Healthy Choices

I love fortune cookies!  I love all Asian food (except some Thai)  Since I have been doing Bikram Yoga most days, I have found myself craving not sandwiches so much.  With Bryce being wheat and gluten free, we have little wheat in our home.  He also does not eat meat so we have little of that. 
So most of what I have been eating (for a while now actually) is more than slightly healthy.  Add daily juicing to that and my energy has increased and my 'aches and pains' have decreased.
Even the kids have phased out a lot of wheat products in favor of more healthy choices....most of the time.
Of course, fortune cookies are wheat so the kids usually eat ours.

We are also celebrating the opening about 5 weeks ago of what is fast becoming our go to drive through...Salad and Go !!
The kids love their salads (they can polish off a large salad between them) and the owners are SO friendly and positive.  They are always ready to talk about their place and the idea for it.

Photos by Leigh

 

self portrait of self portrait

Fancy a game, anyone?

A boy and his checkers

Both my kids are so different in their interests even though they share a bunch of common interests.
Leigh would rather read or draw.  If she gets a good book, she can read for hours and tune the world out.  She would rather create her own cards, posters and bookmarks rather than buy one.
Carson has no interest in anything literary (unless there are awesome pictures involved) but loves board games and numbers.  So much so that he bought himself a calculator rather than a book at the book store last time he had money to spend there.  He walks around figuring out equations and asking people to guess what certain figurings equal.
So his choice of activities on Monday morning relaxing time is a game.  Which he did pretty good at.

New walkies

Carson and Jesse

 So for Easter this year, the kids got a new set of walkie talkies.  They have always loved these things!
They tested their range by going to opposite ends of our townhouse community.  They did great with the distance.  They sounded as clear as if they were right next to each other.  They freaked Jesse out a little though.  He was looking around trying to find out where the body connected to the voice was!

Far Range

MAC

We like the Mesa Art Center when we remember to go do things there.  Recently they had some yarn bombing going on...

MAC yarn-bombing

Almost Easter

Girlfriends

Yesterday we went to an Easter Egg coloring and hunting party.  What good times!  It was only Leigh, her friend Mary and I from our house due to illness in the little boy.
It was held at the most beautiful church, The Community Church of New Thought.  They had the greatest citrus grove on their property and the softest grass.

A Picture a Day

So I made an agreement with a photography friend of mine that I would take a picture a day and write about it....
I am already a day behind, I have 2 photos to post today.
The first is Leigh practicing her flute at the dining room table yesterday.
She doesn't normally practice there but she was talking to me and working on a craft project at the table
So she stayed and got her flute and music out.

Flutist at work

Today I was upset with Leigh when I dropped her off at Eagleridge this morning.  Although I apologized to her and hugged her when I left her, I felt bad all day.  When I picked her up after band, we both were apologetic; it seems it was on her mind all day also.  

We then headed to the library.  We got books on the Titanic, Pirates and some travel books for a variety of east coast destinations.  Leigh has been reading an interesting series about a group of friends and was able to get the latest book from hold.  She returned to the library and read until 9:45 tonight..finished the book.

 

Late afternoon indulgence