forgot to mention…

I forgot to mention in my last post that Girls on the Run made it onto Eric’s Little Heroes (a program through Komo news that features local kids’ sporting events in the Seattle area).  Check it out – the video is so cute!!!

Girls on the Run is SO MUCH FUN!

Last summer I joined the board of directors for Girls on the Run of Puget Sound and am having a blast being involved in this organization.  I got several friends together and we ran the GOTR 5k last December (this just reiterates how far behind on posting I am). 

The theme was SUPER HEROES and since most of us work for Ernst & Young, we decided to be Ernie’s Angels (Charlie’s Angels qualify as super heroes right???).

Here is our awesome team, plus Joel, the supportive bag carrier.

Thank you everyone for joining the team!  Mark your calendars for the spring 5k on May 22 – we’ll be running buddies this time around!

Brodie

The couple weekends ago a our friends Krista and Brian came and stayed the weekend with us and brought their dog Brodie.  Brodie was such a fun dog, I was hoping they would accidently leave him in Seattle with us. 
Isn’t he such a beautiful dog??
 
Can you guess what breed he is?


and just for fun….here is a picture from Krista’s blackberry of Brian and Joel enjoying a friendly competition of wii swimming:

Red Lentil Soup

I am always trying to find easy healthy lunch options to take to work.  One of my newest favorite things to do is make a big pot of soup, freeze flat in individual portion sizes in ziploc baggies, and take them to work for lunch.  I just pull the bag out of the freezer and by the time it is ready to heat it up for lunch, it is fully defrosted! PERFECT!

This weekend I made soup based on this recipe to take to lunch a couple times this week. 

Red lentil soup:

• 1 c red lentils
• 3 c chicken broth
• 1/2 tsp cumin
• pepper (1/4 tsp maybe?)
• juice of one lemon
• 1/2 chopped onion (i probably should have chopped it finer, but we’ll see how it tastes!)
• the recipe calls for salt, but I left it out since my chicken broth has a high sodium content. 

It smells delicious – I hope it tastes just as good tomorrow!

Katy:  What vegetable should we have with dinner tonight?

Joel:  Well the sloppy joe’s have pickles in them.