Ash & Alys Babes Blog
Guest Post on Natural Parents Network - Healthy Eating August 27, 2013 11:21
You may be trying to squeeze in one final getaway before school starts this fall - or planning your holiday and winter break vacations. It can be hard to stay the course with avoiding heavy fast foods when traveling - especially with kids. I recently contributed a post to Natural Parents Network on tips my family uses to eat healthy while on the road. It's all about planning ahead and saving money without sacrificing your food standards. Check out my post on Natural Parents Network here.
-Ashley
10 on 10: Favorite Reads June 10, 2013 13:57
Ashley and I love to read, you know, during that time in between taking care of the kids, keeping the house from falling apart, cooking dinner, working out, going to grad school, running our business etc., etc. We’re both self-professed bookworms, and each of use usually have a stack of 2-5 books on the night stand that we are reading all at the same time.
This month’s 10 on 10 is a list of our all-time favorite reads. And, since Ashley and I are both contributing to this list, the following is in no particular order (because I don’t know if we’d ever agree).
1. Makai Queen, Tara Fairfield
2. Till We Have Faces, CS Lewis
3. Eating Animals, Jonathan Sanfran Foer
4. Fall on Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald
5. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, Christopher McDougall
6. The Awakening, Kate Chopin
7. Watership Down, Richard Adams
8. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
9. The Chronicles of Narnia (series), C.S. Lewis
10. The House at Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne
-Alyssa
Favorite Moment: Desert Beauty April 25, 2013 14:06
I love Arizona. I understand that it's beauty is an acquired taste, but I love it, and last Saturday reminded me why.
My friend and I go to this great gym with trainer led classes. The gym is opening a new location in my old town of Fountain Hills, and hosting their Saturday class at the new location. Now, I currently live in Midtown Phx, so for those of you not familiar with Arizona, it is about a 40 minute drive. After deciding Saturday class is worth the it, we get our selves up at 7am on our Saturday morning and hit the road. We pull up to the gym and notice NO cars around. There is also tape still on the gym windows. We were a week early.... Total bust.
After laughing off our inability to pay attention to details, we decided we couldn't come all this way for nothing. Fortunately I had been wanting to run the McDowell Mountain trails, conveniently located just outside Fountain Hills, and I just happen to have my running shoes in the back seat. Our mistake turned into such a perfect morning. The trails were empty, the wildflowers were blooming everywhere and it was miles of beautiful desert. If you want to try and disagree that Arizona is not beautiful, come running with me next weekend!
-Alyssa
