Friday Favorites

I feel like I say this every week but boy did this one fly by.

I find myself chauffeuring my kids to and from summer school, juggling naps, making mental “to do” lists every chance I get, thinking about Christmas gifts…yes seriously. My mind is on overdrive. And we all know when that happens, very little gets accomplished.

What I can do is share my friday favorites with you. Then I’ll get back to attacking my crazy “to do” list.

 

Favorite meal 

Oh the summer salads continue. I kid not when I say we have a huge salad at least 4-5 nights out of the week in these summer. So this one I just did a grilled a huge chunk of wild salmon very simply in salt, pepper, a little lemon juice and little olive oil. Then I added it to a big mixed green salad with bell pepper, avocado, cucumber, string beans, cilantro and green onion and topped it with Asian dressing. There was no need to worry about marinated the salmon because the dressing has so much flavor!

 

Favorite Family Date

So every few days we go on the trails behind our house less than half a mile away (and our backyard too) and pick blackberries and our neighbor’s apples (they don’t eat them). We come home with 3-4 pounds each time. We are stocking up the freezer with blackberries for our smoothies! This is one of the things I love about living in Washington!

 

Favorite deal

Well let’s be honest, I don’t get out much. I love staying home with my family but a friend of mine had a beauty swap “get-together” and I thought it sounded like a lot of fun. A lot of the girls she invited work in cosmetics at a department store so I scored some great stuff. Since I didn’t have any beauty goods, I brought some of my IDLife samples (protein shakes, energy chews, sleep stripes, etc). Really fun idea for a girls party.

 

Favorite read 

I was just thinking that I needed to change up our breakfast routine. I have 5 mouths to feed (the hubby is on his own) as soon as we get up and it’s time to jazz things up a little. Then I stumbled across this page on Cooking Light’s site. Yum. I need to do some more meal prep on the weekend and cook up some baked goods, prep some pancake mix, etc so we have more options.

 

Favorite picture

Well I failed at my goal of taking pics with my big girl camera so an iPhone shot will have to do. I was late to taking little Miss Evangeline’s 7 month shots so we did those and then had a little tickle session afterwards. Love this angel.

 

I have a favorite product, favorite book and favorite new subscription box coming to you next Friday but I didn’t get all my pictures taken today.

That’s it friends- a quick blogging week for me.

How was your week? Any fun plans this weekend? What are your favorites this week?