A Sunday without football, so sad. This was a nice way to start the day though.  Happy family 🙂 I didn’t feel like doing a real workout, which has been a problem for me lately, but I dragged my butt to the garage to do a very half a$$ Jillian DVD.  Something is better than nothing??  I don’t know… I had leftover buckwheat waffles with nut butter for breakfast before church.  We haven’t been to church as a family in what feels like an eternity (I think it’s actually only been a week?) but both… Read more >

Soda Springs is a great place for kids and it’s also pretty close to us in Davis.  It’s directly off 80 before you even get all the way to Tahoe, so a quick 2 hours after breakfast we were ready to go! It opens at 10 so we were among the first to arrive and rent gear.  I signed P up for a lesson since he’s never done skiing before, so while we waited for that to start we did tubing. After that I got him up on skis and he walked around a bit… Read more >

Friday was an emotional rollercoaster ride.  It started off all wrong because BOTH kids were up ALL NIGHT FREAKING LONG and so I don’t think I slept more than an hour.  Every time I finished settling one kid, I’d try to go back to my bed, only to hear the other one start to cry or whine.  Kyle had an important meeting on Friday so I was trying to make sure he stayed asleep through it all, which meant I was literally running between rooms to keep them from waking up the whole family.  I… Read more >

For dinner I made my second Bon Appetit recipe of the day.  Also shocking, was that I didn’t use the IP all day.  Oh wait, yes I did.  I had no veggie planned for the meal, but then remembered I got a 3 pack of artichokes on sale last weekend.  Perfect!  With only 20 minutes until dinner time I threw them in to steam in the magical lightning fast way that the instant pot does it. Ever since making this chicken and orzo dish, I realized it is the quintessential cozy one pan winter meal… Read more >

I’m delirious.  For some reason (slightly unknown to me) Valley monkey was up all night.  Not fussy or sick really, just wide awake and not in the mood to sleep.  I was so zonked I couldn’t even deal.  Kyle and I took turns doing I don’t even know what with her trying to get her back to sleep, but it was like someone had given her caffeine at 10 pm.  What the what?!  Girl, sleep is good.  Let’s all do it.  Hopefully it’s not a trend because I am not the kind of person who… Read more >