On Saturday Ryan left for a work training in Italy so every day I’ve received picture text updates of amazingly beautiful sights and ridiculously delicious looking food. I’m missing him a lot this week, but we will be reunited tomorrow!
Since Sadie and I were on our own last night, we enjoyed some quality time together in our backyard and played multiple rounds of fetch.
And since this picture of another dog playing fetch cracked me up, I just had to share it with you!
Ha!
After fetch and dinner, I did a few loads of laundry and started packing for this weekend. My sister and her fiancé are spending the night at our place tonight before the three of us carpool to Sarasota for Merri and Pete’s wedding weekend early tomorrow morning. (Ryan is flying into Tampa and will drive down to Sarasota early tomorrow evening.) My sister’s fiancé, Ryan and Pete were all in the same fraternity in college and Ryan and Ross are both groomsmen in the wedding. It is going to be ridiculously fun and I cannot wait for wedding weekend festivities to get started!
Breakfast
Breakfast this morning began with an egg white and oatmeal protein pancake.
I’ve been really feeling protein pancakes lately, huh?
I also had an orange on the side that I almost finished while I was prepping my pancake.
Now I’m off to work. It’s going to be another late day at the gym, but I have a little break in the afternoon, so I’ll be sure to pop in and say hi.
Enjoy your Thursday!
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I hate when my husband goes away on business! He just started a new position at work, so in the next few months, he’s going to start traveling a lot more often. Ugh!
Love the pic of Sadie!
First England, now Italy … what amazing places to travel for business! My husband travels a ton … but nowhere near as exciting!
Ahhhh what a fun wedding that’ll be! Also–that dog picture is hilarious!! and accurate I’d say.
Sadie is so adorable!!! 🙂 Look at that tongue!! haha
Haha! Sadie cracks me up. I totally know what you mean about the travelling husband thing. I deal with it allllll the time. Thank goodness for technology. Italy sounds like a pretty great set-up for work training though, I must admit!
Sadie is such a cutie 🙂
I love protein pancakes! I’m also craving a juicy orange now!!!
Do you top your pancake with anything? Looks good! And I would be SO jealous of Ryan! Haha I AM! The only countries I’ve ever been to are the Bahamas and British Virgin Islands!
Sadie is so cute, I love how she always seems to be smiling in every picture 🙂 Italy??? What company does he work for?? I need to go work for them so I can go there hahaha! After seeing that dog covered in mudd, it made me think about my dog and if that happened to her, I’m not sure what I would do, especially if I was at a park or something. If I was at home, no big deal just hose her off, but otherwise…..that would be difficult hahaha.
Pancakes bigger than your face…sure you can’t really go wrong!
My husband goes away on business trips all the time and even though I hate being away from him, its nice to have some me time. Hope you enjoy yourself this weekend! Love + Shine Courtstar
After seeing you eat those pancakes every day, I an really curious to try it. It must be good!
I am loving that pic of the pup in the mud! That is exactly what my dog would look like if I gave him free reign to play fetch after a rain storm! Ha!
Wow, you and Ryan definitely caught the travel bug! It seems like one of you is gone all the time! I need that pancake in my life. ASAP. 😉
Work training in Italy? Sign me up. Have fun at the wedding.
I gotta say, I relate to you because my BF has been gone a lot for work (3 weeks out of the past 4!), and I swear, our dog is what keeps me happy sometimes. I love that smiling little face, especially how it lights up when we play fetch 🙂
Do you eat your pancake plain or do you top it with anything?
Sounds like you have another fun wedding ahead of you! Enjoy your weekend!!!
Haha love that pic of Sadie!! She is so darn cute. My dog looks like the muddy one almost every time we go outside.. he loves to play in mud puddles.
you should get an award for most attended weddings in the past three months! i feel like every time i read your blog you are off to a wedding — how fun/exhausting! 🙂
I am definitely going to be trying the Pumpkin Protein Pancakes that you have on your Pancake Round up page. I’m going to go with plain greek yogurt instead of cottage cheese though. Hell, I may have them for dinner tonight:-D
My hubby leaves for Chicago on Sunday. He will be gone for two weeks and this is the first time for us. I am going to miss him so much, it will be just me, the boys and the kitty.
That is the cutest picture of Sadie!
Your dog is ADORABLE!
I have egg whites on my list to make that pancake this weekend!
Our Bernese Mountain Dog decided that on the way back to the car on our walk the other day that he would step in the lovely mud. He made all of us happy with that! 😉
You all have had such fun travels this year! That totally rocks 🙂
Sadie is such a ham! I love it! Have so much fun at the wedding!!
i think i’d like to have ryan’s job. not exactly sure what he does, but his work travels seem to be pretty awesome. 😉
yay, another wedding weekend! hope you have a BLAST!
Your placemats are so cute!!!
The dog in the mud is too cute! Sounds like your weekend is going to be a blast! Have fun! 🙂
sadie is adorable as always! and i love love love your placemats. every time i see them in one of your pictures it takes a minute for me to realize it is a leaf, haha 🙂 very season appropriate!
That’s so fun that you and your sister and both of your guys are at or in this wedding, have a great time!
I think I may want a job like Ryan’s-he gets to go to so many wonderful places!! I love that fetch picture. Too, too funny! Have fun at the wedding. Isn’t this like your 20th this year? 😉
I’ve never tried adding oatmeal to my protein pancakes, I’ll be sure to test that out soon! Also, that pic of your puppy is ADORBS
Awww, that picture of Sadie is so cute! I love the “smiley” face my pup gets after some ball chasing fun.
Do you top your protein pancakes with anything? I’m planning on trying them out this weekend but it seems like it would need a topper! Maybe jam??
I love topping them with nut butter, yogurt and fruit!! Sooooo delish~
My boyfriend goes to Copenhagen for business often. I’m jealous and miss him terribly when he goes!
I’ve been wondering what to do with all the pumpkin I have in my fridge (from roasting a big one) and pumpkin pancakes it is!! Looks delish!
How funnnnn! You seriously have so many weddings to attend and be a part of!!! 😉 and oh nan I thought the muddy dog was Sadie so it made me go “eeeeeek poor Julie!” Haha
Zach’s going to be in London/Geneva for the next 1.5 weeks — I have a feeling the pup and I will have LOTS of bonding time. Not a terrible thing 😉
Aren’t you glad that wasn’t Sadie in the mud! I would not want to give that dog a bath. Haha
Training in Italy?! How nice! Love the pic of Sadie 🙂
did u put orange shavings in your pancake? my mom does that
What does Ryan do? I would love my work to send me to Italy! And that dog picture made me smile 🙂
So fun you guys can travel so much, but it’s so hard being away from the spouse!
Do you use any syrup or jam or anything on your pancakes?? Peanut butter perhaps?!
Noooo, where in Italy?? why you didn’t tell me!! I’m Italian!