Taryn and Tavia

No Excuses.

October 14, 2015 Taryn and Tavia1 Comment

You know those days where the thought of working out just makes you want to eat some ice cream and take a nap? Don’t lie.. I know it happens to all of us. I can’t be the only one. I had one of those days today. It took some major inner battles (and a couple cups of coffee) to get my butt moving. I tell you what, once I got in the groove, I was in it. My Pandora station was killing it and my body followed. Here’s what went down.

Thin Thigh Tuesday (Is that a thing?):

Warm up: 5 minutes on the elliptical. My warm ups are crucial to my workouts nowadays. It gives me a chance to find the right Pandora station and get ready to rock.

Set 1:

Curtsy Lunges: 1 warm up set of 20 reps per leg. Add dumbbells and get 15 reps per leg.

Stiff Legged Dead Lift: 15 reps with weight. I used the 25lb dumbbells. Listen to your body. Make sure you are isolating your hamstrings and glutes with every rep! If you are feeling it only in your back, your weight is too heavy!

1 minute plank.

Repeat 3x through.

Set 2:

Sumo squats: 25 reps with a weight you are comfortable with. Remember to keep your toes pointed towards the corners of the room, your hips tucked, weight in your heels, and your booty tight! 😉

Seated Hamstring Curls: 25 rep with a weight that is hard to move after 12 reps. Burn,baby, burn.

Push Ups: As many as you can on your toes, and then drop to your knees and get 10 reps.

Repeat 3x through

Set 3:

Stationary lunges: 20 per leg

1 minute on the stair climber at a level where you have to jog a little. It hurts so ~~bad~~ good.

V-ups: 20 reps

Repeat 3x through

Workout DONE! Remember to modify where you have to. Don’t use weights if it is too much, and cut your reps down if you are feeling light headed!

Let me know what y’all think!! If you have any questions about what something is, leave a comment or send me an email!

Happy Workouts Friends!

XOXO

Tavia

A Day to Remember and a Game to Forget

October 11, 2015October 11, 2015 Taryn and TaviaLeave a comment

It’s OU/texas weekend y’all!! We have been rocking our crimson and cream all week!! One of the things I love the most about having gone to OU is the school pride. I don’t think it is going to matter how old I get, I will always get butterflies when I hear our fight song. The OU/Texas rivalry is something every Sooner and Longhorn fan looks forward to each year. It doesn’t matter the team ranks, each team shows up for this game (well, you hope they do). We had a little watch party to cheer on our Sooners while they did some ~~work~~ losing.

On the menu:

White chicken chili: I follow this recipe, White Chicken Chili , and make a couple changes. Actually, just one. I use all organic ingredients, so I don’t use the Bush beans. Ha.

Dutch Oven Beef Chili: I used this recipe, Dutch Oven Chili. I altered the recipe by using just 1lb beef. The hubs, wasn’t so happy about that. He’s right. There really isn’t anything better than chili leftovers. We cooked this chili in our Dutch Oven on our Big Green Egg (best investment ever).

The Sides: Shredded cheese, sour cream, green onions, and Fritos.

Chili seems to be my go to menu item when having a group of people over. It’s healthy, fairly easy to throw together, pretty hard to mess up, and easy to make sure you have enough food!

The party was a success…even if the game was not. We lost. Bad. But, that’s what keeps this rivalry fun. You never know whats going to happen. We still love our Sooners and we’re mourning with them today. 😉

^^ Best. Photo. Moment. Ever.

^^ Long gone are the days that it was easy to make him perform for pictures.

I hope y’all had an amazing weekend!

XOXO, Tavia

Obligatory Pumpkin Patch Post

October 8, 2015 Taryn and TaviaLeave a comment

Just in case y’all haven’t seen enough pumpkin patch posts floating around.. 😉 Baby Max absolutely loves anything that is shaped like a ball. Go figure. So of course, all the pumpkins at the pumpkin patch earned me some MAJOR points on the best mom ever scale. It was like an orange ball heaven. Another bonus…he had one of his besties with him.

<< Tees: Little Nugget Apparel Max’s Moccs: The Golden Polkadot Lincoln’s Moccs: MaxMoccs Boys Distressed Denim: Vibrant Swag >>

XOXO Tavia

Manic Mondays.

October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 Taryn and TaviaLeave a comment

It’s Monday. Again. The weekends go by too fast! I have made a conscious effort to change my relationship with Mondays. We used to be enemies because they mean that the hubby is back at the office, laundry is piled up to my eyeballs, the house is a disaster, and the pantry is empty. I have decided we are not going to enemies anymore, we are going to be friends. So, I am grateful for this Monday because it means I have time to do laundry, I get to clean the house, meal plan, and hit up the grocery store! I mean, who doesn’t love to go to the grocery store with a toddler?!

