Say hello

Welcome to More Sangria, please! I love "meeting" new bloggers, so please, stay around. 
1) My morning routine is simple but I love it. Wake up, check emails, make bed and head into the kitchen for food because I'm always starving when I wake up. While sipping coffee I read the paper, get the what happenings all around. Then shower and off to school or work. 
2) Love instagram (@lifeofsarahh). my favourites are (in no order) @lovesoflife, @perfectlyjenn and @paleoOMG. 
3) My daily reads vary but I love reading paleo food blogs. More on that later. Also I love beauty blogs like Meg on the Go. 
4) My family is amazing and I love them. Living with my parents is great since I get to see them everyday but I miss my brother and SIL who live a few hours away. 
5) My favourite holiday tradition is going to my aunt's house on Christmas eve and opening stockings that my Gramma puts together for all 24+ of us. It's a really fun evening and something I look forward too. 
6) This one was hard to think of! But something random about me is how much I love to sing. Car, shower, church, everywhere. From disney to Lady Antebellum, Sarah loves singing.  

If I won the lottery...

Every few weeks, when Alex buys a lotto ticket for the "big loot", as he calls 'em, we sometimes day dream what we would do if we ever won a whole heck of a lot of cash.

1) First, I would get mani and pedi's weekly without feeling guilty. Hello nice nails all the time!

2) I would take my friends on an amazing trip. My choice is Bora Bora. 

3) I would take a trip during football season to Chicago so Alex could see a game.  That guy would be in heaven. 

4) I would buy a beautiful house. Or build my dream one.

5) I would buy a mazda 3! It's my dream car. In silver. 

6) Money would be given to my favourite charities. Like the Humane Society, Breast Cancer Foundation.

7) My family would be given out money. I know that everyone would use some extra. 

...8) And of course I would save money. 

Insta-lately

Linking up with Jenn today for Insta-lately.

It's been such a busy and emotional week for me so it feels good to sit down before spin class to blog. 

1) The Easter bunny came on saturday this year.

2) Ma dukes makes such a good turkey, avocado, bacon sandwich

3) Anyone who takes Alynesa, it's being re-called. Batch #LFO1899A

 4) Bella-baby, my neighbours cat always comes over for treats multiple times a day!

5) Love warm weather for running

6) A Menchies opened up near my house. Mango is so good!

Insta-lately.

Maybe one day soon I'll blog more than once a week...

Maybe I'll get creative with ideas for posts...

Until then you can see what I'm up too via Instagram. 

1) Picked up new summer/spring candles from B&BW which smell so good!

2) Essie in No More Film

3) Crossed off another thing from my bucket list...Spin Class. Love it!

4) Alex's cat Chuck whom I love!

5) Spring is a-coming!

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I spent the weekend with Alex which was much needed. Long distance relationships are tough foe sure. We saw Safe haven friday, partied with his friends "welcome back from South Korea" party on saturday night and took a really long walk together Sunday afternoon along the waterfront. Just spending that time alone was amazing! 

Insta-Lately

1) Alex and I had a cupcake date...4000km away from each other.

2) Love my kiki la rue Maddie top. 

3) Alex and I got tickets to the Leafs farm team for a "yay you're back!"

4) I'm liking painting my own nails. 

5) The only thing I'll miss about alex's house now is the beautiful view of the lake. 

6) 1st run post- half marathon on Monday. Felt good. 

7) My creative arts class went to the Art Gallery of Ontario. Does this scene look familiar? the wedding scene in The Vow was filmed here with Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams.

8) Made no bake apple crumble for breakfast.

9) I heart him. 

Letters on Friday

Dear Vancouver, can you please send me back my boyfriend? I really miss him. Sincerely, day 10 of 16. 

Dear Alex, thank you having daily phone dates and facetime-ing with me while you've been away. It really helps to "see" you. Sincerely, "see" you in real life soon. 

