Let's see, where to begin. . .
Last Friday Paul was in charge of our date. He drew the envelope date that I had done last year. This is where he comes up with multiple choices for me to chose from for dinner, activity, and a treat. For dinner, he gave me options on how we would make a dish with chicken in it. I decided on making asian chicken. We had some breading to use and some kung pow sauce and fried up bits of chicken. It turned out SO GOOD. And was so easy.
Then for the activity I chose to go see this movie:
And I bawled my eyes out. I didn't really know what to expect with this movie. I had heard good things about it, but then I was worried that I would go in with
too high expectations and then not like it as much. Nope, I LOVED it. And Anne Hathaway's version of "I Dreamed a Dream" was amazing.
Then we got some warm drinks afterwards. It was great!
Last Friday it was my turn. The date was to make homemade doughnuts. I went out and bought some doughnut pans because I didn't really want to mess with frying them and figured I could be a little bit healthier by baking them. Besides, there are tons of recipes for baked doughnuts.
For dinner we went out to get sushi. We've been good at keeping this tradition of getting it once a month. And we've found a place not too far away that is so good and hardly ever busy. We're pretty sure the workers recognize us because the past couple times they have given us free appetizers while we wait for our order. Can't complain about that!
We made crumb doughnuts and cinnamon sugar doughnuts. They were delicious. Absolutely delightful.
While we waited for those to cool, we dyed easter eggs.
Mom, the yellow one is the Star Trek symbol. Paul made it just for you.
Other things to catch up on:
-I'm two week into a Whittier girl's fitness challenge. It's a 10 week challenge that has 4 daily point you can get for working out, keeping a food journal, getting 7 hours of sleep a night, and drinking 64 oz of water. We're also doing biweekly challenges on top of that which are no eating 3 hours before bedtime, only one hour of media a day, eating 2 servings of fruits/vegetables a day, no sweets/treats, and getting 30 grahams of fiber a day. We report to my Mom every week. We all pooled in $20 at the beginning for the grand prize at the end of the challenge. Each week there is a weekly winner who gets $5 gift card somewhere. It's been good motivation for me so far! It definitely is a challenge, but that's the point. I just finished the 2 week challenge of no eating 3 hours before bedtime, and now I'm onto the one hour of media a day. Wish me luck, and I better WIN! (by they way, we didn't let Mom participate because we knew she would win no questions asked. She didn't deny it either when we told her that was why she couldn't do it with us. Ha! But she's been a great motivational coach!)
-Hmm. . . . what else? Work is going pretty good. It's busy but I really like the people I work with. I feel really blessed to work for a company that is family oriented, and that is only 3 minutes away from home.
-Is that it? I should do better about keeping a list of little things I could write about on here because when I actually sit down to do it, I forget! Sorry. I'll try to be better.
