Drink Water

Also make sure that along with eating clean you are drinking plenty of water. 70-120 oz per day! Yes at first you will be peeing a lot but i promise its a key part to getting those abs and your body will adjust to it after a couple of days. It flushes out toxins and keeps the body from bloating! its also beneficial for the skin and will help the skin to tighten up making it easier to see the abs forming!

day 2

Well we are almost 2 days in how are we doing? Feeling that six pack yet? If not don't get discouraged it will come!!! The fact that you are part of this challenge is awesome and the important thing! Stick with it!!!! So here is the next recipe!!!!

Recipe #2

Low Carb Chipotle Cheese Burger with Crunchy Kale Chips
Prep time: 15 minutes

Cook time: 30 minutes

Yield: 4 servings

Serving size: 1 burger with cheese, 2 cups kale chips

Ingredients

1 lb ground dark turkey meat
4 cups baby spinach
½ cup Skinny Chef Cherry Chipotle Sauce
4 slices cheddar or pepper jack cheese
Instructions

Burger:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Place the spinach in a food processor and pulse until finely chopped.
Add the turkey meat and the Cherry Chipotle Sauce, and pulse again 5 to 6 times to mix.
Form into 4 burger patties, 4-inches in diameter and transfer to a plate.
Heat a large skillet over medium high heat.
Add the olive oil and the burger.
Cook 3 to 4 minutes per side, turning once until the burgers are browned on both sides.
Slide into the oven and bake 20 minutes until the burgers are cooked through.
Kale Chips:
While the burgers are baking, prepare the kale chips. Set out two ungreased baking sheets with sides.
Rinse kale under cold running water and pat dry with a paper towel or dish towel.
Wrap kale in another layer of fresh paper towel or another dry dishtowel—kale must be dry in order to crisp up.
Squeeze and unroll.
Roughly chop leaves and discard stems or save to add to your favorite soup recipe.
In a large bowl, toss leaves with olive oil, Parmesan, sesame seeds, salt and pepper, rubbing leaves with your fingers to coat with olive oil and spices.
Transfer leaves between baking sheets and bake 12 to 15 minutes, stirring once or twice, until crisp.

"abs are made in the kitchen" clean eating challenge

I am doing a clean eating challenge that is going to last for 30 days! I will post a new recipe each day and everyone in the challenge group will commit to eating clean throughout the duration of the challenge. Abs are made 30% in the gym and 70% in the kitchen so lets get some rockin abs!! This challenge is combined with shakeology for those interested its a super shake that has over 70+ super foods in it that aid in energy, weightloss, focus, overall health and helping anyone to reach there fitness goals plus more trust me! This shake is amazing!!!!

I am so excited about this challenge group and i know all willing to commit to doing this are going to do amazing!! Clean eating is a lifestyle. By incorporating whole, fresh foods into your diet, you eliminate preservatives, additives, and toxins and avoid the processed and refined foods that wreak havoc on our health and on our waistlines! This challenge group is going to last for 30 days! It will consist of a new dinner recipe being posted everyday. Also i want everyone posting a description or photo of their dinner meal every day so we can tally up who was the most consistent also it will keep everyone motivated and accountable! Whoever is the most consistent and has the biggest results at the end will receive the grand prize! Also this challenge group was supposed to be combined with shakeology for those interested in that you can message me or you can order it fromwww.beachbodycoach.com/shredthoseaubs. This is going to be so fun and i'm excited for you all!


Recipe #1
 Slow cooker Super Food Soup

Ingredients

• 2 cups sliced carrots
• 1 large sweet potato, cut into 1/2" cubes
• 1 cup fresh or frozen green beans
• 1/2 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
• 1 small onion, diced
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 2 (15 ounce) cans black beans, drained and rinsed
• 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• Kosher or sea salt to taste
• 2 cups vegetable juice (I used R.W. Knudsen, Organic Very Veggie Juice, no sugar added)
• 2 cups vegetable broth, low-sodium

Directions

Combine all ingredients in the slow cooker, cover and cook on low 6-8 hours, or until veggies are tender. Add a tablespoon of reduced fat cheddar cheese, if desired.

NOTE: If you prefer a less subtle onion and garlic taste, saute onion in 1 tablespoon olive oil until tender, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and saute 1 additional minute. Add to slow cooker along with other ingredients.

To make this even more of a Superfood Soup, add 2 cups coarsely chopped kale the last 5 minutes of cooking, or until wilted.

nesting!

