yoga pup

June 20, 2009 by Leave a Comment

My dog (not the new puppy- the dog that I’ve had for about 5 yrs) is very camera shy.  She can hear a camera a mile away and hide faster than you can turn the thing on!  She was lounging on my yoga mat this afternoon and I was super sneaky and got a quick picture before she could run and hide.  She loves to lay on my yoga mat, probably cause it’s pink!

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I wasn’t feeling so great last night when I went to bed, so I slept in a little this morning.  When I got up I was really hungry so I made a quick bowl of cereal- Quaker oat squares.  It’s my favorite right now!  I think I want a smoothie tomorrow- it’s been sounding good all day!

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Then I got ready for the day and ran into town to pick up a few things.  On the way back I was really thirsty and I grabbed something.  These were both really good!

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For lunch I had some leftover broccoli cheese soup from the other night and some Corazonas squeeze of lime chips.

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Then I made CUPCAKES!!  Red velvet with whipped cream cheese frosting!  (From a box mix.  I didn’t really have the patience to bake from scratch today.  They turned out reaaaaally tasty!  I froze half of them so that I wouldn’t consume them all in a few days.

Looky-

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Then I did a few chores around the house and read a little.  Hubby ended up staying late at work so dinner was solo tonight.  Chicken curry salad wrap.

Shredded chicken with a little olive oil mayo, celery, curry powder, and a squeeze of lemon juice.  Served on a Ezekiel 4:9 tortilla.  It turned out tasty.  I didn’t have anything to go with it because I wasn’t extremely hungry due to the aforementioned cupcakes. 🙂

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I am SO sleepy, so I’m going to hit the hay!  Night!

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Birthday celebrations

June 19, 2009 by 2 Comments

What a fun day I had yesterday!  Justin and I hung out all day, which is one of my favorite things to do.  We don’t actually get to hang out very often, he works late hours a lot.

Anyway, we started out the day at the Botanical Gardens.  I wanted to play with my new camera and take some pretty pictures.  I’ve been to there a bagillion times and taken lots of pictures there (I even had my bridal pictures taken there!).  We just walked around and enjoyed the beauty (and the heat, it was 99 degrees!!)  Here’s some pictures.

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Look at this silly squirrel!  Have you ever seen a squirrel do this??

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After the gardens, we went to Panera and got cookies.  We also wanted to cool down a little before the next destination.

I got a toffee nut cookie.  It was so so so good!

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Then we went to the Kimball Art Museum (everything we did today was free!  Can you tell we’re on a tight budget??)  Sorry, no pics allowed in the museum.  They are in between exibits right now, so we just looked at their permanant collection.  They have some really interesting stuff.

Then it was on to dinner!  We went to Uncle Julio’s.  It was SO good!!  The salsa was the best that I’ve EVER had!  They char their tomatoes or their peppers before they put them in so you get that awesome smokey flavor and the fun little black specks.

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I got chicken enchiladeas with salsa verde.  Salsa verde is one of my faorite things!  I love the tang of the tomatillos.  And it just tastes so fresh and healthy.  I ate ALL of these enchiladas, a little of the rice, and a few of the beans that came on the side.  Oh it was so good!

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Oh and there was also a frozen sangria that escaped the eye of the camera.  I wasn’t really feeling a margarita when we got there, I guess because we spent the majority of our day outside.  After I had a big glass of water I decided that sangria sounded pretty good.  It was very tasty!

Anyway, that was my birthday celebration!

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happy early birthday to me!

June 18, 2009 by 1 Comment

My birthday is on Sunday, which also happens to be fathers day, so we are celebrating early.  Justin is taking me out for the day.  I think we’re going to the Botanical Gardens (to test out my present, more on that in a minute), then maybe a movie and some dinner.  It’s fun because I get to celebrate, but I don’t have to be a year older until Sunday, hehehe.

My birthday present.  I got a new CAMERA!!!  I can’t wait to test it out- it’s a great camera!  It’s charging right now and I’m getting really impatient to use it.  Here are some pictures of the new camera taken by the old camera (lol).

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Look how small it is!

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WEEEEEEEE!!!!  I can’t wait to start using it for food pictures!

