Cookies and Smoothies..

Have you ever made the best cookie of your life?

Judging by the smell and looks of the cookies I just whipped up, I think I just may have done it. My buddy Kevin and I are heading up to Traverse City today for some race meetings tomorrow. To fuel our rides there and back I decided to bake us some peanut butter cookies. Now these are not just any PB cookies. These are peanut butter cookies with bits of broken pretzels and a chunked up sea salted caramel chocolate bar. Everything but the pretzels came from TJ's so you know their good. I cannot wait to sink my teeth into these beauties!

To start my morning off right though I made one hell of a smoothie.

I mixed up:

1/2 cup'ish Fage Plain 2% Greek yogurt

1/2 cup ish (who measures?) frozen Lifeway plain Kefir

1 Banana

1/2 Cup frozen strawberries

1 Tbsp Flax seed meal

Dash of Silk Almond milk to get it blended.

Time for some running and yoga followed by a long ride up north! We're getting to TC just in time to see the Lions take on the Saints..of course we'll be watching from a local brewery..

Kickstart her Heart!

I have an incredible friend named Rose.

This is Rose and me singing F*U*C*F at the 2008 Just Let Me Breathe benefit...now my friend can sing anybody's socks off and when I watch the American Idol shows or America's Got Talent shows and hear those singers I get a little uneasy. I am thinking to myself "really? This is the best? They obviously haven't hear Rose sing.." This girl has pipes AND she is crazier than every little Fraggle Rock character put together.

Oh, Rose has CF too and we met in the wide world of social media and have been friends ever since! We met in 2008 when she came in for the benefit and since then we have partied in France, Miami and Detroit (twice).

This is us with some Norwegians in Paris. They were singing Desperado to us..and that is a fact.

So why am I blogging about Rose? Well, she and her awesome group from Bay City are recording a live album and need help. They have launched a Kickstarter campaign and are seeking funding through this campaign to pay for it!

Click the pick below to hear her story and to help her out!

If you are tired of crappy music and want to see some TRUE talent please check Rose out!!

Em