Ok fine hun i'm nesting! My sweet husband has been giving me grief basically the whole time i have been pregnant every time i clean, vacuum, dusted, organized etc of anything he says i'm nesting (as if i don't do all those things all the time especially before i was pregnant ha!) anyways i didn't think it counted until now ha! I woke up at 5:30 in the morning (not intentionally) and started getting a few things set up in the baby's room! it's still not even close to being done, but i did get a few things going so i guess i have to admit that i'm nesting now!

Happy 6 year Anniversary!

7 years ago i met my amazing husband well sort of haha we technically met for a minute 2 years before when he was leaving on his mission and he asked me for a date when he got home from his mission. So 7 years ago i met him again at a fireside and he asked me if he could still have that date! Surprised he remembered and actually impressed i agreed. We went on our first date and we're married a year later! 6 years ago yesterday (Sep. 7th)!  I'm so grateful for him he is my best friend and an amazing husband i honestly can't imagine life without him! Its crazy to think that its been 6 years for us! I used to look at people that said they had been married for 5 or 6 years and think that was so long and it would take forever to get to that point but time has flown by! They have been the best 6 years of my life though and i'm so grateful for our life together! Thanks for the best 6 years husband i look forward to the rest! Happy Anniversary yesterday!!!

Shandon had to work for most of our anniversary but he didn't want me to go all day without hearing from him apparently so he sent me these!!!!

A GIANT POST!!!!!

So lets see, its been over a year and i think working on two years since i did a blog post haha! That's so sad! I really don't have much to post about generally so rather then bore anyone who reads this with the not so exciting details I just haven't posted, but i'm committing to be better from here on out. 

So to recap the last year and a half....well I graduated from Dixie State University cept for it was Dixie State College at the time however for some reason they missed putting my name i the program for last year and put it in this years program haha so I think i can claim university status right?! Anyways I along with my sister in law Chrissy Lee graduated it may have taken us a while to accomplish this goal but hey who's keeping track haha! 

I should also mention that my older brother Christopher Weaver graduated the same day he was back in the W's part of graduating group so i didn't get to sit by him but congrats to him too! We had a lot of support of family and friends which was awesome and we got to celebrate with all of them afterwards!!! 

Then as a graduation gift to ourselves for me and my sister in law we gifted ourselves a 4 day baja mexican cruise to Ensenada and Cattalina Island, and a nice gesture we took our husbands along I mean they did have to put up with us while we did school so i guessed they deserved to come ;) It was a lot of fun though we had a blast! Thanks Tam and Chrissy for going with us!!!!

After that it was back to work at the Dr. Prince's office and everyday life as normal which continued on without really much to elaborate on for a while. I guess as a side note I could add that shortly after the cruise my husband and I were called out of our married ward and asked to go to the home ward so I  could be in the Young women's presidency and so my husband could teach Sunday School for the 14-18 year old class. It was weird going back into young womens since i don't feel like it was that long ago that i was there myself and going back as a leader was a tad comical to me but its been a lot of fun and i've loved it! We had family pictures done with Shandons family which was an adventure to say the least both mine and my sister in laws husbands showed up in the nasty flag t-shirts they found at walmart (which i wish i had a picture of) because the color scheme for family pictures was red white and blue so why not be patriotic right?! anyways after a lot of chaos we did get some decent pictures! 

Moving on to September my husband and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary on Sep. 7 and then my husband turned 28 on  Sep. 28 our anniversary didn't consist of too much since my husband had to work so it was pretty low key but it was still nice and for my husbands birthday we had a party for him!

 We also in September started the process of trying to move up north so we could both finish out school. Shandon to finish out his bachelors degree and me on to culinary school since they don't offer anything for that here the plan was to go to UVU so i could fulfill my current dream of becoming a chef or something closely related to that, but through a series of unfortunate events of  UVU getting our transcripts for both highschool and college lost several times and not getting accepted into the school till 2 weeks before registration closed then having to visit with the counselor before we could register and they were out of town and once they got back everything was filled once we talked with them it apparently wasn't meant to be for us to go there at that point. We were kinda frustrated, but it just wasn't the right time! 

