Fruit Salad

One of my favorite snacks to make and eat if fruit salad. So simple, so quick, so delicious. I am the type of person who prefers fruit over vegetables any day, and this little snack makes eating healthier slightly easier. Here's what you need to get started:

Ingredients:

4 cups of Mandarin Oranges (I buy pre-packaged)
2 handfuls of Grapes (purple or green...I go for whichever is sweeter at the moment)
1 Apple
2 Bananas
1 jar Maraschino Cherries
1 large jar Pineapple Juice


How to make fruit salad:

Pour the pineapple juice into a large bowl and let it sit patiently for the other ingredients. Then, drain the cherries and the oranges, rinse the grapes, and add to the large bowl of juice. If you like the orange syrup stuff the oranges are packaged in, by all means add it to the mix instead of rinsing and draining the oranges.

Now, slice the banana and apple into bit size pieces and add them as well.

Stir all the fruit together so you have a nice mixed fruit salad. 

Bright, colorful, delicious goodness. Makes 4 servings that I put in individual tupperware containers and refrigerate. And the best part? It's only 3 points if you are on Weight Watchers like me. I like to substitute my chips at lunch and have this instead. Gives you a serving of fruit and gets you on track to eating healthier. It's that easy!

Snow Day

We have had 4 days cancelled due to snow this week! Crazy! The first 3 days should have really been called ice days, but today we actually got real snow. The roads have been absolutely terrible and everything is covered in about 2 inches of ice. The few times I did manage to leave the house the past 4 days, I was sliding everywhere.

Baylor, however, has been having the time of his life the past few days. He absolutely loves the snow, while Dexter tries to avoid it as much as possible. Here are a few pictures from the past few days!

 Dexter on the first snow day in early January. He wouldn't go outside this time so this is the only photo I have of him in the snow!

Baylor, after sticking his face in the snow!

Welcome 2011!

2010 was a great year for me! Here's a short recap of the big changes 2010 brought:

• A new love came into my life - and his name is Baylor Bear

Baylor is now 100 pounds, but I still love this picture

• I finished my first full year of teaching.  I took my band (made mostly of my beginner students) and received the highest ratings in each of our competitions.
• My younger sister Kathleen got married in May
• Garrett and I moved into our first house in August
• Garrett and I got married in November!

• We decorated our first house for Christmas

• We went to Breckenridge, Colorado for our honeymoon in December

Here's what I'm looking forward to in 2011

• Celebrating my 25th birthday in January
• Going to San Antonio for TMEA in February
• Amanda's bachelorette party in Nashville in March
• Taking my band to UIL in April
• Garrett's birthday in May
• Amanda and Andy's wedding in June
• Hopefully buying a house and moving in July
• New beginnings in August?
• Hopefully not doing marching band in September and October
• Celebrating 1 year of marriage in November
• Celebrating another wonderful Christmas and end of the year with family and friends!

I'm usually not a fan of new year's resolutions because mine always seem to be the same and never happen, but hopefully if I post them it will help me stick with them. This next year will be sprinkled with posts about my progress. Here are my 2 new year's resolutions for 2011:

• Stick with Weight Watchers and make healthier eating choices
• Start the couch to 5K program and run a 5K in May and November.