Happy 2nd Birthday Allie

We celebrated Allie's second birthday in March. Can't believe that she is two already! She is a typical 2 year old, throwing tantrums when she doesn't get her way because, of course, she loves to be independent! Allie wanted pizza for her birthday so we invited some friends to Pizza Ranch and then came back to have cake and to open the rest of her cards and presents.

Eating Healthy

We usually don't eat bad but we tend to eat out a little bit more than what we should. With our cruise a little less than a year away, we both wanted to drop about 15-20lbs. Plus, we are having a Biggest Loser Rivals competition at work, Dwight and I are rival partners ... an extra incentive to lose the weight! I picked up this cookbook at the bookstore a few weeks ago and it has a lot of easy recipes, stuff that we can actually fix and enjoy eating. Makayla loves to cook so it's been nice having her help in the kitchen. We start out with meal prep on Sundays, where we plan our dinners for the week, making sure we start to thaw out meat and get all the veggies cut up. Saturday night meal was Grilled Pork Chops with Cilantro Salsa. The salsa was really good, we had some left over and was able to enjoy it with chips the next day.

Everyday Pictures

 

Toddler Bed

Allie wouldn't sleep in the toddler bed we got her and still wanted to go in her crib. On Friday, Dwight took off the side railing to her crib. She loved getting in by herself and actually did really well. 

The next night I convinced her to sleep in her big girl bed. She went to sleep there but when I opened her door to check on her I found her back in her crib bed. Time to move out the crib bed! She loves her "new room" and her bed.

Happy Valentine's Day

 

We started out the day by having strawberry sprinkle pancakes!

 

Followed by some gifts and homemade cards.

Our Minnesota grandma brought the girls some flowers.

We watched movies and then sat down to a nice dinner. Pepper Jack Grilled Chicken with heart shaped bacon, beans, fries and strawberry, brownie and marshmallow bites.

New Furnace

Our furnace starting acting up on Sunday night and then completely stopped working on Monday morning. After calling for a repair, we found out that not only did we have a gas leak but there were three cracks in the furnace, in addition to the humidifier not even working. So Tuesday, they installed a package of furnace and air conditioner, with a new humidifier.