November 14, 2014

Friday Favs_11.14.15

November 14, 2014/ sherri d'alessandro

First and foremost, I'd like to wish my mom the happiest of happy birthdays! Thank you for your never ending love, support, honesty, and laughs! xoxo

I'm sooooo excited to be able to spend today with my mom. Working weekends has its perks and this is one of them. I have my mom's bday off, my own bday, and my sister's bday off this year due to working a few weekend days. #worthit

Tomorrow is Nicole & Joe's wedding - Yay! I am so happy for Nicole & Joe - they are going to look ravishing! It's going to be so much fun and I'm looking forward to catching up with my cousins and the Miami crew. Whoo! On Sunday, we are celebrating my mom's bday as a family. Great weekend ahead! Here are my favs of the past week:

Last Friday, Molly and George pulled off another fantastic Harvest Party. I loved the place setting - how cute & fun?!

After the party, we enjoyed catching up with everyone. I quickly snapped this photo because it looked so rustic and the flowers were so pretty!

We had a couple of great sunsets this week - did you notice?

I'm really bad at pre-wrapping and pre-writing out cards. Sometimes I do it all in the car on my way to an event. I need to stop doing that so I'm really proud of myself for being so organized haha

Give off good vibes, ok? Be nice, be positive, be kind.

Have an awesome weekend! What do you all have planned?! xo

November 11, 2014

MOST FUN #NBGNO EVER!

November 11, 2014/ sherri d'alessandro

Hello my friends! So I know I've talked about NBGNO a lot on here after attending the "Self Expression" event in the Summer and then hosting the October event in collaboration with Komen. This last event took place at the Westin Copley and the theme was "Staying fit While Traveling". Caroline and I hosted and it was a freaking BLAST! Did you know that the Westin has a partnership with New Balance? So, when you visit ANY Westin, WORLDWIDE, you can borrow a kit filled with sneakers with replaceable soles, t-shirt, pants, shorts, sports bra, and socks (you can keep the socks - score!). Haha anyway, it's such a cool program and it makes traveling and working out a whole lot easier. Plus, they have mapped out running routes, in-room Holly Perkins workout DVDs, and running concierges to guide you through it all!

To get a refresher on the gist of NBGNO - check out THIS POST. This post is going to be a bit of a photo dump - there were so many cool things happening and a lot of smiling faces so I wanted to capture it all.

So we kicked off the night, told everyone how the night was going to go (Caroline joined the run group and I stayed with the boot camp group).

I modeled the really cool roller that New Balance was kindly raffling off.

Then we split off into our groups!

Love this pic of the runners!

The boot camp was lead by THE Chris Heuisler! Don't know who he is? Read his BIO HERE. He pretty much as the coolest job in the running business. He was not only a great instructor but also, super funny!

The boot camp went a little like this ...(FYI - Lots of GLUTES)

Then, we finished - glutes burnin'. Everyone met back up and had great food (power foods also part of the Westin program - edamame pot stickers, almonds, fruit skewers, salmon toasts, & more) and BEVS - wine and beer.

My new friends!

My BFFs.

Oh, AND, there was photo booth!

Then, it was time for Caroline and I to chat with the audience again and discuss tips for staying fit while traveling! The big ones were BRING SNEAKERS, PLAN AHEAD, FIND A LOCAL CLASS IN THE AREA, WORK OUT IN THE AM, STAY AT A WESTIN!

The below picture sums up our personalities! lol

That's a wrap, my friends! Last week's NBGNO was the last one of the year, but, I know I can speak for everyone who attends these events that we cannot wait for next year. What beats getting together with your girlfriends, working out, having snacks, drinking wine, and getting prizes? Nothing.

Have an awesome week! xo

November 06, 2014

Friday Favs_11.6.14

November 06, 2014/ sherri d'alessandro

Already time for another edition of Friday Favs?!! What a week - the weekend kicked off with a night in, making dinner and catching up on Homeland. Saturday, we went to Harpoon to take the tour and enjoy the beer hall (none of my friends had ever taken the tour and we've all lived in Boston for at least 8 years). Sunday - game day at Gillette (I know, so lucky - WHAT A GAME!). Go Pats! Tuesday night, Caroline and I hosted the last NBGNO of the year and it was amazing! Whew! I have another busy weekend ahead... working days and plans at night, but, hopefully I'll get the cronut I've been admiring at some point.

Here are my favs of the week!

I made the acorn squash that I posted from HOW SWEET IT IS blog. It was delectable. The gigantic organic, grass fed NY strip was good, too. I hate half of it and sliced up the remainder for my salad the next day.