Happy Saturday!! We are officially back, well almost 😂😂 our flight is probably landing shortly. We took the overnight flight last night from Maui to Phoenix. I swore I would never do that overnight flight again with kids but it's just too nice to get an entire extra day of vacation before you fly home. Plus Nathaniel has his last baseball game today we wanted to make it back for (praying we all slept on the flight). Sharing some pictures of our trip below, we had an amazing time! ☀️🏖️🌊🐳🐢
How have you been?? I will be catching up here on everything later today once we get through baseball and get a little rest. I hope you have had an amazing week! Can you believe this is the last day of February!? What has been the best thing to happen to you this month?
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 ...
It's not always steaks on my plate, although I could eat them forever. The price of good steaks has continued to rise so I like to mix in some budget days to save up for steaks. Yesterday was a great example. This meal was probably only a couple bucks. Makes it easier to have a more expensive meal tomorrow. Sidenote, this meal was fantastic! (Burgers and pork belly)
What are some of your strategies to keep things in budget and still enjoy the good stuff?
I can't believe how easy this one was. I could have gone on, but I missed eating and I didn't want to crash tomorrow.
Broke it with protein shake, then protein waffles with a little bacon.
