Happy Friday!! We made it to the end of another week *yay!*

With that comes another installment of Fitness Friday!

Summer is literally RIGHT around the corner, with that comes severe heat and humidity, well at least where I am from. While I am looking forward to days at the pool and outings to our local zoo with the kiddos, I am not looking forward to misery that is the heat.

Which brings me to today's topic of water.

Summer means pools, lake trips, float trips, running through sprinklers, sure, but what I want to take a moment and talk about is our water intake during these hot hot months!

So, we all know that we should be getting 8 glasses of water a day, or at least that's what we are being told by pretty much everyone out there.

While this is an excellent starting point I did a little extra research to see just how much water would be ideal for my body.

What I can best conclude is that, for every pound you weigh you need an ounce of water. So say you weigh 100 lbs. then you should, ideally, be getting 100 oz. of water during a day.

I liked that idea better than the generic 8 glasses of water!

Personally, drinking water is something I actually have to think about and make myself do. Especially if I was wanting to get as many ounces as I needed. So what did I do?! I got an app for that!

I ended up choosing Waterlogged (check it out here).

There's nothing crazy about this app, other than you can use their predetermined glass sizes or create your own. Then as you drink you just input which glass size you drank and voila.

They start you off at 64 oz., which is the recommended amount, however I knew in my mind I needed well more than that, so I just went into the settings and changed my daily goal. Simple as that.

Once you have hit your goal for the day you get a fun little notification.

And you can keep going for the day as well and it will continuously keep track.

There's nothing insanely crazy about this app other than it raises your personal awareness about how much water you drink, which for me was what it was all about.

I always knew I needed to drink more water, but it was way easier said than done. With proper motivation and a way to actually see the results, I have been much more successful in my endeavor.

If you aren't a fan of just plain old water there are tons of options for infusing your water in a way to make it tastier and more enticing!

Here are just a few I'm looking forward to trying out myself this summer.

*Found via Pinterest* 

- Ice
- 1/4 cucumber, cut into slices
- 1/4 cup fresh mint leaves
- Sparkling or regular water

 *Found via Pinterest*

- Ice

*Found via Pinterest*

- Ice

This past weekend was full of family and all around fun!

Friday I was able to catch up with an old friend while she trimmed my hair (it's quite nice having one of your bff's also be your hairstylist!)

Friday evening Andrew and I hung out and watched an episode of Bloodline *Season 2*

Anyone else love this show?! It's one of my absolute favorite shows & I look forward to finishing up this newest season!

Saturday Andrew and I had a little date day/evening and we went to the baseball game.

It started out a bit rough but we ended up coming back from a 4-0 deficit to winning 7-4.

Saturday night my sister came over for some bonding time, and we ended up staying up until 4 in the morning talking and hanging out and enjoying some adult beverages.

I am not used to staying up so late.

Sunday morning was a bit rough with two little ones running around!

*On our way out on Sunday*

The rest of Sunday we spent with family and just chilling.

I was able to fit in my work outs Sunday evening so I can keep on track with my Lauren Conrad 30 Day Ab Challenge, that I blogged about on Friday!

As far as my training for the half marathon in October I have had to take the past week off and it's looking like this week will have to be a rest week as well.

A couple Saturday's ago while doing my long run I slipped on some mud, I caught myself before I fell but my foot twisted funny.

The rest of that run and even that day I felt no pain but woke up the morning after with severe pain in the foot.

I hoped it would go away but here I am, a week and two days later and it's just TODAY starting to feel better. I would say today is the best it has felt since the pain began.

I can walk with VERY minimal pain and when I'm sitting it's like nothing is wrong.

From all the research I've done it's just a really bad bruise, that accompanied by the fact that I can see the bruise I feel quite certain.

I just don't want to push it and hurt my foot even worse so resting it is!

I'm hoping by next Monday I will have been fine for a couple days and can SLOWLY get back into my training program.

Fingers crossed!

Anyone have an recommendations for bruised foot pain relief?! I would really appreciate it!

Cheers!

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We made it, it's Friday!

Today I am embarking on the first installment of "Fitness Friday" here on Scribble & Dash.

What this means is every Friday I will be sharing something with all of you pertaining to fitness, whether it be a work out I really enjoy, a progress report of where I am at, a new item of clothing I have found to be excellent for working out in etc.

I hope you enjoy, I for one am very excited!!

Okay, with that being said here we go...

Summer is literally right around the corner (Hello June 20th *also my sister's birthday!*)

What does Summer mean other than trips to the beach or the pool, or a float, right?!

