Snickers Breakfast Protein Shake

Tomorrow mid-morning Dylan is leaving to drive down to Tinley Park, IL for his training! We are both very excited to begin this new adventure. But of course, with the excitement comes the sadness of being separated. I know it may seem a bit ridiculous, but in the almost three years we have been together, the most time we've spent apart from each other is four days. FOUR DAYS. Dylan will be gone for training for seven WEEKS.
But, I'm so excited for what the future holds because of this amazing opportunity. So I am trying to be optimistic and hold back the waterworks (though they have let loose a few times!)
I took next Friday off of work to go down and visit Dylan there for my birthday weekend (Monday, March 3 is my birthday so this is the closest we could get to the actual day). I am originally from the Chicagoland area so we will also visit with my grandma who lives only twenty minutes from where Dylan is training!

Dylan threw himself a little going away party last night at the bar, and so it is now 11:32am and he is still sleeping. To give him even more extra time to catch some zzz's, I decided to make myself a sweet treat- a breakfast smoothie. Because when I'm sad, I want chocolate. But chocolate isn't exactly suitable for breakfast!

So here it is, my Snickers Protein Breakfast Shake (that's what I'm calling it I guess!)


Snickers Breakfast Protein Shake

Ingredients:
1/2 cup Fage 0% Plain Greek Yogurt (vanilla may have been better but this is what I had on hand)
1/2 cup Bolthouse Farms Mocha Cappucino Protein Shake (again, could have used milk, almond milk, etc but this is what I had on hand)
3 bite size candies (I used 2 Snickers, 1 dark chocolate Milky Way)
6 salted almonds (I used Blue Diamond)
8 ice cubes

Place ingredients in blender, and blend until smooth!
My little sister got me a Ninja blender a couple years ago for Christmas, and I love it!
Like I mentioned above, I think using a vanilla greek yogurt would have sweetened this up so it was just right. Plain greek yogurt can be a little bitter! But overall I enjoyed this smoothie.

I entered the ingredients into my MyFitnessPal account to get a rough estimate of calories! And as you can see this shake has approx 20g of protein. See below:

Enjoy! Now it's off to wake up my sleepyhead of a boyfriend and start the last full day we will have together in Wisconsin for a while!


Mallory

My First Blog

Hello everyone,

I'm Mallory! This is my first blog post. Thanks to Pinterest, I've been wanting to start a blog for a while. Blogs with recipes, DIY tutorials, make up looks, crafts, etc. that I found via Pinterest have taught me a lot! And I hope to teach others too by creating my own blog.
I do plan to share this blog with family and friends who want to share my journey with me, but I also hope to gain some 'random' followers as well!
A little bit about me: I'm 22 years old (soon to be 23), living in Central Wisconsin. I work for a transportation company at a 'desk job' in customer service. My boyfriend, Dylan and I will have been together for 3 years coming up on March 18th and I couldn't be happier. Him and I and our Beagle-Pomeranian mix 'fur baby' Lola live together in our cozy house 'in the middle of nowhere'.
Dylan bought our house in November of 2011 and since then we have made a lot of changes. Although I never took the time to make step-by-step instructions for some of projects in the beginning, I'm hoping to create some step-by-steps for our future projects!
Dylan was just hired for a Conductor position with CN railroad. And so begins my life as a 'railroad wife' (ok, railroad girlfriend, but that doesn't sound as catchy). He will have training outside of Chicago for 7 weeks (about six hours away) and then will start working in Superior, WI/Duluth, MN -just about 10 minutes apart on the Wisconsin-Minnesota line, hence my blog title! We will be making the move up there together hopefully by mid-summer.
I'm used to being with Dylan every night, and every weekend. This is going to be a HUGE change for me. And blogging about all my crafts, projects, makeup ideas, etc. is what I hope will keep me busy in the coming months!

I hope to use this blog to give others the confidence to DIY- our whole home remodel has been done by US alone and it feels so good to know that! I hope to show some makeup looks that I try out (I plan to attend cosmetology school this fall!). And I also plan to use this blog to vent, and share Dylan and my adventures in a new state!


Mallory