Things have just been a bit nutty here... but oh well.. that's life right? I'll start off with last night since we celebrated Adam's Birthday with his family. We went to the http://www.thehickoryhog.com/Home.htm in Point Pleasant NJ. We have been there once before and the food is great! They give HUGE portions.. I wish I would have taken pictures, but my mind was on other things.. and trying to happy.. For our apps we got the onion loaf which is onions rings but in the shape of a loaf! I had one little onion ring since I really try to not each too many fried things.. I also tried a bit of a spicy pub pickle which is a fried pickle, this was actually pretty good.. and then we got some bbq nachos, they were great! I had a few chips and it came with pulled bbq pork on them and cheese and hot peppers.. MMM I was full just after snacking on those!! hahah I got the Mango BBQ Pork it comes with cornbread and 2 sides I got tator tots and hot cinnamon apples. This was AMAZING! but way too much food for a unhappy/stressed belly. I brought TONS of leftovers home so we will be eating these again, and I'll have some pictures for ya ;)
Onto today, I had a bowl of Kashi Blueberry Oat Clusters, Trader Joe's Raisin Bran and a banana with cinnamon and skim milk. I also brought my coffee with me on my walk to work today.
The morning flew by and was great! The kids were so cute and good today.. (KNOCK ON WOOD!) Lunch came and I was starting to get hungry, so I had a light Wegman's blueberry yogurt with some of my homemade granola and pineapple on the side.
One of my coworkers made a pistachio cake so I tried a couple bites of it.. it was really good so I took the recipe (Adam loves pistachios). I walked home and snacked on a 2 handfuls of grapes and was off to the gym. I did 2 miles on the treadmill and weights and came home. Adam and I then ran to see daddy and say hi! I just had to give him a big ol' hug.. We then went to Dunkin Donuts so I could get the kiddies munchins for St. Patrick's day :)
We came home, I showered and made up a salad with romaine, cucs, green peppers, red onions, roasted red peppers, croutons, and tuna. I put some Catalina dressing on it (this was my favorite dressing growing up!)
I got some things done around the apartment and sat down with a brownie and frosting. JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED!
I am now off to digest and catch up on blog reading.. Hope you all had a great day! See you tomorrow.
I went out to my car and guess what!!!! IT WOULDN'T START!!! Needless to say I was not a happy camper. I dropped my gym clothes back off in the apt and walked to work. It was very very chilly but I just said forget it, I'll walk back at lunch and pick up Adam's car. The morning went by pretty quick (thank goodness) and it was time to walk back home to pick up the car. I got back to work and ate my Light and Fit Lemon with cantaloupe and pretzels. YUM YUM. At snack time this afternoon I had some more pretzels just to munch because I felt like a bottomless pit today! (I'm thinking b/c the stress of the car) I then got out around 3:45 WOOHOO for getting out early, and went to the gym. I did 30 minutes on the treadmill and weights and came home. When I got home I had about 2 handfuls of these tiny grapes we picked up at Foodtown this week. We did leftovers again since our fridge was filled with them. I had Annie's Mac and Cheese with tuna, on the side I had a pickle too :) tuna with pickles is one of my perfect meals. 

