Here's what we're eating in February. I've started weight watchers again (lost 3 pounds last week! Yay!), so most of these recipes are from the ww website and all are rated 5 stars. I think if you want the recipe, you can go to the ww website and look it up, even if you are not a member.
Buffalo chicken fingers
Chicken with balsamic honey glaze
Beef fajitas
Coconut shrimp
Pizza
Hamburgers
Spicy Asian-style pork
Cheesy chicken enchiladas
Shanghai chicken & noodles
Greek style pork loin
Ham w/ peach glaze
Rosemary beef tenderloin
Baked ziti
Cheesy chicken shells
Honey mustard pork chops (From the Our Best Bites blog)
Grilled steak
Egyptian-style pot roast
Moo shu chicken quesadillas
Indonesian-style mini meatballs
Moroccan meatball stew
Speaking of Weight Watchers, I highly recommend it. The new program is awesome. I hate the idea of being on a "diet" and Weight Watchers allows us to eat "normal" food, whatever that is, just making better choices, watching portions and cutting out a lot of the mindless snacking, plus I can eat all the fresh fruit I want without it counting toward my daily points. I also don't like the idea of having to eat something different from my family, so my goal is to cook meals that Chad and I can both eat, but he doesn't feel like HE'S on a diet. I cook a lot at home, but I can still eat out and just make good choices. So if anyone reading this blog would like to lose some weight but not really feel like you are sacrificing a whole lot, I think Weight Watchers is the way to go.
Happy February!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
18 months
Ezra's 18th month has been full of lots of ups and downs. It seems like our household has been sick for about 2 months straight, and everyone at different times. Ezra had a stomach bug and ear infection last month, and has been sick for about a week but is better now. I did find out yesterday that he has another ear infection. Oh well, that's life.
We went to the doctor for Ezra's 18 month checkup yesterday, and he is a whopping 22 1/2 pounds and 32 inches long. Skinny little guy. He is still growing at the same percentile that he has been, he just doesn't have any chubbiness on his body. It makes him really look like a little boy and not a baby anymore, although he never was a very chubby baby.
This month Ezra has really started to develop his little personality more and is picking up words. His favorite words these days are "no," "up" (as in, demanding to be picked up or put in his high chair to eat--recently he has started saying "up please" but only when prompted), "Pass" (pacifier), duck, dog, MOOOOO (when he sees a cow), "thank you" when he hands you something, "daddy," "side" for outside, "play," "ball," "bye" (he says this as soon as we get in the exam room at the doctor's office), and "two." When you ask him how old he is, he holds up one finger and says, "TWO!" I guess he is rounding up. He knows his name, and when you ask him, he will point to himself and say "Ez." he drops the last half of almost every two-syllable word he knows. Lately, he has been saying "Ma" for mama and "Bay" for baby. He can point to his body parts when you ask where they are and say some of them, like "eyes."
Ezra is really goofy, which he gets from his dad. He will play the music on his little toys and start bustin' a move. He might have got his dancing rhythm from me though, and that is not a brag. These days he also likes to pretend play more, like holding his cup up to our mouths and making a drinking noise, making a vroom sound with his toy cars, pretending to eat play food, etc. I mentioned that he says no a lot these days...he especially enjoys pointing his finger and saying "no" to his friends when he sees them being corrected by their own parents, or just when they are playing with something that he wants. Little bossy boy.
I really need to post some videos. I will do that when I get a little more time. I haven't even uploaded pictures from the last month, so I'll do that soon too. Just wanted to get my update down before I forgot everything.
We went to the doctor for Ezra's 18 month checkup yesterday, and he is a whopping 22 1/2 pounds and 32 inches long. Skinny little guy. He is still growing at the same percentile that he has been, he just doesn't have any chubbiness on his body. It makes him really look like a little boy and not a baby anymore, although he never was a very chubby baby.
This month Ezra has really started to develop his little personality more and is picking up words. His favorite words these days are "no," "up" (as in, demanding to be picked up or put in his high chair to eat--recently he has started saying "up please" but only when prompted), "Pass" (pacifier), duck, dog, MOOOOO (when he sees a cow), "thank you" when he hands you something, "daddy," "side" for outside, "play," "ball," "bye" (he says this as soon as we get in the exam room at the doctor's office), and "two." When you ask him how old he is, he holds up one finger and says, "TWO!" I guess he is rounding up. He knows his name, and when you ask him, he will point to himself and say "Ez." he drops the last half of almost every two-syllable word he knows. Lately, he has been saying "Ma" for mama and "Bay" for baby. He can point to his body parts when you ask where they are and say some of them, like "eyes."
