So much weekend fun. We spent the day in Baltimore showing my cousins from Saudi Arabia around. On Father’s day I saw my dad online shopping for his own gift and he napped the rest of the day. So my cousins and I went mini golfing. And on Monday we celebrated my Mama’s birthday. I am so exhausted that I had no idea what day of the week it is. But I am glad I was able to capture all of the scenes.

Summer running= sweat overload, excessive heat, hydration issues, double showers and less fun.

Hint: I did not run today.

Do you need a special running day to remember why you run?

What you will need:

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 tsp. sugar
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. compressed yeast
• 2/3 cup warm milk
• 1 5 fluid oz carton plain yogurt
• 3/4 tsp salt

 1. Shift the flour into a large bowl and stir in the sugar, salt and baking powder.

 2. Dissolve the yeast in the milk and stir in the yogurt.

3. Mix the flour to form a dough.

4. Knead until smooth, then cover and leave to rise in a warm place for 4 hours.

5. Divide the  dough into 12 equal ports and roll into balls.

6. On a lightly floured surface flatten the balls into oval shapes using both hands and slapping the naan from one hand to the next.

 7. Lightly grease and heat a frying pan until it’s hot. Cook the naan on both sides.

We have been enjoying these naans for the past few night and have become obsessed!

Here is a cute why to turn old shoe boxes into cute storage boxes!

1) Gather supplies. I am using a shoe box and some drawer liner paper. You can get a wide variety of designs. I like using drawer paper since it comes with an adhesive back.

2) When starting with the lid you want to leave an inch or two of extra liner on all sides depending on how big your lid is.

3) Peel back the adhesive and place the lid in the middle of the paper.

4) Start by wrapping around the sides.

5) Stop once you get to the corners of the lid and cut a slit diagonally to the corner of the lid.

6) This will allow the drawer liner to naturally cover up the lid.

7) This is what the finished lid will look like.

8) For the actual box we will only be covering up the sides of the box.

9) Cut enough paper to wrap around the entire box with an inch or so of extra paper on the top and the bottom.

10) Peel back the adhesive and start covering the box. If the paper is getting wrinkled cut up four separate pieces and cover each side individually.

11) For each corner once again cut a small slit into the paper so that it can fold over on the top and bottom.

12) When you are finished fold over the top part into the box.

13) The final product is a cute storage box!

I used a different design of drawer paper to make some storage boxes of my winter clothes/unused items.

Top: Soprano Blouse from Nordstrom Rack $14

Bottom: Old Navy Women’s The Rockstar Super Skinny Jeans $29.50

Shoes: Target Women’s Mossimo® Vowani Braided Low Platform Wedge – Natural $29.99

Necklace: ilycouture Seafoam: Ombre Statement Necklace $16

Bag: Steve Madden Tote from Nordstrom Rack $56

Where do you like to shop for non workout clothes?

On Monday my little brother graduated from college! Summa Cum Laude- my family and I could not be more proud. A huge thanks to my cousins for coming form Texas to celebrate this special occasion with us. We wrapped up a lovely weekend of family awesomeness with lunch at Roti.

On Sunday, my cousins from Texas wanted a taste of some Maryland crab cake. We headed over to the Inner Harbor to see what we could find. Only Phillips was serving their lunch menu at 12:30 so we all had some delicious crab dip to start and various sea food dishes followed. We headed home for a graduation party for my bother, and two cousins to celebrate the completion of college, high school and graduate school. We had a massive family reunion at my house with almost all of the family on my mom’s side. I was a lovely day filled with family and food.

Spent an awesome day being a tourist in D.C. My cousins are here from Dallas to celebrate my brother’s graduation from college. I had a wonderful day with all of my cousins on my mom’s side being together for the first time. I also tried D.C food truck food for the first time.

Real or fake? You be the judge.

Broken hearts can heal. Broken pencils can write.