Fine!

Fine! I'll  do some flippin' posts! I barely know where to start. So, I'm just going to do a bunch of picture posts to catch up. Then leave me alone! :) 

New Favorite Appliances

We bought a new blendtec blender because we've been buying crappy blenders like every year and after our last one started to leak we both decided to wait until we could buy a really good blender, so we finally bought this awesome one. Being a former Zuka Juice employee, I can truly appreciate a good blender and a good smoothie. I am loving this thing, we use it just about everyday. You can make ice cream, smoothies, soups, jams, salsa, batters, I mean seriously, it is awesome.

We also caved and bought a dishwasher. We LOVE it. It works great, it has  3 years of warranty and it's quiet. No complaining here :)

Visitors

We have been so lucky to have people come and visit us. 

In early April, Rob & Nina came for a visit. We had so much fun being with them and their cute girls.  They came over Easter, it made for an awesome Easter Egg hunt & some really sweet looking colored eggs.

And my brother Tim & Monique came just last week. They came for like 5 days and we just got to hang out. It was SO awesome having them here. They of course spoiled Brandon and Bridger with a ton of attention. We just loved having them here. 

So, who's next?

Earth Day

Happy Earth Day!

I love today, because it is a great reminder (of what we should be doing everyday) that we need to love our Earth and do our best to keep it beautiful and clean.

Lately, Ben and I have been talking a lot about what we can do and what choices we can make to create less of a carbon footprint and live a better healthier life. 

We are trying hard to find alternatives to plastics that we just throw away. So, I'm not buying body wash anymore, as soon as I run out I'll just use bar soap. There are shampoo bars of soap too and I think I'll do that when we run out of shampoo. I'm really thinking every time I buy something made out of plastic if there is an alternative. I'm planning on using reusable grocery bags for grocery's. I'm even thinking about doing cloth diapers. They seem way better than the old days ones. I have one I'm trying one out and we'll see how it works out. We're just trying to faze out of using these things, but hopefully be able to cut out and recycle the rest.

We're trying to eat better too. We eat so many packaged and processed foods. Both Ben and I have cut out eating meat by a lot. We didn't really eat a ton of meat that much to begin with, but we're eating less, and replacing it with better nutritious food. The hard part is Brandon, he is a junk food junky and lives solely off of packaged and processed food. 

I actually really love trying to be a more conscious about what I am doing and consuming. I feel like it can make life more simple in a way and can save money and the earth. I'm really kind of excited about making these changes and more that I'm not writing about, because I'm kind of tired feel like I'm just rambling. 

So here are some things that kind of inspired me to finally start making some changes.

This is really cool video about our stuff. You should watch it. It is really interesting.

This is a book I'm reading right now that is really good to. It gave me a lot of motivation to eat better.

And here are some nice websites that inspire me a bit to use less plastic:

http://lifelessplastic.blogspot.com/

http://tinychoices.com/

What is the deal?

Why do they show people puking on TV so much!?! It is so disgusting! I swear there has been a big influx in TV shows & movies showing people barfing in the last year or two. 

Not cool. 

Hat Cake

I made a cake for church and it turned out real cool. It was supposed to be the shape of a hat.

Warmer weather baby!

We went on a little hike with the kids. 

We are loving this weather!