My first attempt at "cooking"

I'm dedicating this post to Jen!

I have cooked before, in fact, I make grilled chicken, porksteaks, steaks, pork chops, all boxed sides, canned foods, frozen foods, boxed meals, etc. The problem with me cooking from scratch or not from boxed is that I tend to screw it up somehow or someway.

So I was at Jen's today watching her make Chicken Spaghetti and Poppy Seed Chicken Casserole, and she was getting ready to prepare a cobbler for some friends of ours who just had a baby. And on Jen's countertop is her best friend, Laptop. Why the laptop? Because Jen's gets some great recipes from The Pioneer Woman Cooks ( http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/ ).

So after I left Jen's, I came home and decided to pull up the Pioneer woman website and what did I find when the website popped up? Those yummy cookies shown above. Well, I don't know what I was thinking but I decided to "make" those yummy cookies the pioneer woman calls "spreads". Believe it or not, they actually turned out. Okay, so they're kind of dry tasting because I used "butter" (because thats all I had) rather than "margarine" which is what the recipe called for.

Ta Da! They at least look edible!

Lets Check on My NY Resolutions

So, two things I wanted to accomplish for 2009: get back into shape and get organized.

The first one: I have been exercising for at least 4-5 days a week for the last 3 weeks, the results, I haven't seen a change yet. Probably because I love chocolate and sweets! And those are generally eaten close to bedtime and in the middle of the night and in large quantities (1 just never satisfies me:)). I know I am so bad!!! And it probably doesn't help that I'm not drinking enough or any water throughout the day; and every morning, I have to have a Latte from either McDonalds, Sonic or the Daily Oasis (Starbucks brands). And I mean with whip cream please! So with that, I guess I can see why I'm not seeing a change. Which leads to a new resolution: Eat/drink better. I wonder how that will go?!

My second one: Organization! A slow process I must say. Umm, still trying and we'll come back to that later!

Now we compete on Wii Fit!

As I mentioned in my previous blog that we LOVE Wii Fit, now we compete against each other to see who can get "first" in each category.....well, Tuesday, Tyler and I competed for first for the Ski Jump. Haha...I am in First!!!!! With 312 Meters!!! Yea for "Lil Mama" (thats my Mii name). So tonight, I am now in First for Hula Hoops. I caught all 5 hula hoops and got 304 spins in 70 seconds....Yea ME!!!!! And I also have first in boxing with 258 pts. Can you say competive?! I'm really not sure how many firsts any of us have but it's been a blast competing. And it has been great family time for us.

Here's another insight to our "Wii" fun...Scott started doing it Tuesday night and he did each of the Yoga poses and strength training moves and then some of the Balance games...but to see Scott do Yoga was the best. I'm sure you could only imagine!

We love Wii Fit!

Today was the first time we played Wii Fit and we love it!

I did 36 minutes total of running, yoga, basic step, hula hoop, and balancing! My heart rate really started increasing with Hula Hoop! Who would have thought a "game/workout" could be so much fun. I'm so glad we invested in getting it.

Even Sami was having a good time with it. She's beating me in Soccer Heading right now. Apparently she has much better balance than I do!

(Sami is doing the ski jump!)
(Like my socks?! LOL)
(This was one of the balance games.)


More to come later!

What Happened to Naps?

I remember when we brought Trevor home from the hospital and how he slept all the time......

I remember when Trevor would take nice long morning, afternoon and evening naps......

Now he CAT NAPS or doesn't nap at ALL! He does sleep all night but when he doesn't get a decent nap during the day, he's ready to go to bed for the night by 7:00 p.m. Then we lose more time to play and spend with him when he does that! The little stinker decided he was not going to take a nap this morning so he's up playing in his jumpy and kind of whiney....hmm maybe because he's tired......

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!!

I hope everyone had a great New Year's Eve. We went to our friends, Bill and Anne's, house. We saw friends there that we haven't seen in awhile. It was very relaxing and enjoyable. Of course, we all brought our kids which they had a good time.

The funny part of the night was when Andrew was playing the Wii Sports Baseball and he was "throwing" the ball on the game but really threw the Wii remote and it hit the TV stand and broke off a handle. Not funny for the furniture but pretty funny because this kid was really getting into the Wii. Guess you had to be there.

The sad part, the adults get tired earlier (you know the older you get the earlier you go to bed...LOL) and half us left before midnight. Pretty pathetic, huh? It's not like it used to be when we would stay up past two or three in morning partying and having a good time. Back then, we just hoped our kids would sleep in so we could get some more sleep or the kids were staying at grandma and grandpas'.

Trevor was a very good baby. He didn't fuss, he took a cat nap around 9:00 p.m. then woke up and just smiled and cooed until we left at 11:30 p.m., then he fell asleep in the carseat and was out for the night until 7:00 this morning.

I can't believe we are in 2009! 2008 was a great year for us with the addition of Trevor to our family in August. We love him to pieces and he has completed our family! We are so lucky to have three wonderful kids!

So with the new year beginning, I have 2 New Years resolutions: (1) Get back into shape and in the habit of exercising again, and (2) Get organized!!!! This is a big one because I am so unorganized at home its pathetic and it results into clutter! And I can't stand clutter so this is definitely a BIG ONE!

Happy New Year! May this coming year be as blessed as 2008 was for us.

My Crazy Kids

Tyler and Sami are crazy!!! They are playing with Tyler's electric remote control Traxxas truck downstairs. They have mopped the tile so that when they drive the truck, it will slide across the floor. Oh and Scott is down there driving his Traxxas truck too off a homemade ramp. Yes, I have three older kids.

Then Tyler and Sami decide to get out the toy shopping cart and push each other around in it until one of them falls out.....ha ha until someone gets hurt.

Great role models for Trevor. I'm sure soon enough he will be down there too participating in the crazy chaos. Wouldn't you love to come visit us and see it all?! Do you see why I have gone crazy myself? LOL