My New Watch

When Debi was here visiting, she had this really neat watch and I guess they are all the rage in Utah. They are hand made beaded watches and Debi had made hers. They are a basic watch face and then you can make different bands out of beads so your watch can always match your outfit-how cool! So I decided to try it out and make me a watch. It's a little drab, but that's because the colored rock/beads I bought wouldn't fit on my string. I'm learning and it was fun, so I'll probably be making me some different bands soon...

Logan and Cereal

If you don't know by now, Logan is a VERY picky eater. By just looking at an item, he knows whether he will like it or not. One thing he will always eat is cereal. He rarely has only one kind of cereal in his bowl, he loves to mix them together. Here are a few of his recent concoctions:

This is Cheerios, Cookie Crisp and CocoaPuffs

This is Frosted Flakes and Trix.

This is Cheerios and Apple Jacks.

For the past 9 months or so, I have been working on eating better and getting back into an exercise routine. I've done pretty well so far, but still have my hangups...chocolate... In the process I've lost 7 lbs even though I didn't go into this to lose weight. I have a family history of high cholesterol and heart disease and realized I better get my act together. One of my goals was to lower the amount of soda I drank and I now only have one or two a week versus one or two a day before. I am really bad about getting vegetables with dinner, so this week I decided to try one vegetarian meal a week and here is how week one went...

I had seen recipes for Black Bean Burgers and decided to try them since I like black beans a lot.

Here are the ingredients:

Here is what it looked like after I put all the ingredients into the food processor:

And here is the final product after baking:

I know it doesn't look like the most appetizing thing in the world, but it tasted really good. The mix was pretty gooey, and therefore the middle was a little gooey, but not in a gross way. I think I'll definitely make them again. Ty hasn't tried them yet, so we will have to see what he thinks about them.