Dear Half-Marathon, this is happening. Yup, I'm running another 21k on Sunday. I'm a little nervous because I now know the pain I'll feel but I' also now the feeling of crossing that finish line. Sincerely, see you on Sunday Peterborough.

Dear Winter, Let's get a little warmer please. Sincerely, not a winter gal.  

Insta-lately

1) My valentines gift from Alex

2) Jenn made me have cereal for dinner on Monday. 

3) Monsters we made in creative arts class. 

4) We had Shrove Pancakes a day late last week. Still tasted so good.

5) Love this bright pink.

6) My little Iggy looking cute.

7) Dog-sitting this week. Boy, dogs are a lot of work!

8) I love seeing kitty paw prints in the snow.

9) Alex is in Vancouver till Feb 26th and Sunday we both went to our local starbucks for a date...4,000km away! It was so good to "see" him. 7 days till we see each other :)

Insta-Lately

I feel that since this is my 3rd, or 4th time in a row sharing my IG pictures with y'all that this might be a nice routine for me.

1) Bought some new running GU, love the chocolate raspberry. It's like dessert while running.

2) Grandpa is in isolation due to the Clostridium Difficile virus. Also known at C-diff.

3) Apparently people still don't know how to park/drive in the snow

4) Melt snow, Melt! 4 weeks till spring aka my birthday! 

5) Made nutella coffee saturday for breaky and yes, it exploded in the mircowave

6) Alex and I celebrated 7 amazing months with dinner at Jack Astors and went back to menchies were we had out second date. T-minus 12.5 days till he's back from Vancouver! 

Insta-Lately.

This week has been crazy! I honestly feel like I haven't stopped since last week. 

1) Went to my first Raptors game Friday for a girlfriends birthday. And they won! 98-77 against the L.A Clippers. 

2) I love this picture of Alex's cat, Chuck.

3) My mom got her first hair cut since last August! She's doing awesome. Looks so healthy too. 

4) Loving my new Kiki La Rue shirt. 

5) Started making smoothies for breakfast again.  Spinach, banana's and a kind of berry. Very healthy.

6) My 91 year old Grandpa Hannon is very sick in the hospital right now. Bladder infection along with an upper respiratory bacterial infection. And high blood pressure and high white blood count. He's been in there since Saturday morning. I went to see him yesterday and he looks good. More colour and talk-a-tive. Please pray for him to get better and go back to his nursing home and see my Gramma. 

INSTA-LATELY

Howdy, girls. This past week flew by! School seems to be in full swing and yes, I've started to count down till summer begins. 89 days till Punta Cana!

1)It's Karens birthday today and we got shellac mani's together. Pixie Dust

2) My half-marathon training said to run 8k on Thursday, but with it feeling like -24? Not gonna happen. Cross training did.

3) Tim's got a bit crazy on the chocolate. 

4) Taking Alex's cat to the vet

5) Creating monster in Creative Arts 1 class. Education major!

6) Went on a 16k run on Saturday in the valley. So beautiful. 

Go link up with Jenn!

Fitness Friday

I'm so happy to be off school for Christmas holidays until January 14th. Like so so so happy.

So happy because I can get back into running and start training for my 2nd half-marathon that's happening is two months! 

My work outs took a little back seat this semester which made me so sad. Seriously, who knew that working out can make me such a nicer person to around?!

I've been looking around on Pinterest for some new work outs and came across this one. It's awesome! All over workout plus running. Couldn't ask for me!

Source: blondeponytail.com via Sarah on Pinterest

Insta-lately #3.

Back for the third time in 3 weeks for Instalately with Jenn! 

1) So sad dog sitting is over for this year. 

2) Went out of the comfort zone and bought a red lip stick.

3) Red bull + university life= need!

Insta-lately

Oh, hai bloggy friends. 

Yup, still alive. Barely, with school but thankfully 23 days till freedom! But who's counting. 

