Playlist, battle wounds and another important question for you.

Great news about your leg! I’m on a timeout from running, too, so I’m in the saddle a lot.
I always take my ring off to workout. I can’t wear it with gloves when I run in winter or bike gloves in summer. Whenever I wear it to swim, I’m always scared it’ll fall off!
All those cakes look awesome- it’s all about the frosting! I found this cute and easy recipe I’m going to make: http://www.butterwithasideofbread.com/2013/02/easter-marshmallow-bark.html#.

If you love peeps, then you should probably make option A….but if you are like me and could take them or leave them….That carrot cake just made my list!!

Why don’t you make cupcakes and decorate them how you like. You can make some carrot cake, and others the cake flavor of your choice- and/or freeze the leftovers.

I routinely take off my ring and so does my husband. He smartly buckles his ring around his watch strap. I just keep my ring on my nightstand.

I love that peeps cake – so cute!!!! I am definitely a peeps fan…only on Easter though, I don’t go for those Halloween/Christmas ones.
What about a cake with Jelly Beans? Those are my all-time favorite Easter candies!

I love to bake but I would probably skip all of that and go buy Costco’s carrot cake. No comparison- it’s the best in the world!

I never, ever wear my rings when working out. They get in the way lifting and they just bother me when running. I can’t handle the feeling of them on my sweaty fingers!

I just about never exercise in my wedding ring. We both take our rings off all the time… is that bad? ;) We wear them during the day but don’t sleep, shower, sweat etc in them.

I wouldn’t say they are the WORST food ever created, but I don’t like them…and I pretty much eat any and all sugar, so that is saying something.

Craoot cake. Those other cakes may be cool looking, but we both know that eating that carrot cake will taste better. Send me a slice ok?? And frosting is definitely the best part..unless it is the grovery store bakery frosting. That stuff wityh lard is gross to me.

I have to take my ring off. I get ‘chingers’ so badly when I run!

I am so happy you were able to spin with no pain. Next up running!

I want to squeeze those rolls on Brooke’s thighs! Gah! So cute.

I vote carrot cake!!! It is so easter-y. But only if you do cream cheese frosting. Peeps are kind of gross to me.

Okay the Peeps cake is just way too cute! I’d go with that one.
I LOVE Peeps.
The best part of cake is definitely the frosting…. but only if it is really good frosting. I hate that super sugary, crunchy kind.
I never take my wedding ring off for exercise!

The first cake. Definitely. And send me a piece while you’re at it :)

Peeps are super gross…too sweet for me. But, I’d make a cake surrounded or covered in candy any day.

Been working out without my ring lately, bad case of the flesh eating away at my ring finger from too much water contact. Maybe I should make my husband do the dishes from now on? :-)

Make the easter bunny’s bottom cake…I love it!!!

The Peep Bunny cake!

PEEP BUNNY!!!!!

Those cakes look fabulous! I’m not a huge fan of peeps =( As pretty as they are, I just can’t eat them…the Bebe’s on the other had devour them! I haven’t decided what kind of dessert to make yet either! Hopefully I decide soon! I have family coming over Saturday!!!!!

Carrot Cake!!
I take my rings off for kickbox class and when I swim. But I am crazy when i take them off. Checking a million times that they are still where I put them. Today I needed my stopwatch app on my phone, so I put my iphone in a sandwich baggie-sealed-put it in another baggie and added my rings in there-sealed again.
Classy, I know! Anyway-I was freaking the entire swim that someone would walk away with my phone and rings.

Peeps for the win! You really need to try them stale, they take on a whole new level of deliciousness! I, obviously, think you should go with option a! I would alternate between regular peeps and the chocolate mousse ones!

I always take my ring off to row, but then I tie it into my shoelace so I am staring at it the whole time and won’t forget it. Other then that I don’t take it off.

Peeps – I know this ruins our friendship, but I think they’re nasty.

There are some adorable Easter recipes on Pinterest.
As for my ring I use to ONLY for body pump because it was flattening my ring. Then I got weight lifting gloves so I always keep it on now.

PEEPS are the greatest Easter candy ever invented. I don’t believe in them any other time of the year, but for the Easter goodness they can’t be beat. Therefore of course I vote for the Peeps cake. I tried to make one last year that had yellow Peeps around the outside and then chocolate chips all in the inside and it was supposed to look like a sunflower. Mine looked pretty lame, but it was delicious.

