Sunday Funday

So I've decided that I want to blog on Monday about my Sunday. Sunday is our family day. We rarely ever do anything too exciting considering we are saving every single nickel and dime since Eric is getting out of the military at some point this year! So Yesterday was just like every other Sunday. We all slept in, ate a yummy breakfast, went on a walk because in Des Moines it was super nice yesterday, went & washed Eric's truck, and got groceries for the week! This is basically what we do every Sunday unless we have planned to take the kids somewhere to do something fun for the day!

 

So Yesterday I made the most EPIC (swear EPIC) pancakes, or cake cakes as my 3 year old love to call them! They were so divine. If I wasn't saying no for the next 30 days to sugar, cookies, fried foods, etc., then I would seriously eat them EVERY single day.

 

Andes Mint Cake cakes (12 smart points)

 

These pancakes were made with 1/2 cup of Kodiak pancake mix split into 4 pancakes, 1.5 tablespoons of creamy peanut butter melted (I swear it goes on and looks like a lot more when its melted!), 1/8 cup of sugar free maple syrup topped off with 2 Andes Mints that are cut into small pieces. I poured the hot syrup on last because it makes the Andes' melt soo much and its just oh divine, y'all fricken amazing! I even impressed myself with those pancakes!!

 

Also on Sundays, I'm a planner weirdo. I buy quite a bit of stickers for my planner on etsy. I'm just strange! Ever since I started my etsy business (another blog maybe one day like long time down the road kind of story), its a way to keep myself on track. Now that I'm getting healthy, its even more amazing to have a planner...

 

My weekly planner!!

It was so nice here in DSM yesterday that there was no way in heck we could just stay inside all day. Our gym doesn't have child watch on Sundays so we went on a family walk at my 3 year old KT's pace! Girlfriend likes to jog some too so it was an interesting walk to say the least! About half way through our kids saw HappyMilk (McDonalds) and it was about lunch time so we stopped to get them happy meals. Then we were off again on our walk. We walked 2.5 miles and the wind was blowing like 45 mph and it was a bit crazy. We lost the happy meal bags by the end of the block and had about 19323098420348 melt downs! Y'all know how those go right?? She's almost 4 and he's almost 2, use your imagination! I'm sure your not far off!! Once we got home Eric & I still needed to eat. So I ate a sandwich and he ate leftover chicken quesadillas.

 

 

Carving Board Turkey, Shredded 2% cheese, bacon Sammy for 7 smartpoints

So after E and I ate, I was super annoyed I didn't have tomatoes and lettuce for my sandwich so we got everyone ready and headed out the door. Before I started this healthy way of life I'd grocery shop 1 time within paydays. So once I got on my get healthy I started going 2-3 times a week with Sunday being the day we get the most. I'm always looking for new snacky kind of things to eat. I was about to check out and found something that looked interesting so I picked it up to try. I haven't tried either yet but I'll keep you updated if you follow my IG as to how good they are!! They are a bit on the higher side of points and I'm not a huge fan of high point snacks, but I'll give them a try!!

5 smartpoints for 25 thins

 

4 smartpoints for 24 thins

 

My 2 kids (remember 1 & 3) can basically eat me out of a home in a matter of minutes when we get home from the grocery store. Fresh fruit is gone within days. If it even lasts a day, its damn near a miracle! Kaity is like a fruit crazy person, I know this is good but girlfriend cant even make it home without needing a piece of fruit we bought!!

 

 

After we grocery shopped we didn't do much for the rest of the night. Neither K nor G napped so it was rather interesting. They fought basically all night. Eric worked on his resume to submit for a class he's going to take and to send it for another check from the military job recruiter guy. Let me just say his resume for 10 years in the military is pretty impressive! I wish mine looked like that (sadly SAHM doesn't get much credit in the working world)!!

 

For my birthday in November, Eric got me a sewing machine. So since I've bene spacing my crocheting down/out, I've been trying to teach myself to sew. Y'all sewing isn't nearly as easy as learning to crochet!! Let me just tell you that! I have a super cute almost 5 year old niece Ava who lives in HI, she's my brother Matt's daughter! She's a cute little thing, the way she says Aunt Brittanie... well it just melts my heart!! So recently I went and got fabric that she loves. She loves herself some princess' so I got princess fabric, pony fabric (kaity's fav!) and some Easter colors and I'm attemping dresses for the girls! I started last night and I followed these directions to a T, man a fucking T, and that shit is way too big so hopefully some point this week attempt #2 will happen. Thankfully I didn't sew it together so I can just fix what needs fixed!

 

Then we ate dinner. Lets not talk about my dinner last night. I was pissed, it sucked and I'm still super ANNOYED that it turned out like SHIT. S.H.I.T...I hated it, Eric loved it and I fucking hated it. So since I hated it so much heres what I ate for dinner the night before! It was soo yummy! Trader Joe's: if you have one you should visit it and get their chicken strips and frys! AMAZING and super low points for chicken strips and frys!

 

I ate 3 strips and frys for 15 smartpoints

Pretty soon after a dinner melt down from Kaitlynn we put the kids to bed. They were both EXHUASTED from no nap sunday... They fell fast asleep and it was sooo peaceful. When your an adult with kids, that peaceful sound is sooo amazing! I showered, Eric packed his gym bag and we headed to bed because on today (Monday) K&G both had dentist appointments.

 

 

Tomorrow or Today? (Monday 3/7) I'm starting a 30 days of no cookies, ice cream, candy, soda, really any sugary goodness, no fast food or fried food at a restraunt. I'll still eat Trader Joe's chicken strip and frys on occaisions. It should be an interesting 30 days! Thankfully I don't really consume much candy, ice cream or soda often. However I eat Oreo Thins and cookie butter like its leaving this planet tomorrow, so that will be interesting and we still have oreos' in our house... If you'd like to, you can join along for the 30 days of none of the above mentioned products! Trust me, if I can attempt it, you can too!! Plus who knows, in 30 days you still might not want it and you could keep going! My hope is it cuts my oreo habit down!! Here's to wishful thinking!!!

 

I hope you all had an amazing Sunday! Sunday's are a day I hate to love, but love em' anyway!! I'm ready to hit the week with a good start and keep my ass on track! I hope that if you're on some get healthy transformation, that you have a good week of staying on track too!!