#MirrorlessMonday Photo Shoot Recap #WhatsBeautiful Style.

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Good morning everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your weekend for Father’s Day! I am very blessed to have a wonderful father & grandfather who support me in everything I do as well as keeping memories of my late grandfather close to my heart, always. My Pap, Me, & Papacakes! The family & I enjoyed a Father’s Day Brunch yesterday which was filled with good food & good conversation! After a morning workout, I had a banana & some of my new All Pro Science plant based protein powder (which I will review this week on the blog) & then headed to breakfast with a raging … [Read more...]

Feature Friday: Where 2 Next Mika!

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Hi all! Today is FEATURE FRIDAY & I am highlighting a beautiful young woman with a positive outlook on life. A few months ago Mika e-mailed me asking for advice on how to start her own blog once she was ready to share her story. I gave her some insight on good website options and after hearing her story, asked her to guest post on my blog once she was ready! Here was the initial e-mail… “My name is Mika Rotunda,nineteen, passionate about fitness, health, food, traveling, music, cooking, eating, music, art, crafting, scuba diving, my job, my God, family, friends... … [Read more...]

Catching up & a Butternut Basil Brown Rice Wrap!

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Happy Thursday everyone! How’s your week been going? You know what's funny, as much as I post pictures to instagram, I still have tons waiting in line to be seen. In honor of all of the recipes on deck (referring to my high school track days where that means you were next in line), next week I am going to have a WEEK OF RECIPES where I will high light a new recipe each day! Also, since it is Throwback Thursday – I’m going to throwback alllllll the way to last week My girls Sarah, Jackie, & I all went out to dinner for Jackie’s Birthday. We went to a place called Industry … [Read more...]

NUX USA Apparel Review & New POWER WOD!

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Good afternoon everyone! Hope you’re having a wonderful Wednesday. If you didn’t get a chance to check out my Amy’s Army Bootcamp Fitness Fundraiser on June 24 at 630pm- the info is in [this post]! The donations coming in & help from everyone is so amazing. The family is so appreciative! ____________________________ I am currently eating the MOST AMAZING LUNCH EVER that I can’t wait to share but until then – I wanted to share with you my new favorite workout outfit! I love any type of long flowy tank top (even though the 16 year old Kasey loved everything tight tight tight!) … [Read more...]

What’s Beautiful Pin-Spiration for #MirrorlessMonday

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hi all! I hope you had an awesome weekend! Before recapping my weekend, I wanted to start this week off with challenge number FOUR of the #whatsbeautiful campaign that I am working on with FitFluential & Under Armour Women. Don’t forget that you can still join in! Details are [here] & you can join TEAM TRUE TO YOU [here]. On the website, Under Armour has 6 challenges for the team to complete! Today I am highlighting this challenge; I love pinning things to Pinterest for inspiration & I am constantly inspired by what I see. You can follow me on Pinterest [here] so we … [Read more...]

#MirrorlessMonday – #WHATSBEAUTIFUL Style

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Today is challenge THREE of the #whatsbeautiful campaign that I am working on with FitFluential & Under Armour Women. Don’t forget that you can still join in! Details are [here] & you can join TEAM TRUE TO YOU [here]. On the website, Under Armour has 6 challenges for the team to complete! Today I am highlighting What’s Beauty? The other day I had a beautiful moment. I was sent some awesome Under Armour gear to rock during this campaign (thank you UA!) & I saw another FitFluential Ambassador take a picture in her tank with the reflection in the mirror. I thought, … [Read more...]

#WhatsBeautiful Challenge #2! Super Alter Ego

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Happy Monday all! Hope you’re enjoying your day! Today is challenge TWO of the #whatsbeautiful campaign that I am working on with FitFluential & Under Armour Women. Don’t forget that you can still join in! Details are [here] & you can join team true to you [here]. On the website, Under Armour has 6 challenges for the team to complete! Today I am highlighting the SUPER ALTER EGO challenge! I personally feel like a super hero version of myself whenever I look back at pictures and see what I am accomplishing. It’s like that reminder that my hard work & enjoyment is … [Read more...]

#WhatsBeautiful Highlight Video & Close Grip Pull-Downs

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Hey everyone! I hope you’re having a great Wednesday! Half way through the week – are you working on achieving a weekly goal? You totally got this! Today I’m very excited to share with you a video that I’ve been putting together the last few days for the What’s Beautiful campaign that I’m working on with FitFluential & Under Armour Women! Prepare to be inspired by these beautiful ladies from #teamTRUETOYOU. #WHATSBEAUTIFUL via @POWERCAKES & #TEAMTRUETOYOU When the campaign started again, I knew that I wanted to make a video highlighting some of the girls I workout … [Read more...]

Weekend Recap & What’s Beautiful Core Challenge!

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Good morning everyone! Hope you had a great weekend! I was able to spend mine with my family, friends, boyfriend, & his family! I’m going to start off today with some rare photo opps from this weekend with the boy. Rare because we only see each other once a week or every other so usually we’re just relaxing and not camera ready! but you’ll see even with a camera around we still aren’t camera ready. are we cute or what!? #sarcasm I know this looks like I got engaged, but I promise I would have already flipped out via twitter! haha Finally got a good one! We spent the … [Read more...]

Lemon Carrot Poppy Seed Cookies!

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TGIF everyone! I hope you had a good week & were able to reach some of your weekly goals that you set! Speaking of goals, have you declared your #WHATSBEAUTIFUL goal & joined #TEAMTRUETOYOU? I am so excited to be working with FitFluential & Under Armour Women throughout [this campaign]! On Monday be ready for the first challenge! Don’t forget that you can upload anything to the site to show your progress. Can’t wait to see what we all can achieve! Details on yesterdays [post] #IWILL ___________________________________ Today I wanted to shared a new recipe just in time … [Read more...]