Just a quick post here today. I am still working on the kids for Paleo and it is a constant battle. I really need them to jump on board. So far, they love breakfast and the baking. I can't seem to get them stuck on Lunch or Dinner menus. They are kids and love their mac-n-cheese and past. I did order some Paleo Pasta and I hope it shows up soon. I need to make chicken tetrazinni as soon as it arrives, a family favorite!
Some great breakfast ideas for you guys:
Chop up some of your favorite veggies and saute them in coconut oil, toss in eggs to scramble and top with avocados, S&P and hot sauce. This is so easy and good for you. My favorite veggies to do this with are: spinach, onions, tomatoes, jalapenos, mushrooms and bell peppers.
Another morning favorite, I made today, fried eggs and sweet potato hash. cut up onions and sweet potatoes and saute them in coconut oil add in nitrate free sausage and about a TBL of water and cover with a lid. Simmer until the sweet potatoes are soft. Meanwhile fry your eggs is coconut oil and then serve~ This morning I was out of my nitrate free sausage so I tool the All Natural Jimmie Deans sausage and made mini sausage meatballs and mixed those in instead. Very Yummy!
My daughter's favorite these days are eggs cooked in coconut oil, sprinkle a little nutmeg on them and she will eat 4 if you let her!
See breakfast is super easy! Now I just have to work on the other. I too am having a hard time finding my favorite lunch staple. Lately I have been resorting to my Paleo PB&J, frozen blueberries with a scoop or 2 of almond butter and then apples on the side. After that morning Crossfit work out I need some protein. If I only had some tuna I would make a quick tuna salad. My favorite is to mix tune with lemon juice, salt and pepper, red pepper flakes and capers. Serve over a bed of iceberg lettuce.
Off to work, get kids and then dinner time~! Chow
Monday, November 21, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Wedding, Birthday, New Baby and Accident! Whew!
Love these ladies!
So it has been a while! The Bodfam went to Houston for Trish Bodman's wed
ding this weekend. How beautiful it was and what a stunning
bride Trish was. Michael is one lucky man and I am so happy to welcome him to the family. Such a wonderful thing to hang out with my Bodman family. I am extremely lucky, you know why? Because my in laws are amazing and marrying Chris gave me the sisters I never had. Jessica, Trish, Rebecca, Theresa and our precious Juliana and some pretty great brothers too Jacob and Troy!
Friday on 11-11-11 I got a text photo of my new nephew, Baby Zane. Another amazing part to my family, Jeremy and Shanna had their first baby and its a BOY! Welcome Zane! This part of my family is just as fabulous.....I am truly blessed!
Saturday Morning - 11-12-12 Corbin's BDAY! What a blast and what a cutie. Corban loves his balls, Chris loves to spoil him and we all love to watch him go! I can't wait for him and Hayley to wear each other out one day. Love love love this precious boy!
Coming home on Sunday filled with Joy, we make it just in time to get Faith dressed and off to the soccer field for her 1pm game. The ladies played hard but could not pull off the win, the other team wanted it more and won 2-0. One more game this coming weekend to hold our title. Home sweet home after the game and the weather was so nice and Lulu was so hot from her game we decided to chill by the pool. Brave soul she was, she jumped into the 60degree pool. NUTSO! I did what I do best, lay down on my lounge chair and enjoyed the sun beating down on me. Lulu curled up in the chair beside me and we made our grocery list for our evening's plan "coconut shrimp and chicken, sweet potatoes and grilled veggies. As we lay there basking in the sun, our eyes so tired we drifted off to sleep.
Next thing I knew I was waking up in the sun and it was 4:30. Decided to wake Lulu and head off to the store. A quick trip for just a few thing and then we received an email about a bake sale in the hood. The twins around the corner baked home made chocolate chip cookies and were selling them outside. Of course we want to support our neighbors and kids so we parked the car in the garage and decided to walk over there in the beautiful weather. Grocery's wont go bad in a few minutes.
