Curry-Gutierrez Family

2012-08-06T07:16:00.001-10:00

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2012-07-11T18:00:00.000-10:00

So I decided that I will start to post my meals for the day on my blog. I hope you all enjoy them. They are from a great lady Gina. Thanks to her meals I have been able to loose 30 plus pounds. I always have people asking me what are you having today, what's on the menu. So I opted to make a menu for everyone to be able to take a look on here. And maybe just maybe this will help us all who are trying to watch our eating habits by keeping on track. I hope you all enjoy my food reviews of these wonderful bloggers. :)
This will be my meal for tomorrow.

Mexican Slow Cooked Pork Carnitas

Source: www.skinnytaste.com

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Hispanic

Serves: 8

Ingredients

2.5 lb pork shoulder blade roast lean, all fat removed I used Smithfield
6 cloves garlic cut into sliver
cumin
dry adobo seasoning (I used Goya)
garlic powder
3/4 cup 99% fat free chicken broth
2-3 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce (to taste)
2 bay leaves

Directions

I know a lot of you share my love for Mexican food, so I think you will agree this is the most amazing pork recipe for the crock pot. Coming home from work and smelling this when you walk in the door is heavenly.
Browning the pork first is essential so don't skip this step. Pork shoulder is very inexpensive and you can make a few meals out of this. Be sure to buy the boneless pork shoulder blade roast, as it is leaner than the pork shoulder picnic. The prep for this is about 15 minutes the night before. Get it ready and refrigerate it so you simply take it out and plug it in when you get up. Serve this with tortillas, use in burritos, or simply have this with cilantro lime rice. You can make your own Chipotles burrito bowl with lettuce, sour cream, corn salsa, guacamole, or whatever else you usually put in yours!
Slow Cooked Pork Carnitas (Mexican Pulled Pork)
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings: 8 • Serving Size: 4 oz (1/2 cup) • Old Points: 4 pts • Points+: 4 pts
Calories: 176 • Fat: 7.7g • Protein: 25.8 g • Carb: 1.3 g • Fiber: 0.1 g
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Ingredients:
Directions:
Season pork with salt and pepper. In a medium sauté pan on medium-high heat, brown pork on all sides for about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
Using a sharp knife, insert blade into pork, cutting small holes and insert garlic slivers. Season pork generously with cumin, adobo and garlic powder all over.
Pour chicken broth in the crockpot, add bay leaves and chipotle peppers. Place pork in crock pot and cover. Cook low for 8 hours. After 8 hours, shred pork using two forks and combine well with the juices that accumalated at the bottom. Remove bay leaves and adjust salt and cumin (you will probably need to add more). Let it cook another 15-30 minutes.

Amount Per Serving
Calories: 176

Girls Graduation..

2011-06-03T10:43:00.002-10:00

These are pictures of my babies graduating Kindergarten. I can't believe that they are this big. How time flies!! I have now an 11th grader and 2 first graders. My babies are all grown up.

Friends forever ...

2011-06-03T10:30:00.002-10:00

Being a military family is never easy. You have your good and your bad just life everything that comes with life. I hate that my children have had to endure this already. My son has been one tough cookie. He has had experience with it from the beginning and at the age of 16 he is a pro and already knows you lose friends and make new ones but it is never easy. And it has come time for the girls to endure that part of being military brats. These are pictures of the girls with their little best friends. Bella in the middle has just recently PCS'd with her family to Washington State. We will miss them dearly. We are planning to do family trips together but will they ever be fulfilled is yet to be seen.
Segan is their little buddy and he will also be leaving us back here in Hawaii while him and his family move on to South Carolina. It's funny how we will have friends spread out all over the country. One on the West Coast and one on the East Coast while we will be leaving to San Anotnio, TX. But I do believe that we will see each other one day again...even if it's on skype. :)

Atiana, Bella, Allana and Segan

Silly kids!!

Friends forever

Easter Egg Hunt 2011

2011-06-02T12:24:00.020-10:00

At the Hickam Easter Hunt April 2011.

All the eggs for the 5-6 year olds

And the hunt begins!!

A lot of kids and no not all were 5-6 year olds

Atiana after she got all her eggs.

Allana after hunting down Easter eggs

Allana

The girls posing for the camera after the Easter Egg hunt.

Daddy's R&R!!

2011-06-02T12:13:00.001-10:00

This is the girls at the airport while waiting for daddy to get off the airplane. And of course what else would make it perfect but having some Starbucks. They had no clue what we was doing there. It was a big surprise. Anthony told them we were at the new Target so I just went along with it and one of Atiana's comments was she did not like the new Target...lol.

This is as they see their daddy coming through the doors they are running to him. They are so happy to finally see him again.

As they reach to give daddy a big hug. This just melts my heart every time I see it.

Atiana did not want to let go of him for a second.

Such a proud father he is!!

Wow...

2011-06-02T12:07:00.000-10:00

a lot has happened since I last posted which was back in February. My husband came home on R&R had a great time with him while we could. The girls were super excited for him to be back but once he left it was the saddest thing I had to endure all over again. It was most upsetting for the youngest one of the twins, Atiana. She really broke down and that was really heart breaking for me as a mother. It was even hard on my husband this time around to leave them all over again. But on the bright side we have only 4 or 5 months left before he is finally back at home for good (or until a next deployment).

