Long time coming...

It has been ages since my last post. I kept hoping I would have time to post occasionally during the past few months...but life has just been moving so fast!

Fall is my favorite time of year AND my favorite time to cook...so even though I don't actually have much time to blog these days -- I'm just going to when I get a chance.

Okay so here is the rundown of the past 7 months:

• I signed a contract to write a high school Spanish textbook called Tejidos for Pre-Ap/Pre-IB level courses and have been investing most of my free time working on that.
• I graduated with my Master's in May--- woooohooooo!!!
• I passed my AFAA certification and am now teaching Tuesday night Step Interval and Wednesday night Barbell Strength at my gym
• I started a new job at the same school as the Technology Administrator -- a 12 month position with no more track outs :( ...but I get to coordinate a 1:1 iPad initiative for 480 high school students!
• My baby sister got married in seriously the most beautiful wedding ever in July

• Forrest and I have done a few things to fix up the house -- I'll do a post on that soon
• My niece gets cuter by the second

And the most exciting thing is that Forrest and I found out in May that we are expecting and in August we got the very exciting news that it will be a BABY BOY!!!

I am loving being pregnant (most days) and am so excited to get started on the nursery and making the house ready for him. I also am reading a lot about natural childbirth, and even though I will be birthing my little man in the hospital I am praying that I am able to do it all without meds.

Okay there is so much to catch up on here that I will have to gradually share more info with you guys in each post.

I am off to grab our groceries this morning and I am super excited about our menu...and I just really wanted to share it with someone. :)

Tomorrow we have some friends dropping in for the 4pm football game so I am going to cook up some chili, wings and chipotle bbq sausage bites. Check out the pins below to see the recipes. I will be replacing venison for beef in the chili recipe.

Source: passthesushi.com via Jessica on Pinterest

Source: bigoven.com via Megan on Pinterest

Source: myrecipes.com via Megan on Pinterest

The chili should definitely last us for lunch for the week. Then on Monday I am going to make some good ole chicken-pot-pie. Since I teach fitness classes on Tues/Wed I always try to make enough on Monday night so that I don't have to cook again until Thursday.

Source: realsimple.com via Megan on Pinterest

Thursday I am going to cook up some baked (lasagna style) penne. I couldn't find  a picture of this anywhere to pin to Pinterest...but I'm thinking the recipe will look like this:

• 1 package whole wheat penne
• 2 cans marinara sauce
• Ricotta cheese (about 10 to 12 oz-ish)
• mozzarella (1.5 cups to melt on top)
• ground venison or beef (whatever I have in the freezer still)

This should last us through dinner on Friday and lunch Sat/Sunday. For breakfast I have been packaging up some of those daily smoothie freezer bags to last the week. 

Source: fitness-is-sexy.tumblr.com via Megan on Pinterest

And baking one of my favorite quiche recipes that I will share soon.

Okay...my plan was to get to shopping before the all the crazy Saturday traffic starts. Ooops! Have an awesome Saturday (it is soo good to post to this blog again!)