Faith, Grace and I headed to the twins, bought some cookies and ended up hanging for quite sometime, an hour to be exact! I looked at my watch and thought "Chris is going to be starving we better go" Off to the house to start dinner. Just as we get into the driveway we hear Hayley say "mom mom something happened" I got this eery feeling in my stomach and I studied her pulling up into the driveway on her bike making sure she looked OK. I could hear terror in her voice even though it was calm and sweet sounding. She slowly stepped off her bike and in a sweet voice "look mom I fell off my bike and somethings happening" as she looks up, blood goes everywhere...there is a gash under her chin about an inch wide and you can see the abrasions. I cupped her in my hands and ran inside to the kitchen. Chris came into the kitchen to see. The second we moved my hand from her chin we both looked at each other with fear in my eyes and said "ER room now"
I held my baby girl in the back seat and talked to her on the way to the Immediate Care center down the road. She was so sweet and so calm and kept saying how tired she was. Keeping her awake by talking to her about the accident and how she is going to be just fine. Although I was freaking out inside! She said her arm hurt and she could not move it. Her face looks awful, but that she said was not so painful.
The doctors go
t us in pretty quickly and after inspecting the cut, she said we have 2 options. 6 stitches or we can glue it back together. After explaining the difference to Hayley, she opted for glue. Still no tears, just calmness! The doctor came in with antiseptic cleaning and cleaned off the injury, that made her cry because it burned. I could only imagine the pain while cleaning that deep cut. My poor baby. Within seconds the cut was pushed together 
and glued shut. What a trooper. 5 minutes of drying went by and then off to the xray room. She was once again a trooper, putting her arm in the ways the nurse asked and then back to the room waiting on results.
Doctor entered the room again and sure enough, buckle fracture. We cleaned her up with a wet rag and the fiberglass cast was applied and wrapped. WHEW! What a night. Well now it is 7:45 and no way was I going to be able to cook nor did I have an appetite. Right next door, Wendy's! Ok so not Paleo and so not what I had planned. With 3 little munckins and a night like this we compromise. Wendy's and frosty's for the kiddos!
Home and tucked my baby girl in, everyone grubbed down on food and headed off to bed. Groceries!!! Yikes! Unpacked the groceries and off to bed.
5am the alarm goes off for Crossfit. Hayley says don't go mommy.....UMMM no question about it. I will stay and snuggle. 7am came before we knew it and we were all up and getting ready for the day. Hayley decided to tough it out and go to school. She was emotionally drained from the night before, but I have a feeling she wanted to show off her war wounds.
Dropped kids off and I headed to Yoga! Well just me and the fabulous Stephanie. Boy did she work us out! Challenging and great Yoga class. Then off to work for a few hours and back to Combine for the 12:30 WOD. So glad I went:
5 Rounds of:
5 HSPU (Hand Stand Push Ups)
10 SLDL (Stiff Leg Dead Lifts)
30 Air Squats
800M run! AWESOME work out!
Back to the house to shower, more work and then off to kid duty at 3:30. Pick up CG and Take Lulu and CG to soccer practice then meet at JiJitsu for Parent coach meeting at 5:20. Back home by 6pm to prepare my Sunday meal that never happened!
Fried Coconut Shrimp and Chicken
Mix Almond Flour, coconut flakes, salt and pepper in a bowl
Whisk together a few eggs
Dip the jumbo shrimp in the egg then the dry mixture and in the frying pan
Fry them in coconut oil only
Place them on a baking sheet
Repeat with chicken tenders
I put the baking sheet in the over at 350 for 15 minutes while I finished the sweet potatoes and grilled some veggies.
Veggies:
Red and Green Bell Peppers, Mushrooms and asparagus - mix them all in a bowl with balsamic vinegar, olive oil and S&P. Throw them in a grill basket and grill to your likings!
Dunzo!
