>That’s a huuuuuge…TREE!

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Season’s greetings from Washington!

White House Christmas tree

After a relaxing day off (aka sleeping ’til noon, watching more episodes of 90210 than I care to admit), I hit the pavement for a freeeezing refreshing 4.5 mile run around the White House! I know I say this all the time, but DC is such a beautiful city!

Getting ready for battle (sans make-up, be kind)

During the last mile I could already feel hunger pains setting in. Convenient considering we are in desperate need of a grocery trip. I whipped together a quick Indian dish with foods we usually always have on hand. And ya know what? It was pretty darn good!

Trader Joe’s Punjab Eggplant w/ green beans, corn, kidney beans, red peppers, and scrambled egg whites (only protein we had, haha)

The night was spent watching The Santa Claus 1 AND 2! And a nice big glass of red vino 🙂

And got into the holiday spirit with some new holiday red nails 🙂

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This morning I met Chase bright and early to take her BodyPump class. Girl is a great teacher! So enthusiastic and really motivating. Chase, I’ll happily take your class any time…wink wink, haha. After a heart and muscle-pumpin’ class we chatted over coffee and breakfast. A great start to my day! Thanks again girl ❤

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And then it was time to [finally] get a Christmas tree!

Kelsey (sister) hugging the perfect one ❤

Oh, and it’s quite massive…

 Puts the other tree to SHAME!

Yeah, it’s 1/2 the size of our car…

Can’t wait to decorate!!

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Well I’m off to bake some cookies for tomorrow’s Cookie exchange (so excited!) then head to bed early because tomorrow is Jingle All The Way 10K! Can’t wait to see/meet everyone!

XX,

Lauren