A Day in Pictures

I am going to structure today's post a little differently by counting down to our top moment of the day...

The Fraser Family's Top 5 Moments of the Day

5. I ate a good breakfast again.  I had a magic egg with some Boar's Head ham that I tore into little pieces and half a slice of Boars Head Colby jack cheese on top with a side of spreadable fruit and two pieces of nitrate free bacon.  Daddy made the kids banana chocolate chip pancakes. They are going to be pretty disappointed tomorrow morning when daddy's gone and mommy is back in charge of breakfast. Cereal or a Fiber One bar it is!

The magic egg maker is from Harry and David but is sold on Amazon and is a miracle worker. It makes a perfect egg mcmuffin egg after 60 seconds in the microwave!  Then you just put the cheese on top, close the lid, and let the steam melt it.

4.  My iphone has not connected to Wi-Fi or Bluetooth for three months. I've been to Verizon several times and they can never give me a solution that works, so today I made an appointment at the Genius Bar at the Woodfield Apple store.  They told me basically, "sucks to be you. You need to buy a new phone for $199."  NOT HAPPENING!!  They told me that it was nothing I did, but because it is outside of the warranty period, I have to pay for a new phone.  The first time I went to Verizon it was,coincidently, exactly six days after my warranty expired. So I was screwed from the beginning.  Long story short, no more talking in the car for me and no more connecting to Wi-Fi. We may have to up our 3G package since that is the only way I can access the internet on my phone even when I am in my own house! I was pretty mad when we left there, but then we went to the Disney Store for their daily activity and the kids earned a ton of FREE Monster's University pins which made them really happy.  Seeing them happy made me happy, so I quickly forgot about my asshole phone.

3. We did another mall scavenger hunt, but this time we looked for eight things since we were at a bigger mall.  I had to call in reinforcement to draw some of the pictures. You can see that Paul took the job very seriously.

I drew a few pictures too. I'm sure you can figure out which ones those are. 

 

The kids still really got into the hunt.  Austin found half of his list in the Nordstrom's children's department alone.  They redeemed their completed sheets for cinnamon sugar pretzels again. I offered Forever Yogurt instead, but they wanted pretzels. They choose the Pretzel Bitz at Wetzel's Pretzels and holy cow, they give you a massive amount. They each got their own because I had a B1G1 coupon, but they easily could have shared. I think each bag had 15 large pretzel bites.  We brought a full bag home. Luckily, the bag has reheating instructions on it, so they can have it as a treat tomorrow.

 

2. Dinner: Pulled Pork. I put it into the crockpot at 8:30 this morning after taking about five minutes to prepare it, and then forgot about it until 4:30.  The house smelled so good.  I almost didn't make the homemade barbecue sauce because we didn't get home from the mall until 4:15, but I had spent $5.99 on Chipotle powder, which was impossible to find, just for this recipe.

I looked everywhere, and this was literally the only chipotle powder I could find. I found it at Jewel for those of you who want to make this barbeque sauce. The Mexican Beef Skewers called for it too, but I hadn't found it yet when I made the skewers.

 

I did not have any cumin or shallots, so I omitted the cumin and minced about a sixth of a red onion to replace the shallots.  I did use the maple syrup even though the recipe said it was optional.  The sauce was put together in less than ten minutes and then simmered for 45 minutes on low heat.  While it was simmering I shredded the pork.

 All the fat from the cooked pork shoulder. It was very easy to separate. It probably took me 10 minutes to pull all the meat off

The pulled meat

 I put the pulled pork right into the sauce to blend it all together.

My dinner: Salad with romaine, apples and clementines with balsamic, pulled pork with pickles, and Simply Heinz ketchup and sea salt fries.

The best fries for you if you want to be bad!

 

We LOVED the pulled pork. It was so, so good and so,so easy.  I cannot wait until summer time, so I can make this for a BBQ. I am going to start researching Paleo coleslaws because coleslaw would have been awesome on top of this pulled pork. 

1. For the last few weeks, Peyton had been begging me to let her do something very cool. I kept telling her that I had to ask Daddy first.  Well, I kept forgetting to ask Paul.  So today, while we were at the mall, Peyton asked daddy in her, "you can't say no to your baby girl" voice, and Paul said yes.  SO.....(Scroll Down)

Peyton got her ears pierced!!!!!!!  She picked out 14K Gold pink studded earrings! 

 

We went to Claire's where we ran into my cousin Jillian whom Peyton loves. Jillian told Peyton that she got her ears pierced when she was four and Peyton said, " Good. Because I'm four too."  I asked for them to pierce both ears at the same time afraid that if they did one at a time, Peyton may chicken out and not do the second ear.  They cleaned her ears, marked the spots with a pen and then told her they were just measuring and brought the guns to her ears. We thought they were just measuring too, so Paul did not have the video on and then BAM... ears pierced.  Peyton did not even flinch, she did not say ouch or make any noise at all, her eyes didn't water; she just jumped off the stool and looked in the mirror. It was CRAZY!  Five hours later and she still hasn't said a word about them bothering her. I am so proud of my "tough as nails" big girl. 

When we got home, she wanted to do a photo shoot to show off her new look.

 She cannot wait to show all her friends at school(sorry Sabrina. LOL)

 

She loves to give a crazy face.

 

So that was our Top 5 Moments of today!!!  We had a great day off of school. I'm pretty sad that everyone is going back tomorrow, but only three days left until the weekend!!

 

Many of you have been asking about what ingredients are needed to start Paleo, so tomorrow I will post the Must Have list for the first 30 days of Paleo.  We have a birthday party tomorrow, so I won't be cooking anyway.  I will just do a quick recap of my meals, but will focus on Paleo grocery shopping 101.  I'm so happy that so many of you want to give Paleo a shot and hope that I can make the transition a little easier for you by providing as much information as possible!

 

 XOXO