There are lots of thing I love in life:
Holding my babies in my arms
Finding patterns, picking out fabric, and sewing something fun
Reading cookbooks
Cooking and baking delicious and healthy things for my family to eat
Filling my shopping cart full of fruits and vegetables
Food has been on my mind lately....
When you are nursing a baby, you get hungry....a lot!
Now that I am getting back to normal life after having our sweet new baby, I finally cooked dinner for the first time in WEEKS (thank you to the wonderful women in Relief Society).I have really enjoyed the help....... but I have also missed cooking. Last May I read this article in the Ensign. For the past few years Nick has been telling me to serve less meat but I was worried that it would be too hard to find recipes that were any good. I love meat. But after reading, mainly the parts on nutrition and health, I was inspired to give it a try. My goal was to only make meals with meat once a week. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy this transition was. I borrowed a wonderful vegetarian cook book from my mother in law and started gathering ideas from the Internet. I also just left the meat out of some of our favorite recipes. I was very impressed with how great many of you are at keeping up your recipe blogs and now I have been inspired by you to start my own. I first want to say that I am NOT a vegetarian. I WILL be making a turkey on thanksgiving. I will also most likely serve meat for any family gathering which may happen at our house. I have found that people are very defensive about their meat. I want to let you know that I am not trying to take it away from you. I just want to start posting recipes so that others who would like to try might be a little less intimidated than I was. Also, I think it will be fun. I called my sister Alex who has played around with being a vegetarian and a vegan and she was excited about it too!Three very wonderful things happened when I went mostly meatless and I was not anticipating them. The first one was that I started saving money on groceries, which is always wonderful. Second, I started serving my family tons more vegetables. I think we actually eat more than recommended by the food pyramid now!! And the most exciting one of all..... Nick and I started to loose weight! I know I was pregnant at the time so I wasn't actually loosing, but I wasn't gaining either so that's kind of like loosing!So, very soon we will start posting our delicious, healthy, and meatless (along with the occasional "too delicious to leave out but also requires meat") recipe.
I started making this costume for Charlotte in June knowing that i would either have a newborn, be very pregnant, or be in labor when Halloween rolled around. I made the top of the dress before we went camping, I realized that I wanted to add tulle to the skirt and needed to go back to the fabric store before I could finish it. I didn't get to it before we left. After we returned home and I got my house back in order, bending over to cut the fabric was no longer an option for me. And so it sat for a couple of months. After school started I took everything to my mom's house and she cut out the skirt and finished it up for me. Thanks Mom!
Then we had to accessorise of course!
I remembered why it's not a good idea to wait till the last minute with this one. After a soccer game, on the way to our ward party, we spent $45 on this Jedi costume and light saber that was a size too big and basically made out of plastic. He loves it though. He says that he wants to be a Jedi next year, and the next year, and the next year, so maybe it was a good investment.
This costume cost me all of $1. I found it at Target last spring. I threw it together with Charlotte's Tinkerbell skirt for leaves and she was finished.