Lets see that puts us at thanksgiving which was pretty standard of spending it with both families and my sister in law and i doing the annual black friday adventure! which is always fun and scary at the same time! Then for Christmas we also were with both families at Shandon's families we did the annual nativity which is always epic unfortunately i don't know where my pictures are of that or else i would post them. We did however for my dad's christmas gift do a bunch of service projects where we donated to the soup kitchen and the food bank in my dads name along with others and that was an amazing experience 

In January we said goodbye to my sweet Grandma Wilma Ellison Weaver and she is greatly missed. She was a loving mother of 8 boys Ken, Dan, Rhys, Mike, Scott, Russ, Warren, and Tom. She went fast, multiple family members had talked to her earlier that day up until an hour before her stroke and she was fine she laid down cuz she had a little bit of a headache and then her stroke hit. She was found by my uncle mike a couple hours later and rushed to the hospital. She was coherent well sort of  for about 2 days long enough for all her boys to make it in and say goodbye and the she left on January 12, 2013 5 years to the day of the passing of her husband. Which was kinda romantic in a way she had been saying for about a year that she missed him and she just wanted to go and be with him. We all thought she would live for several more years because she was so healthy but she was a determined lady! We know she's happy and has been reunited with her husband and even though we miss her we are happy for her!!! 

Next in line of events Shan and I found out we were pregnant at the end of February! And when i hit 16 weeks which put us towards the end of may i found out it was going to be a girl!

 Due NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Shandon and I are so excited!!! We honestly thought it was going to be a boy....for some reason that is the vibe we were both getting but when we went in for the ultra sound she was definitely not hiding what she she was! We can't wait to meet her!!! I still have my freak out moments where I wonder what it is that i've done and being a mom in general just freaks me out and gives me the willies but i know it will all work out and hopefully i will get the hang of things when she gets here! And luckily i have the husband i do who can be the voice of reason and talk me through my freak out moments haha the poor guy! i'm sure he wonders what he got himself into being married to me! Oh well! 

My pregnancy has been fairly easy which has been really nice I had nausea at night in the first trimester and then that ended when i went into the second trimester. I've been lucky enough to stay working throughout my whole pregnancy and will continue to work up until a month before i deliver! Which my delivery is a month after my little brother gets home from his mission so he will be here just in time to get in some fat jokes about me and then to meet his new niece! I did get really big really fast...a lot faster then i was expecting I started to show at like 3 months it was crazy and i have continued to get massive haha! as you can see! 

To continue on in our recap my husband and I recently got back from a trip to new york! my moms family lives out there and my husband had never been before so as our last trip before i became a flight risk we went so i could show him around! We went to all the church historical sights in palmyra such as the Hill Cumorah, Sacred Grove, Josephs Smith Home, and Alvin Smiths burial spot! each place was amazing! I hadn't been since i was a little kid so it was cool to be able to go as an adult and have a deeper appreciation for everything. We also had a blast just hanging out with my moms family out there as well! 

And Thats basically it for a recap on the last...since i posted. I'm about 8 1/2 weeks out from having our baby and i'm so unprepared! We haven't decided on any names yet and her bedroom still isn't put together or anything haha but I intend to make some serious progress on that in the next couple of weeks at least on the bedroom front anyways. Lets just pray she doesn't try and come too early and i still have a bunch to do! luckily i only have about 3 1/2 weeks left of work so i wont have that to take up most of my time. Anyways thats a rap on our lives up to this point! 

Happy 31 years mom and dad

Happy 31 Anniversary

Mom and Dad.

It's my parents anniversary today and they now have been married for 31 years. My mom is a convert to the church who lived in new york all her life (until she came out to utah to go to cosmetology school at 19) and my dad was a church nerd from utah so the concept of how they managed to meet and then get married is amazing really to say the least. Not that they aren't perfect for each other because they are. It's just amazing to me that they lived at opposite ends of the country and managed to meet each other at all, but they did and i'm so grateful for that. My parents are so amazing to me and i look up to them in so many ways. They are the perfect example for anyone to look up to. My mom is so compassionate and the people in her life are so important to her especially her family and there is never a day goes by that you cant tell that she loves you. She has been not only my mom but she is also one of my best friends. I can go to her for anything. she is an amazing listener and friend to anyone! Her example of how to be an amazing mom and wife encourages me to be better on a daily basis. Her testimony of the gospel is evident in everything she does. My dad is the only way to put it a "saint" he will do anything for anyone, even if he doesn't have time to. He is devoted to the gospel and his callings and always has been. He never complains about anything and i have never seen him mad. He is always staying busy (trying to get him to sit still for 5 minutes at a time is somewhat impossible actually). His Family and the Lord are his most important priorities and he devotes himself to them completely! He is hilarious, and bit of a goofball (in a good way no one would have him any other way). I'm so grateful i have both of them in my life and for everything they are for me and everyone in my family. Happy anniversary mom and dad I love you guys very much and thanks for all you are and have done for me and all of us!