Why you should eat your veggies!!

This video is amazing! It is why mine and Frank's health is so important to me. I hope you all take the time to watch it.

Salad love

Blogging from the dog park today :] it's pretty empty so we're loving that.

For lunch I made a salad with whatever I could find in the fridge (this week is all about eating whatever is left over from the fams visit). So so yummy!!

For meat eaters topping this with grilled chicken would be a nice touch.

One thing I wished I had to add to this was avocado! Oh how delicious that would have been... Anyways, super simple and easy to throw together.

My salad::
Spinach
Hard boiled egg
Cucumber
Tomato
Flaxseeds
Pepper
Black beans
Olive oil

Back to reality

Vacation is over, Frank's family left this morning. We loved hosting them but I know after 2 weeks we all were a bit ready to get back to our daily schedules.. and their own beds for them!

Today we started a new series at church called "Exposed" LOVED it! So true and everyone can relate to it in one way or another. Have I mentioned lately how much I love The Rock? Well I do :] So happy for being able to watch live online or on my iPhone app when I'm away.

I just realized this post has turned into a random bullet point type post... hmm.

Frank and I are very proud of ourselves with how well we did with money while his family was here. We of course budgeted, but we didn't "plan" anything. We just had the money there to use and if we used it up, we used it up. Well we managed to not use it all. We have come such a long way since we were first together and stupid with our money and spending/budgeting.
We still have about $2800 (I think) left on our debt. So close yet so far away! We have been sitting around that amount for a few months now. Life came up so we haven't been able to put everything towards paying it off. All we can say is "Oh well!". We are still very happy with all we have done. I keep telling myself that because we have a few things we have to fix on the explorer this next pay check so we won't have much to put toward said debt... oh well... ha.

Because of the car issues (rather important when it is your only vehicle) we are unable to attend our churches marriage retreat. This was the year we FINALLY thought we were going to make it. Sadly it is not happening for us. I do hope to hear great things from our friends who do go.

Summer is almost here. LOVE <3

Frank and I are on a mission to hike as many new trails around us as possible by the end of summer.

Tomorrow (Monday) is our first day back to the gym in almost 2 months!! Craziness. We both have put on a few too many pounds and are ready to get our butts back in gear. We plan to start on the summer slam challenge that I did before he came home. It was so easy to follow and had great results, the only hard part for Frank is charting his eating. I'm excited to be back in training mode non the less though.

We found Better Buzz coffee shop and are hooked! Cheaper AND better than starbucks. I'm just sad that it took us almost 3 years to find them.

Listening to Pandora and snuggling with my girls is perfect :]

Berry-spice smoothie

Remember how I said since we are using the free wifi that our connection is slow? Well this post took me three days! I was only able to load one picture a day. I will be doing lots of collages of the pictures I load from Frank's families visit.

Sorry about this first picture, it wouldn't turn for me :[

As you can see I got this smoothie from Women's Health Magazine. The original smoothie is..

1 cup skim milk

1 cup blueberries

1/2 tsp cinnamon

3/4 cup ice

I wanted to do a smoothie but didn't have blueberries. I did have strawberries and a banana though!

My adaption..

1 cup vanilla almond milk

1 cup chopped strawberries

1 banana

1/2 heaping tsp cinnamon

3/4 cup ice

Super yummy :]

Our "coffee table" readings.

Creamy avocado veggie pasta

When we moved to our new place we chose not to get Internet since we were right next to one of the wifi hot spots at our complex. We love being able to save that little bit of money. Bad part is that it is SLOW! Updating the blog takes a lifetime it feels like. However, since I am a bigger fan of saving money I just need to get used to it.

Now onto this AMAZING recipe. This ended up being a fun meal to cook because Frank and I ended up making it together. Everything needed to be cooked for a certain amount of time and I was still chopping veggies. He manned the stove and did all the cooking and I chopped away.

I want more now.

I found this little gem over at Edible Perspective (go HERE for the recipe). Another awesome site Keri told me about.

Doesn't it look oh so yummy!? :]

He didn't want his picture taken ha

Side note, I love those place mats! I got them at Target for a few bucks. Since they don't store well we just stack them in the center of the table when we're not using them and they look like a center piece... or can hold a center piece.

iPhone photo dump=The pups!

Randoms

• I've been back for almost a week now and every day has been busy for the most part.
• We're getting ready for Frank's family! They come in on the 21st, his mom will be here a week in a half and his brother and his family will be here 2 weeks. Frank just now realized we will have a very full house!
• We are now proud owners of a Kirby vacuum. So far loving it!
• Afternoons like today make me wish I was doing more with my life (It was a boring/lazy afternoon.. and now night). Hopefully soon though!?
• So happy to be back to juicing.. missed it so much.
• You MUST try THIS recipe from Edible Perspective. So good :]
• I am always happy to be back to our church after I've been gone for awhile. I heart THE ROCK!
• We are so close to having our debt paid off! It is so close that I feel like everything is getting in our way to make it happen. Patient is something I need to focus on ;]

That's it's for now! Maybe I'll get around to posting pictures in the next few days....

Cake cones

Not healthy but super good! I went over to visit my aunt today and she was trying out these cake cones for Easter. She had seen Tori Spelling on the view this morning and she was talking about how her kids love these and since my aunt was wanting a fun dessert for the kids at Easter she wanted to give these a try.

You make up a cake, any cake will work, and then let it cool. Once it's cool you break it up and mix in frosting. You can then either make balls and freeze them or you can stuff the cones with the cake mixture and freeze them. 30 minutes to an hour. If you freeze just cake balls then you would put them on the cones. Then if you have kids you can let them frost the cake cones and decorate with whatever you desire.

Fun to make and eat and a twist on cones. I want to come up with a much healthier version when I get back to San Diego.