Because I work from home, I often spend the middle parts of my day listening/watching a little TV while I edit. My favorite show to watch is Family Feud. I realize that 29 year olds should not watch this show, but I can't help it. Ever since they added Steve Harvey as the new host...I laugh so hard. This stuff is FUNNY! Just to give you a taste of what I'm talking about, check out this clip from a recent episode. After watching this, you can't possibly make fun of me for watching. You'll probably jump on the bandwagon well. Enjoy!
So its not everyday that Superbowl happens 9 miles from your house. Sadly, the week leading up to superbowl was terrible. Tons of ice, negative temperature wind chills, and SNOW. We had 4 snow days. Wish I was a kid in school. That would have been the best week ever!!!! Even though Superbowl was so close to our house, we were not able to attend, but certainly enjoyed all the festivities that happened around town. The day of the Superbowl, Michael and I headed over to downtown Ft.Worth to check out the ESPN football field set up as well as all the other ESPN spots in Sundance Square. After taking a gander at all the crazies walking around the area, we went to Blaine and Andrea's house to watch the superbowl /commercials with the rest of our small group. Below are a few pics to capture the day. And as usual, I am obsessed with taking pictures of Michael and I. Enjoy our faces :) January was full of fun. We visited my "Cousin-Uncle" in Lewisville. Papa Murphy's pizza was in order for that trip. After an evening of video games, chatting and doing whatever Zoe (the little one) wanted, we drive home at 11pm pooped but having padded our 'FUN TIMES' file with good memories. Then the next weekend we went to hang out with Michael's siblings & puppies. Had a great piece of cake of Hunky Hamburgers, shopping at whole foods and hung out in their swanky apartment. My small group was, once upon a time, made up of all single gals. In 2009 I got married. This weekend (Feb. 11th) another gal from the group, Hannah will get married. YAY!!! Her shower was amazing! Cannot wait for the wedding! Another girlfriend from the small group became a foster parent, so we celebrated with gourmet cupcakes, blessings and gifts. To properly end the month, our couples small group came over for some Dinner and ROCK BAND! Excited to get February working, see lots of family and continue with those weight-loss goals!      Several weeks ago, my grandpa-in-law, Papillia, spent a few days with us. He moves slow, loves sugar and goes all day long. One morning I woke up and decided I was going to mow the lawn before I headed out for my run. When I told him I was going to be outside cutting grass, he quickly responded with, "I'll help". I figured he would sit on the front porch and watch me work. Instead he grabbed the lawn mower and went to town. It took him a few tries to get it started, but once he did, there was no stopping him. Its so cute to watch him mow cause he was wearing his normal everyday garb; dress pants, dress shirt, wallet in back left packet, checkbook in back right pocket, and swiss army knife in the front pocket. He moved a little slow, but he did the whole yard. Later that day, I took him with me to the track as I ran. He walked around the whole thing 4 times (one mile), then he walked around Target with me, attended church with Michael and I and then finally off to the house for dinner and sleepy time. He was not affected one bit by all the activity. 86 is not an age, its an attitude. I vow to be just as awesome when I am his age. I love my new family, especially Papillia. They are all so unique and wonderful.     This morning I woke up to Michael's excited smile telling me "I have a surprise for you". While I was sleeping last night, he hand made me an Easter Basket. He made with a used box, paper and markers. I was tickled to get the basket. It was so cute. He decorated it with all the things I like. The handle of the basket read, "Happy Easter to my Beautiful Bride and Best Friend". Inside the basket were two Pieces of paper. The first read, "A Dozen Reasons why I love you". The back side read, "uh-oh, the eggs got scattered all over the house! Find them to discover just 12 of the thousands of reasons why Michael loves Aurora"! The other paper read, "HINTS..do not open unless you can't find them all..." Well, seeing how it was early in the morning and I was anxious to get more shut eye, I read the HINT list. Here is what it said when I opened it.
Inside each of the eggs was a note and symbol to represent the note. For example, one note read, "I love you because you deal with my coupons and play my games". Inside the egg with the note was a token from an arcade we frequent and a coupon from the paper. Michael is so sweet. A very kind and gentle spirit. I adore him so much. It was one of the sweetest most loving things he has done for me. I love my Michael. Below are photos of my basket and the eggs. Happy Resurrection Day! To see the photos larger, click on the first picture and they will appear larger on your screen.  For several years now I have been passionate about where my food comes from. My passion grew out of a problem I saw within me. I was 300lbs of unhealthy person.