Even though I barely blog, I've still been taking lots of pictures with  Instagram. (@lifeofsarahh)

1) Karen and I (along with her cousin) saw So you think you can dance 2012 tour. Amazing!

2)Opening number

3) Intermission picture. 

4) Amazing turn-out at the Remeberance Day Service on sunday. Legion #22 (pictured) is my Grandpa Hannon's legion. Lest we forget. 

5) The girls from SYTYCD. 

Linking up with Jenn 

INSTA-LATELY

1) I ran the Tom Taylor 10 miler on Sunday in 1:43 minutes. 

2) It's been raining since Friday night. Thanks Sandy. 

3) My new favourite snack, pumpkin seeds with cranberries and raisins

4) Post run tradition, icing my knee. 

Project Pinterest: Pumpkin Cookie

Hope y'all had a wonderful weekend. Mine started normal: homework saturday along with date night and I ran my first half marathon Sunday! (re-cap to come)

I'm linking up with AP for Project Pinterest to show you my yummy pumpkin cookies I made for Thanksgiving last week.

Source: mybakingaddiction.com via Sarah on Pinterest

You will need:
2 cups all purpose flour

1 1/2 cups old-fashioned oats
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter; softened
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup pure pumpkin puree
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup white chocolate chips
1 cup dried cherries; roughly chopped

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line your baking sheet with a silicone mat or parchment paper.

2. Combine flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and salt in medium bowl. Beat butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar in large mixer bowl until light and fluffy.

3. Add pumpkin, egg and vanilla extract; mix well. Add flour mixture; combine until all ingredients are incorporated. Fold in white chocolate chips and dried cherries.

4. Drop by rounded tablespoons onto prepared baking sheets.

5. Bake for 12-14 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.

I want one now! They are the perfect fall cookie, very harvest-y, I must say. All off my family loved them, even Alex's little nephews kept coming back for more!

Currently

I'm linking up with my girl Jenn over at Perfectly Imperfect for Currently.

Current Book

Yup, still reading it. Goal for next week? Finish it! 

Current Playlist

Some Nights-Fun---best song ever! 

Payphone-Maroon 5

Cold as Stone-Lady A

Friday Night-Lady A

Current Colour

Flip Flop Fantasy by China Glaze. 

Current Outfit

1) my dress from Karen's grad yesterday 

2) Today's outfit. 

Current Drink

Water with lemon. Can't get enough of it. 

Current Tv show

SYTYCD 

Love this show and love wednesdays

Current Needs

Prayers for my family. 

Current banes of my existence

Come back tomorrow or monday to hear all about it.  

Current celeb crush

This girl. Hillary Scott. Who I'm seeing this saturday! 

Current blessing

My extended family. They are so supportive right now. 

Current Excitement

Seeing Lady A with Karen saturday and being done summer school. 

Current Mood

Scared, worried, sad, angry. 

Go link up with Jenn! 

My fav link up-Currently

I'm linking up with the ever-so-awesome Jenn today for Currently.

I was so excited when Jenn mentioned  on twitter (follow me: @lifeofsarahh) that she wanted to do her link up today. I'm in a huge blogging slump, so hopefully this will take me out of it.

Curent Book:

yup, still reading it. Only has been 3 months...

Curent Playlist:

Cold as Stone-Lady A

Someone I used to know-Gotye

Where have you been-RiRi

Dance Agin-JLo

Current Colour:

Got a french shellac two weeks a go.

Current Food:

Waffles with banana's.

Current Fav Show:



SO!EXCITED! FOR TONIGHT!

Current Needs:

To be able to read guys minds. Ugh, men boys

Current Triumps:

-Losing 31 pounds!

-Signing up for a 15k run in Aug!

Current Celeb Crush:

anyone of these guys.

Current #1 blessing:

My new sister-in-love.

She has been such a big help over thep past few weeks. Love her.





Current Outfit:

Current Mood:

Very, very confused. Males, I tell ya. So strange.

 #vague.

Go link up with Jenn!