No bake strawberry shortcake cheesecake

YUM!!! Who doesn't love strawberry short cakes in the summer. It is one of my favorite desserts, so fresh and light. Sometimes you can just eat it too much and then want something similar but different. As I was doing weekly meal prep last week I decided to make my normal short cakes with a twist.

No bake strawberry shortcake cheesecake

(I am tweaking this recipe and when I do I will post an updated one)

1 brick of cream cheese beaten (room temperature is easier to beat)
1 can of whipped cream

1 angel food cake (I will never buy the store one again it sucked)

1 quart of strawberries cut up

9X9 glass baking pan

Beat the cream cheese in your mixer, while the cream cheese is beating, cut up the strawberries into small pieces and rip the angel food cake into chunks.
Add the whipped cream to the cream cheese and mix well.

Dump in your cut strawberries and mix well.

Put your chunks of angel food cake into your 9X9 pan.

Pour your cream cheese mixture over the angel food cake.

Refrigerate for 2 hours.

Enjoy!!!

This super easy recipe is great when you want something not too sweet or an in hurry companies coming. 

What is your favorite summer time dessert?

Week 4 work out!

Week 4 work out!!

This week I am going to shake things up a little bit, mainly to keep from getting bored.

I met my goal last week of walking the dogs everyday, I was pretty proud of myself.

This weeks goal is to eat lunch everyday.

This weeks work out will be:

20 Squat to boxer knee (Left side)

2 Burpees

20 Slow leg raises
2 Burpees
20 jumping jacks
2 Burpees
20 Lunges (Left side)

20 Squat to boxer knee (Right side)

2 Burpees

20 Slow leg raises
2 Burpees
20 jumping jacks
2 Burpees
20 Lunges (Right side)

20 Squat to boxer knee (Left side)

2 Burpees

20 Slow leg raises
2 Burpees
20 jumping jacks
2 Burpees
20 Lunges (Left side)

20 Squat to boxer knee (Right side)

2 Burpees

20 Slow leg raises
2 Burpees
20 jumping jacks
2 Burpees
20 Lunges (Right side)

20 Squat to boxer knee (Left side)

2 Burpees

20 Slow leg raises
2 Burpees
20 jumping jacks
2 Burpees
20 Lunges (Left side)

My back is injured still and in a lot of pain even though the ER doctor said it would be fine in a week, I will be seeing my sports doctor again and maybe need x-rays.

This weeks yoga is going to based on back pain again. 

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Remember just because you can't do it all at once doesn't don't try. Do it in sets, take breaks as you need them and remember its not a race!!!

Do you enjoy yoga?

Sarnia event: Touch a Truck 2018

All parents look for local activities to keep their children entertained for at least a few minutes, homeschool parents love local events that are fun, interactive and of course cheap. 

Touch the truck at the Lambton Mall in Sarnia had been boasting for weeks to be a fun and engaging event where kids could touch the trucks of their childhood dreams. Blaine can't get enough of trucks and I fingered it was going to be an awesome event.

I was thoroughly disappointed. For most parents it would have been great there was face painting, balloon animals, fire trucks, a hydro truck, a city bus, a Zamboni, a tractor, a tow truck, 3 bounce houses, a rock climber, a princess, the toys r us giraffe, a few food vendors and a few free items for the kids to take home. Was it a great fun time, yes and the price was awesome $5.00 and it went to the rebound program! Here is my issue they made it seem like there was going to be dump trucks and other construction trucks, where wasn't any. The line to get in was an hour long, thank goodness for the rain those made of sugar left and made the line shorter. Blaine wanted nothing to do with those trucks and such because he has seen and been in them all when we do the firehouse with homeschool group. He loved the bounce houses, the free sunglasses hydro was giving out were adult sized, not made for children :(.

All in all, yes he had a good time playing in the bounce houses, but we were looking forward to construction trucks. I would love to see it happen again with more activities for the children.
Such as:
Firefighters fully dressed
Dump Trucks
Police Car
Back Hoes
Front Loaders
Construction signs
Construction workers
Sand area with toys

and so much more the ideas are endless with an event such as this. 

Please don't get my wrong I am grateful for groups that put these events on for fundraisers for community groups but I feel more planning needs to go into them. 

Did you go to touch a truck? Did you and your children enjoy it?

Birthday Banner

When decorating for a birthday party or any party really you need a good banner. Not only does it cover wall space it also reminds people what they are there for.

I make my own banners for the birthdays. This year Blaine's party is construction themed so of course it needs to be a construction banner and what better time to test out my silhouettes card stock cutting abilities.

Of course I went online and looked at other peoples experiences with cutting card stock. There were some horror stories about everything going wrong. One I read was the card stock would stick to your bored and tear from trying to peel it up, how I prevented this was by using the older cutting mat, you know the one you have lying around covered in dog hair and dirt from not remembering to put the cover back on it no matter how many time you promised to put it back on when I open a new one it just never happens, or if you are really lucky it falls on the floor face down, sigh. I used that cutting mat.

The other issue people said they had was with card stock tearing as it cut. I used the deep cut blade at 5 speed 10 force and 5 for the blade setting. With these I had no issues cutting my standard card stock that I bought from Micheal's.

What you need:
Card stock in the colours you are wanting (I used orange, yellow and black)

Printer

Silhouettes (or other cutting machine)

Glue stick

Ribbon

Hole punch

***If you do not have a cutting machine you can always print the letters and trucks directly onto the card stock and hand cut it out, it is what I did before I had a cutting machine, you can do it for the letters, trucks and triangles.****

You can either buy or create your own designs for use with in silhouettes software. I have a designer version so I can use .DFX files as well as embroidery files which is a bonus. I create .DFX files using a free software called Inkscape. I use Embird for my embroidery software.

