Sunday Secrets!

I made some new things this weekend and thought I would share my secret recipes.

The first one is a bean salad. I love black beans and so i googled healthy black bean salad. I found a few that looked good so i got the ingredients and made it. At first it didn't taste super yummy so I thought let me try adding something to it. Which i did, so i call this

Yummy Black bean salad!

Ingredients:

1 can black beans drained and rinsed

1 cup corn (i used frozen, you can use can or fresh)

1 tbls olive oil

1 ts ground cumin

1 small tomatoe or a handful of grape/cherry tomatoes

1 avocado

1/2 lime

minced garlic

salt & pepper

Directions:

1. Mix black beans, corn and tomatoes in a bowl.

2. Add in olive oil, cumin and mix

3. salt and pepper and garlic to taste

4. Cut the avocado in half. Chop half and mix in

5. Take the other half and make a guacamole mixture-smash avocado, add garlic and lime juice

6. add guacamole to salad and a the rest of the lime juice.

Enjoy!

The second recipe I made a fruit salad. I had this at a cookout i went to this week and the host told me what was in it so i tried to re-create it and it came out awesome!

Ingredients:

12oz vanilla yogurt(I use greek low sugar high protein yogurt)

about 1/2 cup OJ

1 banana

1 large or two small peaches

about 5 Strawberries

The trick is you want your fruit to be balanced, So if your stawberries are small you will need more than 5.

In a bowl, mix yogurt and oj-you want it to look almost like pudding, or cool whip a little runny but a little fluffy.

Chop up your fruit and mix it.

Enjoy!

Vacation recap Day 3!

Sunday June 6th we checked in at the hotel Saratoga Springs early, they were able to give us a room right away :)

Then we headed to EPCOT!

When we were done with EPCOT we took a break, got some lunch went to the grocery store to buy some waters and snacks! The great thing about Disney is you can bring that stuff in!!

We swam in the pool for a little while.

Then headed to Magic Kingdom! It was extra magic hours they were open till 2am. We didn't stay that late though!

Here we are on Splash MT.

The castle at night time changed to many different colors, here are just a few!

Sorry I have been MIA. I started getting my classroom ready, i report back to school in less than 1 week :( I cannot believe summer is almost over. Also I will have a update on Zach if not today tomorrow. Things are getting better slowly!

Vacation recap Day 1 & 2!

Here is a long overdue recap of our Disney Vacation!

Friday June 4th we drove to Florida and stayed in a hotel.

We stayed here!

Saturday June 5th we got up early to head to Disney for our tee time at Lake Buena Vista golf course.

They had this made for us!!

And our cart was decked out for our Anniversary! We also got Happy Anniversary pins!

After golf we headed to Zach's uncle's house and here i am with one of there dogs Darby!! She is so playful!

I will recap the rest of the vacation in upcoming posts! Thanks again for all your sweet and thoughtful comments about Zach. We moved his procedure up to tomorrow, he came home early from work because he wasn't feeling well. I will post tomorrow when we get back from the procedure!

Prayers & Top 2 Tuesday

Prayers for Zach: Update day 2

Today we went to the GI doctor to follow up with him. He did Zach's endoscopy on June 30th. He said that his esophagus looks normal but something is still not right. So he ordered another procedure to be done. This is like a ultra sound of your digestive track, because obviously Zach is having problems eating and such. Today he says he feels worse so he is laying low and hopefully going back to work tomorrow.

We scheduled the procedure for 2 weeks from today, that is the soonest we could get it done.

Thanks again for all your kind words and support, I will continue to keep you posted.

Top 2 things you want to purchase!

Right know nothing because we are on a budget with all these medical bills. But I guess that is the fun of this post.

If money wasn't the problem the top 2 things I want right now are....

1. A new phone. I really want an Iphone but we are with verizon, we were going to make the switch to At&t and get them until all the mess with Zach and things breaking happened.

If we stay with verizon I am going to have to eventually get a new phone and we will probably get the new Droid Incredible.

My phone loves to shut off when it wants to and hubs phone doesn't work unless it is on speaker.

