Pumpkins Carving and Painting : Pokemon Theme!

Wow. We had so much fun doing those pumpkins! Thanks to Pinterest for the ideas! I'm not bad for art, but I'm not really creative.. I did the Pikachu, my man did the Gengar, and my older one did the Pokeball! 

My little one wasn't feeling great, so after 10 minutes of painting she went to lay down on the couch (poor little munchkin :( ) but overall, we had a great time! Took a bit longer than expected (3 hours!!) but we are proud of the result.

Here's the pictures :)

Trying Something New

I decided with a friend to try something new... I don't know why, but doing the other program was kind of boring, maybe because I've done it so many times... Even if I know it work, because I lost 30 pounds last year with it (weight that I regained within a year) I needed something new to try. My friend told me about this program, 21 day fix. Seems cool, new for me and new for her. For everybody that don't know this program, click here. *I'm not promoting at all the product, I'm not a representative either. I'm just giving the info in case someone is curious about the program ;) For a quick summary, it's a program with DVDs with 30 minutes of intense work out and a meal program. We can decide what we eat, but only what's on their list (to be honest its a pretty big list, so not to drastic) and everything is calculated with little plastic containers. We have to calculate at the beginning how many containers we are allowed per category according to your weight. We can also have the shakes, but this is not something I like, to drink water with powder... I make my own healthy shakes.

We decided to do this together my friend and I.. We cooked together almost all the meal we needed for the next week, except maybe 2-3 things that we find better fresh than reheated. That was so cool to have someone with me and cook everything together and then split in half all the meals. We cooked :

- Fajitas in the crock pot (click here for the recipe)

- White fish in the oven (click here for the recipe)

- Easy Egg Muffin (click here for the recipe) 

- Juicy Chicken Breast in the oven (click here for the recipe)
- Pinky Smoothie (click here for the recipe)

It wasn't that bad to prepared, we took 2 hours including feeding our kids (she have a little baby) and cleaning the dishes. 

So day 1 for me today! Hopefully we will see some change! I decided to NOT weight myself, and just take the measurement at the beginning of the program and then at the end!

Organization

Its been now a month since my older daughter started kindergarten! Wow, what a month! So busy, it's crazy! My kids are not going to the daycare (I'm extremely lucky, my mommy comes to my house to watch the kids while we work!) so we are not used to have a routine/rush with them! Having a good healthy lunch everyday for my daughter was a big challenge for me.

For me and my man, I was doing it the day before real quick, if we didnt had much we would just pick up something at lunch time... No worries or rush.

I decided to be organized (haha) and do the grocery on Sundays, and prepare all the lunches (including me and my man) as soon as we comeback from the grocery store. So instead of putting everything in the fridge, I directly put yogurt, cheese, crackers etc in separated Ziploc. I do 5 Ziploc for my little one, I have a mini-fridge only for lunches, So I put thoses Ziploc aligned in the fridge. That way, the person taking care of the lunch in the morning only need to empty the bag into the lunchbox! So easy! Only thing missing is the main meal, but I usually just put to leftovers directly in a Tupperware. Super easy to do, and I have a peace of mind for the week!

Here's this week (only 4 days this week!)

Mother - Daugther Day

*Sorry, I'm so late in my post... I wrote it a month ago but never had time to finish it!*

For my daughter's 5th birthday, we had a really good day! She's not really happy about going to kindergarten, so I made cupcakes for her class for the day of her birthday, so it could be a little bit more special for her. And I think it worked, because she said a lot of classmate spoke to her. She was a bit shy and wasn't going toward other kids, so I think it broke the ice for her. She also had a allergic reaction the day before (mosquito bite in the face), so her face got really swollen... Her teacher called me at work a few minutes before the bus was bringing her back home, to tell me she wasn't comfortable letting her "alone" in the bus. So she stayed at the secretary room with her and the teacher for 30 minutes (time to get there), and she felt special having her teacher only for her! Sounds stupid, but this allergic reaction helped a lot for her integration to her school hehe!

I promised her that I would go pick her up at lunch time and we would have the rest of the day together. I brought one of my really good friend with me, my older daughter love her so much, so she was ecstatic to see her too! We went to her favorite restaurant for some mozzarella sticks (her favorite!) and like I said in previous post, she's such a little princess type of girl. She love having her nails done and being <<chouchouter>>, having massage and stuff. So I took an appointment at the nails salon for the 3 of us, she found it so cool! She was extremely excited when she saw the flowers in her feet bath, doesn't take much to make a little girl happy!

We also built so LEGO at home during her sister's nap time. And to finish, she went for a sleepover at grandma, to give me a chance to put up all the decorations in the house with my friend's help!

So we had a perfect day :)