Food Blogging

I usually don't blog about my food, but I have recently been changing how I eat.  With the change I have been going nuts posting food photos on Instagram and Facebook.  Finally on Facebook someone asked if I blog my recipes.  So here I am, blogging the first of what will be many I hope.  Any recipe I use that is straight from someone else I will just blog some photos of how mine turned out with a little review and link.  For today's recipe I give you Protein Bites(Protein Balls as my kids called them).  There are tons of these online and this is my take on one. 

Ingredients
1 cup oatmeal(I used old fashioned because that's what I have)
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/3 cup honey(Sam thought they tasted to much like honey, but I am a honey lover)
1/2 cup ground flaxseed
1 Tbs chia seed
1/2 cup chocolate chips(I only had big ones so I chopped them up some)
1 tsp vanilla 

Instructions
Mix everything together until thoroughly incorporated.  Let chill in the fridge for 1/2 hour.  Roll into walnut size balls and enjoy!  You may want your balls smaller so you can easily pop one at a time into your mouth.  Mine turned out to be a couple bites.  They are super yummy and filling.  They were a great snack to have in my fridge for hungry kiddos and moms alike.
 

Magical Forest

Who knew?  I live super close to a magical forest!  Okay, it's not really magical, but when I was there it sure was beautiful enough to be one!  I don't know if it was the moss.

Or the light. 

Or a combo of both.

But whatever it was I am sure glad I was there to take a photo and share with you.

Enjoying what I can

We have been blessed with some amazing weather here.  I would be telling a lie if I said I didn't want to be out in it, but with a family who just seems to not be able to get well there is not a lot of out door fun.  So instead of being bummed I am enjoying what I can.  And what I can enjoy right now is beauty out my window.  Out my window isn't always pretty.  It's an alley with apartments! But sometimes with enough zoom power I find beauty.  The mist rising off this roof was just magical to me.

Morning fog

Here in the Great Northwest we have been having some fog.  And sometimes the fog can feel all consuming and kind of a drag.  Not this fog though.  I don't know if the fog is really any different or just my state of mind, but either way I have been enjoying the fog!  I decided to take a couple pictures at my friends house to try and remember my happy fog.  I was going to head out this morning to capture some more of the morning fog, but Caleb woke up with a fever.  Taking care of him is much more important then my fog.  That can wait for another day.  Another blog.  For now I will post these.

And as we drove home the fog was lifting and I couldn't resist a shot of the sky.