Then came the girls kinder graduation sad George was not here to see this but I took lots of pictures for him and video of the girls.
Now the girls are on summer vacation and we are just hanging around till it's time for George to get home and then it will be time to get ready to PCS out of here and to our new destination SAN ANTONIO, TX.
I was not to excited to be moving there as for it's not close to my mother in law but when I saw how much house we can get for our money that totally changed my mind and now I am super excited. We have been stationed there before and so I already know the area and have friends that live there. I get to have my real Mexican food that I so miss. And this is one place that I know my mom will fly out to because she says it reminds her of home (California) that is another plus about San Antonio. Well I think that is it for now and if I remember anything else I will post more. I will also upload a few picture links to each event that I just spoke about but in their own post.

Hikes

2011-02-10T13:30:00.000-10:00

Sorry I have been gone for way to long but I am back and like I've said before I will try to keep on top of it. So what have I been up to or the family for that matter. We have been doing lots of stuff especially me. My husband is currently deployed defending our country in Iraq. So in order to keep busy for the next year I have taken up hiking and running. And with that said I'd like to share some pictures of my hikes that I have done here in Hawaii. The first hike that I did was back in September maybe of Maka Pu'u Light house. It's not a real hike it's more of a trail that you follow and it is paved so easy that me and the girls ended up doing it the second time I went so fairly easy to do.

Trail coming back down Maka Pu'u Light house

This is the Light house you see once you reach the top. (Beautiful View)

The next hike I did was back in September it was Diamond Head and oh my goodness did I want to quit after the second set of stairs. I was really out of shape I had not been running or doing any sort of activity so yes it hit me and hit me hard that afterward when I got home I ended up with a killer migraine. Light and noise would bother me and not even a cold shower helped so I ended up taking an Excedrine and took me a nap and that seemed to do the trick.

Entrance to the Diamond Head

The Dreaded stairs(but not so bad second time around)

View coming down.

The view once you reach to the top of Diamond Head!!

A friend here recently asked me to go with her again on the hike to Diamond Head I dreaded the hike thinking it was going to be the same end results. The only difference is that I had been running off and on so I was a little more in shape this time around so in shape that me and my friend ended up doing the hike in an hour or so and then somewhere in our little brains we decided to go and do Koko Head.
Koko head I have been wanting to do since I took up running and hiking and pretty much since I lost all my weight. But that is the dreaded hike that everyone talks about here on the island. It is an old set of rail road tracks that go up a mountain that they used back in the days to transport military members and supplies to the top of the mountain. Now for what I have no idea only thing I can think of is to keep watch from the Japanese I am assuming who knows.

So anyways, back to what I was saying we decided to drive up to Koko Head and just take a look at it and see if we can just go up half way. Oh and the total of stairs it has is I believe somewhere 1048 well there will be a picture of how many stairs I had to climb to the top. Yea right we are only going to go half way if I am going half way and already in pain I might as well finish it .....and that we did. I have to say it was the best experience ever I am so glad that we ended up doing it.

First step

As you are climbing to the top.

reached 200 stairs!! ( we were still ok)

by this time we were thinking what are we doing but still ok.

When we turned around and saw this we thought very worth it.

By this time we were definitely huffing and puffing and thinking what were we getting ourselves into.

Then we finally saw the last step and we were so proud of ourselves.

So freaken glad we had made it to the top. Shannon and I.

Now we have to go back down. That was not as easy as going up.

Posing for the camera. CHEESE!!

And now I want to do it all over again but I would like to video record every step (well not every step) of the way up so that people can experience it with me via video and see how tough it is. Well tough for those who are not in shape because there some people just running up the stairs like nothing I just so wanted to push them off the rail road tracks.

Girls First Day of Kinder

2010-09-17T00:20:00.000-10:00

A few pictures of the girls first day of kindergarten. They were so excited to finally be going to school like big brother, Anthony. They could not wait to get in the truck to get going and get to class. As you see in the pictures below at their desks just a grinning. I am happy that they are finally at school such a big milestone....and a big break for mommy.

Muffin Tin Monday

2010-07-19T17:39:00.002-10:00

Today the girls received their Muffin Tin Monday swap package. They were so excited they wanted to go ahead and use them. I am posting a picture of what they ended up having for lunch.

They had cheese on the little umbrellas that were sent in the swap package, wheat thins, PB & J sandwich in a flower shape used with our new cookie flower cutter. They also had chocolate pudding and cran raisins.

Muffin Tin Monday Swap

2010-07-19T16:42:00.001-10:00

So we have been participating with this blog doing muffin tin mondays. And the girls have just enjoyed their Mondays. I have not updated the muffin tin Mondays on our blog but we do participate at home. It helps with breakfast or lunch ideas and the girls just think its neat to eat out of muffin tins.

Muffin Tin Mom had a swap and it was so much fun to participate. We ended up with people from other parts of the country or world. We currently live in Hawaii and I had a lady all the way from the east coast. It was neat to get someone from all the way over there to do a swap with.

