The Best Zucchini Bread On The Planet!

This is the best zucchini bread I have ever had! Sweet Zucchini Bread with Citrus! I have made it a few times and every time I make it everyone raves about how good it is. The best part of this recipe is the orange peel, it adds such a sweet and yummy flavor. Once I may have tried it with both orange and lemon peel, I'm not sure though. But I definitely did use less sugar this time 1 1/2 cups instead of 2 and I think I could even take it down to 1 or less and it would still be fine. I also use all whole wheat flour and it comes out just delicious!
Enjoy!

Not your mom's split pea soup

Looking for a great soup to warm up those winter nights? This is not your regular split pea soup!

I found this recipe a while back and have made it a couple of time now. A great twist on regular split pea soup and even better it is vegetarian! Yum Yum Curried Split Pea Soup.
Enjoy!

The Stand

At The Stand one day with my parents we found a banana about the size of our baby that week, 20 weeks 4 days.

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The baby at 24 weeks!

I can't wait to see if this little face is what the baby actually looks like when s/he is born.

moving, moving, moving....

This baby is moving all the time! Not yet have I been woken up by all the baby movements at night, but during the day I get to feel the baby moving all the time. It took me a while to realize I was actually feeling the baby, probably not until week 19. I was feeling things inside of me but wasn't sure what they were. Around week 18 and 19 I was feeling what felt to me like muscle spasms, and to my surprise these little muscle spasm feelings were really just the little one inside of me!

Some morning I wake up and just lay on my side for a while and enjoy feeling the little one moving around. Y was so cute the other day, he woke up before me and rolled over and put his hands on my belly and tried to figure out where the baby was, and thought it was so cool that I was sound asleep and he could feel the baby moving! He had only felt the baby for sure one time before this, so this was a big and exciting occasion!

My favorite is when i lean up against something like the sink when I am doing dishes and the baby moves with a clear "Hey! What is that pushing up against me, it's cramping my space in here!" Feeling this baby is making it all so much more real, despite the growing belly, I have still kind of not been able to believe that this is all real. It just seems like might wake up one day and it was all a dream, or someone is just going to say, "just kidding, you are not really pregnant!" I don't know why I feel this way, ultrasounds helped me to believe that there is REALLY a baby inside of me, but feeling the baby move is making it so much more real, and exciting! I am getting so excited to meet this little one.

Lemony Lentil Soup with Cilantro

Since I found this amazing Lemony Lentil Soup with Cilantro it has become one of my favs! I use more lemon and well probably more cilantro than the recipe calls for but I am not sure since I don't always measure while I am cooking. I love lentils but even people that don't like lentils or the usual lentil soup will like this one. The lemon and cilantro add such a different taste to the lentils and it is really refreshing!

One of the best things about this soup is it i quick and doesn;t use very many ingredients. I actually don't use the allspice and I don't blend anything just saute the onion and add in the lentils water and veggie stock, then when it is almost done add in lemon juice and finely chopped cilantro and serve!

Enjoy!