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5.03.2012

Instagram in APRIL



So my daughter....loves to pick her nose, no seriously she does.  I feel like I'm constantly telling her to "get your fingers out of your nose" One day last week she was all excited cause she had in her words "two of them" two fingers up her nose. lol  

Don't you just love the picture on the right?! My daughter took it.  She loves playing with my phone and the phone camera.


I just love the photo on the left.  That was taken at a little place called "LongWood Gardens" on Easter Sunday.  I'd like to make it a family tradition to visit this beautiful place every Easter.

I have had my hospital bag packed and ready to go since the middle of April, but I'm guessing that since I'm more ready this time around for the arrival of our new bundle of joy she won't come early like her sister lol.  Isn't that usually how things work.


Oh the joys of spring and summer  bugs come alive again.
I know it's hard to really gage how big this spider is from the picture I took, but he was hudge!!  If you have ever seen a Canadian tooney {two dollar coin} he was pretty close to that size if not a little bigger.  Ewww so glad he wasn't in my house!!

Leave it to my daughter to have such perfect timing.  She decided to throw water at me at the exact same time as me trying to take a picture of her. The result was a wet phone and the picture below on the right. :)



So the last picture was taken May 1st so not technically an April Instagram but I'm so excited to share it anyway. I finally passed my drivers road test and am now a fully licensed driver.  I'm so glad to have that stress behind me.  To celebrate my sweet hubby is taking me for some "Fish and Chips {french fries}" tomorrow for lunch.  He found a little restaurant near our home that serves them only on Fridays. I'm so excited!!  

Hope you all have a great weekend!! 

4.26.2012

My fav Pinterest recipe finds of the week....


My favorite thing to do with Pinterest these days is spend hours looking at all the fabulous food ideas.  I think every week I make at least one new recipe that I found on the Pin boards and so this week I wanted to share some of my fav finds. 

This is on the dinner menu for next week. I lovvvvve fresh grilled pineapple!! 
grilled hawaiian chicken kabobs

I'm actually debating whether to make these cute ice cream sandwiches today or not.  It's been a rough day and would love to "pig out" on one of these yummy things but not sure I have the energy to accomplish the task. 
definitely homemade ice cream sandwiches

My M-I-L has been staying away from gluten and so I've been taking more notice to recipes that are or could be made into gluten free. 
I have to try these soon! 
Portabella Pizza Bites - less cheese, low carb.

Although I've never had this Olive Garden soup I made it at home just because it sounded so yummy and boy was it good!! I'm now super excited to get to an Olive Garden and try the actual soup and see how they compare. :)  
P.S I made my own potato gnocchi using this recipe of Mario Batali's it was very easy to do.
Chicken gnocchi soup just like olive garden

With this pregnancy the one thing that I havn't lost my love for is any type of Asian food. I could probably eat chinese every night if I let myself.  
This is a must try sometime soon! 
Soba noodles with sweet ginger scallion sauce

Have I made you hungry yet?! :) 

♥Alicia