Happy Valentines Day!!!

My SIL sent me this pic today. Baby M was excited for V day too!

Husband and I had the whole weekend dedicated to Valentines Day. It started Friday night with Dinner and a movie.

We went down to our old neighborhood to my favorite Thai restaurant. Had our favorite dishes, Red coconut curry shrimp and pineapple and shrimp Pad Thai!

After dinner we went to watch 'Just Go with it'
It was HILARIOUS!!!! So many laugh out loud moments! I love Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston. It's a feel good romantic comedy. My favorite kind of movie!!

We didn't make reservations Saturday night for a dinner, we didn't think anything of it... Until... Every restaurant we tried to go to in our neighborhood turned us away! No reservation, sorry we can't take you. Eeek! And there was one restaurant in my area that we've been wanting to go to for soo long! We were like sad puppies leaving it ha! Then today my husband surprised me! with reservations to that restaurant!! Oh he knows the way to my heart.


We had a lovely Valentines day dinner tonight. The restaurant atmosphere was so romantic. Candle lit, soft music, great food. The most romantic part... our wedding song was playing as we were leaving. Perfect evening.

No Gym - in the name of V day

Today is our gym night but my sister is busy baking away for all the V day orders she has.
http://www.amandascookies4hope.blogspot.com/

The cupcakes are yummy! I had salad for lunch and dinner so a couple homemade cupcakes were welcome in today's diet :) Thanks sister! ;)

I haven't posted pics of my little niece for a while. Look how big she is! She'll be 6 months next week!

Hope you all have a great V day weekend!

Back to salads for lunch!

I wishhhh this was my view right now!
It is cold cold cold here! So I'll pretend that this is where I am as I write today ahahh!

It's Wednesday and so far I'm doing great with watching my calories!
BF - 1 piece of Whole grain toast with organic peanut butter sprinkled with chia seeds
Lunch - Spinach/chickpea/cottage cheese balsamic salad
Snacks - whole grain bar/fruits /yogurt with blueberries
Dinner - Home cooked meals!
And I'm back to just 1 coffee a day! I just need to increase the workouts again. The reno's messed up my schedule a bit, but I guess cleaning the house over and over is a great work out too!

I have a question for the mommy bloggers or soon to be mommy bloggers - what pre-natal vitamins you take? I noticed in the USA they sell the vitamins with DHA as well. Here in Canada they don't. So I was wondering if anyone has taken the ones with the extra DHA vitamin??


Happy Hump day!

Reno's completed!

So our first reno's of the year are done!

We installed pot lights. Here are some before and after pics. I'll take better ones once the house is actually cleaned from all the dust!

Before Living Room
After Living Room (and hanging kitchen pendants on island)
Before Dining Room
After Dining Room

My husband also painted our spare bathroom and master bathroom. Thanks hunny!

Tonight I went grocery shopping and bought lots of fruits and veggies! Last week I was sick with a bad tummy ache and even swollen glands! But I'm all better and my ultrasound ruled our gallbladder stones!! Whew! So I know what that means for me. Take care of my insides!

This week I'm planning veggie filled salads for lunch, fruits and veggies for snacks and lots of home cooked meals!

Happy Monday!

Back on track....

I hope to get back on track this weekend!
This week I was sick with a bad tummy ache :( I don't know what it is but I have a feeling my insides are a little upset with me....
In SF I over drank on Starbucks... There's a starbucks on every corner! I love starbucks, but too many lattes WILL make you feel yucky!
I did not choose the healthiest meals either.

And the night before we left we met some great people at a bar and had a little to much to drink.
Tuesday and Wednesday I was having the worst belly aches. Like fire in my stomach. :( I went for a ultrasound and I'm waiting for the results. I hope it was just a bad tummy ache but I am feeling better in my tummy but still feel ill (tired, headaches and backache too now) I'm also feeling irritable since I'm not eating as much as I usually do ahah! I forced food in anyway even with the pain! (I could never starve myself even with killer tummy pain, I get upset that I can't eat a full meal ha!)

I am drinking lots of water and no coffee for me until I get my results back.

So I hope to revamp my schedule this weekend and get back on track! Time to get healthy inside and out!


Hope you all have a great weekend :)

San Francisco Trip 2011

Our San Francisco trip was tooo short! But we managed to do a lot! We walked a lot and had a blast eating at some yummy restaurants and sight seeing!




We saw the Golden Gate Bridge and spent a couple hours in Sausalito. Sausalito is so nice, we loved walking around and going in the little shops. It's such a peaceful place.
We walked down Lombard Ave and down to Fishermans Wharf. (A couple of times, my calves are still sore!)
I got to see Alamo park and the 6 ladie(Yes, this is a part of where full house opening scene was filmed :)
We bought a 3 day $20 pass for the cable cars. I love these! But I admit I rather be sitting, I was a little scared having my butt out there ahah!

