Foodless Friday-Camera Randomness

There are 2 places you will find my point and shoot camera; my purse or the dining room table.  Noah knows both these places well.  Every now and again when I download photos to my laptop I find pictures that he's taken without me knowing about it.  Below are what I found on my camera from the past month or so, courtesy of my photographer-in-training.  ;)

 Our new fireplace

 My tomatoes

 I think this is the bridge to the USA

 Sarah enjoying a cake pop at Starbucks

 Looks like a half eaten dinner

 Not really sure what he was doing here...

 Yeah...that's me....close up....

 And Jason, too!

 Flowers at the farm

 More flowers

 Yet more...

Daisy the Boston Terrier

 Coal the Pug

 Turbo the pug/terrier mix

 Coal!

And Sarah, again.  So there you have it.  Sixteen works of art by my nine yr old son!  Have a great weekend!!

Bye for now!!

First Communion Recap

Howdy! I took lots of pictures yesterday, so I’ll just get to it, K? Yesterday morning was a gloriously lazy one. As in I didn’t even get out of my PJ’s until 1pm! I enjoyed my breakfast at a leisurely pace:

• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup rye flakes
• raisins
• cinnamon
• granola
• kefir

I attempted to catch up with blog reading over the course of the morning. I actually made a decent sized dent. Before long it was time to eat some lunch. I wanted to keep it light because I knew we were having a big dinner. I ate more salad with the last of my honey mustard dressing from Manon.

I also had a chocolate chip All Bran bar:

We were all prettied up and ready to hit the church on time. I managed a few shots before the service;

The kids all did a great job singing the songs they learned and behaving like ladies and gentlemen. DD was able to get some shots of the group. Here’s one of them.

The mass was done in enough time for all our family to head over to the restaurant for dinner. I had a set menu per se so everybody started off with a salad. Check out the neat presentation!

That “shell” was spectacular! Light, crisp and just a touch of salt. The choices for the main entree were baseball sirloin or half a Cajun style chicken (both served with roasted potatoes and veggies) or seafood fettuccini. I went with the chicken for my meal. Along with the potatoes and veg, it was served with some delicious jalapeno corn bread.

So delicious!!! Dessert for everybody was a cake that I brought from the bakery. I forgot to take a photo of the cake before it was cut, but here is my piece…

Everyone enjoyed their meals and it was fun to catch up with everyone. Here are a few pictures from the restaurant:

DS opening his cards.

Mom, my sis Lisa and myself.

Mom, Dad and DS

DD in her new Lululemon dress.

DS with his piece of cake.

We got home from the restaurant shortly after 7pm and practically dove into our PJ’s. BLISS!!! I watched the Amazing Race (GO cowboys!!) and some other random TV before hitting the sack.

And here we are at Monday again. Is it just me or are the weeks really flying by??? Here’s today’s bowl of oats.

• 2/3 cup water
• 1/3 cup Quaker oats
• cinnamon
• raisins
• carob chips, pecan pieces and kefir

Work was extremely busy today because I had Friday off to go to Toronto. Days off are always something that we pay for, eh? Sheesh! I’m on 11:30 lunch today so that came around real quick. I munched on an oatmeal raisin walnut Clif bar, courtesy of Sara:

At the gym I completed an intense incline walk. (4mph, 7% incline)

• Time: 45 minutes
• Avg Hr: 168
• Max Hr: 183
• Calories Torched: 495
• Distance: 3 miles

I was SO sweaty after this walk. The treadmill I was on seems to be calibrated differently than the other because this same walk seems much harder on the one I was using.

I enjoyed a favourite for lunch today…goat’s milk yogurt!! I had about 1 cup with a tbsp of honey stirred in. Fresh strawberries and granola topped it off.

I never got around to an afternoon snack. Probably because I sipped on this huge iced coffee throughout the afternoon!!

Mmmmmm…

I whipped up some pasta for the fam tonight using some sauce that I had pulled out of the freezer this morning. I dug into my leftovers from dinner last night. What? You didn’t think I polished off that huge plate, did you? LOL!!

I also sautéed some red peppers, onion and kale which is what you see in the bottom right corner. Great meal. And to finish it off I had another piece of cake.

Thankfully, only 4 pieces came home with us so that is now a cake of the past!! I don’t really have any plans for the rest of the night which is pretty swell as far as I’m concerned. While this is publishing I’m gonna make a sugar cookie tea to sip on as I enjoy my night of nothingness….

Bye for now!!

Mellow Sunday

Hi all! Hope you’ve all had a great Sunday. Can’t believe the weekend is already over, though. Nuts! I enjoyed a pretty low key day….just what the doctor ordered. It all started out with a great breakfast;

• 1/2 cup water/USAB
• 1/3 cup sunrise blend with quinoa
• cinnamon
• dried blueberries
• banana
• carob chips

Delicious! We spent some time out at the farm this morning. I visited with the baby horses for a bit while my hubby helped my in laws with some settings on their computer. On the way home we stopped at Knapps Country Market for a strawberry/rhubarb/peach pie;

I haven’t had a piece yet, but I’m sure it’s going to be wonderful! I also bought some cashew butter which I used in my lunch. I toasted a WW bagel and spread some on top. On the side was some watermelon chunks;

I didn’t want too heavy a lunch because we had dinner plans at Mom’s place for Lisa’s b-day. After I ate I went down to the garden to pick some veggies. I have SO MANY tomatoes coming! I think I’ll have to bring some to work for people to take home with them because I’m sure I’ll never get through them all. Check out what I picked!

There’s probably triple this still on the plants that aren’t quite ripe yet. And I do believe that this will be the last zucchini of the year. The plants are starting to yellow and look generally unwell. Typical for when the season is done.

The rest of the afternoon was spent relaxing and blowing my nose. I swear it’s like a tap today but I’ll take it as a sign that this cold is starting to break up. *relief*

At 4 we made our way to the ‘rents place. I was teasing Lisa that her birthday has turned into “Lisa-Fest: A 3 Day Event”! :D She had a good laugh over that! Mom put out a fantastic spread. Here’s my plate;

Grilled zucchini, flank steak, pork tenderloin, potato salad, bulgur & bean salad, roasted cherry tomatoes. All super tasty. I never even got to the buns and garden salad….had to save room for dessert. Drumstick Cheesecake!!!

A scrumptious mix of cream cheese, Cool Whip. chocolate sauce, PB, Crispy Crunch Bar, crushed chocolate chip cookies to name a few! This beauty makes an appearance at all b-day’s around our family. After dinner my Dad pulled out my uncles old accordion from when he was a kid so he could bring it home with him. The kids were very intrigued by the strange instrument and both had a go at it!

You can see by DD’s face that she was supremely confused!!

I spent some time talking to my bestie when we got home. She became a third time Auntie this morning and is quite pleased about it! I was happy to hear the good news. Left to do tonight is lunches and preparing school bags for the morning. DD has cross country in the morning so we’ll need to leave the house a little earlier. Also, she starts dance class tomorrow night at 6:15. Oh, Mondays…..the joy!

Bye for now!!