Brie Cheese Appetizer!

Here is the recipe that I used for my brie appetizer! It is from allrecipes.com. I did change a few things (like the preservatives...I used red raspberry instead of apricot and didnt use the egg white.)

Ingredients

1 (8 ounce) wheel Brie cheese
3 tablespoons apricot preserves
1/2 (17.5 ounce) package frozen puff pastry, thawed
1 egg white
Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a cookie sheet.
Slice one wheel of Brie cheese in half so you have 2 circles of cheese. Spread apricot or peach preserves on (the cut side) half of one circle of brie. Make sandwich out of the two halves of Brie, so that the preserves are in the center of both halves. Wrap the entire wheel of Brie with one sheet of puffed pastry and flip the entire concoction onto the prepared cooking sheet so the seam is on bottom. Brush the puffed pastry with the egg white.
Bake for 30 minutes, or until the pastry in golden brown. Serve immediately.


I served with wheat thins...yum! enjoy!

P90X Update!

Well I know its been longer than a month, but I actually started the program over. I began by doing the 'Lean' version and didn't really like it, so I started over by doing the 'Classic' version. Anyways, here is a weight update. I started at 148 and am now down to 142! woohoo! I am really enjoying the fact that I can work out at home and love seeing the results! I will most likely not update with pictures until the very end--and at that time I will post the before and after pictures!

P90X

Well, here it goes people! We have begun P90X. We started about 2 weeks ago and its been pretty intense! Im posting this mainly so I have some motivation! When I first found out that I was pregnant with Caleb I weighed 134-135. I now weigh(2 weeks ago) 148. After 1.5-2 weeks of doing this workout, I am down to 144-145. My goal weight is 130--so i have 14lbs to go. This goal weight comes from my height--I am 5'4 and the healthy weight for a 5'4 female is between 116 and 145. So I would be right in the middle. Of course, it would be nice to continue if I so choose, but my main reason for losing this weight is to 1. glorify the Lord by being healthier with my lifestyle of eating/exercising and 2. to plan to have another child. I hope to work really hard over these next few months and will update my blog about my progress!

Bargain!

So I have been waiting for months for these pillows to go on sale because I thought they would look great with our decor. So friday I went to Target during my lunch break to pick up that cute little 'remote holder' and wasnt even going to bother looking at the pillows (because I had just checked a few days earlier and they were still only 30% off). Anyways, so im headed to check out and sitting on top of one of the little girls clothing racks are MY PILLOWS! So I was like, well i HAVE to go check the price now. Low and behold they were on super sale. I got 2 of the big pillows for $6.74 each (they retail at $24.99) and 2 of the small blue ones for $3.74 each (retail: $15.99)! I was SO excited!!! I also bought that cute little remote holder (not on sale) for 8.99! All in all, i got those pillows for less than $23. Can we say BARGAIN? Also, kind of pictured, is my new rug! i know, rug on rug...but our apartment carpet is gross, so I needed something to make it look pretty. The carpet was purchased at target for $64 (retail $129.99)! Side note: I apologize for my dirty looking TV stand...I cant seem to keep those little Caleb fingers off of it.

Sneak Peek!

Family Pictures!

Today we had family photos taken, courtesy of Sarah Hille!! Will post them soon!

GO BIG RED

If you know anything about my husband, you know that he LOVES the Nebraska Huskers! He had the chance this weekend to go to the game--He also had the chance to take his brother, Loren, with him! We hardly ever get to see Loren and Nadalee so it was nice to have them in town for a short visit! Loren went to the game with Matt while Nadalee, Marie and I were able to have a girls day! We went to 'Going the Distance'(which was not that great of a movie), got pedicures and rented some movies for the night! All in all it was a lot of fun! Later, when I get some pictures loaded, Ill tell you what we did on Monday! Heres some pics from Saturday!