A little peek into my day to day life as a mother to two young boys. Follow along in my journey to lose weight, eat healthy, raise a good family and not neglect my husband after a busy day with tantrums and poopy diapers!
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Ok, today I’m linking up with one of my favorite ladies, Alicia, or you all may know her as Brew Mama. If you don’t know her, make sure you head over and check her out! I feel like I’m really getting to know her as a friend, she is so awesome and one day I’m high tailing it to Michigan just to have a beer with her on her porch! I guess my favorite types of drinks are slushy drinks. It doesn’t really matter what kind of alcohol is in [...]
I first made this recipe for Jason’s birthday a few years ago, and there were so many people here that eh didn’t even get to try it. It was so yummy, he has been asking for it ever since so I decided to make it again this year as his birthday cake. Other than baking the cookie crust and letting it cool, I think it took me maybe 10 minutes to put together. So easy, so fast, and so delicious! I don’t have a source recipe for this, as my [...]
So, as some of you know yesterday was Jason’s birthday and he had to work, nor ally they get their birthday day off but he is using his day this coming Friday so we have an extra long weekend. He normally goes all out and spoils me like crazy when it comes to my special days, so I wanted to try to do as much for him as I can, and I have no creativity when it comes to most gifts etc.! So yesterday during his work day I had [...]
My weekend updates always seem to come through on Tuesday! Jason works from home on Monday and I rarely have time to jump on the computer, so I figure Tuesday works just fine for me!! Today is Jason’s birthday!! How horrible of a wife am I that I didn’t even make him lunch to take to work today? He ended up going to pick up a sub, fail for me!! But I am making him one of his favorite dinners, so that makes up for it slightly right? I just [...]
We are off this weekend headed to another spot in Washington, Grandy Creek, to spend Mother’s Day weekend camping as a family. This morning I got everything all packed up, now just waiting for Jason’s work day to end and we will be on our way. The last couple times we were camping is has been rainy and cold, but this weekend looks like it should be nice until sometime Sunday when we are headed home anyway! I figured I should get another post in this week, before we leave, [...]
The past week has been so hot here, if not 30 above then pretty darn close, and all over Facebook I have seen people asking if any of our local splash parks are open yet. Usually they are set to open right after May long weekend, which is still about 2 weeks away but I guess with the weather the city decided to open them (well one for sure!) a bit earlier. So this morning my girlfriends and I were talking about what to do and decided to take the [...]
I don’t even know where to begin, but I’d like to start off by thanking my family and friends. The support I had through this experience has amazed me. I didn’t expect everyone to come and cheer me on at the finish line, and they did! I didn’t expect to get so, so many messages of encouragement and support and then of congrats!! The run was an amazing feeling in itself, but then to feel the support from so many people really was overwhelming. So for that, I thank you [...]
Wednesday a few girlfriends, their kids and us all met at the park so the kids could have a nice outside play and Stacey told us about the new bouncy castle that she was picking up that night. Stacey has a huge yard and there is more than enough room for that as well as numerous other outdoor toys, and she asked us if we wanted to bring the kids over for a potluck lunch and to try the castle out. The past few days have just been beautiful, and [...]
These are so quick to make, and taste so good! I made them for the first time for a potluck and will definitely be making them again! Ingredients 1 cup (dry) oatmeal (I used old-fashioned oats) 2/3 cup coconut flakes 1/2 cup peanut butter 1/2 cup ground flaxseed 1/2 cup chocolate chips 1/3 cup honey or maple syrup (I used honey) 1 Tbsp. chia seeds (optional) 1 tsp. Vanilla extract Mix all ingredients together and let set in fridge for about 1/2 hour. Roll into small balls about 1 inch in size. [...]
All right, I’m linking up with one of my favorite blogging friends Erin from Homemade Happenings. If you haven’t already checked out her blog, you need to. She really is one of the sweetest, most thoughtful people I have “met” and I’m lucky to be able to call her a friend! First of all, when I graduated we didn’t call it “Prom”, or maybe some people did? I’m not sure! I think we all called it “Grad”. I don’t remember talking about going to prom, it was always going to [...]
Once again, Monday is almost half over!! Why do the days seem to fly past once you hit a certain age? I remember being in school and it used to take FOREVER to get to Christmas or Summer vacation! Friday morning I got up and did my last longer run until my first half marathon this Sunday (yup, I’m nervous!). I ran 18 km and it was horrible! Living in the lower mainland our springs tend to be filled with overcast, cool, rainy days but Friday was none of these. It was [...]
This weeks smile of the week was sent to us of Nathan, from proud mama Sami from Surviving Marriage, Motherhood & Myself. She is such a beautiful woman, make sure you go and check out her blog! A You’ll see and adorable photo of their son, Nathan, bringing them their rings at their wedding! Check out this handsome guy’s eyes!! If you want your cutie(s) to be our smile of the week, make sure you submit us their photo!
I just want to say Thank You to everyone who joined us for the link up yesterday on our blogs as well as on Instagram! After trying to write my post, and reading so many of yours, I know it was hard for all of us to actually take time and recognize our beauty. I hope after yesterday and reading some of your response comments you all felt a boost in your confidence!! Just remember to hold on to these feelings! Even go back to your post and re-read it [...]
(copy code below to add to your page) <center><img src=”http://www.loveandcrayons.com/images/badge_link-up_04.21.2013-2.gif” alt=”Celebrate Your True Beauty – Join Our Link Up!” border=”0″ /></center> Lately I have been seeing and reading too many articles about women putting themselves down. If you read this post you’ve seen the Dove commercial where women are asked about their features for someone to draw them, and when they see the drawing it turns out to be nothing like how they actually look. As women we are constantly putting ourselves down. Whether we don’t look how we think we should, [...]
Just a reminder to join us for the “Celebrate Your True Beauty” link up tomorrow!! Tell us three hings you think are beautiful about yourself, and at least two of them have to be physical attributes! Come on, you know you want to!! I was looking through old pictures, and came across our photos from when we were looking for a place to get married. We knew we wanted to get married on the water, but had even considered flying off to Italy just the two of us (we found a [...]
Just a reminder to you all that Alicia, Erin and myself are doing our “Celebrate Your True Beauty” link up this Thursday! As women we are always so hard on ourselves. Constantly putting our looks down. Most of us never feel pretty enough, skinny enough, good enough. Link up with is and tell us what you feel is your true beauty and start letting it shine! Anyone and everyone is welcome, tell your friends to join us too! And if you’re not a blogger, make sure you comment one what [...]
This weekend we took off as a family and headed across the border to camp at Mt. Vernon, Washington. This is the first trip we have been really away on since just before Kyan was born (we headed to the Seattle Zoo for the weekend for one last trip before the baby came). It was nice to get away just the four of us, even though there were a few moments we were in the truck too long and both kids had had enough! The weather was pretty crappy leading [...]