So it has been a while! The Bodfam went to Houston for Trish Bodman's wed
ding this weekend. How beautiful it was and what a stunning
bride Trish was. Michael is one lucky man and I am so happy to welcome him to the family. Such a wonderful thing to hang out with my Bodman family. I am extremely lucky, you know why? Because my in laws are amazing and marrying Chris gave me the sisters I never had. Jessica, Trish, Rebecca, Theresa and our precious Juliana and some pretty great brothers too Jacob and Troy!Friday on 11-11-11 I got a text photo of my new nephew, Baby Zane. Another amazing part to my family, Jeremy and Shanna had their first baby and its a BOY! Welcome Zane! This part of my family is just as fabulous.....I am truly blessed!
Saturday Morning - 11-12-12 Corbin's BDAY! What a blast and what a cutie. Corban loves his balls, Chris loves to spoil him and we all love to watch him go! I can't wait for him and Hayley to wear each other out one day. Love love love this precious boy!
Coming home on Sunday filled with Joy, we make it just in time to get Faith dressed and off to the soccer field for her 1pm game. The ladies played hard but could not pull off the win, the other team wanted it more and won 2-0. One more game this coming weekend to hold our title. Home sweet home after the game and the weather was so nice and Lulu was so hot from her game we decided to chill by the pool. Brave soul she was, she jumped into the 60degree pool. NUTSO! I did what I do best, lay down on my lounge chair and enjoyed the sun beating down on me. Lulu curled up in the chair beside me and we made our grocery list for our evening's plan "coconut shrimp and chicken, sweet potatoes and grilled veggies. As we lay there basking in the sun, our eyes so tired we drifted off to sleep.
Next thing I knew I was waking up in the sun and it was 4:30. Decided to wake Lulu and head off to the store. A quick trip for just a few thing and then we received an email about a bake sale in the hood. The twins around the corner baked home made chocolate chip cookies and were selling them outside. Of course we want to support our neighbors and kids so we parked the car in the garage and decided to walk over there in the beautiful weather. Grocery's wont go bad in a few minutes.
Faith, Grace and I headed to the twins, bought some cookies and ended up hanging for quite sometime, an hour to be exact! I looked at my watch and thought "Chris is going to be starving we better go" Off to the house to start dinner. Just as we get into the driveway we hear Hayley say "mom mom something happened" I got this eery feeling in my stomach and I studied her pulling up into the driveway on her bike making sure she looked OK. I could hear terror in her voice even though it was calm and sweet sounding. She slowly stepped off her bike and in a sweet voice "look mom I fell off my bike and somethings happening" as she looks up, blood goes everywhere...there is a gash under her chin about an inch wide and you can see the abrasions. I cupped her in my hands and ran inside to the kitchen. Chris came into the kitchen to see. The second we moved my hand from her chin we both looked at each other with fear in my eyes and said "ER room now"
I held my baby girl in the back seat and talked to her on the way to the Immediate Care center down the road. She was so sweet and so calm and kept saying how tired she was. Keeping her awake by talking to her about the accident and how she is going to be just fine. Although I was freaking out inside! She said her arm hurt and she could not move it. Her face looks awful, but that she said was not so painful.
The doctors go
t us in pretty quickly and after inspecting the cut, she said we have 2 options. 6 stitches or we can glue it back together. After explaining the difference to Hayley, she opted for glue. Still no tears, just calmness! The doctor came in with antiseptic cleaning and cleaned off the injury, that made her cry because it burned. I could only imagine the pain while cleaning that deep cut. My poor baby. Within seconds the cut was pushed together and glued shut. What a trooper. 5 minutes of drying went by and then off to the xray room. She was once again a trooper, putting her arm in the ways the nurse asked and then back to the room waiting on results.Doctor entered the room again and sure enough, buckle fracture. We cleaned her up with a wet rag and the fiberglass cast was applied and wrapped. WHEW! What a night. Well now it is 7:45 and no way was I going to be able to cook nor did I have an appetite. Right next door, Wendy's! Ok so not Paleo and so not what I had planned. With 3 little munckins and a night like this we compromise. Wendy's and frosty's for the kiddos!