I wish I could wear my wedding ring all the time because I’ve been in love with it for the past 23 years, but about 3 years ago I started getting a really bad rash when I wear it to exercise. Perhaps from the sweat? Anyway, it comes off for running and weight lifting, but goes right back on after my shower.
I’m super happy to hear your IT band is getting better. I’ve battled that one off and on for the past 3 years and it can be so frustrating. Good job hanging in there and doing what is needed to heal it right.

I take my ring off when I remember. I feel naked without it though, especially if I am exercising with the BOB Duallie. I sometimes wonder what others must think, if they think I am a single Mom with 2 kids. No one I am sure has ever noticed at all, just my paranoia. I made sure to always take it off when I did my Masters swim team. My husband lost his ring on our honeymoon swimming!!

I secretly like peeps but I tell my husband they are gross. I do that because he thinks I am a health nut and I never ever cave. Keep my secret safe. I buy Easter candy for his basket and perhaps some gets stashed away for me….

You do realize you have the cutest baby ever right?
I was going to say B because I love Kit Kats but when I kept scrolling and saw that picture of the carrot cake I changed my mind. I haven’t had a good piece of carrot cake in a very long time so I vote for it! I don’t think I like Peeps but I can’t remember if I ever have tried one. They just seem like they would taste good. Maybe I shouldn’t even go there. Have you tried wearing your bike gloves (I assume you have some) when you row, that should help with the blisters? and you can still wear your ring! Frosting-always the frosting!

I take my rings off all the time!! Plus, Im a bio and anatomy teacher and we do multiple dissections of dead preserved organisms…I ALWAYS leave my ring at home so I don’t have to worry about gloves, etc. and I don’t wear it when working out either, especially during crossfit!

Love your playlists- lots of songs I forgot about!

those cakes are awesome- I love the look of the 1st one w/ the peeps and m&m’s- so colorful. I like peeps in small doses- jelly beans are by far my favorite easter candy.

Frosting always wins over cake in my book- unless it’s an ice cream cake :)

A! Just because I love all the colors. But I would pick D if you could figure out how to make it. Too cute!

Peeps? Cute, but I don’t eat marshmallows.

What is the best part about cake: Frosting or the cake part? Frosting! As long as it is buttercream frosting!

BTW: did you ever see that Malcolm in the Middle episode where the oldest brother eats like 100 peeps or something?

I made a cake like the first and second one for Christmas two years ago, but around the side I put Reeses peanut butter trees. OMG. That is all.

First time commenter — I just love your blog! Thanks for being so real and funny. And for real, your daughter is on another level of cuteness!!

I always thought I would never take my ring off, but as it turns out, my fingers swell A LOT when I sleep and work out. If I wear it to sleep more than a few nights or during more than a few sweaty workouts, I get a rash. I’m apparently not allergic to the metal; my doctor said it’s just the combination of sweat and being tight around my finger. So I always take it off to lift weights and at night. It always either goes in the ring box in my purse or on the pretty porcelain ring holder I was gifted from Anthropologie by a friend. =)

I vote for carrot cake!! I had a friend make me one yesterday to celebrate our soon-to-arrive baby, and it was delicious!! :)

Frosting is the BEST part! I’d eat all frosting if it didn’t make me sick!

That’s easy – make ALL of them!

Hello!!
Glad to hear your healing! YAY!!!

I have to take my rings off when exercising, I get way too sweaty!!!

I love the Kit Kat cake! I would say the last one, but I think you’d have to be a professional to create it! I take my rings off to exercise. In fact, I take my rings off when I come in for the day. I don’t feel completely relaxed unless all jewelry is off!

That kit kat cake has been on my list forever now (with M&Ms instead of eggs) maybe I’ll finally make it this weekend!

I LOVE people who are cake people instead of icing people because then we can trade :)
As always Brooke’s adorable little face just makes me smile :)

Cake is one of my favorite things in the world. But I can’t choose between the cake and the frosting. I have to have a balance of both! One just isn’t good without the other.

I don’t leave my house without a wedding band on. But I do 99% of my workouts away from home with a plain white gold comfort fit band that we bought for cheap. It allows me to exercise without worrying about banging my diamond into things and equipment, ect. Plus this band doesn’t seem to cause the blistering that my regular set does. I don’t always wear a ring while at home though. I hate the feeling of water under it and yet I wash dishes all day long. So at home my finger is bare.

