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!!!

My Sunday Morning

Extra Long weekend!

I only made dinner once this week! I didn't follow my schedule to well! My husband and I started carpooling again so it's thrown us off! Yesterday on our way home from work we got into a little fender bender :( I was driving. No one was hurt so that's good news and there wasn't much damage. But I was sooo upset about it cause it was my fault. After all that craziness were starved so we went for a Sushi dinner. My half smile, I was grumpy after the accident.
In Ontario we have a holiday called Family day. Family day is Monday! So I took Friday off too for a extra long weekend!

I'm spending the day with my sister tomorrow. We are going to do our hair and go shopping!

I need help with a hairstyle!

I usually do this hair cut (Nicole Richie)


But I found some others I like too.



Just don't know which one to pick! what do you think!!?

My New Healthy Items

Over the weekend I went to the apple farm to buy their delicious fresh apple pies. While I was there I bought their homemade apple raspberry jam! It tastes great! So far I found a BF that I love and has been working so far! 1 piece of multi grain toast with all natural peanut butter and jam sprinkled with chia seeds! (chia seeds are very high in fibre and omega 3's) I add them to my salads too.

Over a year ago on a trip to the Dominican Republic I bought a couple bottles of coconut oil to cook with and use on my body. Those bottle were over with months ago. On twitter I follow @joyoushealth and she is always talking about the health benefits of Coconut Oil. So I bought Coconut butter and oil! I can't wait to cook with it, and lather my skin with it! :)
It smells sooooooooooooooooooo good!

Have you bought some new healthy products lately???

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!