Home and tucked my baby girl in, everyone grubbed down on food and headed off to bed. Groceries!!! Yikes! Unpacked the groceries and off to bed.
5am the alarm goes off for Crossfit. Hayley says don't go mommy.....UMMM no question about it. I will stay and snuggle. 7am came before we knew it and we were all up and getting ready for the day. Hayley decided to tough it out and go to school. She was emotionally drained from the night before, but I have a feeling she wanted to show off her war wounds.
Dropped kids off and I headed to Yoga! Well just me and the fabulous Stephanie. Boy did she work us out! Challenging and great Yoga class. Then off to work for a few hours and back to Combine for the 12:30 WOD. So glad I went:
5 Rounds of:
5 HSPU (Hand Stand Push Ups)
10 SLDL (Stiff Leg Dead Lifts)
30 Air Squats
800M run! AWESOME work out!
Back to the house to shower, more work and then off to kid duty at 3:30. Pick up CG and Take Lulu and CG to soccer practice then meet at JiJitsu for Parent coach meeting at 5:20. Back home by 6pm to prepare my Sunday meal that never happened!
Fried Coconut Shrimp and Chicken
Mix Almond Flour, coconut flakes, salt and pepper in a bowl
Whisk together a few eggs
Dip the jumbo shrimp in the egg then the dry mixture and in the frying pan
Fry them in coconut oil only
Place them on a baking sheet
Repeat with chicken tenders
I put the baking sheet in the over at 350 for 15 minutes while I finished the sweet potatoes and grilled some veggies.
Veggies:
Red and Green Bell Peppers, Mushrooms and asparagus - mix them all in a bowl with balsamic vinegar, olive oil and S&P. Throw them in a grill basket and grill to your likings!
Dunzo!
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Double Unders Ladies
Yesterday was such an amazing day! Showering husband with gifts in the morning and reading all his birthday wishes. He is a likable guy!
Up early to make a morning breakfast scramble for Hubby, get kids off to school and then hit the computer for some office time. My Tuesday is like your Sunday! Around 12 I started to get hungry so I went for some left over tomato basil soup and whipped up an avocado and artichoke salad from my new favorite cook book, Make it Paleo. Toss some spring mix with artichokes, heart of palms and avocado. I added some Olive Oil and Zinfandel vinegar we picked up in Napa, S&P and some balsamic vinegar! Ready in 10!
Time flies when you are following up on leads, before I knew it it was time to get DT to show a new client a condo and a unique house in Clarksville. What a fabulous location, just minutes from downtown and tons of great restaurants in walking distance. 2 BR 1 bath at $319K can't beat that price for Clarksville.
Rushed out quickly to
make it to my girls first Kids Crossfit class. UGH the traffic, at least I made it in time to catch the last 30 minutes. How adorable, CSC Crossfit boys put on a great show with these ladies, doing air squats, burpees, box jumps, crab walks and 200M runs.
These girls and one boy worked very hard and did an amazing job! Tuesday's and Thursdays from 4:30-5:30 check it out if you live in Austin~ Click here to go to The Combine website.
With work outs complete it is time to wash up and celebrate. Little did Chris know of a few of our friends where meeting us out for dinner at the new Trudy's off 290W. I thought it was great and always happy to celebrate a birthday with friends!
Well crazy thing is that Hayley ate one too many bites of chocolate and she got a little crazy towards the end! Her heart was racing for a while.
Changing the subject :) Here is to Double Unders Ladies: If you don't know a double under, you should! Jump rump but the rope has to pass under your feet 2times. Well this morning at our 5:30am WOD, we did a benchmark. I did my first double under today and did a lot of them :) Work out was 5 clean and squats then Double Unders and Ab mat sit-ups. 50, 40, 30, 20, 10. Sadly I could not triple the amount and do single unders. Robert made us do attempts. He said tripling the amount is suppose to be a deterrent to try the DU. Yeah not for me. I would gladly knock out 150, 120, 90, 60 and 30 instead.... NOT TODAY. We had 20 minutes to do our WOD and I finished in 20:45. I'm proud of myself for finishing. Ladies, try a double under and you will know why I am not a fan~ email me when you think you know why!
