Splendid Sunday

My day started out with eggs benedict on our deck with my wonderful husband......

.....followed by a much needed pedicure with one of my dearest friends.......

.... ending with a trip to ZGallerie to find the finishing touch for our main floor bathroom......

I have always loved turquoise, teal, blue.... the colors of the sea.  I thought our main level bathroom was the perfect spot of my love all things ocean.

I am sure I will find a few more things for the bathroom, but here is where we are at for now.  

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.  I am off to watch True Blood and Entourage with my love. HBO Sunday :o)

xo

Photography Challenge #1

The Self Portrait

My sister Kate told me about the photography challenge that Laura Beth is hosting at A Step in the Journey, and I decided to join in the fun.  I have had my D3000 Nikon for about a year and a half now and have been going back and forth on the idea of taking a photography class or two.  Sadly, I have not made my move in the direction of signing up for said classes, so I figured linking up with this photography challenge might be just what I need to start bettering my photography skills (or lack there of!). 

I am, in all sense of the word, an AMATEUR photographer, but love capturing memories with each photo I take.  I experimented with my timer for the first time for this picture, and it came out a bit blurry.  I decided to use this picture as my first post, with the hope that by week 20 of the challenge my pictures will be leaps and bounds better. Thanks for the challenge Laura Beth! I promise I will get better :)

xo,

Kara

(Half) Marathon Monday #1....2 days late!

Amidst all the chaos of moving I have let a major part of my life take a seat on the back burner. So I figured the only way to get my behind back on the workout train was to register for another half marathon (my third!).  I now have a date with the DenvernRock and Roll Half Marathon, October 9th, 2011. I am hoping to beat my time from last year too. This image below really spoke to me so......I am sharing my intention so y'all can hold me accountable. :o)

                                                                                             via Kara on Pinterest

After I made that decision, I realized that I didn't belong to a gym-oops. Now that we are in our new home I lost one of the few perks of condo living-the gym at our complex.  Logically the next step was to join a gym-which I haven't done since college-yikes! So I took a chance and for $24.99 a month I am a proud new member at 24 hour fitness.  Thankfully they had a month to month program, so if I decide a mega gym isn't for me I can cut the ties without penalty.

I will keep you updated weekly-let you know how the week before went.  You know, if I missed a day, if the run kicked my booty up and down the treadmill, it's all blog worthy I do believe. And most importantly it keeps me accountable.  Week one went great-completed all my runs and it felt gooooooood. I am hoping this week goes just as smoothly.

Happy Running~
xo