Ezra is really goofy, which he gets from his dad. He will play the music on his little toys and start bustin' a move. He might have got his dancing rhythm from me though, and that is not a brag. These days he also likes to pretend play more, like holding his cup up to our mouths and making a drinking noise, making a vroom sound with his toy cars, pretending to eat play food, etc. I mentioned that he says no a lot these days...he especially enjoys pointing his finger and saying "no" to his friends when he sees them being corrected by their own parents, or just when they are playing with something that he wants. Little bossy boy.
I really need to post some videos. I will do that when I get a little more time. I haven't even uploaded pictures from the last month, so I'll do that soon too. Just wanted to get my update down before I forgot everything.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Visiting Searcy
We left last Friday to visit Chad's sister Emily, her husband Joey, and their little girls. Emily gave birth to twin girls in November, making five daughters total. We always have fun when we're with them and this weekend was no exception. We flew to Little Rock and then rented a car and drove up to them. They are dorm parents at Harding University so we stayed in a boy's dorm room and Ezra stayed in the room next door. It was actually a really nice arrangement, because we were right there with them but weren't infringing on their living space by needing a place in their apartment to sleep.
We were only supposed to stay until Monday, but the weather was supposed to be bad on Sunday night and into Monday, so our airline was offering a free flight change. We ended up leaving on Tuesday. This was better because we got to play in the snow on Monday, and Chad was feeling better--he had been feeling bad all weekend. We don't get to spend near enough time with these guys, but when we do it is always fun. Our nieces are so sweet--Riley is thoughtful and so grown up, Josey is sassy and sensitive (and loves Ezra the most, I think), and Lucy is just crazy and hilarious. She refers to each separate baby as NorahandJune. She doesn't quite have them identified correctly 100% of the time. :) And little Norah and June are still blossoming and I'm looking forward to getting to know them and their little personalities better.
Ezra was able to follow his cousins around and play with them, but he also spent a lot of time around the twins. He knows the word baby (though he really just says "bay"), and he would say something that sounded like "little baaaayby" over and over again when he was around the babies. At first, I could not get him to stay out of their bouncy seats and you can see how close he got to them, but by the time we left he was a lot better about respecting their personal space.
Lucy and Ezra hanging out in the twins' room
Josey calming Norah down
Josey and Ezra giggling
Little June
Lucy doesn't like it when the babies cry. She always goes and picks them up. Here she is comforting Norah...
...right before Emily got her a chair to sit in.
I have some video and a few other pictures (these pictures are from Emily's camera). I will post more later.
We were only supposed to stay until Monday, but the weather was supposed to be bad on Sunday night and into Monday, so our airline was offering a free flight change. We ended up leaving on Tuesday. This was better because we got to play in the snow on Monday, and Chad was feeling better--he had been feeling bad all weekend. We don't get to spend near enough time with these guys, but when we do it is always fun. Our nieces are so sweet--Riley is thoughtful and so grown up, Josey is sassy and sensitive (and loves Ezra the most, I think), and Lucy is just crazy and hilarious. She refers to each separate baby as NorahandJune. She doesn't quite have them identified correctly 100% of the time. :) And little Norah and June are still blossoming and I'm looking forward to getting to know them and their little personalities better.
Ezra was able to follow his cousins around and play with them, but he also spent a lot of time around the twins. He knows the word baby (though he really just says "bay"), and he would say something that sounded like "little baaaayby" over and over again when he was around the babies. At first, I could not get him to stay out of their bouncy seats and you can see how close he got to them, but by the time we left he was a lot better about respecting their personal space.
Lucy and Ezra hanging out in the twins' room
Josey calming Norah down
Josey and Ezra giggling
Little June
Lucy doesn't like it when the babies cry. She always goes and picks them up. Here she is comforting Norah...
...right before Emily got her a chair to sit in.
I have some video and a few other pictures (these pictures are from Emily's camera). I will post more later.
