What did my day look like today? Plan, plan, plan! But it was all good and enjoyable planning. The bulk of my day was having lunch at my friend's house while we planned one of our best gals' baby shower. Our Sunday school class is a baby making MACHINE! Let's see. 6 women, 5 tots under 2, and 2 more on the way. Yea. We are popping them out like a log flume ride. Although it's insanely awesome that we get to go through it all pretty much together and have our kids grow up together. Here is a picture of all of us at my own baby shower.

September 2008

I have to say that I am so so so excited to be helping to plan this shower. My good friend Angie (on the far right) and her husband waited a long time (2.5 years) for this to come. With patience and faith, God blessed them naturally with the little girl they are awaiting. It's so amazing and it brings me pure joy to help celebrate this special time in her life.

Other planning that occurred was preparation for this Sunday's lesson and discussion for our Goodlife class. This planning is fruitful because it serves as a way for me to learn more and grow my own faith. I will be sharing about this in my Goodlife Sunday post this weekend, of course. 🙂

The final part of my plan plan plan day was preparing some practice lessons for the kid I tutor. Before my stay at home mommy days I was a Spanish teacher and tutor now on the side for some easy extra dough. Luckily, I didn't spend TOO much time working on today's practice cards and drills because I got a call about 5 minutes before the student was due to arrive saying he wasn't going to make it. At first I was annoyed, but then I looked at it as an opportunity to play with my family.

We rolled the ball and scattered flashcards,

hung upside down,

and laughed. A lot.

Now, that M is exhausted she is off to bed. And now that I am done planning, time to relax with some blogs and my book. As much as I love my Monday night Bachelor and Tuesday night The Biggest Loser and all the drama they bring, I do enjoy having a non TV night. I hope each of you have just as relaxing a night!

• Do you have any nights that you don't have anything to do or watch? How do you occupy your time?
• Do you like planning and organizing things? Or does it stress you out?
• Do you know any foreign languages? Spanish is all I got, but I would love love love to know French or Italian.

Well, lookie here! I've done it!!! I've transferred my old Blogger blog over to the cool WordPress world. Word! I really hope that my wonderful friends will continue to follow me. And hey, new ones too would be just awesome. 🙂

Now onto my first post. The past couple of days have been fairly normal and uneventful, so I won't bore you too much with all of that. The highlight of Monday was a great full body workout and a good sweat session on the elliptical. The workout looked like this:

• Superset One - leg press & 1 arm DB row
• Superset Two - DB reverse lunge & DB bench press
• Superset Three - leg extension & upright row
• Superset Four - front BB shoulder raise & tricep dips

I did 3-4 sets of 8-12 reps per exercise. It still worked me out well, even doing less weight than my normal. I have really been cutting back on some of the intensity of my workouts for I guess you could call them personal and health reasons. My workouts have been just challenging enough to really get me working, but not leave me exhausted. A good balance. And I am able to be in, out, done in around an hour every single day. Love that! 🙂

Yesterday was absolutely nothing special. I don't even really remember what I did! I know when Peter got home from work he helped me fiddle around with this new blog world and set things up. During the day, I guess I just was entertained by this face...

Oh, now I remember! Yesterday's highlight was enchilada night. I made some lowfat, delicious chicken enchiladas. Here is the recipe. And please bear with me and the nastiness that is my camera. I would love love love a nice camera to get good foodie pictures!

Ingredients:

• 1 lb chicken breasts
• 1/2 - 3/4 c low fat sourcream
• 12 oz green enchilada sauce (1/2 the big can or 1 small can)
• 1 small can 98% fat free cream of chicken soup
• 1 small can diced green chilies
• 1c shredded low fat mexican or cheddar cheese
• 10-12 corn tortillas

Step 1: Cook & Shred 1 lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts

Step 2: Mix 1/2-3/4c low fat sour cream with chicken

Step 3: Mix the enchilada sauce, chilies, and chicken soup

Step 4: Pour 1/3 of sauce into bottom of a 9x13 baking dish

Step 5: Spoon chicken mixture into center of corn tortilla

Step 6: Roll tortilla and place seamside down into pan

Step 7: Pour remaining sauce over and top with shredded cheese

Step 8: Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes until cheese melts

Step 9: Enjoy!

Now for today. Today will be a bit more exciting. It is an off day from workouts since I slept like poo last night and won't really have time. Wednesdays are my scheduled optional workout days so it's cool. Makenzie & I will be heading out around lunchtime to go have a playdate with our friends - mommy Clare and baby Jack. It will be nice to catch up with a girlfriend I haven't seen in a few weeks. I'll be back later!!!