Sea of Green Life

I went looking for a recipe to have BBQ sauce for me with our grilled chicken I have been making tons of with the new Pampered Chef grill products. From their new cookbook, Great Grilling Recipes, we have had good chicken, great chicken, and thank the Lord there is chicken. The BBQ sauce was fantastic. The whole recipe is on a link to the side, this is the edited version I made. From the things usually found in BBQ it is: corn, gluten, MSG, sugar and tomato FREE 1 1/2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil 1/3 cup chopped onion 3/4 cup carrots, grated (I used a jar of baby food for part of it) 2 cloves garlic - minced, grated or crushed 1/2 cup white vinegar 1/4 cup agave nectar or sugar 1 teaspoon chili powder 1/8 teaspoon cumin 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper (added Simply Salsa from Tastefully Simple instead) 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika 1/4 teaspoon mace (skipped but will add if I have some! 1/4 teaspoon sea salt 15-20 turns freshly ground black pepper 1/4 cup pure dark molasses or honey Fil

A bitter sweet ending to downhill skiing. I am exhausted from a busy season and glad it's over, but oh how we loved it so! She is a great skier. She got one 8th place, one 4th, then a 2nd, and 6th overall. This is the 6th place trophy. Next picture isn't as cute. Ta-Da it's me! A close up of my braces and retainers. Top and bottom retainer and braces on top. It is to fix my TMJ and I can honestly tell you that when he put in the top retainer that has a splint built in, my jaw pain disapaited. It's not gone altogether, because there is way too much going on in there now, but I seriously went from a 7 of daily pain and other sparatic symptoms, to about 3 of pain sometimes. I have been led to document my allergy and TMJ symptoms and treatments here. It is going to take a while but it is something that I feel God wants me to share. I won't do it all at once though. If I can help just one person, it is worth the effort it takes me. I really feel almost 100% better. I am

March 10 and 11 we went up to Hungry Jack Lodge for the Mush for a Cure dog sled race. Tons of fun, we'll do it again next year. On Sat we snowmobiled from Hungry Jack to Gunflint Lake to see the start of the race then rode from there to Poplar Lake and Trail Center for the acitvities. It was about 50 degrees. Anyway, I was riding with nephew Carter, Grandpa had RaeAnne, and Gid had AnnaBelle and Geneivieve. They both fell asleep. No it is not the first time. On Sunday we played on Hungry Jack Lake and rode the girls "Kitty Cat." Gid also pulled them on the sled we have. Tons of fun for everyone. Genevieve also got to "drive" our SRX 700 with me in the back. Okay too scary. Definately not going to be the one to teach that kid how to drive. Her need for speed is a bit recklace. But we knew that from skiing.

Ready for Moose Mountian! A. Hated it once she was there! "Mom slow down, MOM I said stop!" Well the thing about her not skiing on her own is she doesn't get to stop on her own. She did have fun though. Next time out we are paying for ski lessons though. A nice local discount and someone else to teach her! We aren't big on revolutions, I was a big list maker before I had kids. A friend and I always traded resolutions but most were forgotten. This year I only have one. I want to play the piano and see if my kids want to too. My mom got us a keyboard for Christmas and it has light up keys and a tutor built in. I taught myself when I was a kid, not that I was any good, but I could hack up Christmas carols pretty good. So there it is. Piano 101 here I come. GV loves skiing and has her first meet at the end of the month. AB loves her American Girl knock off (GV does too) and is excited for her birthday. EL is getting 3 of her molars and is anything but happy.