Anyway, so we were at the park until dinner time, and as soon as I got home, I did the logical thing to do at dinner time. I started cleaning the garage. Like going through stuff and finally parting with things that are seriously trash, or piling up the things that I am now going to sell. I decided after going through one box that I am going to have a garage sale. I am pretty excited because I have never done one! I love going to them though, and I am pretty sure I am going to give some sweet deals. ; )
After I got through roughly 1/2 of the garage and the kids were running around like crazy people and the sun was starting to go down, Ryan told me it was time to wrap things up for the night. I sadly agreed. I really have a distaste for starting things and not being able to see the finished product that day. Leaving the garage only partially organized was really hard. But, we all went in and I looked in my empty fridge and decided we were going to have breakfast for dinner! Yay! I always allow for one night a week to be something with eggs because 1. they are healthy, 2. they are quick, 3. my kids will eat them. Scrambled eggs, steamed broccoli, and a fruit smoothie was the end result.
I didn't add any salt and pepper to the eggs or broccoli while I cooked them, but I did have the shakers on the table so we could add however much we wanted individually. That right there is a good ol' trick I learned in one of my health classes at BYU. You'd be surprised at how good food tastes with not as much salt! But, salt is still yummy. : ) The fruit smoothie is what I want to talk about though. I can't give you an exact recipe because I wasn't paying attention to amounts I was using. We didn't have usual smoothie ingredients, so I had a crazy idea. I can tell you I honestly wasn't sure how it was going to turn out, but I did it anyway. I made these scrumptious pumpkin chocolate chip bars yesterday, so I had a lot of pumpkin puree left. Cue mad scientist smoothie concoction.
Orange-Pumpkin Smoothie
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1-6 oz. strawberry-banana yogurt
1-11oz. can of manadrin oranges with juice
1/4 can of orange juice concentrate
1 1/2 (ish) cups of skim milk
1 1/2 (ish) cups of pumpkin puree (from can)
2 cups ice cubes
Put it all in a blender and enjoy!!!
It was SO good!! When I was making it, Tucker saw me put the pumpkin puree in the blender and he was grossed out. He asked what it was, and since I am PMSing, I told him it was poop. He then did not want to drink it, but after he took one sip, he was HOOKED! Ryan was even pleasantly surprised because when I make smoothies, things don't always work out as planned. : )
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| May 2011, when I was prego with Mackenzie and wanted a smoothie really bad. I HATE making smoothies, but I love drinking them. FAIL. : ) |
Yeaaaa... that stunk. Big time. It was everywhere. This is probably one of the only six pictures my husband has ever wanted to take of me since we have been married. You better believe he ran to get the camera after the wooden spoon hit the moving blades sending it as a rocket projectile denting our cabinet and then bobbing up and down back into the blender spraying smoothie everywhere while I just stood there screaming. : )
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Our sweet boy Cole turned 3!!! On October 9th he was officially one year older and MUCH wiser too. ; )
I have a birthday post for him in the making.
Happy Birthday my beautiful, opinionated, funny, sweet, CA-RAZY boy! Although you drive me to the brink of insanity many times a day, I ADORE you and I feel so blessed to have you as my baby. I love you Colie!!!
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