4th of July

I think every summer holiday calls for a lunch out in the yard! 

 Belle & Binh preparing our red white n blue truffle (or trifle?? I don't even know the right name).

 mmmmmmmmm...

 Mmmmmmm I'm getting hungry just loading these. Not pictured were our delishhh salmon burgers. I was so hungry I forgot to take a picture. 

I think my dad said something like, "let's take a picture while looking at each other in love" 

crazy crazy man.

 Her precious smore. She woke up that day, asking for smores. She was non stop asking the whooole day. Was driving me crazy!

Aris was making fun of me. Before I noticed him taking my pic...he said I looked soo focused getting my piece of truffle!

We all have our hair in buns. I feel like it's the only "hair do" possible in this hot weather.
THANKS Nins (as always) for cooking/making a bunch of our stuff for our red white n blue bonanza!!!

 Smore aftermath = monster

We heard thunder after we finished eating. We thought it was gonna downpour so we quickly cleaned up & put everything away....But no rain showed up!! We cleaned up quickly for nothing! 

Always cute and out of the ordinary eating in the yard. If it was up to me, I'd do it every time weather permits. But those terrible mosquitoes can be a serious party crasher!! 

And....now I'm hungry thanks to the pics. 

Have an awesome weekend!

green food

1. mine & belle's favorite noodles, korean green tea noodles.

2. aris's omelette. he makes good omelettes!

3. breakfast smoothie: green monster. recipe here

4. making juice. took out almost all the veggies (& an apple) in the fridge & cut em' up !

5. proof that the juice is good. haha! (with her lovely morning hair & everything!)

don't think i'm weird. i was just looking through iphoto & noticed i had a good number of green food. i could even start a collection! t'was a coincidence & this post wasn't planned. just thought i'd share.

& just cause you probably think i'm soooo healthy at this point, i'll share my currently favorite cookies...

red velvet chocolate chip cookies!!!! recipe here

of course i found it on pinterest & had binh bake them.

(cause i have really bad luck when it comes to baking)

& because we are the health freaks that we are...we changed a couple of stuff...

like butter - used vegan butter

sugar - brown sugar

flour - whole wheat flour

egg- used flaxseed & water

semi sweet chocolate chips - dark chocolate chips

substituting makes all the difference (for us). & the best part, we don't feel guilty eating them!! whaaaaaat!?

good weekend

the past few days could possibly be the warmest days left this year.

it was spent with these 2 girls.

belle loves these rain boots her Lola gave her. she obviously wears it without the rain too.

we passed by the playground where we took advantage of the great lighting.

i've been craving milkshakes all week. when sunday hit 80 degrees, i had to go make my milkshake....with chocolate ice cream, pour in soy milk. mish & mashed in our mugs.

it's so good. i love it. that i get greedy with my ice cream & soy milk :)

today belle & i woke up late & had a lazy day. play doh-ed, watched my soaps, ate, stayed in our pjs all day. then we got bored, & belle was talking about princesses. i asked if she wanted princess hair, she agreed & i decided to curl her hair. haha...

how cute is shirley temple with black hair!? haha