So, with these days of wearing bikinis creeping up I have been severely focused on my AB routine.

Pinterest is FULL of 30 Day Ab Challenges, to the point where it gets overwhelming at best.

Yesterday I was browsing one of my favorite websites LaurenConrad.com and she announced her own 30 Day Ab Challenge and it hit me... This was the challenge I was going to jump on board with.

Personally, I like having a plan when it comes to working out, it helps me hold myself accountable. Having this 30 Day Challenge is going to make it hard for me to not keep up!

Here is the breakdown of the challenge

I would love to hear from any of you who are planning on joining up with this challenge as well! Also head on over to LaurenConrad.com yourself and comment on her post that you are taking the challenge as well! Make sure to take pictures of your progress and if you decide to post them on any social media use the hashtag #LCdotcomloves

Here's my before...

I hope everyone has a great weekend, I'm going to go and complete today's workout!

Cheers!

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Acai Smoothie Bowls have been taking the world by storm here lately.

I have seen them all over Instagram these past couple months and decided I wanted to try my hand in making my own at home.

I'm an avid smoothie drinker as it is and this just seemed like it would be a perfect recipe for me to try out.

I was right. I'm obsessed with these Acai Smoothie Bowls!

My boys are obsessed too so I have to make a double batch OR make it when they're napping or in the other room and sneak in a bite here and there.

I mean, what's not to love... It's so pretty!

...Yes I did take this photo! If you want to use it, that's totally cool I just ask that you link back to my blog and this post with it! Thank you :)

What you'll need:

For Smoothie-

1 Cup Almond Milk

2 Packs Simply Balanced Organic Acai Berry Puree

1 Tablespoon Honey

1/2 Banana (reserve the rest for topping)

1/2 Cup Fresh Blueberries & Blackberries

2-3 Frozen Strawberries

5 Frozen Mango Chunks

6-7 Frozen Pineapple Chunks

1/2 Tablespoon Ground Flaxseed

1/2 Tablespoon Whole Chia Seeds

For topping-

Granola (mine is Home Made... Working on recipe post, stay tuned!)

Blueberries

Blackberries

Banana

Dried Coconut Flakes (Unsweetened)

Drizzle of Honey

Kiwi

What you'll do:

Step One : Measure out all ingredients and put in blender

Step Two : Get to blending

Step Three : Pour into bowl once well blended! This makes one bowl, two depending on how hungry you are

Step Four : Top with goodies

Step Five : Eat immediately & enjoy!

**Here's what the packaging for the Acai Smoothie Packs look like**

I got them at a local Target.

Once I ran out I went to a different Target store and they weren't there so I guess it's hit or miss.

Lucky there's so many Target's all over! :)

I hope you enjoy making this smoothie bowl!

Share your thoughts on this recipe in the comments & feel free to send me pictures of your finished product as well!

Cheers!

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This weekend my husband, myself as well as a few of our friends decided to take a trip to Ste. Genevieve, MO to visit Crown Valley Winery, for a day of sipping wonderful wine and enjoying the beautiful scenery.

*Entrance*

We were so fortunate, the day turned out to be beyond gorgeous. Perfect for sitting on the patio and relaxing together.

Andrew and I were treated to a tour of the winery as well as a wine tasting by Crown Valley Winery.

We got an up close look at how the wine is made, bottled and shipped out.

The tour was very informative, I never knew so many steps went into creating wine!!

*Where the wine is bottled* 

My favorite part was seeing all the wine barrels, and learning that Crown Valley not only gets their barrels from Missouri but also France!

Once the tour was over we got to sample all of their wines, which were quite delicious.

My number one favorite would have to be the Chardonel.

We then took our favorite wines and sat outside on the patio and ordered some food from their full menu!

It was so hard to choose what to get!

I settled on the Blue Bison Salad with the Blackberry Wine Vinaigrette.

Seriously, I can't even describe how excellent this salad was. I would highly recommend this to anyone who goes and visits Crown Valley!

*Sunglasses c/o Ditto*

After we were done with our meal we decided to make the short drive to Crown Valley's Brewery.

We grabbed a glass of their Craft Beer and went to sit on their patio where we were able to enjoy the wonderful weather some more as well as live music.

The scenery was absolutely gorgeous here as well, so I insisted that we take pictures {the guys weren't that thrilled but they will just have to get used to it!}

*Romper - Old Navy*

I want to thank Crown Valley Winery for a wonderful day and for allowing my husband and I to take a complimentary tour and tasting!

Cheers!

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