some recipes to share from the week

So I have been home with just me and my mom this week!  I have been able to cook all week and make the meal plans so I am going to tell you about them.

Monday: Frozen Mahi Mahi.
I wanted to cook it on the grill but my dad had not hooked up the gas before he left so I had to improvise on Chris' george foreman grill.  Let me tell you though about my new favorite sauce for fish or chicken!  Lemon Pepper and Soy sauce.  I put the lemon pepper all over the fish and the plate then pour some soy sauce over it.  Then I heated up two sweet potatoes in the microwave.  On my sweet potato I like to make it  taste good but also keep it healthy.  I add a bit of brown sugar with coconut!  Then I made some fresh green beans with lemon pepper (my favorite vegetable) My mom had about 5 and I ate allll the rest!

Tuesday: Grilled chicken salad with tomato and boiled egg.  I had it with Panera's lemon poppy seed dressing.  I also had a small bowl of cereal! I couldnt resist.  With my diet of oatmeal for breakfast every morning I had been missing out on cereal

Wednesday: Pita Bread Pizza
So I wasn't the biggest fan but my mom loved it.  I just didnt cook it long enough for the crust to harden.  But I had sauteed green bell peppers and mushrooms with garlic to put on the pizza and that along with pizza seasonings and crushed red pepper flakes made the pizza a great taste.  Like I said my mom was a big fan.

Thursday:  I took my mom to a doctors appointment so while I was waiting I ran to whole foods.  I love to just go to whole foods and walk around and find interesting stuff.  This trip I got some fruit, chips, and dinner for the night.  I had grilled chicken with my soy sauce and lemon pepper mixture.  I also had some bread and pasta with spinach.  My mom had spaghetti and meatballs.

Friday: Breakfast for dinner! yum!
I had an omelet on english muffin with turkey sausage and some fruit and carrots!

I just love having a kitchen again.  To be honest I'm really going to miss not having it next year for college.  Cant wait to get an apartment!

Summer Cooking with Stephanie!

So I love to cook! Especially cooking healthy food.  This week I am going to cook for myself this week!  I am going to share with you what I am cooking!

First I would like to start with the fact that this week we went to costco so the fruit supply at the wright house is amazing!  I got a watermelon.  5 apples.  5 bananas. and the huge costco boxes of strawberries, cherries, and grapes!  Looks like stephanie has some work to do, but no worries I will totally finish this fruit!

Last night I had a turkey burger, grilled vegetables, and avocado dip (includes avocado, fiesta corn, black beans, and italian dressing seasoning!) YUM!

Every morning for breakfast I have 1/2 a cup of oatmeal with a half of a banana, cinnamon, and some skim milk.

This week I want to upload pictures of the dinners I make and share the recipes so keep looking for new updates!

Oh and Happy Fathers day to the best dad a girl could ask for.  You are always there for me and backing me in anything I do.  You are the best dad ever words cant even explain.  You always made me embrace the day and you had a big part of shaping who I am today!  I love to make you proud so that you see the hard work and effort you put into me as my father payed off.  I love you and wish I marry a man who is a father just like you because then I will know my kids will turn out just fine.

Summer 2011

Well besides the extreme Dallas heat the summer is not as relaxing as many would think summer should be.  Each day I get up at 7am and run then go to work from 9:30-6:00.  I come home, eat dinner, do abs or weights, then by that time I'm so exhausted from the day that I am ready for bed.   Unfortunately this does not leave much time for a social life which is not so fun, but not too many friends in Dallas so it would be hard anyways.  Most of my friends are either away at camp, college, or home from college.  Weekends give me time to hang with friends and family so I love the weekends that is forsure! So that is an update on my life everyday looks the same during the week and I get to relax on the weekend.  Pretty boring I must say but I am making good money and this will be my last summer working at the day care next summer will be much more exciting I will make sure of it.  Hopefully the family goes on some vacation this summer we are in the process of planning something so hopefully that will be a much needed break!  So right now I am just trying to make it through this dallas heat.  Tuesday is a high of 101! In JUNE!

Haha Ever seen a dog brain freeze? 

Dont forget to stop and smell the roses!

there is a lot of update in my life

I am officially done with my freshman year of college.  Saturday was my last 2 finals and they went good.  I ended up getting an A in 4 out of my 5 classes and a A- in English.  Unfortunately to get an A at SMU you have to make above a 93.  An A- is a 90-92 range.  So it was bound to happen.  But hey I can still say I got all A's.  But it brought my GPA down from a 4.0 to a 3.97 :).  But im still satisfied with that! I am done with English for the rest of my life and done with taking any science classes for the rest of my life.  All I have left now are a few cultural classes and the rest is my major!  After my finals on saturday it was move out time.  It didnt take much time at all.  Mom was packing stuff away in the room and Dad and I were carrying it to the cars.  Only on issue when we lost my ID card which got us into the building but it was solved in the end!  Then I came home and we went to Carrabas for dinner to celebrate mothers day.  I found a new favorite dish there.  The crusted trout. yum!  Then I went to bed super early because I was exhausted from late nights up in the library an an exausting saturday with two finals and moving out.

