So, Here Goes Nothing!

I'm going to do this!  My goals for this blog are to give updates on my family's life, share recipes I've tried and to post pics of travels and life in general.  My new years resolution for 2012 is to generally live healthier.  I'm trying new recipes, eating out less, going to Zumba, and dancing on our new Xbox 360.

I received my first Canon DSLR for Christmas (woot woot) and yesterday Gary, Owen and I decided to take it out to the mountains to get some hiking in and give my camera a try.  After dinner at Tami's Cafe by Lake Lawtonka, we drove out to Parallel Forest.  We have never been and I've heard tales of an old cabin that I thought would be neat to try to find.  We never found the cabin but did find a neat stone mill, came across some longhorn and unfortunately fell and hurt my pinky and bruised my left side in several places.  Aside from a few small cosmetic scratches, my camera survived the fall (whew.)  I posted the pics on Flickr that you can see at the top of my blog.

Today Owen and I made Banana Oatmeal muffins with  mini chocolate chips from a recipe I found on Pinterest.  Roni from greenlitebites.com is where I got this.  She says they are 3 WW points each.

• 3 mashed bananas (the more ripe the better!)
• 1 cup vanilla Almond milk (you could use skim but you may want to add a little sweetener) I used vanilla soy milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbsp Baking powder
• 3 cups Old Fashion or Rolled Oats
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 tbsp mini chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

Mix all ingredients except the chocolate chips together, and let sit while you prepare the muffin pans.

Spray a muffin pan and/or liners with with non-stick spray.
Stir the chocolate chips into the oatmeal batter.
Divide batter into 15 muffin cups. They should be just about filled.
Bake 20-30 minutes, you’ll see the edges just starting to brown and they will be firm to the touch.
The muffins may stick when hot but are removed easily when cooled for a bit.

Gary and I liked them but Owen, not so much.