Blogmas: Our weekend in Review

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY!!

Here are the 2 links, number 1, number 2.

Okay back to our regularly scheduled blogmas!

Advent Activity: Wrap presents

Advent scriptures: Matthew 2:7-8

7 Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. 8 He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”

Our weekend in Review

Friday started off the weekend fun, I went with my bestie to her work Christmas party! They had us play a game where you had to blow up 8 balloons, stick them in a nylon stocking, then someone on the team had to stick the nylon stocking on their head and sing "Jingle bells." Right when we got started I told my team don't blow up the balloons too big, because of that tip, we won!!! YAY!!! There was also a white elephant gift exchange done with a poem, and some yummy food. Overall it was a fun party!! We also decorated our Gingerbread house. 

Saturday my family and I planned Christmas dinner, that evening the Charger's played the 49ers. We went to a restaurant for food and to watch the game. Chargers barely squeaked one by. This day was nice because it was also filled with napping!!!

Sunday was a festive day, we went to church where max and I wore our Christmas outfits. It was pretty much the same thing I wore to the party on Friday and since I forgot to take a picture that night I took a picture on Sunday. It was while we were at Target Mackenzie was dancing in the 3 way mirror, so I took a few shots of us. We also stopped at friend's house to exchange gifts, they got Max a Elsa barbie doll. She is in love and will not let it go. Then that evening was Mondo's work party. Which I wore a festive ugly sweater.

Overall our weekend was busy, relaxing, and altogether fun. I can't believe Christmas is only 3 sleeps away!! Tomorrow I will do a pregnancy update and Wednesday I will announce the legging winner!!!

Blogmas day 15: Our weekend in review with pictures

Happy Monday!! Christmas is only 10 days away!! Mondo and I plan on finishing up our shopping tonight, then it's time to wrap, wrap, WRAP!!

Here were the advent activities for the weekend

Friday: Bake goodies

Scripture: Luke 1:46-56

Saturday: Visit Santa!!

Scripture: Luke 2:1-5

Sunday: Decorate Tree

Scripture: Luke 2: 6-7

Monday: Deliver Christmas drink to Aunty Amy

Scripture: Luke 2:8-12

 8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

Friday Night we made gluten free cookies, we still have to decorate them. They didn't turn out so great, very dry and I think it's because I had to add coconut flour to roll them out. So the hunt is still on for a yummy gluten free cookie recipe. That was pretty much it for that day.

Saturday after naps we decided to head downtown and see SANTA!! We get there to see a super long line, after 20 min of waiting we moved 5 feet. This wasn't going to work. So we opted to head to dinner instead, heart crushed!!

After dinner we met with my mom and gramma to ride a horse drawn carriage through the park to look at lights they set up.

After that we went back to see Santa, the line wasn't as long so I took Max to the bathroom to get changed (I put her in warm clothes for the park). Mondo stood in line. Mackenzie was ok with talking to Santa and even excited but, when we put her in his lap for a picture, that was a big H-E double hockey sticks NO!!

After dinner we went to Old Navy to do some shopping and I scored a pair of maternity shorts for 50 cents!!! More on that in a later blog post. Yes, I think they are worthy of their own blog post!!

Sunday we went to church, Costco for lunch, home to watch the Chargers lose (come on chargers get your act together). After dinner we decorated the Christmas tree, 1/2 way through I started having Braxton Hicks contractions so we stopped. No pics of the tree since it's not done. 

And that was our weekend. I hope you had a great weekend!

Don't forget to enter the drawing for a free pair of leggings. Here is the link again. I will announce the winner on Christmas Eve, drawing ends next week!!

Until tomorrow,

Dorinda

Blogmas day 9: our weekend in review

I am so sorry I took a break from blogmas. I only meant to take the weekend off but due to the Internet being down yesterday I had to take an extra day. Actually the Internet is still down and I am typing this on my phone. Anyways,  Thursday I had a doctors appointment and it turned out to be super stressful, I will update on that when I post a pregnancy update this week. Because of how stressed I felt from the doctor appointment I decided to spend some time relaxing and enjoying the weekend with my family, even though it ended up being super busy, and that's why I did not blog for a few days. I am still giving away a pair of leggings and you can enter to win those here.  Onto our weekend, do you count friday as the weekend? Friday I actually went home from work early due to having contractions probably from the stress from the day before. Then that night my amazing husband set up a surprise party for me! Some family and friends met up at a local arcade to play mini golf. We got a late start so that's all we did. Pregnant lady is a party pooper. Side note; playing mini golf with a toddler presents it's own challenges. It was still a lot of fun! I forgot to take pictures but, my bestie brought the best cupcakes ever from a local bakery. I mean the best ever! Saturday I had to work in the morning and after work I raced home to get ready for a wedding. I forgot to take a picture of my outfit which I was super proud of, I did try to be a lady and wear heels. That was a bad idea! From all the sitting at the wedding my feet swelled and walking became painful.

