A friend of ours came to visit last weekend which put us in an interesting position. She is currently not eating anything with dairy products in it–which is an incredibly difficult task when you think about it. No milk chocolate, no butter, no cheese, no ice cream, no sour cream….I seriously might starve if I […]

Despite it being a mediocre week for my workout routines, at least I gave it my best when I was working out. I was having trouble with my motivation and positive thinking…perhaps it was all the late nights watching Olympics instead of getting some sleep and preparing myself mentally for the day ahead. I find […]

We eat a LOT of pasta in this house. So much so that we actually bought a really cool automatic pasta machine that mixes everything for you and presses it out in the desired shape. But unfortunately the thing takes forever to make pasta so the electricity we end up spending for the thing is […]

You may have heard about some of those “strange” people out there that have decided to unplug themselves from the world and disconnect their TV from the satellite cable. But in case you didn’t know, we are indeed one of those “strange” families that doesn’t have their TV hooked up. That doesn’t mean that we’ve […]

So far this was my most successful week yet. I worked out 4 of 5 days which is a new all time high and next week I’ll be going for the full 5! I wanted to take photos last night but got sidetracked and totally forgot. I’m not sure how well you’ll be able to […]