my new pedometer

My mom is visiting us this week and we went and both got pedometers.

This is the pedometer we got. It's somewhat fancy.

I also checked out Pedometer Walking at the library last week and have read through it.

It says that you should make 10k steps be your daily goal (or higher if you want more benefits. And yesterday was my first day wearing it and I did 9,712 steps. I was close! I didn't exercise, but I mowed the lawn and yard work, grocery shopped, and chased around a one year old. We got little notebooks to record our steps.

Menu Plan Monday

Here is my weekly dinner plan!!!

Monday: Shrimp Salad and homemade bread (from Artisan bread in 5 mins)

Tuesday: Chicken Tetrazzini (from Once a Month Cooking)

Wednesday: leftovers with salad and bread

Thursday: Meatloaf or hamburgers

Friday: Chicken pesto pizza or chicken wings

Saturday: birthday party and a wedding shower

Sunday: leftovers or find something easy

crazy bed head

The other day Jackson fell asleep in his car seat with his winter hat on (because we are still having freezing weather, ugh!). When he woke up, I took the hat off and this is how he looked.

It didn't stay this way long, but I sure thought it was funny looking.

Playing in his room

Jackson will go in his room and play with his toys. I think it's pretty cute. He has liked it more since after his birthday party too. Before the party, we had little stations of toys around the house, about one in every room. For the party, we cleaned up all the toys around the house and moved them in his room and have kept them in there now too. And he got even more toys added to his room from birthday presents too. He really likes going in there now to play.

Tamale pie, apple crisp & dishes

I made Tamale Pie and Apple Crisp last night for dinner. It looks like it takes me about 24 hours to blog about it too.

My tamale pie did not look like the picture on the box. At all.

The recipe for tamale pie was from the back of the cornmeal box. It was pretty good. I thought it was a little dry, but Dan liked it and said he'd eat it again.

This recipe for apple crisp is from The Joy of Cooking cookbook. It's different than what I'm used to from Betty Crocker's version. The top uses white sugar instead of brown sugar. Still very good. I love apple crisp. It's such an easy desert to make.

This is the part I dislike the most. The dishes after all the cooking is done. And then if I'm not right on top of getting them cleaned, they build up more! Especially since I'm cooking more than I used to. Oh well, after I finish dishes, I always realize that it doesn't take much time to do. Like running, it's starting that is the hard part.

Menu Plan Monday

So, I'm wanting to do this... Menu Plan Monday.


I've been having problems being consistent at our own menu planning, so maybe if I do this it will help. So my goal is to start doing it next monday. We'll see how it goes.

Happy Easter!

I made these tonight for Easter tomorrow. I got the idea/recipe from Kellogg's. They were pretty easy to make. The coconut died green was the easiest, which I expected that to be the hardest. And getting the rice krispies into the muffin pan was the hardest, which I wasn't expecting it to be that hard. But overall they were still pretty easy and quick to make.

We went to an Easter egg hunt today in Powell Butte. Thanks to Amy that told us about it. It was a fun one. Way better than last year's, which was in the middle of a street. Jackson was ready for a nap and it was pretty cold out, so he didn't last too long. He did like finding a couple eggs though.