Monday, January 03, 2011
Lucky number seven
Seven years ago today, Chad and I began our lives together as husband and wife. On our fifth anniversary, I posted pictures of our wedding, and today, I thought I'd go back a bit further. Nothing makes you feel older than scanning pictures of yourself. Oh, and looking at the pictures, and seeing how young you were.
This picture was one of the first we ever took together. Summer of 2000, age 18. I love this picture...we worked together as potwashers that summer and that's how we met. Chad asked me to buy him an alarm at wal-mart (which he still uses today), and he taught me how to sweep.
Fast forward to 2002. We had lost touch, and became counselors together at Blue Haven.
We were brother and sister cabin most sessions, so we did a lot of hiking together. Below, your fearless leaders. I actually don't think we ever got lost on a hike that summer.
Can you believe that Vance Crowe hired us? Such goofs. (Still are) I love that the dates are on these pictures, because I would have never known when exactly they were taken, and it's fun to look at them and think that almost exactly 7 years later (well, and one week), I was giving birth to our first-born child. God is so good!
Stopping at the Bullok's cabin on a hike. It must have been raining that day.
On the porch of the Bent Nail, 4th session 2002. Wasn't my hair so cool, with the pigtail knots at the bandana? I thought you would say that. But let's talk about Chad's hair instead.
Another fave. This was before Chad let me chop off all his hair.
We never did officially date during that summer, one, because camp rules say staff can't date (and nobody EVER breaks that rule, right guys?) but mostly because Chad was leaving to go to school in Arizona that fall. Well, he decided he couldn't live without me, moved back to Texas, and it all went from there. (We would move back to AZ for him to finish his bachelor's less than a year after we got married).
After 3 months of dating, we were all googly-eyed.
July 17, 2003...we're ENGAGED! This is at "The Rocks" at camp. Chad set the self-timer on the camera and ran over to get in the picture, tripped, almost poked his eye out with a stick, and still got there in time to take the picture. I yelled, "Hurry!" I've never been known for my sympathetic tendencies.
And less than 6 months after that, we were married. We were looking at how young we are in these pictures, and I'm sure our parents had their reservations, but they were very gracious. Today, I thank God for putting Chad in my life. He is a servant, a leader to our family, an awesome dad to Ezra, and a Godly man that I am proud to call my husband.
Here's to 77 more years.
This picture was one of the first we ever took together. Summer of 2000, age 18. I love this picture...we worked together as potwashers that summer and that's how we met. Chad asked me to buy him an alarm at wal-mart (which he still uses today), and he taught me how to sweep.
Fast forward to 2002. We had lost touch, and became counselors together at Blue Haven.We were brother and sister cabin most sessions, so we did a lot of hiking together. Below, your fearless leaders. I actually don't think we ever got lost on a hike that summer.
Can you believe that Vance Crowe hired us? Such goofs. (Still are) I love that the dates are on these pictures, because I would have never known when exactly they were taken, and it's fun to look at them and think that almost exactly 7 years later (well, and one week), I was giving birth to our first-born child. God is so good!
Stopping at the Bullok's cabin on a hike. It must have been raining that day.
On the porch of the Bent Nail, 4th session 2002. Wasn't my hair so cool, with the pigtail knots at the bandana? I thought you would say that. But let's talk about Chad's hair instead.
Another fave. This was before Chad let me chop off all his hair.
We never did officially date during that summer, one, because camp rules say staff can't date (and nobody EVER breaks that rule, right guys?) but mostly because Chad was leaving to go to school in Arizona that fall. Well, he decided he couldn't live without me, moved back to Texas, and it all went from there. (We would move back to AZ for him to finish his bachelor's less than a year after we got married).After 3 months of dating, we were all googly-eyed.
July 17, 2003...we're ENGAGED! This is at "The Rocks" at camp. Chad set the self-timer on the camera and ran over to get in the picture, tripped, almost poked his eye out with a stick, and still got there in time to take the picture. I yelled, "Hurry!" I've never been known for my sympathetic tendencies.
And less than 6 months after that, we were married. We were looking at how young we are in these pictures, and I'm sure our parents had their reservations, but they were very gracious. Today, I thank God for putting Chad in my life. He is a servant, a leader to our family, an awesome dad to Ezra, and a Godly man that I am proud to call my husband.Here's to 77 more years.
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