Paleo livin

I have been asked by several different people about eating paleo. It is a lifestyle, not a diet. That being said, we do not eat 100% paleo 100% of the time it's more of a 70/30 split. You've got to live people!  And we don't do it to lose weight, just to stay fit and feel good. I wanted to share our favorite recipe as of late. ***WARNING*** I am not a cook. I think the longer I pretend the better I will get. Anyway, good luck following my instructions:) I found a recipe on Pinterest and had to make a few adjustments...mostly because we aren't too fond of goat cheese.... And because Stephen comes from an Italian family and great grandma, straight from Italy, put hard boiled eggs and pepperoni on her lasagna and so we do too. 

Ingredients

3-4 zucchini

3-4 hard boiled eggs

1 bag pepperoni

Parmesan cheese

Meat sauce

1 lb ground extra lean turkey or hamburger

1 medium onion, diced

1 can diced tomatoes (15oz)

4 TB tomato paste

4 TB minced garlic (give or take)

3 TB Italian seasoning

1 TB garlic salt/powder

1 tsp salt

1 tsp pepper

White sauce

2 c Greek yogurt

1 egg

1/2 c Parmesan cheese

Brown your meat. Strain it (if it needs it) and add onion. Lower heat and add paste, diced tomato and all seasonings. Set aside and mix the yogurt egg and cheese. Now slice up your zucchini and spray your pan! Lay a layer of zucchini then meat sauce then hard boiled eggs. (Don't mind mine, they are a tad over cooked!) then white sauce another layer zucchini red sauce pepperoni and if you get a wild hair, some cheese on top (had some in the fridge, but when I don't we really don't miss it) bake at 375 for 30-40 minutes. A lot of water cooks out of the zucchini so you'll need to drain it after it cooks. Good luck!

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me. And I'm feelin GOOD.

This is really happening. We put our house up for sale this week!! WHAT? Tell me about it. We are crazy. I mean Stephen is crazy. When he first started talking about it last fall I told him NO WAY he was out of his mind. But last week when he approached me....well some things had changed. The real estate market over here is going NUTS. And it's going to crash hard again, I can feel it. So why not take advantage? We got a steal on this house when the market had bottomed out last time in January 2011. So we will be able to make a nice chunk of change to invest into a business opportunity. My Husband is amazing, and did I mention crazy? :) his mind is always working and thinking of things he can do for investments and money and savings. Im excited to see where this crazy ride will take us. I love answers to prayers that are vague. Like I said, my first answer to this was a HARD PASS. But this time I allowed the idea to sink in deep enough to need to pray about it and the answer was "be open to it" I felt like I had just shook a magic 8 ball. Be open? So do it or don't do it? Bottom line, I trust my sweetheart and this is something he really wants to do and so HERE. WE. GO. I will be sad to say goodbye, this is a great house!

Swingers

I have the best job in the whole world. On our walk today we got a wild hair to try the swings for the first time and I experienced death by adorableness. See for yourself.