Lazy Saturday.. shopping, baking and dancing with my little girl

Yay for a 3 day weekend! Thank you Labor Day!

So for some reason I thought we'd have more spending money left over to use this weekend. I suppose the

money fairy

missed our place slightly because by the time Saturday evening rolled around I realized that under budgeted for my husband's birthday weekend.

Sophia and I had the morning all to ourselves on Saturday because Mike had to work.
Although I miss him on these mornings,(because he works most Saturdays- sucky I know) But Phia and I have found our way to enjoy our time together bonding. Plus its nice to not have to be all put together right in the morning. Yes I still do that, we haven't been married that long people! lol

 

Sophia and I went to her dance class.. running a bit late and trying to still be put together! She the one in the pink tutu... well all pink.. her favorite color of the moment.

After dance class she's always starving! as she likes to say, so we stopped by mommies favorite organic Mexican food restaurant, Chipoltle

 And it was delicious! Yes my 3 year old loves to eat healthy.. she loves her salad and veggies. Its is actually quite the job to get her to eat a piece of meat unless its my grilled tilapia- odd I know- but hey it could be worse.

After lunch we shopped till we dropped, got lots of crafty stuff and spent a large majority of my budget on fabric at Hobby Lobby for her soon to be new curtains in her room, pillows and odds and ends that I can't help but dream up! 

Pictures of her room to come soon. 

Saturday night the big partier that I am.. 

I baked the night away.. even after Mike got home. Had some left over bananas so naturally I had to make a Clean version of banana bread and then to top it off.. a Clean version of cinimon swirl bread. 

Links to these reciepes is below.. they ROCK! Soo good!

http://www.eatcleandiet.com/

Jamie Eason’s Cinnamon Swirl Protein Bread

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix the following ingredients together in a small bowl & set aside:
    - 1/3 cup Xylitol (or 1/4 cup of Stevia in the Raw)
    - 2 tsp cinnamon
3. Mix the following ingredients together in a large bowl:
    - 1 1/2 cups of oat flour
    - 2 scoops vanilla whey protein
    - 1 tbsp baking powder
    - 1/2 tsp salt
    - 1/2 cup Xylitol (or 1/4 cup of Stevia in the Raw)
4. Mix the following ingredients together in a small bowl:
    - 2 egg whites
    - 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
    - 1/3 cup or 1 4 oz jar of applesauce baby food
    - 1/4 cup low sugar vanilla yogurt (optional - but highly recommend)
5. Mix the ingredients from step 4 & step 3 together.
6. Spray 8X8 dish (I use Pyrex) with non-stick spray.
6. Pour a shallow layer of batter into the dish (about 1/4 of the batter).
7. Sprinkle heavily with half of the cinnamon/sugar mixture (from step 1).
8. Repeat with the remaining batter & add the remaining cinnamon/sugar mixture on top.
9. Draw a knife through the batter to marble.

I'm going to throw this one in simply because it is awesome.. I make it ALL the time and it can be used for so many things!

Salsa Chicken:

Ingredients:
3-4 lbs of boneless, skinless chicken breasts
4 large diced tomatoes
1.5 cups (roughly) of your favorite salsa
2 tbsp granulated garlic
2 tbsp red pepper flakes
1 tbsp black pepper
1 tsp cayenne pepper (if you want to make it spicy)

Directions:

Mix all ingredients in crock pot and cook on low for at least 7 hours.
2.  After 7 hours, shred the chicken in the crock pot and let it cool before placing it in a container.