10 Photos From Our Weekend & What Do You Do?!

I woke up this morning thinking it was Friday. Then, I realized that it was actually Monday. That was pretty disappointing. At least we’ve got a few four day weekends up ahead! I just found out on Friday that we get Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve, & New Years Day off- yay! Normally we’ve only gotten Christmas Day & New Years Day off so this was really exciting to find out. I also found out some other exciting news yesterday (can’t share it quite yet …. ; ) ….) so obviously we celebrated with a mini Lemon Cake. The best way to celebrate when you get good news (at least in my opinion)!

Flashback to the perfect Friday night- Hot Cocoa and some chocolate! Hot Cocoa is definitely a favorite of mine in the winter months to stay warm.

Saturday morning breakfast ala Alex. He makes the best breakfast. Also had overeasy eggs, which I hadn’t had in a REALLY long time. YUM.

Easy & snowy 5 mile run down by the lake Saturday morning. They actually plowed this portion of the trail (it’s also a dirt road), so I felt completely spoiled to be the only one out there enjoying it with some snowflakes flying as well.

We popped our snowshoes on and headed out to Gore Pass to get our Christmas Tree (we got a tree permit a few weeks ago). We normally head out towards Clark, CO to get our tree, but this year we tried something different and it worked out so well!

We got the most beautiful and perfect tree. I honestly felt like Clark Griswold when we spotted it in the forest among the cluster of trees (you want to take a tree in a cluster of them rather than a single standing one).

The views were also so beautiful out there. We were the only ones and saw only two other cars on the road the whole time!

It looks great (normally we get a really Charlie Brown looking tree) and we even made it back to watch Syracuse beat Georgetown in Men’s Basketball! Go Orange!

Then I made some of the pretzel granola from Run Fast Cook Fast Eat Slow and we also made some Rice Krispie Treats-I was craving them and it really hit the spot!

Saturday night we watched Home Alone 2 and then on Sunday I made it out for another easy (& hilly!) 5 miles.

Then relaxed with an Epsom Salt Bath (while catching up on This Is Us- I only have 1 episode left until I’m all caught up?!? I’m obsessed with this show now).

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What Do You Do:

-When You’re craving something? —> do you make it or do you let the feeling pass?

-When You get good news?!

-When it’s cold outside and you have a run to get in? —> bundle up or hit the ‘mill?

-Get your Christmas tree from a store/farm/chop it down?

Have a great start to your week!