My sweet peas

Spring is here, at last! I couldn't be more excited for the sunshine and warm weather to return and for the little farm town we live in to come back to life again. Soon all the zoos, museums, and farms will open up to the public and we'll be outside having fun and soaking up that much needed vitamin D! What a boost of happiness it brings! Last week was our first week of warm weather and sunshine and what happens? Yep! The kids get sick. Here are a few pictures of them from last week! Let's hope and pray that they will be healthy for the next batch of warm, sunny days! (Which will not be this week, haha... brrrr!)

Our little princess, her hair has grown out long enough for cute little curly pigtails!

Our little man eating one of his favorites, a jelly sandwich... No HFCS in this jelly, yay!

My two little sicky peas in a pod. Ethan leaning into Cami for comfort. They are really close.

Well, lately I have been obsessed with eating right. I think maybe even annoyingly so... I know Jonathan appreciates it though. The kids are not into the sudden large amount of odd looking veggies and grains they have been finding in their plates lately though. Sometimes you just have to trick them and for that reason I am making up some lasagna this week with homemade sauce. I hope that this will give them a large boost of veggies, since they love the stuff! Anyone have other ways of hiding healthy foods in kid-friendly dishes? Keep in mind that I am avoiding high fructose corn syrup, and all other refined sugar plus refined grains as well... meaning no white bread or sugar. Also, no processed foods! This means no mac and cheese... Bummer kids! I do, sometimes, pull out my Jack Lalanne juicer and put in carrots, oranges, apples, lemon, broccoli, and any other various fruits and veggies sitting in the fridge and they always love that! So, at least that is one way of getting some of those vitamins in them. Lucky for me they love fruits, so getting them their 1 cup serving of berries is pretty easy. I am looking forward to learning more about the "whole foods diet." Please, don't be worried about the word "diet." We all have a diet, some people's are irregular and some people actually think about what they will eat throughout the day. I am looking to have a balanced diet with healthy, natural foods (AKA whole foods.) This includes all foods from the food pyramid.

Haha, Okay.... enough with my tangent. TTFN