When I first heard Great Wolf Lodge was coming to Minnesota I'll admit, I was super excited! Great Wolf Lodge is known to have some of the best family fun activities. Did you see I mentioned activities? As in plural. Great Wolf Lodge is much much more than a water park. They have something for everyone in the family and the one they opened in Minnesota, Great Wolf Lodge Minnesota has some features that other Great Wolf Lodges do not. Peyton and I had the opportunity to bring a friend and check ...
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Perfect Vegetables Every Time with Colavita Extra Virgin Olive Oil
There are so many uses for extra virgin olive oil, I use it nearly every day. One of my favorite ways to use it is with roasting vegetables. But there is a trick to it, you need a quality extra virgin olive oil. Colavita is a high-quality olive oil that's steep in family tradition. It's also an olive oil that I often use in my home. Colavita was started 4 generation ago in a small town of Sant’Elia a Pianisi, about twenty miles to the east of Campobasso in the Molise region of Italy. Today, ...
Discover Hamptons Salt Company This Holiday
Being a single momma I'm the only one doing the cooking in the house. I am also very fortunate that Peyton will try pretty much anything, at least once. So I like to try out different spices, meats, and recipes because it's fun and I have a captive audience! Hamptons Salt Company is the preeminent provider of all natural sea salt. They have the best selection of raw salts, flavored salts or smoked salts from all over the world. And they have no additives in any of their products. I just ...
An Afternoon at the Shedd Aquarium
Peyton and I spend a fair amount of time in Illinois each year. Between going to visit family and taking in attractions we are down there almost every other month. This month we checked out the Shedd Aquarium while we were down there. Can you believe, I've gone to Illinois hundreds of times and I have never once in my life been to the Shedd Aquarium? But we did it this last time we were down there! For those of you that have never been, like me, let me tell you a little bit about the Shedd ...
Amusement Parks and Nutrisystem
Valley Fair, that was my challenge this past weekend. What is Valley Fair? Well, it's an amusement park full of rides and plenty of off plan foods that can tank my nutritional intake for the day. My goal was to stay on track with my calorie intake in relation to my calorie burn. But how? By journaling my food and using my Fitbit to track my activity. The first thing I learned when I started this journey with Nutrisystem is to journal. Journal everything you put in your mouth. The first few ...
More Than 10 lbs Down and Still Going!
What a month!! I'm loving Nutrisystem and all the amazing things that are coming because of my weight loss goals. So it's been 4 weeks that I have been working my plan. Mind you, I've been busy so I haven't had a chance to add in exercise but I have been journaling EVERYTHING I eat and using my fit bit to make sure I am burning 1,000 or more calories a day than I am consuming. I read somewhere that you need to burn at least 1,000 calories more than you take in if you want to lose a pound or more ...