Yesterday we surprised the kids and brought home a puppy!! They have been begging for one for years and we felt like the time was right to bring one home.

Meet Angus 🐕 He's a Golden Retriever/King Charles Cavalier Spaniel mix. He's 11 weeks old and currently weighs about 8 pounds, he should be around 35 pounds fully grown. I know it will be an adjustment for a while as he gets potty trained etc but we are so excited. 😂 Wish us luck! 🤪

Cheese is good! I ate a block of chipotle oven baked cheese with lunch yesterday and it was divine. I love it, but know that it halts any progress I'm making, and will even trigger eating in excess to where I'll gain weight. It's sad but I have accepted it. If I eat it in small quantities with a meal, it's ok, but I really have to work to keep it in check.

What's your favorite cheese? How do you incorporate it? Do you see negative results when eating it?

Happy Sunday! Sharing a video today from our week, one of the highlights. This was Wednesday evening church, normally they have a more casual prayer meeting where someone plays the guitar, but they were doing some construction in the fellowship hall so they had their prayer meeting in the sanctuary. No one was there to play the piano so my my Grandma did it, she's been playing the piano in church for probably 80 years.

For context, she's 88, she had a really bad fall 5 years ago now and hit her head and ended up with a lot setbacks, similar to having a stroke. She has a lot of dementia like symptoms also (I am sure related to her Type 2 diabetes), she really can't read music anymore, and she has trouble seeing well, and she needs to wear hearing aids to hear but hates wearing them, so on this night she didn't want to wear them. My 93 (almost 94) year old grandpa takes care of both of them on their farm. Anyway, on this night she sat down on the piano and led worship as people called ...

Happy Saturday!! I hope you are able to unplug and unwind this weekend. I am going lots of prep today for our upcoming trip. Making a big batch of dog food for Angus, and going to buy some meat for meat chips for the road trip.

We always thaw meat the night before for our meals for the next day, but our freezer is getting pretty low. After this trip I need to do a big restock but I am waiting for some good sales. We likely will just end up buying something at the grocery store for lunch today or we might get crazy and eat out. 😂

What are you eating today?

I can't afford the chocolate Equip right now so I added 1 T of Unsweetened pure Cocoa to my Salted Caramel waffles with some Monkfruit Powdered sugar on top. Yum!

My flight was delayed and I ended up getting home pretty late last night but thankfully I got to sleep in my own bed (I slept pretty terrible this trip).

Penelope has a little performance today for the theater camp she did this week. The kids have Bible school next week and then we leave for our big Montana road trip, which we're all very excited about.

We don't have any other major plans this weekend except for doing some preparation for that trip. Mostly just excited to catch up and get some rest this weekend. We'll do a Livestream in Locals Monday evening!

How has your week been going? What are your plans for the weekend?