Sorry

Sorry I've been MIA!  It was been a crazy week and this week looks to be the same.

Picmonkey

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Sorry for the all the pictures of Colt.  We had such a fun time playing outside this morning.  I decided to take some pictures of Colt playing and then download them to my computer.  Once downloaded I went over to Picmonkey.  Picmonkey is a free photo editor website and yes you can join but for now the free items work just fine.

So the pictures about are the one's I played around with today.  It's fun being able to play around with the pictures I've taken. And since I'm just getting started the free site's work great until I figure things out.
 Can't wait to play around some more.  Oh and don't ask what settings I've used for each picture as I don't remember. I was just having some fun, lol.

Cosequences

We are trying to teach our 2-year-old about consequences.  When he does something bad there are consequences.  Now I know what you are probably thinking,  he's only 2.  I guess I believe that you are never too young to start understanding how things work, after all he is one smart little boy so he should understand this sooner or later.

Dinner

I came across this recipe on Pinterest and couldn't believe how yummy it looked.  I'm using it as a side instead of using it as the main meal.  I didn't use fresh tomatoes like it said, I used canned Italian tomatoes and it turned out really good! I will defiantly be making this again.
Pasta with fresh tomato sauce

Choices

So I've been consciously been trying to make better choices.  I'm a soda fan so to totally cut out soda might just make me a very unpleasant person.  So I have cut myself back to one soda a day, so far so good!  I'm trying not to eat a lot of processed foods.  Which means I'm cooking more, which is fine by me as I love to cook.  I'm forcing myself to get up and use my elliptical for something other than collecting dust.

Today I think I did well.  I went out to lunch with a friend today and instead of ordering my usual soda I got water.  Plain ice cold water and it was good.  To go along with that water I ordered a salad! I use to hate salad but now I love it.  In fact, when I was pregnant I always craved a salad bar and grapes.  For dinner I had a piece of chicken with some mashed potatoes and for a snack I had some popcorn.  Now my popcorn wasn't any boring type, I'm a movie theater popcorn type of girl and I don't plan on changing that.

As for using my elliptical that is getting done too.  I got on it for the first time in months the other day.  After being on if for 10 minutes my legs felt like jelly.  So I have set up a schedule.  For the first week I'm getting on it for 10 minutes a day.  The following week I'll bump it up to 15 minutes then 20 minutes and just keep moving it up every week.  Today I didn't get on it, but I did get out and walked around for awhile and played outside with Colt.

So I think I'm doing good so far.  I'm hoping by writing about it I will be motivated to stay with it.

Motherhood

With Mothers Day this past Sunday it made me think about my journey into motherhood.  It wasn't a hard journey, but it was our journey.

Fiesta Ranch Chicken Pasta Salad

I have been having trouble coming up with something to write about the past couple days so I decided I would share with you one of my favorite recipes.

Re-do

I really wanted to do a different look for my blog even though I haven't been a blogger for long.  There are some great templates out there, but I didn't want to pay for one.