It's all Gouda!

So a lot of the time when people are talking to me, instead of saying good, or it's all good. I'll replace good with Gouda. Like the cheese. Or I'll say Gouda Cheese. Then the other day I realized. I'd never actually tasted Gouda. I was at walmart and they happened to have a package of already sliced Gouda on sale for 49 cents off. So I grabed it and brought it home with me.

We were having sliced ham and cheddar on wheat ritz crackers (YUM). Then I remembered we had some peperoni in our fridge. And friends, lemme tell ya, sliced peperoni is the PERFECT size for ritz crakers. Then we decided to give our Gouda a try.

WHAMMO!!!

IT WAS SOO GOOD! I've never had a better combonation with Peperoni!!! I seriously am going to have to try it on pizza one of these days. AMAZING! And I gotta say....

IT's ALL GOUDA!

Big Mac

Well I had a request from my favorite Sheri, that I needed to blog again. SO I"m going to blog about a "meal" I had on the way home from the temple. We've been eating healty now for a few weeks and I feel great. I have more energy than normal, and I'm happier (although eating better didn't magicly clean my house, but....you cant win 'em all). What I didnt realize is how BADLY I was eating before.

On our way home from the temple we had an hour drive, and we haddn't eaten anything since breakfast before we drove to the temple, so it had been about 5+ hours since we had eaten. So we decided to stop and get something to eat. I really wanted Burger King, cause a whopper sounded good, and I handn't had one for almost a year now. But the only thing that we seamed to pass was, yep you guessed it, McDonalds. So thats where we stoped.

I decided I wanted a Big Mac. I really like those burgers. Maybe it's the Big Mac sauce. Dont really know why, but I do like them. Mike got a meal with a medium drink and fry, and we got hamburgers for all the boys. Mike and I shared his drink and his fries, and both ate our burgers (he got something with mushrooms on it. Ick). Anyhow we eat the burgers first, and my stomach starts to feel a little heavy. And we couldnt even finish the fries. And the Soda took us a while to drink cause we hadnt had any in a while. The food tasted fine, it's just how awful it made me feel afterwords. My stomach felt like it had a lead weight in it for hours after I had eaten.

I used to be able to eat fast food no problem. And I used to be able to eat a large meal from any fast food chain. But after eating foods that are high in fiber and cutting WAY down on the sugar, and eating more fresh fruits and veggies...the fast food just didnt cut it. Not only did it not cut it, it kinda made me sick. The first few days were hard, but now I know it was paying off. I still like candy and Ice Cream, but I only eat a few bites of whatever and then I'm done with it. Next I need to start up my morning workout again.

Look out size 5 here I come!

Day at the Temple

Our friends Anton and Tiffany came to visit us this weekend and we all decided it'd been long enough since any of us had been to the temple, so we took the one hour drive and headed to Dallas. The whole day went pretty good. We went in while they watched our kids and then we switched. One of the kids got sick while her mom and Dad were in the temple. Poor thing had a rotten day. But on the way home our boys kept saying. "I want to go back to the temple mom" It was cute.

We did get a chance to take some family pics, and this is the picture of the temple I got as we left. All in all, it was a pretty good day.

The trials of wanting to eat healthy.....

Oh the pain. I want cookie dough SSSSOOO bad right now...and I have ALL the stuff to make it. Just the taste of that wonderful stuff is heaven. If I could only have 1 spoonful made that would be awesome...but who can stop at one.

And furthermore, who makes a recipe for 1 spoonful of cookie dough. SO I sit here and suffer in silence. I know if I made a full batch of cookie dough, I'd eat A LOT of it. And then whatever was left, would be for cookies...which have the same amount of sugar as the dough...so I might as well have eaten the whole batch. Cause thats what would happen eventually.

UG.

The first week of cutting sugar out....is like pulling a tooth. No it's pulling THE tooth. The sweet tooth. :S

Mikey's impression of Wall-e

It wont work with Gavin

So I took it on good authority that if you child is peeing their pants, after they've been poty trained, you give them a shower. Little kids generaly dont like water in their face, and they realize if they pee their pants they have to wash off, and eventually they'll stop.

Well mikey stoped peeing in his pants, but decided poop was ok. ICK. Then he got into Gavins crib and pulled off Gavins poopie diaper, and Gavin of course steped in it and it got all over the port-a-crib. Yeah...those mattresses aren't covered in plastic, I had to hose it off. GROSE!

I figured Mikey DEFINATLY needed a shower for pooping his pants, and then I thought, well...gavin is realy...uh...covered. So I put him in the shower as well. I was expecting to hear lots of complaints. But honestly I didnt. Mikey sat there and cried with his hands on his face standing in the water. So after he was rinced I put him in a towl and daddy got him dressed. Gavin, on the other hand, was LOVING the water. note the pictures above. And yes, those droplets of water are the shower running.

p.s. I LOVE MY CAMERA!

unCATagoricle

So 2 days ago, we decided to let Paulas Cat run free in the house. Only rule, It cant come in MY ROOM. only mikey thinks he can just go in there anytime he wants, and he doesnt close the door. Long story short, couldn't find the cat. Knew it wasnt outside cause the doors were locked so the boys couldn't even get out.

We searched for anywhere from 20min to an hour for that cat. Checked every plausable place. and STILL NOTHING. Checked under the bed, ziltch. Under the couch, zippo. In the kitchen cabnets, nada. Then finally Mike checkes under the bed one last time.

Mocha had found a small 4inch hole inside the fabric under my box spring mattress. then proceded to streatch it as much as needed to fit her whole body inside, and rested nice and comfortable on the fabric stapeled to the bottem of my box spring. Oh yeah...peachy.

She isn't suposed to GO in my room, let alone IN my bed. so we tried to coax her out the tiney little whole in the bottem of my bed. Yeah not happening. So we tip the matteress up and cut the fabric to pull her out of the inside of my bed. she stayed in the office for a while after that one.