Adventures in La La Land

1. I spent last Saturday wedding dress shopping with my little sister! She's tiny and gorgeous and looked amazing in every dress she tried on. When she finally decided on "the one," they had to bring out a seamstress to decide if she needed a size 0 or 2. Wow. Haha. While we were there, we tried on some bridesmaid dresses. I definitely did not have to decide between a 0 or 2. Haha. 2. The dress-trying on led me to start working out again this week. I'm fortunate to have a husband with a degree in exercise science, so he taught me some weight lifting moves. Truth be told, if things go as planned, I'll probably be pregnant for the wedding, so I'm not too concerned with losing weight. (No, I'm not pregnant right now.) But I would like to tone my arms (the dress is strapless) and legs (it's also short). So I've been doing lunges and squats and free weights. And I am soooore!!! I guess that means it's working! 3. I read another Colleen Coble boo...

1. My craft with Lucy and Lyla this week was fruit loop rainbows . I got the idea from Pinterest and was pleasantly surprised with how it went! I didn't think it would hold the girls' attention very well and that I'd be doing all the work. I was wrong. I was especially surprised with how well Lucy did. I gave them each a pile of fruit loops then told them to pick out all of a certain color. I'd pick out a couple for Lucy to show her what color we were doing, then she found the rest herself! Picking out the blue ones. (She lined them all up next to her paper.) And both girls did great with making the rainbow. I squirted some glue on and they lined up the cereal! (One of Lucy's favorite OCD activities. Haha) The finished product! 2. Last week, I got all "Mom of the Year" and pureed a bunch of carrots. I froze the purees in ice cube trays and started putting the carrot cubes into everything - mac n' cheese, beef-a-roni, spaghetti (we eat a lot o...

1. Last Monday marked 1 month since I gave up Dr Pepper. I did it with the intention of losing some weight, so I replaced it with 0 calorie, 0 sugar Crystal Light. Once in a while I had a diet Dr Pepper, but again that's no calories or sugar. I honestly drank a LOT of pop before. I'm sure it was upwards of 500 calories a day. I was sure cutting it out would result in weight loss. Wrong. I lost absolutely nothing. 0 pounds. So not worth it. I bought a 2 liter yesterday and already have it half gone. 2. So it's been kind of a depressing week around here. We're having some major  financial problems. For all the years we've struggled financially, we've never actually missed any payments on our bills. But unless something miraculous happens this weekend, the electric bill will not get paid by the time it's due on Monday. (So if there's no Saturday 7 next week, it's because our electricity got shut off. ;-)) The reason we're having such problems is b...

I'm up to 308 repins of my clean eating peanut butter fruit dip on pinterest. Really? Does it look that good? Anyway, here's another recipe from Pinterest that is not  clean. There's more than a cup of sugar in it. Haha. But it's delicious! (Duh - a cup of sugar!) Lucy helped me make it, then Justin and I polished it off in 2 days! (Lucy did get a few bites. Don't worry about her being deprived!) Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread For the bread: 3 over-ripe bananas, smashed up 1/3 cup melted butter 3/4 cup sugar 1 egg, beaten 1 tsp vanilla 1 tsp baking soda dash of salt 1 1/2 cups flour For the swirl: 1/3 cup sugar 1 Tbs cinnamon Preheat oven to 350. Butter and flour a loaf pan. Mix bananas, butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla together. sprinkle baking soda and salt around on top of the banana mixture. Then gently stir in flour. Be careful not to over-mix! In a small dish, mix togethe...

1. I had this week off for Spring Break. It was fabulous! On Monday, we went to the zoo with Kelly and Presley and Carrie and Abby. (Lucy can say "Abby" so anytime we talk about the zoo, she exclaims "Abby!" She hasn't quite figured out Presley yet. Haha.) Lucy was kind of a grump the whole time. I realized why later that afternoon . . . 2. We got home around 2 and she went right down for her nap. She didn't wake up 'til 6 and I knew we were in trouble. Sure enough: 104* fever. I gave her some ibuprofen and went to Bible Study, leaving her in Justin's capable hands. At 9:20 I got this text: "Lucy just puked all over. You need to come home and clean the carpet. She won't let me put her down." Haha. I was having flashbacks of the night she puked every 20 minutes for 8 hours, so hurried home. I had nothing to fear. She slept soundly all night and woke up fever free! Woohoo! 3. Tuesday night, my nephews Tristan and Tayton came over. (M...

I decided to bite the bullet and just do it. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, read point 6 of the Saturday 7 below.) I'm not going to make a separate blog. I'll probably just update my progress every week in the Saturday 7. (More for accountability's sake than anything.) Here's the plan I have mapped out so far. 1. Read through the Bible in a year. I signed up here for a reading plan. I chose chronological because it's something I've always wanted to do. Right now, I'm signed up for NIV readings, but I'm looking for a different version. I posted on facebook that I want something different enough to feel new to me, but not just a random version that doesn't have merit. Any suggestions? Also, the website has a link to commentaries, which I'm really excited about. So many times I read sections of the Bible and think, "What on earth did that mean?" However, it gives me a lot of options for commentaries. If you happen to ...