To Live is to Learn

Normally I just update on how our baby girl is doing but this month I decided to write her a letter. Precious Baby Girl, You are 6 months today. How can this be? If feels like just yesterday I was talking to you and feeling your kicks from the inside. God truly blessed us w hen he brought you into our lives! You bring us so much joy and happiness. I love you more and more each day. We tried to feed you carrots today. You weren't impressed. In fact, you hated it. You are growing up so fast. Last week you began sitting all by yourself. During tummy time you do what you can to try and scoot. You haven't actually moved yet but you sure try. You crack us up on daily basis with your loud screaming. You are babbling more and more. You loved to be whistled to. You just started blowing raspberries. It's so cute. You have had quite a few rough nights this month with teething. We can feel the tooth but have yet to see it. Hopefully soon. :) You have the sweetest disposition an...

Hey Guys, No, I have not been hacked, this is me and this is real. If you go to this page and like them on facebook they will send you a free olive oil sprayer, it's easy to make and saves money to make your own  :) That's all, until next time!

Sitting in the pool with Daddy   So, yes I know I'm always behind on this blog but this time I have a legitimate reason. We did a back up on our PC so I was only able to get on a small laptop devoid of pictures and all my favorites. Therefore, I wasn't able to post, ugh. Oh well, onto the main topic, our baby girl, can't believe it's been 5 months.  It just doesn't seem possible. I always heard the saying as a mom, "the days are long but the years go by quickly." Thus far that isn't true for me. My days and months seem so short. I wish I could slow down time. Two more weeks from today and my baby is half a year. It happens so incredibly fast. I am trying to drink in every moment with her. So, about 4 days before she turned 5 months daddy felt a tooth bud and as of now we're still waiting on it. Poor baby has been touchy and relatively fussy so hopefully it will cut soon. She has started to reach for items. Life is all about gna...

Hey Guys, So, I don't know about the rest of you, but this is my nearly constant frustration. One word describes my pantry and fridge at the end of the month...empty.  Of all the months Tim and I have been married I can probably only count a handful of times that I have stayed in budget, I finally the past three months have made it in budget, yay! However, I make it but my fridge and pantry look like the above pictures. Very sad I'd say. I'm not losing heart, I will defeat this frustration. I'm working on some ways to do that right now. So my goals for meal planning are: 1. Always have fruits and veggies stocked 2. Always have some sort of snack-ish food, preferably healthy homemade ones 3. In light of being postpartum, I still continue to have worlds biggest sweet tooth, so instead of completely restricting, which for me causes me to really rebel, I'm going to plan one sweet thing per week. It will be an exercise in self control because if I eat it al...

So when I was meal planning last week, I saw that I had a lot of eggs and thought, why not try a quiche. Ingredients Brown rice crust Cooked brown rice in pie pan broccoli, eggs, cheese and milk Ready for the oven I forgot to take an after picture, because by the time it was done I was so flustered that dinner was so late. So, I won't say for sure but I don't think I'm a fan of quiche. The recipe said 35 minutes, well it took about 55. That being said I thought it would have really good flavor and it was mostly bland and not very tasty, this will likely be the only time I make this dish. Oh well, at least I can say I tried it. Well, baby girl just woke up, until next time ;).

This weeks pinterest, homemade chocolate syrup. So I know that chocolate syrup overall isn't good for you but I like to think since this is homemade without the high fructose corn syrup and other preservatives it's possibly a little less damaging. Hey, I can dream right! HA! Anywho, it's really easy and took a few minutes so I whipped it up the other night. The ingredients Cocoa powder, sugar and salt Add water and bring to boil Bubbles Boiling away turn off, remove from heat and add vanilla once cooled This recipe was super easy. The final product is a little grainy but it doesn't bother me. So far, I've only used it in chocolate milk and a chocolate shake but it is quite tasty and best of all it's free :) Oh, and lacks high fructose corn syrup, hehe. That's all for now  :) p.s. Got the recipe from here  http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/2012/03/homemade-chocolate-syrup.html#more  this lady does so many cool homemade th...

I pin multiple things per day, I always think awesome idea, who knows if I'll ever try it. Well, I pinned this just the other day and found that I had all the ingredients at home so decided to give it a whirl.  This weeks, is homemade jamba juice. My favorite thing at jamba juice is razmataz, but I cannot afford the 4 bucks it costs and with this heat I've wanted it a lot lately. Well, now I know I can make it at home, woot woot! Thank you to  http://somersetwardrecipeclub.blogspot.com/2009/01/jamba-smoothie-recipes.html  for the recipes. It was simple just put two scoops of frozen strawberries, frozen bananas, 12 oz raspberry juice( I only had raspberry-apple), two scoops orange sherbet and ice in a blender, tah dah, homemade razmataz, yummy! It literally tastes identical. The only thing is at jamba juice its a darker pink color my juice is because I used apple raspberry that it is lighter but it still tastes the same! What a cool yummy treat on a hot summer...