. as if i'm on death row .

. and i was eating my last meal . and i picked jello salad ?!

. some of you know i started a detox and it includes not eating for the first 2 days (only having a shake sort of thing, that's not yummy, btw) . so saturday i was cooking and decided to throw together this delicious jello salad and enjoy some of it's yummyness before i had to go 2 WHOLE DAYS without eating ! let me just say i've never gone this long without eating . it's not fun . i love food . 3/4 into day 1 i'm not dead . so, there's where we're at .

. i do feel the need to address the jello salad thing though, if my mom is reading she'll know why . i HATE jello salads ! always have . won't eat any, except this one and the one with the cream cheese balls covered in nuts in strawberry jello . okay, but this particular recipe is yummy because it has cherry pie filling in it ! here, i'll just give you the recipe . 2 small boxes of cherry jello, 1 can of crushed pineapple and 1 can cherry jello . dump your jello powder into a bowl, boil 2 cups of hot water to dissolve that, add in your drained pineapple and your cherry pie filling, let set up, and there you have it...yummyness ! now i want to go eat the rest of it, but i won't !

. here's what not eating looks like on me . it makes my frown lines worse !

. color .

. here's a few recent photos i've taken lately . i noticed the common theme to be color . perfect for spring time !

. i've gotten these little purple flowers in several bouquets and i've never seen them bloom . i love these little white flowers !

. cute lil green mum .

. a little fun with blurry color .

. and food color .

. sweet potatoes cut in spirals .

. and zucchini .

. those last two colors are yummy . makes me a little excited about a garden, although i don't think that i'm going to plant a very big one this year . we'll see i guess .

. cute lil pots .

. so when i was in chicago a few weeks ago brooke and i were shopping at home goods, a new favorite store of mine . i had done very good at not getting anything i didn't need from there the last time i was there in january, and this time...until we had to wait in the check out line . why do they put the cutest stuff right there where you wait ? oh wait, i know why ...

. so that you'll buy those things you don't need .

. i totally justified these cute little pots, thinking i'd find a few recipes and they'd be so much fun to make for the kiddos .

. but it would be totally like me to get them, love decorating with them and never actually use them . but guess what...i did use them . today i made orzo and cheese bake in them . it was yummy, but i think i can make it better the next time . or else make the pioneer woman's fancy macaroni, i've wanted to do this one for a while now but it's a lot of work and takes a lot of different kind of cheeses...and that scares me, the making of it, not the eating of it . i know a lot of you read the PW, have any of you made it ? will any of you make this for me ?

:)

. kidding .

. as for the orzo and cheese, ryan and reed both liked it .

:)

. it might be a little more like me to get these cute little pots, make something in them once and then never again .... we'll see .

! aren't they cute ?

. fresh .

. everything bright, colorful, fresh, alive makes me think of spring right now .

. it's march now so it can't be toooo far away .