Those fajitas that I’ve been trying to make since Friday?  They finally got made for lunch yesterday.  I forgot to buy beans so I decided to make some nachos.  Here are Shaun’s fully loaded nachos:

I didn’t take a picture of mine because they weren’t nearly as pretty.  I had about a fourth the amount of chips and I used goat mozzarella that I picked up from Traders-no tummy issues! My fajitas were not as tasty as they normally are so I’m going to hold off on posting that recipe until I have it figured out (again).  Isn’t it weird how you can be really good at making something and then it just goes away?  This happens to me occasionally.

The pancakes I made yesterday (sorry no pictures-it was in the middle of the sink crisis) were made from this recipe. I subbed 1 TBSP of agave for the brown sugar and I should have used more.  They were just okay but Lu liked them!

A lot of you were asking about the lentils from yesterday.  When I was making them I felt like there wasn’t enough spices.  I added a little more than the recipe called for and I added red pepper flakes.  About halfway through cooking I tasted it and it was NOT flavorful enough so I doubled up on the spices.  Shaun had a bite and still thought it lacked a little flavor.  I’m having it for lunch today so hopefully sitting overnight helped it.

As for the pumpkin butter, I’m creating this recipe and I’m still not 100% happy with it.  I’m going to work on it tonight and see if I can get it just right.  Then I’ll post an entire tutorial ;)  Some of you may even get some 😉

Last night we went to Shaun’s Mountain Bike Boot Camp end of season party.

I LOVED the house that it was at.  Usually in the Bay Area you find houses that are HUGE on teeny tiny lots.  Shaun and I both feel strongly that a 3-4 bedroom house is perfect for us. I’d like 4, Shaun would like 3-I want a craft room :). This house was the PERFECT size, a GREAT floor plan and it was on a HUGE lot.  The back yard was like 2 football field lengths and at the back they had a playground.  Not a play structure but a PLAYGROUND.  Our friend owns an upscale construction business and his clients ask him to haul away things all the time that he adds to their play area. I wish I had gotten pictures but I left the camera in the house :(  We had a GREAT time and Lu did so well.  I had total house envy.  Too bad we’ll never get a house like that here.  *sigh* I need to win the lottery! That means I’d have to play the lottery…

Here’s another picture that I LOVE-too bad it’s all blurry 🙁

This morning I had the alarm set for 5:30 to workout but I turned it off at 5:25.  I had a hard time sleeping last night with Lu coughing and I seem to have come down with a touch of what Lu had/has. I’m also pretty sore from running on Saturday and Kenpo yesterday.  My IT band is KILLING me :(  I foam rolled it out and hopefully I’ll be 100% tomorrow.  I plan to go for a nice walk at lunch-I wore my running shoes today and everything.

Lastly, my sweet husband let me start wearing my birthday present a few days early-isn’t he awesome?  Here it is:

The “diamonds” are a bit blingy for my taste but the Coach one that was almost exactly the same without the “diamonds” was 4 times as much.  So I’ll get over the bling.

Gratitude

I’m grateful for MY house.  It’s pretty awesome and I own it which makes me smile.