Any who! The purpose of this post was to show y’all how I meal plan every week. I am a HUGE believer in the saying “failing to plan is planning to fail”. In order for my family and me to eat consistent healthy meals, I try to sit down at the beginning of every week and write down what each dinner is going to be. This also keeps me from buying out the whole grocery store. Here is this weeks meals:

Monday: Home made chicken fried rice

Tuesday: Chicken & broccoli casserole (the sneakiest way to get your toddler to scarf down some veggies)

Wednesday: Crockpot teriyaki chicken served over rice

Thursdays: Leftovers (aka the least amount of cleaning the kitchen day)

Friday: Big Green Egg Pizza

I base my grocery lists every week off of the recipes I need to make each meal. I use the leftovers for our lunches throughout the week. We try to avoid eating out. It is so much healthier and cheaper to eat in as much as possible! I probably sound like a broken record. Or my mother.

I will leave y’all with the homemade chicken fried rice recipe that was the bomb.com. Zack and Max gobbled this down. Getting Max to eat anything other than mac and cheese and pizza is a huge feat, so I am patting myself on the back right now. 😉

What you need:

4 Chicken Breasts

1/2 cup soy sauce

1/3 cup honey

2 cloves garlic

1 medium white onion

1 cup green peas and carrots

2 eggs

2 cups white rice

What to do:

Cut up chicken breasts into 1 inch squares and sauté on a skillet with a smudge of butter (yes, a smidge….that means less than half a tbs) until cooked all the way through. Set Aside.

Cook rice according to package

Saute green peas, carrots, chopped onion, and garlic until soft. Add two eggs and scramble.

Combine rice, chicken, and green pea, carrot, onion and garlic mixture. Pour soy sauce and honey over top and mix together!

Processed with VSCOcam with f2 preset — WAA LAH! Easy peasy, and delicious!! Let me know what y’all think!

I couldn’t leave this out of today’s post….while cooking dinner my hubby was home (which saved my house from a mini tornado, aka Max). The two of them experienced some quality bonding while sanding down our patio chairs. My heart just might explode.

Happy Monday Friends!

XOXO. Tavia

Me Vs. Procrastination

September 29, 2015September 29, 2015 Taryn and TaviaLeave a comment

Holy. Cow. The last couple months have been a whirlwind. I think I last left y’all with the news that I was starting an Instagram/Etsy shop, Little Nugget Apparel. It has been successful (YAY!). I have been so busy that my first love, this blog, has fallen to the wayside. I’m finally feeling more in control of time management and I’m ready to bring this bad boy back to life. I need you guys to help me stay accountable for things like, ~~brushing my teeth before noon~~ meal planning, keeping my workouts up to par, and most importantly letting me journal our crazy life.

I’m going to give y’all a speedy break down of what has been happening in our life. Ready? Ok.

Max turned one. Yes, ONE years old. It’s going too fast.
My sweet nephew, Bash, was born. He’s the cutest, chillest, squishiest, longest, best baby ever.
Max walked. Our lives are officially changed for the crazier. He gets into everything. He’s most obsessed with boxes, toilet paper, and dog bowls full of water.
We traveled to Montana. Again. Just me and Max, all by ourselves to see family. The kid has been to Montana 4 times this year. We really want him to be comfortable with his last name. Ha.
I redecorated. Out with the reds, in with the blue-ish grays and farmhouse tables.
My work-outs have found new life, and I am SO excited to share them with you.
I’ve learned that coffee really is vital to raising babies and businesses. And my coffee would be nothing without my Almond Milk Vanilla creamer. If you haven’t tried it…you have to. ASAP.
MAX SLEEPS FROM 730pm-730am! I should have put that first. And in bold. I love sleep. I had missed it SO much.

This is my pledge to never fall behind, be a better blogger, and only procrastinating when it’s truly necessary (like when I have to update my inventory sheet, and give my hubby all my receipts shhh.) Stay with me y’all. The rest of this year is going to be a crazy ride. I can’t wait to share it with you.

The Time Warp

May 6, 2015May 6, 2015 Taryn and TaviaLeave a comment

Has it seriously almost been a month since my last post?! How has this happened? I’m blaming it on the mom time warp. That thing that turns hours into seconds and days into hours. Trust me, it’s a thing. So much has happened in almost a month. Our little shop has grown to almost 1000 followers! So. Surreal. Max is growing by the minute, he is one years old y’all. We had a big ol’ bash for his 1st birthday, those pictures will be up soon! He has started saying, “doggy, ball, hi, bye, dada (nothing new there lol), mama, papa” , and pointing to airplanes like it’s his job. Are you ready to be bombarded with Max pictures that you’ve missed out on the last three weeks? I hope so……..

I promise to never fall this behind again! Stay tuned for quick outdoor leg workout that will be posted tomorrow! You won’t be sorry!

Monday Bunday Y’all.

