I basically had the most amazing weekend. Thursday, was hanging time with the rents while they checked out our new place, ate some of my zucchini coconut bread and then we drove them to the airport for their 40th Anniversary trip! Yay for 40 years. I am extremely jealous, but figure they deserve it. Plus, J promised to take me somewhere really awesome when we have ours! {Hint: Greece would be nice. End Hint.}
This also arrived..
We finally have a little place to eat dinner! {It opens out on both sides to make a round table!} It’s perfect for our apartment and I am so lucky that I have a handy man to put things together and fix things for me.
I have been taking a rest from running lately and have been doing more strength training or just long walks. Friday was a rest day and me and J went for a walk running errands and around the park.
He went home to get ready for work and I continued on to do about 5.3 miles. But a nice pace. Some views..
Then I cam home made some Zucchini Chips and dinner. They were burnt, but better that way. Some of my eats..
Saturday we ran some errands for some special baking that I wanted to do, went for a walk and J went to do more work while I drove up to my parents for the weekend. We had plans to get some more things from storage, put some back in, and hang out with some friends of ours to celebrate their recent engagement.
I got to my parents and took advantage of the neighborhood {not city} environment to go for a run. I don’t usually try to go for speed in my runs, it is more about just running and how I feel but this time I figured since I had the opportunity of flatter ground to see if I could make it faster. I did 6.3 miles at an average pace of 8.12. Not too bad since I have been running slower lately.
I got back and started my baking! It was nice to be able to bake in a bigger kitchen. And not so hot. I made some Nutella Brownies from Hungry Meets Healthy. I only made four of these because I was more excited about the other goodies and did not want to go too overboard.
These weren’t so bad. But not my favorite. Nutella is difficult to work with!
Then I moved onto some Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes with peanut butter frosting!! They were as good as they sound don’t you worry. I wanted to bake cupcakes for my friends who just got engaged so these sounded perfect. I got the recipe from Sweet Tooth Sweet Life. Amazing!!
So.. you mix it up and then pop the Reese’s peanut butter cups in the center so they get all melty! Is melty not a word? Yes.. its ridiculously, amazingly, wonderfully good!
Next you make the frosting! I wasn’t sure how this was going to go since I’m not really a baker, but I figured I would try it. And thank God I did!
It is literally the best frosting I’ve ever tasted. I halved the recipe so I actually ended up having to make a little more for the last few cupcakes. I made fifteen total! We had some left over frosting which was pretty great because you can dip anything into it! Anything.
To complete the cupcakes you add some extra Reese’s on top! I really thought I would be peanut buttered out. But I guess that isn’t possible.
{They look like little bowties!}
We didn’t end up seeing my friends so unfortunately we were stuck with all of these fantastic cupcakes to ourselves. Sadface. Notreally. Oh, and some champagne. So instead we celebrated ourselves {because we are pretty awesome} with champagne, frozen pizza and PB cup chocolate cupcakes! It was actually pretty wonderful!
So all in all the weekend was great! Me and the Hubbso had some really great quality time together, we ate lots of cupcakes and sugar, watched the ending ceremonies of the olympics and some of the meteor shower! Lucky we were upstate! QT time well spent.
Oh and last night we went for a jog together. It was weird but wonderful. See, I can share.
Byee.
Graceful Disarray 