Sunday came bright and early as I got up at 6:45 to drive to my last practice with my team.  It was a 75 minute run at white rock late (where it all began in august last year :) Then I said goodbye to my big, jennie.

Then it was mother daughter Spa day.  We both got massages.  Then she got a facial and I got a MUCH needed peticure.  I felt bad for the lady doing my toes because they have many lovely blisters and calluses.  Then we did some shopping and mom got a new silverware set.  I had no Idea how much kitchen supplies cost!  Lets just hope I get that present for a wedding gift and dont have to worry about that.  Then after our shopping I made dinner for the family.  I learned how to make stuffed shells and made homemade brushetta for the first time and it turned out pretty good!

Then on Monday I went back up to SMU to run with Klara, go see the Dahli Lama speak at SMU, and go to a doctors appointment.  The Dahli Lama was sometimes hard to understand but still such a great opportunity to go see him, thats something most people cant say they have done!  Then Klara, Lovisa, and I went to Whole Foods.  I could spend days and a lot of money in that place just looking around and trying new things!  Then I had a doctors appointment and came home.  

Now on the Agenda for this week.  before I leave for Arkansas on Friday I need to finish unpacking and organizing my stuff from college.  My room and the gameroom is a disaster zone and it is stressing me out! So I will lock myself in my room for the next few hours and attempt to make a dent in the cleaning process.  Wish me luck :)

One down, 2 to go

I got my hardest final over with finally.  I have literally been studying non stop since last weekend!  Now I only have biology and Statistics left.  Statistics wont be too hard to study for and I have been preparing for Biology for weeks not so hopefully tonights studying will not be too bad.  But still stinks because I cant go have fun with friends because I have two finals tomorrow!

BUT then at about 1:00 tomorrow I will be completely done with my freshmen year of college!  After my last final I will start to pack up the dorm room and check out is at 4:00.  I will still stay one more night at SMU to hang out with friends before going home but I will stay in a friends room tomorrow night.

Then on sunday I will come home and enjoy a lovely spa day with my mom!
CANT WAIT! literally

I wish...I could use a nap right now.  Went to bed late and woke up early because I couldn't sleep.  

study.practice.sleep.eat

That is all I will be doing this week.
Today I had my last day of classes as a freshman ever!!! Started with a review in macroeconomics then we got out early so I had breakfast with some of my classmates.  They had oatmeal in the dining hall today! that when you know its a good day!  Then I had a final english party type thing.  Then biology review.  Then went to sell my books (made 134 dollars!) Then went to my last pointless electrical engineering class ever but ended that class with an A+ so I guess not too pointless helps the GPA.  Now i am in the library studying before dinner with my small group at ZOES KITCHEN

This is probably what I will order - the chicken Kabobs - usually I get the spinich rollups but I have always wanted to try this so tonight is the night for it.

Now let me update you on my training.  Saturday I ran a 5k in a track meet.  Sunday was a long run (90 minutes about 11.5-12 miles on average)  This run was quite hard.  It was at 8:15 in the morning after gettting back from the track meet at about midnight.  It was rainy a bit but I survived.  Then on Monday - dont even remind me.  So it had been raining all day, literally all day and then we get to practice and its just a light rain but still...its raining.  Monday is usually a cross train day sometimes so I planned on the fact that coach would tell me to eliptical.  BUT I was wrong.  45 minute run.  It started off cold and just a  light mist.  Then after about 20 minutes it started to POURRR!  After we got back I looked at myself in the mirror and the whole front of my sweatshirt was SOAKING wet, but the back was completely dry.  You would think we would have realized we ran into the rain the whole time but we were too miserable to realize.  Then after we had strides.  Let me tell you a bit about strides.  I love track but BOY do I hateeee strides with a passion.  I dont know why but they are so hard for me.  I can run miles and miles but I cant a 100 meter buildup without dying! doesnt make sense! but anyways then today I had to get up at 6:30am to run and do weights to make it back for class at 8am.  Thank goodness Kristine (my teammate) got up early with me to run! Its going to SUCK not having my teammates to run with, motivate me, push me, etc all summer!  Then for our second practice I was just not in the mood to run.  Its finals week and my body and mind are shot.  So we she told me I was doing 7 800's I wasnt too upset because thats not the hardest workout option she could have given me...but thats one of the toughest.  But I ran the first one and I thought I was just going kinda slow just relaxing but I ended up running 4 seconds faster on average than the last time I did 800's!! guess Im just in shape because I seriously didnt feel like I was working hard at all!

OHH and another thing guess who is now practicing on our track...JEREMY WARNER!

He is the gold medalist in the last olympics for the 400m.  He was at our practice today.  He ran 450's and he came around his 400m in 51 seconds...during practice...when he still had more to go...thats RIDICULOUSLY FAST!  And it looked like he was literally jogging the whole time.  Wow so cool to watch.  Hopefully next time I get up the courage to talk to him, and remember to bring my camera!!! 

Okay back to studying I have one more biology lecture to listen to online.  My professor puts all his lectures online.  super nice!

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