Saturday, January 10, 2009

A final Christmas Gift...

For Christmas this year, we gave Raj's family some of our time in the form of a day full of helping them make meals ahead and freeze to have available.

We spent last Saturday and Sunday with them taking inventory of what they had, buying a few groceries to complete meals, cooking the meals, and then finally dividing the food in the meal size portions and freezing it. We were exhausted after the two days, but very proud of what we were able to get done. We hope this will help them through out the next month with dinner planning. We all had such a nice time, we are going to try and do it each month this year.

Here are some pictures of the event:

IMG_3189Raj making black beans.

IMG_3190 Raj's mom Nancy and Aunt Alice

IMG_3191 Raj and Deena

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IMG_3187 Alice learning how to use the Seal-a-meal.

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IMG_3192This is a picture of some of the food we made. All together we made the following: Minestrone soup, Chicken broth, Chili, Brazilian Black beans, a Chicken and rice dish, Spaghetti Sauce, saute' d onions and mushrooms to have a head to make omelets with, Muffins, and cookies.

Reflecting...

Sometimes you need to take time to reflect on where we once were in order to get over any humps we might be having while trying to achieve our goals. My goal this year is to loose the remaining weight I want to loose. (Which is approx. 50 lbs. I have already lost 70lbs.) The weight isn't coming off as easy as it was in the beginning, so it's time to reflect on my current eating habits, and exercise routines and see what I can change up to help with the goal.

While I was downloading our pictures from New Year's Eve Celebration, I came across pictures from year's pasts New Year's Eve Celebrations. I decided to post them all here so I can be reminded of where I was just a couple years ago.

2006:

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2007:

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2008:

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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Happy New Year 2009

Here is a quick smile box from New Year's Eve. Hope everyone had a safe and fun night.

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