Thursday, March 27, 2008

We Love Restoring Old Homes!


After a full week of checking out numerous homes, we finally decided on this home. It's over 100+ years old, has 2+ acres and is in a great location. I'm so excited to pick paint colors -especially for the outside! If you have any fun color schemes-I'm there! I can't wait to show you the after pictures-I've already burned them to memory. Oh wait, or is that to my dreams? Anyway with a lot of elbow grease this will be an awesome house.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Diet, Exercise, and Cheese!

Okay, I have a love - hate relationship with cheese. I love the taste, but hate the calories. I grew up in a family that was accustomed to eating all types of different cheeses, mind you, in small quantities but now I really have to watch my waistline so I try to cut the cheese out.
Now there are too many good cheeses to name them all but two of my children's favorites are Gouda [gow-da, not goo-da] and Muenster. We love to mix up different flavors when making casseroles and use at least 4 different cheeses when it comes to real Mac & Cheese.
What does this have to do with diet and exercise you ask? Well, I was looking on the I love cheese website for a new cheese and found that I could actually lose weight and still have my cheese! The catch was you have to be on a reduced calorie weight loss plan in order to get results! Ha - there's the catch. Oh well. To all of you out there that love cheese, I challenge you to try a different type of cheese, maybe only a bite or two so as not to ruin your weight loss plan. Would love to know what your favorites are!