I have found it!

A desert type snack that actually is delicous and isn't high in calories!!!!



So you just take 2 graham crackers ( which is 1 big one is 65 cal or 2 whole at 130 cals.) smear a little bit of jello (sugar free)pudding, I like the little snack pack ones ( only 60 calories )that are chocolate vanilla swirl and then you can put the second graham cracker on top so you have a little sandwich going on and then smear some cool whip ( 2 tbsp 25 calories )on the top cracker!
It is the BOMBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB! So soo good and eases the sweet craving for me cause it really is so delicious.
Or you could just break up the graham cracker into little crumbs and top it on the pudding and put some cool whip that would be yummy too.
This snack has made me smile again. Because let me tell ya, let's keep it real, it isn't easy eating the healthy stuff. It just isn't. No matter how good it is for us, no matter how amazing it is to feel the clothes fitting better and the pounds coming off, sometimes we will miss the fattening yummo foods.
So when those moments strike and you are craving a big fattening desert just get these 3 things together and Enjoy!!!
And you won't even have to feel guilty cause it is a good one, it truly isn't that fattening!
Just wanted to share....
NOTE: you can also get really strick and do the low-fat graham crackers/low-fat cool whip, so you can't go wrong with this desert.

February Vacation Moments

Been a little while but now i'm back with a smile...cutes poet I am today.
And I finally uploaded my pictures from our February Vacation. We don't have to go too far to find adventures, they happen right here at 46 Howard.
Let's backtrack to recap some of the highlights of our vacation week.
Besides falling down the cellar stairs, due to slipping on an unseen target bag and it wasn't all the stairs, just the last 4 that i wiped out on.
I was just trying to talk to my Mom on the phone with some peace and quiet so I attempted to escape the house area and headed for the cellar/basement ( whatever one likes to call it )and budda bing budda boom, down I went with the phone in my hand.
Cracked my big toenail right in half, that was the most painful part and got some scrapes on the elbow area. But felt the aches in my back for the whole week.
Anyways a Mother must always go on and on I went to the next adventure.
Little Miss Bella was being awfully quiet in the living room and I was in the kitchen ( probably staring at the food that I can no longer eat but have in the house for the other 4 lovely family members) and when I realized she was being too quiet in the living room, it was too late!
Miss Bella Lu had turned herself into Grandma Bella Lu, by that I mean, she got the baby powder and had a field day dumping it all over her little self.
She looked like little old lady and smelled like a baby's bottom. The whole room smelled delicious. Big Daddy didn't deal very well. I had to calm him down and tell him to please not be too harsh on her, it's not like it was maple syrup or poop, right? It was baby powder! No big deal. Yes, extra cleaning, vacumuing, and dusting swiffer style but doable. I just had to laugh! I love her! She rocks!
And while Big Daddy was trying not to yell and be upset, I got that camera out and snapped these lovely shots of Grandma Bella or maybe she loooks like Halloween-ish haunted Bella, you decide.
All I know is I love:

This one was right when she got busted, the look is saying "i'm not sure if i'm in trouble"


Then she knows we're cool cause I have the camera taking pictures of Miss Powder Puff and mama's laughing, so she's cool now.

And then it's just time to pose it and look like a cutes.

on the LDL

just wanted to share with all you blogger friends, cause i have alot....
that i got the letter in the mail today,
it was not a good one,
it was the results to my lab work
and
it's in:
the LDL( bad cholesterol ) is very high - 187.
total being: 253 - watch out now!

Along with the numbers was the paragraph typed professionally from my Dr. Olson "Kristin, your cholesterol is very high. I have enclosed information for you about a low fat, low cholesterol diet. I also will make you an appointment with the nutritionist in the clinic on the first floor."

Since we have heart disease in the fam, now is the time
to really get "cracka lackin" ( Katie's word ) on the low fat diet,
as i told my mother the news in an email, i told her
"now it's not even about the fat anymore, it's about the heart"
amen,
sista!
And when I shared the news with my husband I told him, I am going to do this cause I wanna be around to see my grandbabies...
Yep,
i mean
business this time
and i have to say all you beauty blogger girlfriendz of mine have really inspired me!
So let's all go out very soon for a big delicious grilled chicken salad with low fat dressing, it will be so much fun
and
a big glass of water!
Can't wait,
really i can't wait to see ya's and chat over an awesome salad.
love ya's
xoxoxoxo,
high chlorestrol mama but hopefully not for long,
kristin

Plastertime Fun

Fun times
at
Plastertime Fun
on this sunny afternoon.
Jenny, Jalina, Bella and myself took a little trip to Plastertime Fun times.
It was Bella's very first time and no doubt
the girls had a blast!
Jalina picked a double heart to paint, so Bella decided to get the same as her girl Jalina. She looks up to her very much.
After the base coat was dry, the painting began.
Jenny & I tried so hard to step back and let the girls create their own creations. We have a tought time doing that because we like to help and add our own creative touch to it but we had to talk eachother through and say "let them be and let them do their own thing" and except for this picture right here, which Jenny just wanted to be in like a true cutes - as well as to help move along the base coat process, they did make their own beauty creations.

Oh
and
the day wouldn't be complete without my "cutes" daughter letting it be known that she farted. That's what ya get when you are around 2 obsessed fart/poop brothers most of your days.
So out of nowhere as Bella and Jalina are painting, looking so sweet and innocent,
she says, quite loudly too ~ "Jalina, I just farted."

yep,
she's
my
daughter.

And
after we dined at Taco Bell - classy -
Jalina had to go home and work on her snow monster project so we hit the road back home.
Bella took a little snooze and awoke with some diva attitude in Gigi's driveway, where her brothers were waiting for us.

Pink
Rockstar
glasses
still
intact.