (which planks are AWESOME for targeting). If I did as many ab-strengthening exercises as my patients do, I would be ripped! :)
P.S. The house looks gorgeous with all the Christmas decorations up! I am getting anxious to start pulling out all of our goodies, too!
it sounds weird, but I think I have already had less back pain in just 1 week of doing core work!!!
I love snowmen! I can’t wait to decorate.
I love decorating for the holidays! I can’t wait to have a non-student apartment so we can do more decorating!
Your decorations are so adorable!! We used to decorate a lot but not the last couple of years :( I usually wait until after Thanksgiving (US Thanksgiving hehe) to listen to Christmas Music but I must admit some have slipped through the cracks recently!
Angela, count me IN on this challenge! I’m just getting started with blogging and really making an attempt to get healthy but I’ll do my best! :)
Christmas decorating is so much fun! I can’t wait to start!
I love love love all your deccies! I was going to say “But it’s not even Thanksgiving yet!” but then remembered you Canadians have every right to celebrate Christmas season through November since Thanksgiving was before Halloween!
cute house. great idea of going to the dollar store.
Looks like a lot of fun! I hate to break it to you, but I really think those are snowmen, not bears! :)
LOVE your star on top of the tree!
I am going to do this but I can’t start this week since I’m getting over the flu. But ASAP I’ll start!
BTW I love the comparison of Christmas Decorations to Lululemon. I still have ornaments from childhood.
I am SO IN for Whittle My Middle!! I am pumped!
LOVE your Christmas decorations, Angela! I used to hate it when stores got ready for Christmas before Halloween and Thanksgiving had passed by–it just felt like we were rushing the holidays too much! Now that I’m a bit older and wiser, I’m trying to plan ahead, take advantage of some sales that are a bit earlier in the season, and really enjoy the holidays (maybe it was the Christmas music and cinnamon smells in Walmart that got me into the holiday spirit!) Target also has some great cheap Christmas stuff in their dollar section–that’s where I got my very own pink tinsel Christmas tree for my dorm room. I still have it and have already set it up with some cute ornaments from Walmart (seriously, Walmart has a whole section JUST for mini trees–mini Christmas tree skirts, mini stars to top your tree, etc.).
Oh my goodness YES! I love Christmas and am already getting so excited for it! Being in the Nutcracker helps a lot too, rehearsals have started and you get to practice to holiday music all day! :) I told myself I had to wait until the double digits of November to start decorating though (and I still haven’t done it – whats wrong with me! ;)) Unfortunately I am just on my own in a little apartment so I don’t have much but I am totally going to go overboard this year! Will definitely have to check out the dollarstore for ideas- thanks!
-K
P.S. LOVE the holiday themed glow bars too!
You are sooo festive and cuteee! I love how Eric’s mom passes decoration down!
I love all your decorations!!! It seriously got me excited to start decorating our house.
We had to break in the fireplace for the first time this year yesterday. The hubby and I went for a 5 mile run and came back frozen. The fire was the only thing to get me warm. It felt so good!!
Your house looks awesome! I’m sad to say that we have NO Christmas decorations! I’ll have to change that :)