Dinner this week, and a little baby cuteness :)

I wanted my sister to capture how cute Melody is while eating and she did. I love the way she looks up at me, and I love those cute chubby cheeks. :) Sorry, hair is nasty---this was before my bath lol :)

I just love this little peanut :)

That scratch is from her attempt to leap from daddy's arms...on the concrete :( lol. She didn't get very hurt but when I came home from work that day she had a big bandaid across her forehead and it was so funny to see :) Her new favorite snack is either her thumb or two fingers. But she isn't sucking on them, she's chewing, so I'm not too concerned.

This is totally off-centered but it's hard to get a baby to smile and take a picture!! :)

Now on to some food blogging to give everyone an idea of some clean meals :)

Black bean burgers and buns (okay, I DID make homemade buns but they turned out how like hockey pucks so I'm gonna have to try again. Whole wheat is hard to work with! So we just went out and grabbed the most healthy whole wheat ones from the store lol) But the black bean burgers I made up and they turned out very tasty!! Topped with avacado, tomato, cheese :) We had sweet potato fries tossed in olive oil on the side!

(Black bean burgers included pureed black beans, grated cheese, frozen hashbrown potatoes, chopped mushroom and onion, whole wheat breadcrumbs, egg, and seasonings)

Chicken marinated in garlic (minced), olive oil, and lemon. It was fabulous. Dustin had filet mignon instead. I'm not a red meat kind of person. Baked potatoes and snow peas on the side.

Last night, roasted asparagus, cajun seasoned mahi mahi, rice (can't justify the switch to brown...yet), and sauteed onions. YUMMY!!

(2 fillets of mahi mahi, 1/8 c of PURE maple syrup, 1 TB cajun seasoning, 2 tsps garlic powder... Saute with onions and olive oil, pour the sauce over the mahi mahi after its fully cooked. Voila!)

We don't claim to be perfect at all. Right now we're just focusing on eating cleaner. No diets, just simplifying our eating. I feel a lot better already and got over my cold on Sunday extremely fast. I've found that I am craving processed things but I remind myself I can have them, I am just trying to eat to better fuel my body. It's a learning process but well worth it.