Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies about Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be by Rachel Hollis (5/5) “With wry wit and hard-earned wisdom, popular online personality and founder of TheChicSite.com founder Rachel Hollis helps readers break free from the lies keeping them from the joy-filled and […]
vacationing in Lake Tahoe and Reno. The purpose of the trip was for a family reunion, but we flew in a few days ahead to explore Lake Tahoe. loving the field of daisies I found during our hike. So beautiful cooling off in the clear water lake after a hot day in the sun realizing […]
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (4.5/5) “This book is about a small plane crashing with two fancy business moguls on it. Also in attendance were their families and a down-on-his-luck painter. Only the painter and a four-year-old boy survive. The narrative winds back and surges forward in order to […]
One of my favorite things in the summer are all the seasonal food found in the farmers market. In the summer, we do a lot of overnight stays and road trips around Southern California. Whenever we are out of town on the weekends, I try to search for info on the local farmer’s market. […]
Veggie Bars
Chocolate Avocado Cake
Chocolate Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes
White Bean & Roasted Tomatoes Pasta
Petite Lasagnas
Coconut (Chickpea) Waffles
Grain Free Cake for One
Happy Halloween from our baby crab. The picture below was taken during Baby H’s fall festival event at his day care. It was the first time having candy and boy did he love it! I loved that his day care had this evening festivity, we got a chance to meet other parents and see […]
It was raining all night last night and all day today. It was really cozy inside the house and the perfect day for baking 🙂 I was planning to eat breakfast burrito today but since I woke up with rain outside, I did a switcheroo and ate my usual breakfast lately, protein oatmeal with melted peanut […]
Hello Healthy Coconut readers!!! So happy to be guest posting for a fellow Southern California blogger – congrats on your wedding, Lea! I write “The Actor’s Diet,” a daily look into my life as an actress living in Hollywood, meal by meal. Here’s an old post from the set of “Yes We’re Open,” an indie […]
Since we have a long drive ahead of us to get to the cabin this weekend, I wanted to make these nut bars so we have healthy and filling snacks while in the car or during our long days at the lake. These are hearty bars that are filling and tasty. I made them this […]
Now that wedding planning is going full speed and every day decisions are being made regarding the details of our wedding travels and the actual wedding day, I have been feeling a lot of emotions. This week I have been in a reflective mood. I look back at how far we have come in less […]
My “about me” page is going to be updated soon, just posting my old one as a blog post so I have a way to archive it. A lot of things have changed since I started my blog in 2010 (I got married, I became a new mom, we bought a new house and […]
participating in the Easter Egg hunt at our local park this past Sunday. The city did a great job putting the event together, it was not chaotic and the kids enjoyed themselves. H was grouped with the 4 year old age group and was a little overwhelmed during the hunt when all the […]
Happy Halloween Eve! We had our Halloween fun this weekend. We attended the annual Halloween event at Chris’s work. His and hers costume. Chris was the Green Hornet and I dressed up as Cave Woman (but everyone thought I was Wilma from the Flintstones). Both our costumes had to be family and kid friendly so […]
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