Tomorrow is a girls night out so I'm off to read some magazines and relax! tomorrow is supposed to be toasty! 45 degrees WE'RE HAVING A HEATWAVE HERE IN JERSEY!! hahah Have a great night and see you all tomorrow :-D
I also brought my mug of coffee to keep me toasty warm. This morning was not too bad even though it was one of my "heavy" kiddie days, it flew by and I realized it was already lunch time. I decided to call Adam and see how he was doing out in this coldness. Lucky him he was on his way home from work! While on the phone I cleaned my car off so I didn't have to worry about it after work.
We had some errands to run and once we got home I had one of the cookies I baked last night. These are so good! I think one of my favorites!
I am off to look at David's Bridal's website to look at dresses since Saturday is the big shopping day! I talked to my bridal party and they will all be coming too! It should be a fun afternoon I can't wait. Well have a great night and stay toasty warm if you in the northeast ;) 
I had to run to my parents house to pick a few things up and dad gave us some Italian beef stew to try, since its going to be so cold.. Gotta love how he worries about us :-D We ran to Shoprite for the can can sale and picked up a few things and came home. I had a cookie while fixing up my report cards and now I'm watching American Idol.
We sat and watched some TV then went to Adam's mom's house to do some stuff on her computer. I was transferring all of Adam's music onto a scandisk USB Thingy.. hahah We then were off to the mall for passports and booking the honeymoon!! When waiting for the pictures for our passports we ended up running into one of Adam's friends from work so it was nice to chat while waiting. By the time we were done it was around 12 and we were getting thirsty and munchy. I got a Coke Zero and Adam got some cookies, I did have 2 bites of a fudge cookie.. MMMM 
I also had a glass of White Zin with dinner. After dinner while chatting I had a chocolate, chocolate chip cookie and 2 chocolate covered peanuts. MMM 
SO SO GOOD! We then made up a quick food list and went to the health food store and A&P. I got more crystallized ginger at the health food store and picked up one of my veggie chicken salad sammys to either have tomorrow or Friday :-D We came home and put everything away and have been relaxing. I did the real age test from Oprah tonight and found out my "real age" is 35.9 which is 1.6 years younger than what I really am! Not too shabby ;) While doing the test I had 2 peanut butter chocolate chip cookies and 2 spoonfuls of Adam's Moosetracks ice cream, I was kind of disappointed because I really didn't like it too much. Oh well atleast I won't be tempted to eat it then ;) Hope you all have a great night! 2 more days until the weekend!!!!!!!!!! 
This is so good! Not my usual yogurt so it was a treat :) I also had a bunch of strawberries on the side. Snack today was goldfish so I had a handful of those around 2 with the kiddies. After work I was off to the gym, I did about 30 minutes on the treadmill and some weights. I came home and relaxed for a bit since I got out of work a little earlier today, I snacked on some nuts while watching the end of Oprah.
This dinner was great! After dinner I went to the library to get some books for the kids and then came home and made some popcorn in my new microwave popcorn popper!!! Healthy popcorn that is way cheaper than buying the micro bags ;) It was so good! I sprayed some I Can't Believe Its Not Butter on it, and we chowed down!!! (we inhaled it so quick I forgot the picture) I then got to painting pretzels for a project I'm having the kids do at the end of the week. I am finally relaxing watching The Real Housewives of Orange County. Just the way I'd like to end my Tuesday. 
I did some lesson planning and vacuumed the living room a bit. I then decided to do some ab work and get my butt to the gym. I did 2.5 miles on the good old treadmill and then did some weights. I had to stop by my parents house to pick up candy for my cousin's since I'm babysitting their kids tonight, I also picked up a plate of candy for my friend since we are trading dad's candy for her homemade perogies ;) I ate 2 pieces of the tasty candy and then came back home, to be lazy for my last day of vacation (well my last day of having the apartment to myself since Adam is working) 
SO GOOD! Even though its reduced sodium I still find it mighty salty so I am chugging some H2O and snacking on some more fruit to hydrate. I'm off to relax and then around 5:30 I'm off to drive down to my cousins to babysit and play Wii all night since that is what they got for Christmas. I'm also asking my youngest cousin who is also my godson to be our ring bearer at the wedding :-D Its coming up quick 10 months and 12 days.. Not that I'm counting or anything :-P I'm off to sit and watch the snow fall and relax. See you tonight for a recap of my eats and Wii playing !

I then got to baking for NYE, I decided on a very easy recipe from Bisquick: 
I then had to try out my cookies.. to make sure no one gets sick on NYE of course ;) I had 2 and then was in the mode of eating crap so I had 5 chocolate covered peanuts. I have now "shut" the kitchen until much much later!! I'm now catching up on some blogs and watching Made on MTV. I know I'm going to start to go stir crazy soon, something else will be getting cleaned in the near future :-P 

When I was toasting my bread and cooking the potato I had about a cup of grapes. I then had one of the Double Chocolate Explosion Cookie Vive Le Vegan.
YUM!! I'm now relaxing and catching up on my blogs. 

I'm now off to get a few more things done before I pass out! Hope everyone has a great night and a wonderful Friday :-D
I also brought my usual mug of coffee with me. It was a light day for a Tuesday, only 10 kids! I definitely couldn't complain at all, except for the fact that all of them are getting sick! Lunch after lots of running around was an apple and cottage cheese with a cup of froot loops on the side. I also had one bite of cake from one of my kiddies in the afternoon who was the big 4 today! 
Maybe too much so because I was extremely tipsy and ate way too much! I am very uncomfortable now because once home and getting things ready for lunch tomorrow I snacked on a couple of cookies that I found. UGH!! Oh well, its over and done with back on track tomorrow :-D I hope you have a great night! See you tomorrow.
I also had a bag of Brother's All Natural Chips.
While deciding on dinner I also had some grapes and a few pickles. I just didn't know what I wanted to eat, so snacking worked while I thought :-D After dinner we went to the library to get some books for the kiddies and picked up some rolls, soy milk and some Chobani since Foodtown had them on sale :-D I came back cleaned up and had a couple super charge me cookies for dessert and now I'm relaxing and reading some blogs. I hope everyone had a great Monday, See you tomorrow.



haha I'm am finally sitting down and relaxing.. WOOOHOO I had a fun size snickers bar after dinner for a chocolate fix. I'm now off to watch Bridezillas and be a bum!