Last Anniversary

Today is Brian and my 5 year dating anniversary! And our LAST dating anniversary!! Next year we'll be celebrating on September 6th :) We're not doing anything special today...instead we are having a special dinner on Feb 7th to combine it with Valentines day (kill two celebrations with 1 dinner haha). I did, however, get a beautiful surprise at work today ;)

I am definitely a girl who loves her flowers so this is always a big treat for me!! They smell so beautiful too.

I also started they day off great with an almost equally beautiful bowl of oats!:

The Oat Mix:

• 1/3 cup oats, water, milk
• salt
• about 3/4 of a banana
• 1 tsp pumpkin butter
• Zoe's Honey Almond Granola (love how crispy this stuff is!)
• little bit of Barney Butter!!
• small spoon of White Choc. PB
• 1 choc chip, 1 PB chip ...haha who only has 1 choc. chip...yeah this kid this morning

This was my first experience with Barney Butter in oats...delish! Although I must say that I am still a bigger fan of the White Chocolate PB...it just gives the oats this creamy sweetness. I love the Barney Butter on bread, and straight out of the jar...but I think I prefer the sweeter PB's in my oats. No worries, this will just make my jars last longer.

Lunch was something I picked up in Portsmouth, NH yesterday. We already had dinner plans but I had heard so much about this place I needed to get something to go. It's called The Loaf and Laddle (no websites...but you can google it)...basically it's a soup and homemade bread place! Hello!! Two of my FAVORITE things!

After staring at the menu board for about 10 mins...I got the Veggie Vegetable soup with a substantial hunk of Carrot Raisin bread.

The slice of bread was so thick I only ate half and still have another half.

The soup was a tomato broth base and Chock full of veggies!! It totally reminded me of a soup I'd make for myself. The bread was soft and very home-made tasting:) The carrot and raisin flavor wasn't too prominent...I guess I was expecting more of a spiced bread (like carrot cake!), but it was more of a plain white or wheat base...delicious toasted with a little butter.

For my anniversary...I went to the gym tonight for a nice sweat workout. Did about 50 min on the treadmill with lots of different running, walking, inclines...like those 45min treadmill workouts I see online but with my own twists. I did some triceps too, but then it was getting too late and I wanted to get home.

I ate my leftover veggie chili for dinner...yummmm, and then was bummed to find that there was NO Gossip Girl tonight...boo!

G'night.