Day 17!!!!!!!!!!! so far :3

Lately I have been trying to keep up the exercise so I keep getting stronger! (: So here are my results!

5 squats 10 high knees- 4,5,5
exploding push up-34,37,31
5 switch lunges and 2 around the worlds-5,6,5
plank jump overs-38,42,35

Another thing I have to share today is a special chocolate chip cookie recipe, but be careful, they are very addicting :3

 I got the cookie recipe from Nana Clare's Kitchen (url at bottom of page). However, because I just LOVE cookies and can never say no to having one more I made a few changes to the recipe (: Instead of using honey, which is quickly absorbed into the system, I used agave nectar. For me I did not notice a difference in sweetness, another plus is that agave nectar is slowly absorbed into the blood so it's good for diabetics (: ! Another thing I added is coconut butter, which is a healthy fat, to help with the cookie's texture (:

Alright, lets begin!

you will need:
½ cup agave nectar
½ cup butter( 1 stick non salted)
1 1/2 tablespoons of coconut butter
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 ½ cups flour
½ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
3/4 cups dark chocolate chips- little healthy and so yummy
1/4 cup cacao nubs-you can find them at whole foods, have a LOT of iron

Directions:

1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees

2.In a medium sized bowl, cream the stick of butter. Once smooth, add the agave nectar,coco butter, egg, and vanilla and blend.

3.In a small bowl sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Whisk to combine the ingredients well.

4.Add a little of the dry mixture to the wet mixture and mix until well combined. Do this until you run out of the dry mixture. Never add all of the dry mixture, it will take longer to mix.

5.Once all ingredients are combined, fold in the chocolate chips and cacao.

6.Spoon the cookie dough onto a sheet, 1 inch in between.

7.Bake in oven 10-14 minutes or until brown. And enjoy C:

Nana Clare's kitchen http://www.nanaclareskitchen.com/2012/03/13/honey-chocolate-chip-cookies-and-tips-for-using-honey/

Fish painting

just a fish I doodled a few days ago (: and have done some more doodles since (:It was inspired by the songs Pretty Face by Soley and Take Me Somewhere Nice by Mogwai

The steps were actually pretty easy to do (:
1.In order to keep the lines crisp I outlined the my beginning sketch with a thin black sharpie

2.Then to paint the scales without spending too much time I chose a light shade of blue and lightened it more with water. Keeping the brush thin, I lightly tapped the brush down the tail

3.When preparing to change colors, I kept watering down the color as I painted

4. Once the paint dried I went back with the new color and repeated step 3

5.For the fins I watered down the paint and let the colors mix. Then I went back and made strokes with either the pink or blue

6.for the eyes and lips I painted layer by layer to create a little bit of shading (:

new beginnings day 6

July 4th (: - 6th day of body rocking and it felt awesome!

Also it was a beautiful sunny day and since we went to go celebrate and see fireworks I took my new camera out for a spin c: and played with some effects (:
For the picture above I used the miniature effect (: And just messed a little with reflections haha (:

Anyways later on I was able to get some nice pictures of the fireworks, so here is one of my favorites (: I just love fireworks and was really happy with how crisp this picture came out (: unfortunately my camera battery died so I couldn't take any more pics (: oh well, some things you just have to remember (:

After the show I came home and bodyrocked pretty late and so here are my scores!

Body rock burn
switch lunge and woodchop-24,24,27
diagonal knee raise-19,21,25
power jump, push-up and toe touch-9,9,8
pike mat jumps-32,50,53
pike press and knee tuck-12,19,24
leg swing,back lunge and kick-10,14,13

body rock sculpt
side plank leg lift-15
ab circle holds-20
side plank leg lift-17
ab circle holds-23