Praise!

I am having a wonderful day today. Im not sure why but I woke up feeling fabulous and wanting to get tons done. Im not complaining though it was an awesome day! I sure hope this feeling lasts. So since I am in such a great mood I thought Id pass on some praises...
  First... Birkam Yoga... thats my hot yoga class. If you will recall my past post about hot yoga; I wasnt very thrilled with my experience... but My friend Ashley convinced me to go again. So I did... Im a sucker for punishment. It was so much better this time around. I dont know why but it was way easier. Dont get me wrong it still hurt and sucked but it wasnt nearly has bad. I enjoyed myself as much as I ever do while working out. So I think Ill give it a shot for a while.
  Second... Chapters is currenlty having their Mom's night out sale event. Its tonight and tomorrow night from 6pm until close. If you go to there site there is a coupon you can print and get 15% off (25% if you have an irewards card) all regular priced items. I went and I have never been so impressed with a store event. (I will have to say I went at like 6:30 so the thing barely started... which is how I tend to do things) But I went and they must have had every employee on that night because there were workers everywhere. They had samples of food, and tons of toys on display. When I was there, there must have been about 1 employee to every two customers. I wanted to look around but I had to get home to help with the boys and to get out of the store before I spent too much money...So I got the thing I went for (an christmas present for my Jaxon) and then I go to pay and they gift wrap it for free!!!! I even got to choose the paper! It was awesome.
  I dont know... maybe I am just in a really good mood so everything seems totally awesome today... but I was very impressed with it. Way to go Chapters and a special way to go to the Crew at the Shawnessy location!

Another week...

Here we are at the start of yet another week. What do you have planned for this week?? what are you hoping to accomplish? Me? I have a pretty low key week. Which means I am hoping to get lots done. Here are my big goals
1) Finish Christmas stocking shopping
2) Email my latest and greatest story to my mommy for her approval
3) Make Felt Choco chip cookies
4) Get at least 10 more buildings finished for the car mats
5) Clean my house
Im crossing my fingers that I get it all done. Im also crossing my fingers that I dont freeze. Yes I grew up here but Calgary weather still sucks and I will never be used to it. Yes I know its Nov and we should have snow already but Im still not happy that its supposed to snow tonight. Here is hoping that it holds off a few more days/months/years!
  Here is another fact about me... I am a food hoarder. I dont know where I could have possibly gotten my food stocking gene (mother!) but we normally have more food then we need in this house. I may not have an official 3 month supply but we wouldnt be hurting if I didnt make a grocery trip most weeks! Anyways. I have been trying to save on groceries so I can spend the money on Christmas and so I am in use it up mode. So now Im going through my pantry/fridge/food storage and using all the things that I already have in the house. its pretty refreshing!
Monday - tandoori Chicken
Tuesday - Thai Soup
Wednesday - Asian Chicken salads
Thursday - Hamburgers
Friday - Pizza night with the Elders
Saturday - Still undecided
Sunday - Leftovers

Strawberries and Bow Ties

Here are my latest creations for Jaxon and Owens Kitchen. I made Strawberries....

...and Bow Tie Pasta.
Both were crazy easy. The Strawberries took some time to stitch in the little 'seeds' or whatever you call them on the outside of the berries. But the Bowties were awesome... I made them all in 20 minutes while cooking dinner! Love when crafts go like that!

Fab Friday is now over. It as consumed my thoughts the last little while as it approached and we were scrambling to get it all finalized. I think it was a great night and very well attended. We are super lucky and have some insanely talented sisters in my ward and they were kind enough to share those talents with us.
Now that its over... Im going to get ready for christmas!

Kill me NOW

As you have probably noticed, I am a practically perfect blog poster when it comes to loyally posting everyday. And Im sure you noticed that I didnt post last night... I blame the worst invention known to man... HOT YOGA!
  I have a few friends who do hot yoga and rave about how awesome it is. A few of my friends bought passes to Birkham (?) Yoga and convinced me to try it out. So I went last night with my good friend Ashley. I was nervous to begin with, but as I was sitting in the room waiting for the class to start I was loving the heat and thought I was going to rock it. I eagerly start the warm up... two poses in Im taking and knee adn it was all down hill from there. I spent at least 50% of the class sitting or laying down willing myself to not puke. Sweat was literally dripping off me. I hated it. In fact... I would rather go through child birth again! (and for those of you who know me know what that means!) And yet Ashley has convinced me to go again on Monday. Maybe it wont be so bad the second time around... or maybe it will and Ill just be the moron who tortures herself repeatedly!
   I had nightmares last night about hot yoga... yes I was that affected!