We also took a tour to Golden Gate Park. It is BEAUTIFUL THERE! San Francisco's largest park and I'm sure one of the most beautiful. We walked for hours talking about our goals and future plans :) we almost were late for our pick up ahahh! We broke our camera in the park too, trying to take a couples pic on timer. It fell off the ledge it was on and the lens broke :(

We went to the Science Centre too. San Francisco has the largest Planetarium. I LOVE Planetariums. I have such great memories of going to the Toronto one when I was a kid. So I HAD to go!
Our food of choice... Clam Chowder Bread Bowls! We tried a couple restaurants by the pier and they all had yummy fresh fish and seafood. Great places to eat at Fishermans Wharf.

We stayed at Hotel Union Square - A personality Hotel and it was really nice. I loved our room. It was in the heart of Union Square in the middle of all the shops! The first day there I bought the jacket I'm wearing at H & M. The one I brought from Toronto was too warm!


The weather was nice, a little rain but heck it's winter right! (Toronto it's snowy and -20 degrees Celsius!) So I'll take the little drizzle thanks! ahaha!

I have tons of pictures. I'll try and get them on Flickr soon. :)

There is so much to see and do in San Francisco. I wish we were there for a couple days longer! But I'll be back!

We Loved San Francisco!!!

We just got home tonight from an amazing trip to San Francisco!

I'll get into more details of my trip on tomorrows blog. For now I need to catch up on some sleep!

2011 - 3 week goal re-cap

Now that we ended week 3 in January I just wanted to re-cap my 2011 goals.
So far we have booked our first trip for 2011 and SF trip is coming up soon! I have been sticking to my workouts, tried hot yoga (and plan to register soon) I did really well with calorie counting up until the last couple days I cheated a LOTTTT. AND I failed in my no pop and burger rule this week. But I'm very impressed at how long I held out. I'll try again beginning tomorrow. We also started on our reno's and boy it's been messy around here!

Of course, where we are, Zoe is. She is a very involved cat. If she's not around it means 2 things, she's feeling sick, or we locked her in a closet or bedroom by accident ahhah! As we were working yesterday she got up on the ladder and it was so cute! With all the sanding dust around she will be needing a bath very soon!
Yesterday we went to a friends place for dinner. She made this yummy shrimp bisque! She'll be giving me the recipe tomorrow.

And my sister made this brownie cheese cake....I asked for a big piece... eek!


Since I started my goals I've been following my rule of making BF at home and bringing lunch. I bought a new lunch bag last week. It's bigger. I find I'm not bringing enough snacks and I hate driving home from work starved. So I need to bring enough food for lunch and 2 snacks while at work. I always seem to forget this from time to time, I need my snacks!
Do you snack throughout the day??

Hope you all have a great Monday!

Back to 2 coffee's!

I was doing soo well in late 2010 with drinking on 1 coffee a day. But the past 2 weeks I've been slowly creeping up to 2 coffees a few days a week. Then yesterday I had 2, and then today I had 2! I need to get back to drinking my tea in the afternoon instead of coffees!

At my bff's baby shower I won this tea mug with a diffuser and some loose tea. I love it!

So I hope tomorrow is a better day. I'll try and get back to 1 coffee a day!

How many coffee's do you have a day???

Reno update:
My dining room will look like this until next week.

It's a little hectic! And our San Francisco trip is coming up soon too!!!! I hope the reno's are over before we leave.

The weather here is cold and icy and snowy! So I'm trying to really figure out what to wear on our trip early Feb since weather in SF will be much better than it is here!

Busy weekend! Lots of pics!

I had a veryyyyy busy weekend! Let me start with a big FAIL in my calories this weekend. I didn't count calories at all and didn't make the best choices. I didn't even get to grocery shop. So I'll do that tomorrow!

We started some reno's in the house... I was expecting a mess....but not the HUGE mess that I got! The husband scraped off the stucco ceilings on our first floor and sanded it down too! It created sooo much dust! The whole house was covered in white dust! I mean the whole house! Inside cupboards and closets and bedrooms EVERYWHERE!

Reno's are still not done so I have all these holes in my ceilings waiting for the pot-lights to be installed next weekend. So we'll be living in chaos for a week.

Even though all this mess was going on I managed to still have fun :)
Some of us girls got together Saturday night for dinner. We went down to a Lakeshore restaurant. We chatted and ate delicious food! I had a huge plate of pasta and parmigiana chicken! It's always so nice to catch up with the girls.... over food ahahh!
I also fit in some time to see my sweet nieces Saturday afternoon.
Baby M is sooo strong! She's 5 months today and she rolls over and over it's so cute!
And today was my bff's baby shower!!! She is due in a month!
Look how cute she looks!!
It was so fun, the shower was beautiful and I even won a gift! How cool is this tea mug!!! I love mugs!!!

I'm exhausted! We tried cleaning as much as we could but everything is still dusty :(

I think I may push the other reno's out. I'm a little traumatized by the mess Ha!

Hope you all had a great weekend!

Oh!! and I almost forgot some awesome news! I was chosen for the #3 spot on Simply Stacie's Follow Friday! Check it out! This totally made my weekend! Thank you all so much for following my blog!