Fab Five Friday #44

Happy Friday, friends! I hope your weeks are coming to a nice close and your looking forward to the weekend. This week was another fury of a week and came and went so quickly. We’re looking forward to our big race day this weekend and it should fun. It’s our 12th year wedding anniversary this same weekend that we’ll be celebrating after a long day of running, but we’re going to make it special. We decided to take a break from traveling this year since that last two years we did something for our anniversary, Brett was not feeling well, and our Mexico story is one you have to read. So this year we’re staying close to home and challenging ourselves to a good run instead. And good food as well. 🙂 Let’s get into this week’s Fab Five Friday!

1. My Running Playlist

Speaking of running, I put together this playlist of 10 songs that make my runs so much better and I’ve been listening to it a lot. I am thinking I might start with this playlist during my race so I start off strong. Music really helps me so much with my focus during a run, and makes it fun! Wish me luck this weekend!

2. Weekday Girls Night

This week my girlfriends planned a little mom’s night out at a local wine bar, and it was such a much needed and fun night out. These ladies are amazing, and it was a blast to see them during the week!

3. Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon

And of course I have to mention the Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon! This weekend is the weekend, and it’s been on my mind all week of course. The course looks so beautiful, all along the water and over a few bridges. Which should scare the heck out of me, but I’ve come to terms with the idea of taking my time, and not trying to over exert myself to hit a time marker. I’m going to have to walk if I need to, and I’ll be taking in the scenery as I do, and I’ll be crossing that finish line! (If anyone has any tips for avoiding cramps while running please share! It’s been the cryptonite during my training and I have not been able to figure out how to stop them from happening, I feel like I have tried everything. Honestly the only thing that helps is to walk or slow my pace. That is so hard sometimes when I feel strong enough to run faster, but I think I’ll have to go with it.)

4. Laundry Room Project Complete

This week, our laundry room project officially completed! We are in love with the new space and all the storage! You know the best part about finishing a project is getting to put everything away in it’s new place. I’ll be posting a full before and after post on this little project of ours, but I was too excited not to share today. In a smaller house, we struggle bad with storage and this small upgrade is going to seriously change our lives. We love how it came out!

5. My New Pantry Door

And on that note, we kinda added last minute to the project an upgrade to our pantry, which was so small and puny, we hated it! We are giving it a face lift by taking away the folded closet door and adding a real door, in hopes to not only make it feel bigger, but give us some room to add shelving on the back of the door. What seemed like an easy project has seriously turned into such a pain (like when we thought we ran out of flooring cause we didn’t know how much we needed and had to salvage the project with scraps!) but I think it is going to be so amazing for us.

So that is our week in a nutshell and the Fab Five making this Friday super fab. 🙂 Have a great weekend everyone!