Pizza Puffs

Im sure by now you are all more then aware of my love of pizza. Tonight I made one of my favorite... Pizza Puffs. Its orginally a Rachael Ray recipe...but with my spin on it! Its just yummy pizza muffin goodness!

Pizza Puffs

3/4 cup flour

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

3/4 cup milk

1 egg

1 cup mozza cheese

1 cup turkey pepperoni, cut into little cubes

1 Tbsp Italian seasoning

1) Preheat oven to 375 and grease 24 mini muffin tins.

2) In a large bowl whisk flour and baking powder. Add milk and egg. Stir in cheese and pepperoni and seasoning. Stir to combine. Let stand for 10 minutes

3) Stir batter and divide among muffin tins. Bake until puffed and golden... about 20 minutes

4) Serve with warmed pizza sauce seasoned with basil... or oregano

Super Submarines

Ok ok ok... I know I've done alot of Childrens Books lately. There are several reasons why.
1)I love them
2) With two little ones Im constantly reading them
3) (and probably the biggest reason) Im too lazy to pull out my camera cord and post the pictures of my latest projects... soon I will I promise

  As I've mentioned before, I do a book of the month with Jaxon. I know this year we have been focussed on Robert munsch books. I know this is not a Robert Munsch book. here is my story...
   This is one of the 10 books that makes up the Amazing machines series from Tony Mitton and Ant Parker. They are super cute little poems/stories each focussing on a different machine; Dazzing Diggers, Terrific trains, Tough Trucks, Roaring Rockets, Cool Cars, Busy Boats, Amazing Airplanes, Flashing Fire engines, Tremendous Tractors and Super Submarines. We have them all but tremendous tractors and Super Submarines. I ordered them online and was hoping to put them in Jaxon stocking at Christmas. While we got Tremendous tractors, to my dissappointed I get an email one morning saying that Super Submarines is back ordered. No joke... 10 minutes later the post man drops off a box... I was expecting a different goodie so I quickly open the box to see what was inside... and Jaxon shouts... A NEW BOOK! yes it was Super Submarines. I took it away super fast and thought " He will forget about it..." I was thrilled to have gotten it. A few nights pass and then its bedtime one night and I ask "What stories do you want tonight" and I get "The dark, Tough trucks...and that new one that you took away" SHOOT he hadnt forgotten... so I thought.. Ok its almost the first of the month which means new book anyways... SO November is Super Submarines adn the Robert munsch book will just have to wait until Christmas to make its appearance!
   Anyways... the whole series of these books are PERFECT for little boys. They are simple easy to follow but still teach basic part and purpose to these machines. I will say Super Submarines isnt my favorite of the bunch. I found the rythm off a little. It didnt flow as nicely. But its still a fun read.
  oh and in case you are wondering Jaxon's favorite  of the bunch is Dazzing Diggers (or tough Trucks!)

The Terrible Plop

I know Ive mentioned it before... but I love books and I am working hard to pass that love onto my kids. So far so good. They both love story time and looking at books. This is a book that is a regular in our rotation now. Again it is one that we took out at the library and then we HAD to buy it for our collection. Its wonderful and funny!
  It's "The Terrible Plop" Its just such a cute book. it is another book with rhymes. I find books like this are easier for my little guys to remember. I often catch Jaxon reciting lines from the book as he is playing.
   It is this super cute story about some bunnies who are scared of a Terrible Plop (the sound an apple makes as it falls into the water) and then convince all the other animals of this terrible plop until they come to a Big Brown Bear. He then takes the littlest rabbit back to the lake to see this plop. Once there they rabbit realizes what the plop truly is but the big brown bear runs away. It's funny and makes me smile as I read it. The pictures are really sweet too.