Something had to be done in my life...something had to change. I met with my first nutritionist, Wendy, and she got me focusing on better kinds of foods. Organic foods. She gave me a list of things I could buy, where to buy them, and how to make them. Eventually I got to the point where I began asking myself about the source of these foods. Can a chicken really pop out an egg with extra Omega-3? If the answer to that was no, then why am I eating eggs that promote more O3 than the rest. I asked myself, "Whats wrong with the way God made things from the beginning? Why do I have to eat non-fat? whats wrong with dairy? Shortly thereafter, I found my new nutritionist and movement coach Craig Keaton. He was living the way I began to question. He drank raw milk & cheese, ate 100% Grass Fed beef and consumed fat by the spoonful. Over the next few weeks, I will share with you as much as I have been taught about food and nutrition. Hopefully you will change at least a couple things in your diet before you become the new statistic of poor health in this next generation. Here is an article he recently wrote on GMO and other chemicals found in our foods. By Craig Keaton Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, and other chemical combinations, steroids, growth hormone, and antibiotics, additives, preservatives, colorings, emulsifiers and stabilizers, and the list goes on and on… Do you eat food or fake? The average American consumes over 20 pounds of food additives every year. American farmers spray over 2 billion pounds of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and rodenticides every year on our crops. The cattle we consume ingest 70% of the nation’s antibiotics, and we eat 70 pounds of it per person. With hidden sugar and straight sugar addicition we are toppling 175 pounds per of it in our diet per person per year. A teaspoon of sugar helps the medicine go down? 1 teaspoon of sugar can suppress the immune system by 50% for up to 4 hours! And we are eating 175 pounds of it every year! Outside of the 2 billion pounds of chemicals sprayed on our crops each year, we ingest other chemicals that are illegal to farm with in the US. You see, we are fortunate enough to make it and then sell it to other countries, let them farm with it and get sick in the process, and then is shipped back and into our stores! All the chemicals that are “studied” in isolation are said to be safe at very low levels, but we don’t consume low levels. Also, they are not on and in food in isolation. They are always found with other chemicals or you are eating different foods grown with different chemical-icides. No one has EVER studied these chemicals in combination. Make your own conclusion on that one! Animals in the wild of all species have been studied with GMOs – they will NOT eat food that is genetically modified! Sounds like they are a little more in touch with their sensations that we are. Steroids and growth hormone will and do alter the amino acid profile of the animal that consumes them. This means that your chicken breast and whey protein actually don’t have all the protein parts that GNC and Muscle and Fiction are telling you need and are getting. Organic food and the future We are at a critical point with our biochemical future. We are destroying our land and our bodies. We are creating disease in our animals and ourselves. We think we are above nature! No, we are only a part of nature. Organic is fad? No WAY! It’s the only way it’s ever been done. Organic can’t feed the world? No WAY! That’s what I do. We are always in a state of turnover. Consume synthetic isomers and chemically crafted contents and you are DEGENERATING. We have more of it today than ever! Consume the natural elements from their natural environment and you are REGENERATING! Go get better! -ck I am sitting upstairs editing photos when I hear the sound of lawn mowers. Since it a beautiful day, I don't think much about it, as most people would be mowing their lawns on a day like today. But then I am reminded that just before my husband headed downstairs, he said he was going to mow. With that thought I quickly grabbed my camera and headed outside to get a picture of my MAN CANDY doing some yard work. There is nothing sexier than my Michael doing manly chores...YUM YUM....  He looks delicious Sadly I dont have a vitamixer. If I did then I would not have the problem I am currently facing. When I juice veggies/fruit, I have tons of pulp left over. A couple days ago I made some carrot juice. It left me with about 3 cups of pulp. I had to come up with a way to use the pulp instead of sending it to my compost. Below is the answer. I am so happy I have a solution for pulp... ps. I forgot to tell you what to do with the agave. Add it to the pulp when in the food processor. Add as much as you want to make it sweet or no To see the photos larger, click on the first picture and they will appear larger on your screen.         When I came home from my jog, I saw a pile of boxes on the kitchen counter. I turned on the lights, there were three games with a receipt sitting on top. Long story short, Michael went to Target while I was gone and bought 10 Sobe Waters, three Games and 2 free Medium size Pizzas from Pizza Hut for FREE! Don't believe me, check out the receipt below. Its crazy how he does this kind of stuff. To see the photos larger, click on the first picture and they will appear larger on your screen.      Michael loves a good french fry every now and then. Before we got married Michael would eat lots of fries from McDonalds, Whataburgar, etc. Problem is those fries come from non-organic potatoes (i'll talk about that later) and they are fried in hydrogenated vegetable oil. The best oil to use when deep frying is grapeseed oil and peanut oil. Be sure not to heat the oil above 340 degrees. After that, it becomes toxic to the body (again, I will talk more about that later). Enjoy the photos...Let me know if you have questions. To see the photos larger, click on the first picture and they will appear larger on your screen.            | CategoriesAll Archives |
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