Smoothies

Jared and I have always been fans of Juice stop-drinks made with fresh fruit, sherbet and of course fruit juice.  Since I've been running I've also been trying to make a more conscious effort to eat and in this case drink healthier.  Smoothies are the perfect solution.  My favorite smoothie includes bananas, strawberries, raspberry yogurt, apple juice and raspberry sherbet.  It's really good!  To make these smoothies we actually had to go out and buy a blender since we didn't own one.  I've wanted one for a while ( so I could make malts!) so this was the perfect excuse. 

I bought this one at Target super cheap (I'm talking $17 on sale).  I'm sure if I were to spend more money I could get one that was a little quicker blending but since we only use it once or twice a week this one works fine.

The Whole Fam Damily

At the beginning of June Jared's family from Texas made the trip to Nebraska for a wedding.  We had a great time-especially the kids.  It was the first time that the three cousins (Logan, Rhett and Trevor were all born in March!) were all together.  It was great to see everyone.  For some of us it had been almost three years since we'd seen each other-hopefully it won't be that long until we see each other again.

Harleigh, Alex, Rhett and Logan

Father's Day

Four Generations

Harley, Jack, Jared and Logan on Father's Day June 17th 2012

My Favorite things of June

So I'm a little behind on my blog posts...I blame it on my Nook.  We'll just say I've been reading a lot :)  Anyhow here are my favorite things of June.

This is absolutely one of my favorite purchases ever!  My new running watch.  It tells me the distance I've ran, my pace (which is always slow), and if you plug it into the computer it will tell you all sorts of fun things.  It comes with a Nike chip that you can either put in your shoe (if you wear Nikes-which I don't) or you can buy a little pouch that clips into your laces.  LOVE this watch.  It's made running so much more fun for me-I don't have to stay on the bike path-I can go anywhere and know how far I've been.

At the moment I don't know why I'm adding this to my favorites list-maybe I'm hoping it will become one of my favorites?  Well I started using Clinique three step system-hoping that I could quit the acne cream that I had been on.  As of today I'm really broken out and want to put a bag over my head every time I leave the house but I'm sticking with it.  I've decided that the burning, bleaching and flaking that are associated with all acne creams are not worth it anymore and I refuse to take any medication unless I'm in severe pain (gotta keep those kidneys healthy!) so that's not in my future either.  So here I am listing this as a favorite.  It does have some good things going for it-if my skin weren't completely red and bumpy I'd be happy with it :)

That's all for June-I've pretty much spent most of my spare time running and cooking-so not too much to report on this month.

On the Rocks

Logan and I were out on the deck-I was enjoying the breeze in the shade and he was playing in his water bucket (yeah we're high tech here in the Scott house).  He decided he was making drinks for us and this is what he brought me:

A drink on the rocks-literally :)

Enjoying our drinks on the deck