Happiness

"I am determined to be happy in whatever situation I may be-

for I have learned, from experience, that the greater part

of our happiness or misery depends upon

our dispositions and not our circumstances."

I don't know who this quote is by, but I love it! I have been trying to focus on it a lot more lately because I feel like it is something I need to work on. Happiness is a choice! And wouldn't you just rather be happy? :)

Don't Tell The Kids Smoothie

My friend recently let me borrow a smoothie recipe book from her. I copied a bunch of the recipes that sounded good and now I have big plans to try LOTS of new smoothies! I thought that I would share some with you, in case you're interested :) So this is the first one we tried:

The Ingredients:

1 c. orange juice

4 broccoli florets

1 c. stemmed spinach

1 orange, peeled and separated

1 apple, cored and quartered

The Directions:

Combine all ingredients in blender with several ice cubes and blend until creamy.

The result:

The reaction:

UGHH!

I personally did NOT care for this smoothie. The broccoli flavor really stood out to me and I felt like it kinda had a weird texture. Clint, however, DID like it. He said he would much rather drink this than eat the vegetables on their own, which may be true for a lot of people. SO, even though I didn't like it, I will still recommend it to you. Who knows? You might like it :)

**Random side note: Clint asked, "Is this the 'Don't Tell The Kids Smoothie." I told him that it was, to which he replied, "I think they'll know." So true!**

St. Patrick's Day

We attempted to be festive for St. Patrick's Day by having green shamrock-shaped pancakes for brunch!

They started out pretty good...

...but it turns out neither of us are very good at flipping shamrock-shaped pancakes, so they ended up like this:

Oh well! They still tasted good!

I decided to try again with some shamrock sugar cookies:

And they turned out a little better than the pancakes!

Still kinda odd shaped though. I guess a shamrock is just a hard shape to work with...

Anyway, Happy St. Patrick's Day (a day late)!

Chloe

I am being a blog slacker again! I know none of you are surprised, but I will continue to try to be better about posting! The past couple weeks have been SUPER busy, so hopefully it gets better :) Anyway...on to today's post! Maybe it is weird that I am posting about my dog, but she is seriously like our child. She has such a funny personality! She keeps life interesting :) And we love her a lot!

I couldn't have timed this picture more perfectly! Haha :D

One of the great things about where we live is that right next to us is a big, open, city-owned plot. Chloe LOVES to play fetch out here. And after a long winter, she was so excited to be outside playing again!

She thinks she is ferocious, but she is a big wuss :)

Another perfectly timed picture!

She is super fast!

She sure sticks out her tongue a lot!

Seriously though...isn't she just adorable?!

And she knows it :)

We sure love our crazy pup!

Wishing For Spring...

I know we have had a really mild winter this year, which I am very grateful for. But I have to admit...I am still SUPER antsy for Spring! Can't it just be here already?!