Almonds Everywhere!

Hey everyone,

When I rhink about being healthy I first think about eating healthy.  Cheesy yeah im sure but ill get to my point in a second. I am trying my best to have a healthier lifestyle, my husband has only half of an healthy lifestyle, when I mean by have I mean he workout everyday but doesn't eat healthy. I love to cook different foods that is healthy or good for your body. I incorporate lots of veggies in my meals and fruits as a snack, well atleast I try cause its not easy eatting fruits when theres a bottle of nutella staring right at you from all the way from the kitchen table. Thankfully my family and I aren't allergic to any kind of nut, although the girls do eat nuts that much but mommy and daddy do! I was introduce to almond milk a few years ago and I feel in love with it. I love the taste and digest very well in my tummy. I love to add almond milk to everything, pancakes, cereals, tea anything food u think of. Almonds adds a richier taste to your food, it has a lot more calcium than regular milk. Almond milk is good for skin and has a lot of the good nutrients for your body. Here are a few ways i incorporate almonds in my healthy meals!

Granola Cereal w/ Almond milk

Almond milk w/ tea

                           (it may look nasty but tastes great!) Almond milk w/ 1 tlbs of peanut butter and oatmeal

Almond Pancakes!

Chocolate Almond Milk

Spring Break Vaca Day 6 "Making Cookie Meaning Day"

    The girls and I did something out of the ordinary. Our Saturdays are usually me being the last one to wake up or the first one to wake up to get ready for work. This Saturday I had a plan for the girls to do for Easter and I had to be at work that afternoon. It was a crazy day for me but the girls were going to enjoy and they did. The plan for today was a cookie-decorating class and we went to the east side of the city to a place called Make Meaning. 

        The place is a craft store for children and adults  to create different things. The cookie-decorating class was a last minute thing I decided to do the day before. After so many local buses to exchanged I managed to make it the city in the express bus on time. The girls had a blast at the place, they socialize with the other kids and had so much fun putting their creative side in the cookies. As yummy as it look I was very surprised at their work, I help a little but the rest was them. We fell in love with the place we wanted to do more stuff but we had to go and i didn't want to be late for work. To end the night hubby and I went out to the city for a date night while the girls had a sleepover. I'm not all about sleepovers unless it's with family, this sleepover was with hubby long time friend. She has a daughter the same age as Amelia and the beautiful thing about this little girl is the minute the girls are together its like they are cousins. The ended well and the adventure still continues till tomorrow so...

Until the next Blog...

Spring Surprise Vaca Day 1 - "Spa Day"

So as the title reads "Spa Day" yup! that was part of the PLAN. Well i thought of it and daddy mention it with the intent of paying for it. I mean before that even happen I just wanted to do my nails so bad before they chip off..no luck for my right thumb :( Then I figured it wouldn't be nice if the girls stay home with daddy watching Mad Men marathon while I go get my nails done. And besides they are girls, girls do manicure so why not take them. I on the other hand, was worried they wouldn't stay still and started fighting... every moms worst thought when being outside with their kids. The key is to set rules before leaving the house...that helps if the rules are strictly forward that they completely understand what your stating (this refers to children 3 and up of course, you can't stay serious at a cute little baby)

  It turns out the girls behave like girls at a nail salon getting pamper. If you have boys I don't recommend doing their nails instead take them out to the park and play sports whether its stick ball, basketball or just throwing the ball towards them or each other, the point is to keep them busy. The girls did just that they kept busy in a chair while the nail lady did their nails and the best part was no fighting or whiny just complete silence for 20 mins (for moms that's a lot of happy silence more like heaven to our ears)

Our next trip was to the fro-yo place, the place is the only one in our neighborhood and their prices are very affordable we order the medium size which we can pick 4 toppings. As a mother we encourage our kids to share so as a good mommy I had to be at the moment, the girls each had to choose two toppings. We ended the afternoon at the shopping plaza then a long ride on the bus back home to a package notice congratulating my girls on a spot in a charter school for September. And here I am at 2 am working on this blog enjoying the long silence of the girls and hubby asleep knowing I have to be up early to start another day. Hope you all enjoy reading and seeing our day in pictures and....

                         

     

                                

Until the next Blog adventure....

Outfits of the Week (9/23 - 9/27)

Hey Bloggers!

So this past week the girls had a few school outfits to show.... I didn't get to take pic of their everyday outfits but here are some from last week.

Mondays Outfit: 

Jacket - Kids Place
Sneakers/ Cardigan - Children Place
Jeans - Old Navy
Shirt - Macy's

Tuesday's Outfit:

Jacket/School Uniform - Kids Place
Tights - Old Navy
Boots - Gap
Sweater - Children Place

Shirt - Children Place
Skirt - Fab Kids
Tights - Kids Place
Boots- Gap

Friday's Outfit:

Sweater - Old Navy
Shirt - H&M
Jeans - Children Place
Sneakers - Burlington Coat Factory

Until the next blog!...

The color run 2013

 Hey Bloggers!

 

                     So today I celebrated my little sister's birthday and what better way then to help her out with her new fitness lifestyle with a 5k run. I heard about The Color Run in Brooklyn from the  Living Social site, its a site where you can find social things to do around your borough. It was the most exciting 5k run I ever did beside the Aids Walk in May. Every checkpoint we got like dust paint thrown at us and before we hit the checkpoint we would walk like a half mile then jogged our way to the checkpoint. After we finish the 5k there was a mini concert to hype the runner and it was really exciting. Who would turn down free ice-cream and great music!  here are some highlights of The Color Run 2013 NYC.