April 13, 2015April 13, 2015 Taryn and TaviaLeave a comment

I hope you all had a great weekend. We sure did. The weather was perfect and we were finally able to really get some good use out of our backyard kitchen Zack built this fall. Baby Max had his friends over…and luckily for us, we love hangin’ with their parents 😉

^^ How cute are all of these little nuggets?! There is something so entertaining about watching babies interact with each other. It’s hilarious. We’re hoping this kind of get together happens a lot this summer. And with all of those precious baby pics to make you happy…I now want y’all to ~~suffer~~ enjoy my butt burning, heart pounding, favorite workout day of the week….

Monday Bunday.

Here was my workout this am:

10 sets of 10 reps seated hamstring curls

10 sets of 10 reps leg extension (keep the weight doable, but challenging!)

Stiff legged dead lifts (20 reps) super set with box jumps (20 reps) Repeat 3x through

Plie squats (20 reps with a super challenging weight) super set with step-ups (20 per leg) Repeat 3x through

One-legged squats (15 reps per leg) super set with alternating jump lunges (30 total) Repeat 3x through

DONE! This should make you guys feel SO good! 😀

One more thing….we have new onesies and Hustling Mama colors in the shop! Go check them out 😉

The BEST day.

April 1, 2015April 1, 2015 Taryn and TaviaLeave a comment

For any of you that know baby Max, or even if you have just seen his pictures, you know the kid is a pretty happy camper. Well, today just put the icing on the cake. He woke up talking in his usual baby babble (which I will miss so much one day) and when I walked into his room he clapped. Clapped y’all. I don’t know how your day can start any better then that. Tuesday’s are one of our favorite days around here. We have music class in the morning, so much baby dancing and clapping your heart could explode….

..Then, we pretend we are a dog like Bailey…

Then, we flirt with pretty girls….(or steal pacifiers…)

We eat snacks on the patio..

And finally….we drop some new designs for Little Nugget Apparel’s shop.

BE BOLD, Or Italic, Never Regular. And that y’all, should be everyone’s life motto…am I right?! 😀

I hope you all had a great Tuesday! Stay tuned for a butt kickin’, heart poundin’ workout this week! I’m already scared. Hehe.

Did I brush my teeth?

March 27, 2015March 27, 2015 Taryn and Tavia1 Comment

You know those days where you look at the clock and it says 12:30…you’re still in your pajamas, the baby still hasn’t taken a nap (he’s been up since 6:30 mind you), and it’s a miracle you’ve eaten anything? And then it hits you, the teeth have not been brushed since the night before, or you think? This, my friends, is what a baby growth spurt/teething episode looks like in our life. On the bright side, this phase only lasted one day (hallelujah)! Today is a new day, it’s now 10:30, Max is asleep, my hair is done, my teeth are for sure brushed, and I’m dressed. I think I’m so put together already because I have been SO excited to share our surprise with y’all!

But first…here is the quick Bailey/Daddy/Max cuddle session that happened last night…

^^These cheese faces are partly the result of the camera flash that is SO funny! I had to share these to keep the suspense going…and because these are too dang cute not to share!

Ok…now for the surprise.

This has been a long time coming. I’m not pregnant, sorry to disappoint. Ha! Since my precious niece was born two years ago (how is that possible?) I have been following mama and baby clothing shops on instagram. And somewhat obsessing over them. I knew that this is something I would love to do. Hip, graphic tees and onesies for littles and mamas.. How much fun is that? I finally got the confidence to just do it. The hubby plays a big role in this confidence, “the only way to fail is to never try”. I can’t give all the credit to my hubby for helping me get this going, my good friend, Rhiannon (you’ll see lots of pics of her and her baby soon), came up with the name to the shop! Guys….Little Nugget Apparel is now open for business!! You can find us on Instagram and Etsy. Please take a look! Give suggestions! We’re in the very beginning phases of this venture, I’ve never done anything like this before and seriously welcome any advice y’all have! Here are some pics of the first designs we have available for purchase now! You’ll also find the link to our little shop at the end of this post! Thanks for reading this lengthy post and being loyal readers! Love ALL of you!

So much more is to come, but I thought it was only fair to share with you guys first! Here is the link

https://www.etsy.com/shop/littlenuggetapparel

The First Hair Cut

March 23, 2015 Taryn and Tavia1 Comment

Baby Max had his first hair cut this weekend. Yep. It was quite the ordeal, we had grandparents, aunts and an uncle present for the event. As we walked into the cutesie little kids salon, the hair stylist asked me if I wanted to save his hair from this monumental cut..I quickly replied with, “of course not, I have no idea what I would do with it”. And that was that. As she started snipping away and his little hairs fell to the ground, I understood why she asked me if I wanted to keep those first hair cut hairs. It’s like the last bit of that itty bitty baby phase you can hold onto (crap,I’m turning into a sap). And just like that my baby turned into a big boy. Not kidding. It aged the guy by at least 4 months. Take a look!

Try not to get too teary eyed guys, the little guy is growing up! Every new little phase is so much fun, I can’t wait to see what short-haired baby Max has in store for us.

P.S. The surprise will be revealed this week! It’s still a work in progress. 😉