After the wedding we hurried home to get changed for my work Christmas party. I did get a picture.

I think you can tell in the pic just how tired I was finally getting. Haha!

Sunday was church and then time to head out for a Christmas tree.

It was super muddy out as you can tell from Mackenzie's pictures but it was super fun. The farm we went to gave free hot cocoa and candy canes, and kids got to choose an ornament for free. So sweet! That night we had a meeting at the church. Which made for a long day. Left the house at 10 am and didn't make it home until 9 pm. I didn't mind though, it was a day spent with my family!

That was our weekend. Thank you for sticking with me while I took a small break. I plan on continuing blogmas, although I think I will take breaks on the weekends to focus on my family. I will announce the legging winner Christmas eve. I hope you are enjoying this holiday season.

Here was our advent activities for the past few days and the scriptures.

Day 4: Christmas craft
             Jeremiah 33:14-16

Day 5: Christmas movie
              Luke 1:5-10

Day 6: Journey through Bethlehem (we didn't make it)
              Luke 1: 11-17

Day 7: Get our tree
             Luke 1:18-25

Day 8: Lunch with daddy
             Luke 1:26-38

Day 9: Christmas craft
             Matthew 1:18-21

See you soon,
Dorinda

Whole 30 and me

To start off this will be a boring post without any pictures unless I give a weekend update. My uncle, his wife and 6 kids visited this weekend! It was so nice having them here!! They never come this way we always go to them, so a nice change of pace. Pretty much the only excitement we had was Saturday. My parents picked me up after work and we headed to Greenbluff (a mash of farms and pumpkin patches near here). We only had time for one farm that day. My uncle and his family went into a corn maze while Mackenzie and I played in the pumpkin patch. We also looked around a little with my mom, dad and aunt, and tried a pumpkin doughnut. Mondo and I plan on heading back in a couple of weeks for a family day there and to get some pumpkins!

Mackenzie loved LOVED the pumpkins! I knew she would, she always points them out. She especially loved the "yittle" pumpkins. It wasn't a large pumpkin patch just an area where they placed a bunch of pumpkins, so at one point I just sat down nearby and let Mackenzie run and climb all over. She was having fun, ran by me and I yelled; "Where are your shoes?". Luckily they were together nearby. She also sat down next to me in the midst of a bunch of pumpkins and said; "a punkin for kenzie and a punkin for baby sister." She has been doing that a lot lately, talking about baby sister and doing things for her. So, cute and sweet!

Mackenzie lined up all the "yittle punkins"

Ok, onto the title of the post whole 30. As you are reading this I am in the midst of Day 1 of my whole 30 diet. I decided to do this after my morning sickness with baby number 2 ceased and I was still eating like a pig, not healthy choices either. I had seen a blogger post on it and did some research. This fit all my needs it would help kick the sugar monster, I didn't need to count calories, and it would be safe for me and baby since I am just eating whole foods. I was going to start in September but, one of my friends strongly suggested I read the book first. So, I waited to check out the book at my library first before I started. That is how I came up with the Oct begin date. At, the dinner table I had been talking about what foods I could and couldn't eat, the testimonies in the book as well as online, and other stuff when my mom declared she thought the whole family should do it together. So, my mom, dad, grandma, husband, aunt and daughter are all participating in the Whole 30 together. I am super excited for doing this with Mackenzie, since the age of 1, she has had eczema on her knees and elbows. The Whole 30 has had success with ridding the eczema and finding the source of it, since it almost always deals with a food allergy. 

So, I am jumping in and am super excited, nervous, dreading, fearful, of the challenge of this diet. I will post updates every once in awhile as to my challenges and success along the way. After this month I plan on trying again in the first month of baby number 2 to see how it will effect my milk before returning to work. Most women report an increase in supply! This might be something I keep up at work to keep my milk supply up. I also plan on the challenge of this to reset my system and jump start me into making better food choices for myself and my family. I am not doing this to lose weight, that pretty much is impossible since I am growing a baby, but to create a healthy life style. 

Here is the website for Whole 30, you don't have to read the book to do it, but I highly recommend it. It helps explain why certain foods are being cut out, and how to healthy bring them back in while paying attention to what they do to your body. I also will post a few links to some recipe sights, I can't eat the same foods for 30 days in a row (blech), I am excited to try some of these.

Whole 30

Nom Nom Paleo

Stupid Easy Paleo

If you are on instagram look up #whole30 for a lot more recipes and resources.