{A biT RaNdoM}

Well hello and Happy Friday to you:)
How has your week been?!?!?!?
Mine has been pretty busy....
But I am soaking up every bit of summer left......school starts in one week:(
So back to work & back to the daily grind.

I just wish summer never had to end. But it does! I guess it makes you stop and appreciate each and every day in the sweet summertime:) :) :)

On to healthy eats!
If you're like me....you love creamy naughty but oh so delicious pasta dishes!!!!

Well thanks to Mommy RD...I figured out to make a most tasty pasta dish that is actually healthy! She used laughing cow cheese to make her pasta creamy! I did the same thing along with a little fat free cream cheese!!! I was in pasta heaven!
I don't usually eat real noodles anymore but it was all I had on hand! And it was fabulous:)

Creamy Pea & Spinach Noodles
whole wheat noodles
frozen peas
fresh spinach sauteed
1 laughing cow cheese wedge & a spoon full of fat free cream cheese
mix it all together and enjoy!!!
Oh and did I mention this dish is right around 300 calories!!!! it doesn't get any better than that:) :)



That is definitely one thing I try to do......think about my most favorite naughty dishes and figure out how to make them healthy!
Thanks to Mommy RD I now have even more uses for Laughing Cow Cheese:) :)


We had one super yucky day this week.
I had "scheduled" a long ride and since it was raining and stormy....I knew that wasn't going to happen:( :(
I could have went to the gym....but I try my best to NOT step foot in there in the summertime! Or even better I could have just skipped my workout but I didn't:)

See rainy...yucky....

So I just popped in a dvd....I chose {is it o or oo} p90x plyometrics! Let me tell you....that dvd will kick your BUTT!! In a good way:) I love how sweaty I get when I do that one!
I love it!! No excuses! Just throw in a dvd and get busy:) :) I don't know about you...but I feel like a million bucks after a butt kicking workout!
Now I just need to keep that motivation when school starts! I get so stressed out and tired during the school year. It stinks! But this year I am DETERMINED to stay positive and motivated!
Now just make sure you hold me accountable to that:) :) :)


Let's see .....what else went on this week....
I had my nephew stay the night!
He broke my computer.....completely soaked it while playing around in the pool.
I know...I know....I shouldn't have even had it out there while he was in the pool but I did!
I works.....sort of....but I need to take it in:(
So if I am MIA in the near future you'll know why!!

I do adore him though!
I love him because he is so happy to just hang out and "do art" as he calls it!
It think it's more crafting but whatever:)

I worked on mine and he did his thing:)
Here we are "cheers .ing" He had his "Berry juice" and Aunt Heather had hers:) :)
I think he is beginning to catch on that mine might actually be WINE!!!!

Here's how my husband "Crafts!!!!!

haha!!! At least he doesn't get mad at the mess we make when we're together!

And here's a sneak peek at what i'm working on!!!

Hopefully i'll finish it next week:)

Oh and did I mention I was featured on......
Remodelaholic!!!! Yippee!! Just click on the image to check it out:)
She liked my concrete letters!

I am going to try and submit my projects to blogs and maybe even magazines!!!

I just want to see where it takes me! You never know, right!?!?!?!?

And lastly....

I took my little buddy to the beach!

It was a perfect day:)

Luckily...he loves the beach as much as I do!

and look at the "loot" I got!!! Tons of driftwood!!! Yippee.....sailboats here I come:)
Such a gorgeous day and place!

I love living close to Lake Michigan! Makes me super happy:) :)

I sure hope you had a happy week too!!!!

Have a GREAT weekend and remember to stop long enough to appreciate all that you have:) :) :)

"Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not." ~Henri Frederic Amiel

{make the best of it}

Do you ever have one of those days where NOTHING goes as planned?!?!?
Well that was my day yesterday:)
I got up early to get all my errands ran only to realize most of the places didn't open until 11am or noon. Darn it...
Then I came home to start ORGANIZING and cleaning my home...
I did pretty good. I got the dining room finished...

simple and happy.
I put that stained glass piece up against the mirror....is that dorky or ok??!?!? I thought it looked pretty cute....but I wasn't sure:) I changed the chalkboard. Yes..it looks like I am really getting somewhere with this cleaning and organizing....
but here's the reality.... All I really did was move stuff from one room right into the other! This is supposed to by my happy little craft room but in reality it becomes a catch all for everything.

I have to admit I am NOT good at organizing! I am really good at lots of things but organizing is not one of those things:)

I am one of those people who gets so overwhelmed I just close the door and hope I don't have to deal with it anytime soon!Which is exactly what I did!!

I grabbed my husband and said "enough of this cleaning/organizing, let's head up to New Buffalo."

He agreed!! We went up to New Buffalo and just drove around looking at all the beautiful houses in the wintertime:)

Here are a few......They are all so lovely and they are right on Lake Michigan....how lucky:)

The lake in winter...Not exactly beautiful.....
but it's all we have:)
And don't you just love the beautiful blue sky?!!?
Just kidding...in the winter our skies are more the color of GRAY:)But all was well in the end...because we ended up having a little pizza and wine:) somehow...I ended up forgetting about my lack of organizational skills:)
And just look at that pizza...YUM!
How could you ever resist a little pizza!?!? Or rather A LOT of pizza..I ate almost the whole pizza! I was hungry:)

Have a GREAT week!

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.” Charles R. Swindoll