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I have been on a fitness craze recently. I love dancing (with xbox kinect, Dance central and Just Dance) and P90x with my brother. I can work out for about 5.5 hours straight and still have energy for MORE! I am addicted. So saying all of this, I  need to consume protein to help build my ‘muscles’ I haven’t yet because I dislike the taste of protein powders…

I went online and did some research for protein bars, i took the ingredients and made my own insane recipe. Its insane, because it doesn’t taste like some health food bland blah! It tastes REALLY GOOD!

Ingredients:

• 3 tablespoon of chia seed, soaked in water (yield about half a cup)
• 8 table
• spoon of chunky peanut butter
• 2 tablespoon of whole brown flax seed
• 1/4 cup of slivered almonds (toasted with NO oil)
• 1/8 cup of cacao nibs (for the yummi chocolatey flavour – I vitamixed so it has a thinner consistency
• 2 table spoon of unsweetened shredded coconut
• 1 small lindt dark chocolate 90% bar
• 3 tablespoon of hemp hearts
• 8 table spoon of grounded flax (moisture absorber)
• 2 scoops of protein powder (I used pea protein)

Steps:

• Combine all the wetish ingredients in a large large bowl: peanut butter, soaked chia seed
• Add the dry ingredients: whole flax seed, cacao nibs, shredded coconut, almonds, hemp hearts, and protein powder
• Leave in the fridge for a coupole of hours (… i have found since adding the whole flax seeds it somehow produced its own flax seed oil, so its a bit oily)
• Remove from the fridge and add grounded flaxseed 2 table spoons at a time until its a non sticky, non oily, non gooey, non liquidly consistency
• Roll them into balls, mine are about 1.5 inches in diameter.
• And coat them with hemp seeds.

And here they are!

Nutritional info to come…

Happy birthday my love!!! May there be many many many more

Its a carrot banana pecan cake and boy was it delicious!

Smothered with lemon creme cheese frosting with lemon zest and honey and sandwiched between butter candied pecans.

I decorated it.

It didn’t’ last long, we ate it almost within 10 minutes of finishing the cake. I wish i could relive it.

I am no cake decorator like my darling cousin jenn (www.jenniferchao.com) but i can say i made this with love and decorated with care.  I had a great time making this for my sweet sweet love Shawn

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I could not ask for better weather this past weekend.Before and after thanksgiving weekend has been a bit chilly, but it was warm enough to ALMOST dip in the lake… (almost… believe me my toes were cold)

A perfect weekend to celebrate our two year anniversary. It has been an amazing ride.. time always goes so fast when we are together and im so thankful you came into my life (when you did). I edited 1200 photos down to my favorite 100 or so, and only posted one or two of each location… or else i would use my unlimited storage unit up

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Thanksgiving weekend marks our 2 years anniversary. I can’t believe we have been together for 2 long years. I am very happy, and I had a great fun weekend with Shawn. Since i was young we would go camping with YP (young people) my youth group at Algonquin park. I miss that every year. So this year i asked if we were both NOT busy if we could go camping.

Shawn planned this wonderful trip for us and to top it off, at work on Friday he won the $5 draw (you put $5 in and you can enter your name into the draw,…) the total amount collected was $405… whopee. so our trip plus all the smoked fish and meats we could carry was all covered. That makes me happy.. happier.

We left my house at around 5 am… eek. But we got there just in time for the sunrise, and it was spectacular I wish i could relive it again. It was so beautiful. im glad i stuck my hand out into the FREEZING Haliburton air.. and took these hipstamatic snaps

We stayed at a co-workers cottage and it was awesome. It had a great little dock that outlooked ducks and wildlife playing (and fishies jumping).

There as a campfire.. which inspired me to do some light graffiti shots (click under ‘light graffiti’ under photography). I lite up a fire for the first time.. and continued to burn random things. It was fun…

We hiked for a couple KM, went to a GREAT smoke house (Norm’s.. you have to go there), went to a pancake house and bought a lot of… not pancakes but syrup and jams. My favorite is Guava Syrup. YUM, and took many many ‘couple’ photos while hiking and at Ritchie falls.

More to come soon… after i have lunch and charge up my laptop.

BTW… i am NOT excited about coming back to life… it.. is a drag. ah

I wish i could jump into a teleportation device and relive Thanksgiving weekend…

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Me and Shawn love to play tiny wings. Its one of our favorite games. We would sit beside each other on the weekends and play for an hour without speaking. We are competitive. So i wanted to make him a plate that HIM and ME.

Hope you enjoy it Shawn!

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My sweetheart proposed April 2 (no its not a joke) of this year. With a beautiful diamond ring from birks. Ah im in love… with the RING

I like to put my ring away sometimes and open it again. Each time im surprised at the beauty. I know that sounds lame. But I just get giddy and excited all over again.

View my beautiful ring.