Weekend Review

We had a great weekend and were sad to see it go.

It was filled with friends, crafting, baking, and a tiny bit of productivity.

Friends: Our friends Matt and Sarah were in town and we got to see them and catch up for a bit on Saturday afternoon. Saturday evening we were invited over for dinner to L & J's home. O had two girls to play with so she was super happy.

Crafting: Y'all saw the hair bow I created. I made like maybe three and I only had one that was picture worthy. I will continue to practice this until I am able to make one that is super frilly for O. When I say super frilly I'm really jesting but at the same time I'm not. What can I say? The kid likes hair bows right now. So, all I can do is try to make some decent ones for her.

This one turned out to be my best attempt, which is still pretty wimpy:

Baking: I made a nice little Paleo dessert to take over to L & J's house. They actually made Paleo pizzas for dinner, so it was a Paleo night through and through.

You can find the recipe at this provided link: Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies

The recipe is so simple and it was pretty yummy! Even though this is listed as baking, there was no baking involved with this little chocolatey pb morsels of yum. Sorry, I have not photographic evidence of these cookies. They were eaten too quickly. :)

I also made a blackberry cobbler this weekend. O and I collected blackberries from a friend's yard. O ate all she picked so it was up to me to work for two people. :) Luckily, our host, Donna, helped me pick a full bucket of berries.

I followed this recipe she provided to me: Dewberry and Blackberry Cobbler

Mine came out looking like this:

Now, I'm just impatiently waiting for a whole brand new weekend again.

Rainbow Cookies!

Over the four day weekend I failed to log in my calories in my myfitnesspal.com account. I got lazy and now I'm paying for it. Did I cheat? Yes. Did I cheat big? Not really but enough to be a pound or two heavier this morning.

Granted, I will be starting my cycle this week so that too could be where the added weight came from.

Today, I started logging in my cals again and I just came back from the gym feeling drained but glad to be back in my routine again.

My downfall of where most of the cheating came from is from Pinterest. I just had to make these cookies:

They are called Rainbow Pinwheel Cookies. Don't they just look beautiful and make you want to do cartwheels and sing songs about spring? Well, I just adore them and they make me squeal.

Now, let's discuss how my cookies turned out shall we.

 Yeah, not so pretty as previous photo. I followed the recipe, but could not for the life of me get the dough to roll easily. It was too wet and sticky and ended up being just a mess between my hands. After several attempts I gave up. I then started to scoop up the five different colors into a spoon and then drop them onto the cookie sheet. So, I ended up with tie dye looking cookies. Not as pretty but I think they are still just as fun.

Instead of cartwheels and songs about spring time these cookies remind me of Kool-Aid and running through the sprinklers. A bit more messy but still a whole lot of fun.

These were a great treat to make during Easter time. Every time my little one got a cookie she never failed to "Ooooh" at the magic that went into that cookie.

I'm a winner...

I won this cookbook!!

Yay me! Just in time for the holidays too!

My college step aerobics instructor, Camilla Saulsbury, is the author of the cookie cookbook. I'm so excited.

I entered the contest on Eralda's blog, The Split Pea, and hoped and hoped I would win. I almost bought this baking cookbook about a month or so ago when it hit the book stands. I'm such a sucker for cookbooks, especially when they have sweet delights in them.