I printed with my laser printer that I got from Digital Friends Inc 1 triangle the size I wanted each part of my banner to be and then just traced and cut how many triangles I needed which was 28.

I purchased and used the construction trucks from the Silhouette store. I cut one for in between each word, giving me 8 trucks in total.

I measured the inside of the triangles I had cut and made each letter I need for banner in Silhouette studio.

Once everything was cut, I used a hole punch and put a hole in the “top” of each triangle for the ribbon to slide through

Punch one hole in the trucks where ever you would like them hand from, or you can do what I did and just tie into the hole already in the truck.

Glue each letter to a triangle.

Lay out your banner how you want it to look.

Leave enough “tail” to hang your banner. Cut the ribbon when you have more than enough to string everything you want on it and a “tail” at the end for hanging.

I slid a truck on and tied it at the top of the truck this prevents it from moving and you have to rearrange it when you hang it. Then I repeated with each letter and tying at the top of each triangle.

My banner is 2 rows, repeat each row as you did for the first one. 

And there you have it, a birthday banner. How did yours turn out?

Nose Black Heads EWW

Until you look at photos of  your nose up close you never realize how side ways it really is. When Blaine was about 6 months old he broke my nose, man did that hurt and it has been out of whack since then but I never really "looked" at it the way I did in these photos. Man its really side ways, maybe I should get that fixed. 

I hate the black heads on my nose and I have tried a number of different products with little to no luck. Wondering though either Wal-Mart or shoppers drug mart, I am thinking it was shoppers and that I needed to spend a little bit more money to get all the points I wanted, yes I am that women. I happened upon Charcoal and tea tree nose strips, they are made by Azure Kosmetics. You use them how you would use any other pore cleaning strip.

Instructions:

1. Wash your face.
2. (This is my own step.) Rough up (exfoliate) your nose.
3. Wet your nose.
4. Stick strip to your nose.
5. Wait until its hard (10-15 mins) Mine took 10 minutes
6. Rip the BI&CH off...slowly and carefully according to the package. (I don't do anything slow lol)
   
   
   
   
   

The best thing I liked about these strips was that they are black which means you can see all the nastiness better.

Burning and itching, this started about an 15 minutes after I used the strip and lasted the whole next day, I figure its because I am pretty much allergic to life so they caused a reaction.

I personally couldn't tell a difference in the amount of black heads on my nose but I do have 4 more in the box so I am going to use them once a week and see how things go. I really only like the fact you can see all the nasty easier on these than the white ones.

Future post idea!!! compare the white VS black on what is easier to see!!! 

Do you use nose strips? What is your nose black head trick?

Week 3 work out!

Week 3 work out!!

Each of my weeks contain pretty much what I did the week before to maintain what I have gained plus adding on something else to help increase either muscle gain, toning, cardio or stamina.

Did I meet my goal of oat meal every morning for breakfast? NOPE, I did it one morning. Mornings are crazy around here. I am going to try again but that isn't my goal this week.
My goal this week is to run the dogs EVERY morning rain or shine.

Everyone including myself will hate me this week. I am adding burpees to the workout. Yes I hate them too but they are worth it for all the groups they work out at once.

This weeks work out will be:

5 Burpees

20 Normal Squats

20 Push ups

20 Boxer Knees (Boxer Crunches)

20 Russian Twists

20 Jumping Jacks

20 Legs together Squats

20 Push ups

20 Boxer Knees (Boxer Crunches)

20 Russian Twists

20 Jumping Jacks

5 Burpees

20 Sumo Squats

20 Push ups

5 Burpees

20 Boxer Knees (Boxer Crunches)

20 Russian Twists

20 Jumping Jacks

20 Pilo Squats

20 Push ups

20 Boxer Knees (Boxer Crunches)

20 Russian Twists

5 Burpees

20 Jumping Jacks

20 On your toes Squats

5 Burpees

20 Push ups

20 Boxer Knees (Boxer Crunches)

20 Russian Twists

20 Jumping Jacks

My back is still very painful from last week but with the yoga it helped a great deal, well I am sure my sports injury doctor would like some credit on that one as well as my massage therapist.

This weeks yoga is going to based on back pain again but it will be slightly different than last weeks.

Yoga is my favourite part of the workout and I LOVE doing it outside in the grass it makes me feel far more connected, grounded and peaceful

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Remember just because you can't do it all at once doesn't don't try. Do it in sets, take breaks as you need them and remember its not a race!!!

How did you do last week? What are your goals this week?

Week 1 Results!

Week 1 results

I do not weigh myself as I fight anorexia and weighing myself triggers something in my brain that causes me not to eat anymore.

Plus fat and muscle weigh the same amount the difference is one is nice and toned the other is a blob, so I measure myself or get someone to help me measure my body.

I do not eat properly at all so my eating will never match my working out. I work every day and make an effort to walk at least my 10,000 steps everyday. Eating on the other hand, I eat like shit. I do not eat a lot of fast food and such I just do not eat proper meals.

My measurements after the first week are:

Neck: 12 inches

Bust: 39 inches

Right arm: 10.5 inches

Left arm: 10 inches

Waist: 36.5 inches

Hips: 38 inches

Left Leg (thigh): 18.5 inches

Right Leg: 18.5 inches

My set backs of the first week were, it was 40+ degrees, I injured the soft tissue around my spine from the bottom of my ribs to bottom of my spine and of course my eating sucked.

Like most people I hate photo's and when I seen these I wanted to cry. My entire year of hard work went down the drain from being injured so long :(. But I wont give up!!! I will have work hard again.

Did you have set backs? Did you have successes?