What a Friday!

My Friday started early! 530am I was up early to take my mom to an appointment at the hospital. It was so dark and rainy outside I was dreading the drive to the city. Before I left I did my usual morning routine...view twitter. That's when I saw all the tweets about the massive earthquake in Japan and all the tsunami warnings. My heart goes out to all the people in Japan.
On my way down to the city I listened to the radio and I was happy to see that there was a TV in the hospital waiting room on CNN, many people were gathered around and watching. It's where I spent most my day.

My mom had a procedure done to check her arteries in her heart. She's always had a heart murmur but they found a larger hole that needs to be closed. So I spent my day at the hospital.

Everything is ok with my mom, but she will need to get that hole closed up.

When we got back to my moms house my SIL and niece were there waiting. Since they went into a main artery on my mom, she couldn't be alone for 24 hours. So my sister and my brother came later and we spent the evening chatting away.

She is soo adorable and loves when you sing to her.

Today my husband is going to tryyy and finish up the reno's so I can finally have a clean house again.

Here is a before and after

After... Crown Molding, Potlights and new Chandelier.

Hope you all have a great Saturday.

Wordless Wednesday Weather!

Weekend of cooking!

The weather this weekend was crazy. It rained all day Saturday then we had a snow storm Saturday night.

Husband had to work from home this weekend so we spent a lot of time indoors. Which was great because I made delicious meals all weekend! WINNING (LOL)

I used my little food processor like crazy haha!
I made my version of re-fried beans. Black beans and garlic fried with a little coconut oil. It turned out perfect!

Thank you for all the great comments on my last post. I love calorie counting especially on those days we eat out. I like knowing how many calories the foods are so I can pick and choose the healthier choices.

Tonight I tried a new Salmon recipe.

I bushed melted coconut butter on the salmon and topped it with bread crumbs and cilantro. Placed it in greased (coconut oil) dish and cooked it for 20mins at 375F
My husband and I loved it! I served it with a avocado salad and sweet potatoes.

My goal this week is to have homemade meals for Breakfast Lunch and Dinner for 5 days of the week!

Have you tried any new recipes you love lately??

Counting My Calories.

I used my Food Processor for the first time!

My husband's mom always makes Chimol and I love it. Chimol is like a Salsa I guess. Chopped Tomato, Pepper, Cilantro, Onions,Oil and Lemon. You can make it chunky or you can make it more like a sauce. With my food processor I made my own version! I made it like a sauce so I can pour it over grilled chicken tonight. Yum!

I've been using "myfitness pal" App on my iphone to track my calories. I love this app because it has everything you can possibly think of!

It even had what I ate yesterday... A Mucho Burrito! Delicious! Although, it made me go over my daily calories.... I wouldn't have thought about it at all if I hadn't added it to my app.
I'll do better today. I'm making my grocery list now! Less eating out and more eating in!

Do you calorie count? How have you been doing lately!?

New Food Processor!

Finally I bought a Food Processor! I'm excited! I see a lot of Salsa's and Sauces in my near future ha! I also have a recipe for fish cakes I've been wanting to try and I need this little guy to help with that.

Do you have one of these? What are some things you make with it? Let me know!

It's Wednesday and the week feels like it's dragging! I wasn't feeling well today so I took the day off to relax.

I made sure to make dinner tonight because yesterday we didn't!
I made Quinoa, mushrooms and peppers with spicy chicken legs. Yummy!

Now... to fit in a workout...

My New Wok! and more.

Day 1 of the week for at home cooking!
I bought this new wok and made my favorite meal Coconut Red Thai Curry Shrimp!
I loaded the broccoli in there, along with red peppers and mushrooms. Dinner was delicious! and I didn't snack at all tonight :) I made good choices all day!

I really love the purchases I made over the weekend. My favorite pieces include this gray blazer. I have a black one already and I would love to find a red one! These blazers are great for both work and pleasure. At work with a pair of dress pants and pleasure with tights or jeans!

I bought this shirt too that can be worn underneath the blazer or I can even wear a long sleeve tight black shirt under it and that would look great too.
Aldo had these booties/shoes for 50% off. $40.00! Although when I brought them home I felt like it was soo wrong to add to my other 6 pairs of black boots!/booties. I think it's time for some color!! I like the heal on these, it's a little thicker. Where I walk to work my stilettos always get caught in the interlocking, and I've been ruining alll my heals! grr!
This week we are completing our reno's and hopefully will not be doing anything else until summer. Reno's are a lot of work! A lot of cleaning! I'll have pics of what we did and the end of the week!

Are you doing any reno's? I think you know how I feel :)

Shopping, babies,Party and Oscar weekend

I thought I would have had a better grasp on my schedule in the New Year but if you read my blog you can see that... nope... I do not. But it has been a very fun beginning to the new year.

Saturday I spent the day with my sister shopping! I bought a spring jacket ( now we just need the spring!) I bought some tops for layering, a pair of pants and shoes too! Our shopping day left us both exhausted!

(Spring is not in sight! Yesterday we had a little snow storm.)


We also went to visit my bff and her new baby boy! Both mom and baby are doing well :)
Me and baby A...

Look how adorable he is!

My eating has not been great this weekend... I did make a good BF yesterday (whole wheat english muffin, a piece of cheddar cheese, scrambled eggs with a tbsp of coconut oil, with cucumber and tomatoes on the side....


but I cheated... a lot! Especially with these cupcakes for my nieces birthday party. My sister made them and they were to die for!!

My niece had her skating bday party today. And Boy, taking care of energetic kids has me pooped!

Now it's time to relax and watch the Oscars!! What movie are you hoping to win a Oscar? I hope Social Network wins!!

Hair, Birthday and Goals

Friday I cut my hair! As you saw in my previous posts. A little shorter than I wanted, but my hair grows super fast so I didn't mind... although I was having an issue with it the last couple days but this morning I think I got it right!

Yesterday was my husband and my niece's Birthdays!!! A turned 10!! And My husband which is also A turned 32!!

Whats a 10 year olds birthday with out Justin Bieber!!! haha!
My sister and I bought my niece a couple outfits from PINK. Here is one of the dresses we bought her, she's so cute in it. If they had my size I'd buy one for me too! haha!
Since A and I have been carpooling, my schedule needed to be re-worked. I'm still working on it but so far only 2 meals of the day BF and Lunch are on track. Dinner is the issue as we always find so many things to do together right after work! So I need to get back on track with cooking home meals at least 4 days a week!

I haven't weighed myself in a couple weeks, but it helps me not focus on the number too much and more on the healthy choices, and I'm ok with that... for now haha!

This weeks snack choice - Blueberries and yogurt!! Yum!!!

Wordless Wednesday

Family Day Long Weekend

For our family day weekend and my husbands birthday weekend we spent a night at Niagara Falls.

We booked a beautiful suite with an amazing view! It was so nice to wake up to.
I crack up at this pic. I was so excited because I was winning! I won $200 bucks! I wanted to play for longer but I was falling asleep! Not a good gambler haha! But winning some money back felt great.
Today we decided to shop in the USA. I went to DSW (my favorite shoe store) and bought these.
Very comfortable. Love them.

We had soo much fun. Especially getting lost twice in Buffalo. I told my husband to follow Ontario license plates Ha! they were not going where we thought they were. But we had so much fun driving around. (and he has learned not to take directions from me haha!)

Happy Family Day long weekend!!!