2. A new car. I would love this

Black Range Rover Sport!!

but will settle for this

lol. Either a Toyota Highlander or 4 runner. I also have my eye on this beauty:

A Lexus GX or LX10

Seriously, I am in need for a new car but am holding out until we add to the family if you know what i mean :)

Head over to Taylor's blog to participate

Prayers and Movies

Prayers for Zach: Update

Thank you so much for all your thoughtful comments yesterday. It is awesome to have so much support. We went to a regular doctor today and we are still left unanswered. They said well everything looks normal, even after I fought her and said my husband is not normal, he has no energy we wouldn't be here if he was normal, she said everything checks out ok.....BOOOOOOO

He feels ok today, but he clearly is not back to normal, so we are still wasting money on co pays at the doctors that don't give us answers, next stop back to the GI doctor to see what he says.

Thanks again and I'll keep you posted.

Movie Reviews!

Well this summer I have seen 3 movies!

The first movie I saw this summer was Toy Story 3!

Before you make fun of me, my brother and I went to see it. He has a connection to it, since it was his favorite movie and he and my dad use to watch them. We loved it. It was so cute and funny!

The next movie I saw this summer was Grown Ups!

It was great! We loved it. Definitely a new kind of movie for Adam Sandler since it wasn't straight up comedy, it actually had a story. Cool fact: the water park scene was shot at Water Whiz water park in Mass, I grew up going there as a kid. It was so cool to see it on the big screen.

The last movie I saw this summer was of course:

ECLIPSE!!!!

I have read most of your blogs and seen a mixed review on the movie. I think it was really good. I think it came really close to the book. I especially enjoyed this hot werewolf:

Thats all for now!

Prayers and GTKYS!

Prayers for Zach again! :(

I thought everything was going well. I talk to hubs on his break yesterday at work and he was great. Then I get a phone call about 2 hours later asking me to come get him, that he can't drive home. I was like OK??????

Upon arrival I was told that 10 minutes after talking to me they called 911 because he felt like he was going to pass out and had dry mouth and never felt like that before.

The paramedics got there and checked his vitals. Everything checked out ok. They said if he could walk to the car that i could drive him to the ER and withstand the ambulance bill. Well as soon as he got up he sat down from feeling dizzy.

At the hospital the hooked him up to all sorts of machines checked his heart, his blood. They pumped him with 2 IV's at the same time and concluded that he was fine.

So we are still left with no answers as to why he keeps getting sick. We are both beyond frustrated and want to know what is wrong, he has not been his normal energetic self in over a month, he has lost 15lbs and we don't know what is going to happen next!!! AHHH

Again sorry to bore you with all this, I feel terrible that I have no idea what is wrong with him.

On to Getting to Know you Sunday!

1. If you had to choose a country to live in besides USA (or the country you live in), which would it be?

Hmmm...I think It would be Australia! I have never been but I have wanted to go there since I was in the 4th grade. They speak English and have the coolest accent.

2. Which would be worse, wearing flip flops in the snow or wearing gloves in the summer?

Flip Flops in the snow...There is nothing like frozen feet. I would take sweaty hands any day over frozen feet.

3. Fried or Bake and why?

Bake! I hate greasy food. I love sweets hence my love for baking.

4. If you were an entertainment reporter, which celeb would you love to interview and why?

Gosh! There are so many, Besides the obivious Mariah Carey because of my dad connection, I think I would want to interview David Beckham! He is so HOT!

5. What was your favorite book as a preteen/teenager?

Chicken Soup for the teenage soul! I read all of them, there are like 10 of them now.

6. List your top 3 guilty pleasure television shows.

Summer: General Hospital, Big Brother, Pretty Little Liars

Fall: One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, Vampire Diaries.

7. What bumper sticker slogan best describes you/your attitude/your life?

I am bad at these so I am just going to wing it:

"Live for today, Remember the past, Embrace the Future!"

8. If you were to join a circus - what performer would you be?

I would do the trapeeze or what this girl is doing: