Deceptively Delicious!

Do your kids like eating vegetables?

My kids, it really depends on the day.  But I do know that do need to get them more in there diet and so I have found the book to help me do so!

Jessica Seinfeld, married to Jerry Seinfeld, wrote this cookbook and there children were the taste testers.

Tonight, we tried a recipe.  It was not actually a recipe from her book, but we used her tips on how to puree and so tonight we pureed red peppers and put them in our spaghetti sauce and let me just say, our kids LOVED it and did not even know that we added just that little bit extra veggie in there meal. 

The sauce was delicious!  We definitely are going to keep on exploring with this and hopefully find more fun ways to incoporate vegetables in our children's diets.

Head on down to your library, Barnes and Noble, order online, etc...  You have got to check it out!

Frankie the Fish

I am sure by now you have seen this commercial, "Give me back that Filet of Fish" right?

Well tonight I was singing it (I know...kind of annoying) but I kept singing it because Titus would join in...it was really cute and I hope to get a video of it sometime soon.

But instead of singing, "Give me back that filet of fish, give me that fish"

He would sing, "Da Da Da Da filet of fish, Da Da Da fish!" and then he would laugh!

It made all of us giggle and was a fun way to end the evening, as they are now off to bed!

Any Ideas?

We have lived in Minnesota our whole life and I feel like I eat at places that are comfortable...but, I want to branch out more!

What I want to know is....

WHERE do you like to go out to EAT?

My BIrthday...Pictures to come!

Thursday was my birthday! 

The night before I had this dream that I would wake up and Zac would tell me that he took the day off, but did that happen?  No!  Bummer.

Then I had a dream that he woke up early to make me a wonderful breakfast, but did he?  No! 

When I woke up the morning of my birthday I told him both of my dreams and when I mentioned the breakfast one, he then asked me, "What would you like for breakfast?" and I answered, "I'm actually not hungry!"

So it was a good thing that he did not make me anything beforehand.

As soon as I woke up that morning I had this dream that my kids were going to be on there best behavior, well, the morning did not start out so well...but all in all, they were both really good on my birthday, and Aspen was very happy that it was my birthday, and told everyone!

How the day went (I promise I will post pictures soon)

Got ready for the day and brought Aspen to preschool, but made a quick stop to Dunn Brothers to get my free Dark Chocolate Latte...DELICIOUS!

Brought Aspen to school and ran some errands before we brought Zac lunch.

Maybe you are wondering why I brought Zac lunch on my birthday, well, I had a free burger coupon for my birthday and I did not want to use it, so I brought him the Alpine Swiss Burger.  It has lots of mushrooms on it (which I dislike) but he said it was AMAZING!

After that I went and got the kids McDonalds for there lunch and came home and they both napped for 2 hours!!!!  What a great present that was.

Went to work, got lots of birthday wishes, and my kids were very good at work too!

When I got into the car after work there was a gift from my mother-in-law, and it was a very cute shirt (I love it) and an adorable card.

I then drove home and walked in and my kids greeted me with the most wonderful hugs, my husband was finishing up dinner, and our family celebration began.

Zac set the table, there was a beautiful daffodil plant, a bottle of wine, and many purses (from my mother in law...she has many and decided to give me a few that she doesn't use anymore), two cards from my kids, and candles lit.

The food was delicious and it was just beautiful!

We then ended the night by the kids going to bed early and Zac and I watched "The Proposal"

What a great day and what a great end of my day!

*Pictures to come!*

What's in store for my birthday?

Today is my BIRTHDAY!

So, what am I going to do?

I have no idea what my husband has in store for me, but what I do know is he is making two of my most favorite things for dinner....

Sausage and Tomato Rigatoni...YUMMY!

and for dessert...

Banana Cream Cheesecake....again...YUMMY!

But what is in store for during the day?

Tune in tomorrow and I will fill you in!

Ouch!

I have been sick for a week now, but just a couple of days ago...THROBBING PAIN in my ear.  Ouch!

I thought to myself, an ear infection?  No, I don't have an ear infection.  I will just wait it out a few days and see how it is then. 

This morning I went into the Minute Cinic and the Doctor did say that my ear was "raging" which was not a good thing.  It is a good thing though that I am now on an anitbiotic and hopefully when the 7 days are up my ear will be back to normal and I will not have to keep asking "What?" when people talk to me (especially my husband)

Slowly but surely I will be back to my 100% self and then I can get back into my normal daily routine which will include...

GOING TO THE GYM!

Devotions with my girl!

For awhile now we have had this Bible that Grandma Holm bought for Aspen.  She absolutely LOVES it! 

However, it has been sitting on the shelf for quite sometime and I want to change that!

I decided to take it down from the shelf and today we are going to begin to do devotions together!  Something for the two of us girls to do during the afternoon, during her nap time.  What a fun way to spend time with Aspen and together we get to spend time with our Heavenly Father in His Word!

This is a great Devotional Bible filled with short stories and wonderful scripture! 

I cannot wait until this afternoon!  Just me and my girl in the Word!