A is my choice! Lots of sugary goodness! Don’t do traditional on Easter! You have all the other days of the year to make a traditional looking cake!

And peeps are so yummy! I haven’t had one yet this year! I need to get them now!

I take my ring off but I always put it back on right after I’m done! :)

Cake A!!!!!

I think you should make carrot cake and DECORATE it like one of the above. I like the last one but that takes some serious artistic skill. I think you should do B but put Peeps on top with the Easter Eggs :-) More candy = More deliciousness. Plus, bunnies always need to be on a carrot cake ;-)

I vote for the M&M cake for sure! It’s adorable! I don’t care for Peeps, but they hold a special place in my heart (funny story). I think icing is the best part of the cake. :-)

I don’t like peeps. Once my friend put one in the microwave, it was pretty cool.

I take off my engagement ring to exercise but never my wedding ring. I take it off and put it in the same spot every time so I won’t lose it.

Why don’t you make one cake for the next 4 days up to Easter?

Have you heard of graston therapy? Worked wonders on my it band injury. I also jumped a lot of rope for a killer workout. Didn’t bother it band.

Why don’t you make carrot cake….but make it look like one of those cool cakes on the outside? You can eat the candy off, then eat the cake…….it’d be like 2 desserts in one!!!

I have to take my ring off because its too big. If I get too sweaty it will fall off, has happened! But I also have to set it on my phone so I remember to put it back on right away

I *always* take off all my jewelry while exercising (or going to the beach/swimming). When I was a kid, I went swimming and somehow I lost a bangle that my grandfather gave me when I was born…after that, I stopped wearing jewelry when exercising. I figure it’s all safer in my jewelry box at home :)

cake > frosting. I’m actually trying to convince my fiance that we should have a cake without frosting for our wedding, but he’s not buying it so far…

Yay for no pain!!

Eek… I love almost all Easter candy/chocolate except Peeps…sorry!!

While I think the cakes with candy are genius I am a huge carrot cake lover so I say stick with that plan, that’s the only thing I am eating on Easter

Choose cake A, it looks like the most amazing thing ever. I really don’t like peeps (I would just leave them out on cake A) and frosting is most defiantly the best part.

Who says you have to limit yourself to ONE cake?

I’m not sure if I’ve ever had a Peep. They seem kind of creepy. Like a Twinkie. But I typically stick with chocolate related candy….or gummy things.

Hmmm… It depends on the cake and the icing. Sometimes I like the cake more….sometimes I like the icing more. Like my mom’s icing — I can just lick that off a spoon.

And yes, I take my ring off for weight lifting and swimming and rowing. I don’t want to scratch it with weights. But I run with it on. But it goes back on right after my shower.

How do you like your Ravenna 4s? I wore the 3s for a while last year, but I ended up getting a huge callus on the inside of my right forefoot. And then I got a blister deep inside the callus. And after I cut open the blister (self surgery = fun) and it healed for a few days, I ran again, and I got a blister on the inside of one of my toes. I never get blisters. I ended up getting some injinji socks and wore them and another pair of shoes the rest of my vacation, but I had to wear the injinjis with a pair of Adrenalines later that summer. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the color of your Ravennas, and I want to give them another try, but I don’t want them to eat my feet.

I take my ring off when I sleep because my skin gets suuuuuper dry. But not when I’m working out! I took off my engagement ring off the first time I ran a half marathon after I got engaged and I couldn’t put it back on until the next day :-/ Never again!

Don’t stone me, but I hate peeps! I don’t know why because I love marshmallows but the taste is just very unappealing to me. All the other cakes look amazing, but I LOVE carrot cake (especially if it has cream cheese frosting!), so my vote is D :)

Carrot Cake! And I always eat the cream cheese frosting first!
Peeps are disgusting!
Married; I never take them off!

Never ever take my ring off but I almost had heart failure back in December when the diamond fell out. Luckily my hand was in my pocket when it happened….luckiest thing that’s ever happened to me I think! My ring is a family heirloom from my husbands side so I would be in extra big trouble if I lost it!

if you make carrot cake you won’t be sorry when you are eating it.

make C WITH CARROT CAKE!!!!! win win win =]

omg frosting without a doubt. i always give my bf the cupcake from which i’ve just licked off all the frosting… classy and lovely, i am! ;-p

xo!