Spend a day in Chicago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nHopefully we can squeeze these in the next few weeks!<\/p>\n
In the meantime, there are some other super exciting things happening that I am really looking forward to.\u00a0 One of my best friends just had her first baby and another good friend is going to have her baby ANY day now, so I am just so pumped to spend extra time with both of them.\u00a0 We also have two weddings coming up that are going to be AWESOME (send some positive thoughts up for Shain to kill his best man speech).<\/p>\n
OH! I am also heading to Madison with some friends this weekend to run a half marathon, FINALLY A RACE!\u00a0 It has been so weird to not have a race every other weekend like I usually do.\u00a0 I am trying to stay focused on my mileage, but man sometimes that is just plain boring.\u00a0 My goal for this Saturday is to hit the 1:30’s, fingers crossed! This will be all yoga and no heavy lifting or running to give my legs a quick rest before the race and to really hit it hard the next two months.<\/p>\n
More fun stuff coming this week.\u00a0 Unless me talking about wedding planning, running and food is not fun for you, then in that case you might want to steer clear \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
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Holy moly, I have been a bad blogger!\u00a0 Thing is, I usually write up all my blog posts during the weekend over my Saturday or Sunday morning coffee and then just post\/edit them through the week for your reading pleasure.\u00a0 But like many people,\u00a0 August came a long and I was like OMG SUMMER IS ALMOST OVER!??\u00a0 So needless to say, Shain and I have been trying to pack in as many things as possible these last few weeks that were on our “summer to do list” before work gets crazy for both of us again.\u00a0 So my apologies for not sitting in front my computer and actually going out and having fun \ud83d\ude09 Every summer we make a list and I swear,\u00a0 we maybe do two things on it and then get super bummed when fall arrives.\u00a0 This summer though has been different, we really have made an effort to get out and do fun things.\u00a0 We have been to so many festivals, concerts, etc.\u00a0 The new Riveredge park has been a favorite place for us too.\u00a0 You really cannot beat an affordable venue like that, which happens to be ten minutes away.\u00a0 We went there again on Friday night with my family because they were showing Grease, so awesome!\u00a0 However, Shain was not too enthused that he was missing one of the first pre-season Bears games to watch a Grease sing-along ( I may have held back the sing along part when I told him about this, whoops).\u00a0 But he was a trooper, you know minus scowling at all the people dressed up as pink ladies and T-birds dancing all over the place.\u00a0 I think he was sad about not being in costume like them, yeah that was it. I was really excited for this past Saturday though, we had been talking about doing a bike ride to Batavia\/Geneva where we can stop at all the farmers markets and flea markets along the way for the past couple summers and have never done it.\u00a0 We finally did!\u00a0 It was so fun, we got breakfast in Batavia and stopped at a couple Farmer’s Markets and Flea markets in Aurora.\u00a0 Logged about 40 miles! So far these are the things we still need to cross off our list: Have a glass of wine on the Fox Valley Winery Patio Go to the batting cages Hit up the Geneva French Market Spend a day in Chicago Hopefully we can squeeze these in the next few weeks! In the meantime, there are some other super exciting things happening that I am really looking forward to.\u00a0 One of my best friends just had her first baby and another good friend is going to have her baby ANY day now, so I am just so pumped to spend extra time with both of them.\u00a0 We also have two weddings coming up that are going to be AWESOME (send some positive thoughts up for Shain to kill his best man speech). OH! I am also heading to Madison with some friends this weekend to run a half marathon, FINALLY A RACE!\u00a0 It has been so weird to not have a race every other weekend like I usually do.\u00a0 I am trying to stay focused on my mileage, but man sometimes that is just plain boring.\u00a0 My goal for this Saturday is to hit the 1:30’s, fingers crossed! This will be all yoga and no heavy lifting or running to give my legs a quick rest before the race and to really hit it hard the next two months. More fun stuff coming this week.\u00a0 Unless me talking about wedding planning, running and food is not fun for you, then in that case you might want to steer clear \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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