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Diet Nachos

I got this great new recipe book the other day and guess what it had in there....NACHOS! I almost passed out in excitement because no diet I have ever been on told you to eat nachos. So tonight I made out my list of ingredients and went to the store for our Nacho Night evening. At the check out I was blindingly reminded of why we Do just eat our Taco Bueno nachos...because it's CHEAPER. My ingredients for healthy nachos and guacamole cost over $25 bucks. Can you believe it??? I could have just driven a little further and gone through the drive thru, paid $5 for a ginormous meal, and not had to spend 45 minutes cooking it or cleaning up. And we wonder why the nation is overweight? I vote we switch the prices of the 2.

Anyway, our Diet nachos were still very tasty. Boy even approved although he couldn't quite figure out where the salt was.

Here's the recipe if you want to break the bank:
2 Avocados
2 tomatillos (the store was out so I had to improvise) chopped
1/2 cup onion chopped and seedless
1 garlic clover minced
1/4 teaspoon Cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tomato chopped and seedless
1 tbs. lime juice
Mash avocados, then add in the rest and stir

Chips: Buy corn tortillas and cut each into 6th. Spray pan with Pam and then bake on eachside for 5 minutes at 400 degrees.

Nachos:
Homemade chips, reduced fat monteray jack and chedder cheese, 1 can of pinto beans rinsed and drained then mash up, guac., and a lowfast salsa. You can also add any pepper or chiles if you want.

Enjoy!

Pray

Please make a prayer stop by this BLOG that Especially Heather shared. This woman just found out she has liver cancer...she is 27 with a son and is single. This little boy is all she has. Please lift them up in prayer.

Lapping Up His Grace

I so needed to be with my Heavenly Father this afternoon. It was truly a perfect afternoon with just me and him in my big comfy chair. I could have stayed there all day basking in His grace.

My heart has been so full of worry and anxiety with desicions that need to be made or don't need to be made and finally after trying to solve them all by myself I gave up and came running to His arms. How amazing is it that we have a God we can do that with? The concept is truly just too much for me to wrap my mind around.

There in my chair I sat curled up with my Bible and a study on Daniel that I "dropped out" of last summer for no real reason other than time. I picked it up and turned right to where I left off...and it was so right where I needed to be. And although Ms. Moore gives instructions just to do 1 a day...I couldn't help it and kept lapping up His word. Time had no meaning, it was just me and God and kept asking for second helpings.

Lord, thank for our day! I praise you so for the grace, mercy and wisdom you bestill upon us each and every day. Lord, I have foolishly tried to control Your will and I pray that you will take the wheel. May we always search for the joy in lapping up your grace!

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deodorant drama

This is a special anniversary shout out to some dear special friends of ours who after the inccident I'm about to tell you all have graciously remained friends to us. God Bless them! My husband actually grew up with her and come to find out for the first time last night while watching "My Best Friend's Wedding" with Julia Roberts the two of them actually made that dorky pack that if they both weren't married by 28 they'd marry each other.
I almost died laughing on the floor for 2 reasons:
1. that they made that pack
and
2. my husband watched that girly movie as a teen!
Anyway...back to my story...God graciously saved her from marrying boy and found the most precious man and 3 years ago today they married.

At the time boy and I were still dating (he actually proposed a week after their wedding) and were able to be at their beautifuly ceremony of I Do's. Now check your calendar...which month are we in? Yes, July. July is not the month to have a wedding in Texas much less outdoors. That's right outdoors. It probably would have been cooler to set me on fire.

So we arrive, me in a sleeveless dress, I did think about a bathing suit but since they I knew their would be no dancing for religious purposes I felt a bikini would not go over well with the family. It was a gorgeous ceremony and as we all mingled with lemonade and cake after the reception we went up to give the bride & groom a hug.

I hugged my sweet friend in her beautiful white gown and then leaned in to hug the groom in black with one of those side hugs. You know the ones with one arm where your pit is all over their side. Know if you haven't seen what's coming let me give you a hint heat + sweat= deodorant melting. Yep I totally ruined his tuxedo with my hug. He was COVERED in white goop from my smelly pit!! I was mortified. If I didn't have heels on I would have sprinted for the nearest exit. I quickly began wipping this poor groom down grasping for napkins and water galore. PRAISE GOD the gunk got off and the tux was not ruined nor the evening.

I did however spend the night waving instead of hugging.

A Note to the Pug

Dear Sweet and Fluffy Pug,

I just had to write and thank you so terribly much that after you had a violent spell of #2 you felt the need to grab a sock from the laundry and put it on top to somewhat hide your mess from me this morning. You are way too stinking smart for a dog and as very generous as that was of you it then left me to clean one more thing you destroyed.

With Love,
Girl