Still hoping that those of you that are reading the blog are motivated to eat well, work out hard, play a lot and spend time with the people in your life that matter the most! Here is to yet another fabulous day in Austin Texas~ Make it a Great one!
Check out our coaches at CSC Crossfit! They can help you to be strong, stay strong and live well :)
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Too Busy to Cook
Well its been a while because of life....3 kids, soccer tournaments and work. This past weekend was somewhat challenging to cook. Grace had 4 games, Faith had 2 games and Chris and I were running around making sure they were fed and well rested to play. Saturday at 6:45am I headed out with Faith to her game in Leander TX. That is a 30-45 minute drive so up early and out the door, Starbucks run and off to the fields. Starbucks have these yummy sausage biscuits but of course I get the egg sausage, no cheese and forget the english muffin. That's as close to paleo as I can get.
These games are so fun to watch because the girls play their hearts out. Then we rush back to Grace's game at 11, starving and I have 3 girls with me.... We decide to stop in at Kerby Lane. Delish Kerby Lane has some wonderful options with eggs, veggies and more. The girls all opted for Pumpkin pancakes :)
After a quick chow down, we get to the Slaughter field to watch the Pink Roses win their first tournament game. 2nd game at 3:00 enough time for us to get home and have some lunch rest the girls and head back to the fields again. Another WIN for the Pink Roses. Now it is 4:30 and they are all famished. I have to go sign a contract so the girls and Chris head to Jack Allen's with another Pink Roses Family, the Cohen's! I head home change quickly, sign the contract and run to meet the family! With the farm to table approach at Jack Allen's I can eat almost anything just hold the potatoes :)
The girls just can't get enough of each other, they talk us in to coming back to the house for some more play time.... Why not, our friends and the girls friends head to the Bodman house. Here we sit out by the pool and enjoy the sound of water, kids jumping on the trampoline and of course some brewsky's and wine. It is Saturday Night!
Sunday up again for some more soccer games. 2 for Grace and 1 for Faith! Another win for Faith's team and Grace's team pulled off 2 more wins! The best part is that Chris has been coaching these girls since they started playing soccer. They adore him, he is the best coach and the Pink Roses WON the tournament! Congrats!
Finally a trip to the store will allow me to plan for the week of food. I have been wanting to make these lamb balls with zucchini for some time now so hopefully I can make them tomorrow night. Sunday was filled with left overs for the fam but I was so tired of eating out that I opted for my favorite PB&J Paleo style with some apples. Mix almond butter with blue berries and there you have it! Sadly, Faith and Hayley all came down with something so we spent the evening snuggled up on the couch getting caught up on our Xfactor shows.
My goal is to cook as much as I can this week but not sure how that will pan out with Chris' bday being today and of course I have to take him to a Mexican dinner! Then we leave Thursday night to head to Houston. I CANT WAIT to see my family! Trish is getting married on Saturday and I am so excited for her.
At least I managed to make some homemade tomato basil soup last night, what goes with that with a house full of sickies....Grilled Cheese, so not paleo but I did use coconut spread instead of butter :)
Tomato Basil Soup
5 tomatoes on the vine - cut into quarters and toss in S&P and olive oil, roasted in the over at 350 for 30 minutes
Meanwhile, cut one onion and 5 garlic cloves. Saute them in a large pot with 1 TBL of coconut oil
Mix in the roasted tomatoes, 3 cups of vegetable broth, 1/2 cup of chopped basil, S&P to taste. Bring to a boil and then simmer for 30 minutes.
Upon completion place in a food processor to puree and serve!
This recipe comes from the Make it Paleo cook book! Enjoy!
Door bell just rang....Greenling farmer produce has arrived!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVORITE MAN! CHRIS, MY HUSBAND FOR 12 YEARS. I LOVE YOU!
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