Speaking of food, we had some birds in a nest for breakfast (is that what they’re called?  It’s where you cook the egg in a hole in the bread.  ah well, whatever it’s called, haha)

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Served with some grapes and coffee.

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I didn’t eat all of mine- I didn’t cook the egg quite enough.  I like mine over medium- yolk a little runny.  I think it was more over easy- there was still egg white that was runny, hurl!  Oh well, that just saves me more calories for tonight!  I think we’re going to Uncle Julio’s for dinner.  I’ve been wanting to go there for a while.  You can bet there will be some margaritas involved!!

Time to go- adios!!!

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another day another dollar

June 18, 2009 by Leave a Comment

haha, just kidding.  I don’t have a job, so I wouldn’t know, lol.

More lounging happened today, but I did have a very exciting trip to Target this morning!  I got a carpet cleaner!!  And it only took me three months to talk Justin into letting me buy one.  Let me tell you, these things are a God send when you have a puppy!  That was pretty much the only exciting thing that happened today.  Other than cleaning the carpets I ate and read.  Yup, that’s it!

Let’s start with breakfast!

Blueberry pancakes!!

I used some organic buttermilk pancake mix from Whole Foods and added some blueberries into the batter.  Then I took a bag of frozen blackerries out of the freezer, put them in a saucepan with a tiny bit of water and let them simmer while I was making the pancakes- that became our “syrup”.  And it was oh so good!!

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YUM-O!

Then there was the fabulous trip to le target to get the carpet cleaner, then carpet cleaning time.  It smells so fresh and clean in the house now!

Then lunch.  I made a black bean wrap, but it wasn’t as good as it usually is.  I think it was because I was out of the things that I usually put on it as “toppers” like avocade, lettuce, and salsa.  I didn’t have any of that, so I just melted a little cheese on it and put some tomatoes and a few dollops of greek yogurt.  It was okay, but not as good as it usually is.  Oh well.

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Then I chilled on the couch and read for a while as I waited for the carpet to dry.

Then it was snack time!

Larabar!

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Dinner was broccoli cheese soup with some grilled chicken and some sourdough bread.  The broccoli cheese soup is easy to make.  Bag of frozen broccoli, can of chicken broth, 6ish oz velveeta, 1/2 can Rotel.  Easy!

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I’m sleepy- nighty night!!

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Nada Lada

June 17, 2009 by Leave a Comment

That is exactly what has been going on over here for the last few days.  Nada.  I’ve been lounging on the couch catching up on some reading.  Exciting, I know!  My food hasn’t really been anymore exciting than that, so that’s why there haven’t been many posts lately.  I’m going to try to get back on track posting regularly though.

Today for breakfast I had some of these oatmeal squares.  They were really good and I wasn’t even hungry until lunch!

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Then there was more lounging and reading until lunch time.

For lunch was a leftover morningstar farms hotdog from last night.  These things are really good, but the best part is I don’t have to worry about which parts of the little piggie got thrown into the hotdog!  Oh yeah, and I also like them because they’re only 50 calories each!

I had this guy with some Corazonas squeeze of lime chips.

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close up…

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Dessert was the last little scoop of this coconut ice cream (yum yum yum!)

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With a handful of strawberries (I hadn’t had any friuts or veggies yet, lol)

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Ate it right out of the carton!!

Then it was more nothingness/playing with the dogs.  Then I decided to get my butt up and do something so I made a quick little trip to Whole Foods and got some goodies.  I only let myself spend $20, so I didn’t come out with a whole lot of stuff, but I got a few Larabars for snacking, a watermelon, some fruit leather, some grass fed lean ground beef, some Wisconsin cheddar, and a few other things that I can’t really remember.

Then I came home and fired up the grill!

We had burgers (I also threw a few chicken breasts on for some stuff later this week).  And grilled eggplant, squash, and zucchini.

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With some of that aged cheddar!

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Altogether now.

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And we busted into the watermelon for dessert.  This may have been the best watermelon I’ve ever had!  It was so juicy and amazing!

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I went back for seconds on the watermelon.  I couldn’t help myself- it was fabulous!!

Well, I guess that I’m about caught up now!  Till tomorrow!

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