My partner was so gracious to go out of her way and get the girls lil extra tid bits that she did not have to and I am very thankful she did. So I am posting a picture of what Jennifer my partner in the swap got the girls.

They each got the following:

Wiltons silicone muffin tins
Hello kitty books (which they loved of course)
Hello kitty pens
Umbrella toothpicks for Muffin tin Mondays
Princess theme stickers
cup cake liners
cookie cutters
Lil Lunch box love (which I love they are super cute)

Thank you so much Jennifer!!!

A Day out with Daddy.

2010-05-30T22:08:00.001-10:00

I really had been wanting to spend a day out and about with the family all of us together. I had thought of either the Dole Plantation or Sea life park. And a friend informed me that the military had a special going on for the military and I'd only pay would I would normally pay for one person for 4 of us. Went to ITT and got the tickets for the 4 of us since my son did not want to join us.

I have to say I do not regret going we had an awesome time going to Sea Life Park. We watched the dolphins show, turltes, Sea lions, and lots of fishies the girls just loved. We had a blast there.

After the Sea Life Park we stopped at the Blow Hole and it was amazing and the weather was just perfect. I have put some pictures of what our day entailed. I hope ya'll enjoy the pictures and the little snippettes of stories as I blog about my adventures while living in Hawaii.

Dolphin Cove

Allana with her new Dolphin "Squeaky".

Atiana and her new turtle "Shelly"

By the Blow Hole

The Actual Blow Hole

The Family May 2010 (minus one)

Daddy and his girls.

Me and my girls

Mother's Day Project.

2010-05-30T19:00:00.002-10:00

Allana painting

Atiana painting concentrating hard

These are pictures of what the girls ended up doing for Mother's Day for the grand mommas. We have 3 grand mommas because I have an aunt that pretty much helped my mom raise me. So I consider her to be a second mom to me. We ended up going to Hickam Arts and Crafts place to paint some craft items.

Grandma Atoi ended up getting a very nice platter that she would be able to display on the coffe table, (and already is as its past mother's day...lol). Painted by Atiana.

Granma Sofi, the girls made her a coffee cup since she likes to drink lots of coffee like their mommmy :). Painted by Atiana and Allana.

Granma Mari, she received a very nice tile of a pretty garden and the sun. Painted by Allana.

Unfortunately the girls could not put their signatue painting on each due to lack of time. So I split them up each to do one project each. The only one they did do together was my mom's coffee cup due to it was super easy and it was one hand from each as you see in the pictures above.

They totally enjoyed their time there and we might do it again come Xmas time and have them some paint some ornaments for the family.

New Me!!!

2010-05-23T18:49:00.004-10:00

I have been doing this whole weight loss thing since August of 2009 and have finally lost 30lbs total. I can't believe that I have finally achieved this goal that I had been trying to reach for the longest time. I am so thankful and greatful to my friend who introduced me to Weight Watchers. But I am very proud of myself for having the will power and commitment to finally loose this weight.

"NEW ME" 30 lbs Lighter :)

"Before Picture" 30lbs heavier

Atiana's First Hair Cut

2010-05-23T18:24:00.001-10:00

I decided that Atiana needed a hair cut. We took her to get her first hair cut and she loved it so much that here we are in May she is already asking for another hair cut already. We took her back in March a few days before my birthday and she already wants another. So here are a few pictures of that event.

Update on our lives

2010-05-23T18:21:00.000-10:00

So I have been out the loop for a while. But I am back and I am going to try to stay on top of this I know I have said this before but I need to blog more. It will help me relieve stress and keep family updated.

We have done a lot of stuff since last time I updated. The girls are getting bigger and bigger and they are nearing their 5th birthday come July. I can't believe that it's been already 5 years since I had them but it is. I will put up a few pictures with a few lil snippettes of what they are about. I hope ya'll enjoy my little ramblings but it makes my day to write and keep my family updated.

Girls trying to rollerskate

2010-03-01T20:44:00.004-10:00

The first time the girls rollerskate. I hope you all enjoy it.

Roller Skate gear

2010-03-01T20:04:00.001-10:00

Atiana with her new gear.

Allana

Atiana with her safety gear. Allana just looking to short.

Atiana and her new roller skates and saftey gear.

So Daddy decided that he would buy them roller skates and let me say they just fell in love with them. They swore up and down that they were roller skating mind ya it was more like walk skating...lol. Atiana would not take off her gear for nothing. This is the second day after daddy bought them their gear and as you can see the first photo was early in the morning. Not sure if you can tell the last photo is late at night she kept that helmet on all day. My poor baby was looking a lil special all day today....lol, but it's ok we still love her. I hope ya'll enjoyed a little tid bit of what goes on in our daily lives. I shall post a video later if I can do it of their first time on skates.

Valentine's Day Party

2010-02-10T01:39:00.001-10:00

So this was our Valentine's Day Party for the kids. We had a blast. It was nice to have our regular play dates once again with our friends. The kids loved playing outside with the bubble machine and the girls enjoyed entertaining the lil ones. I had not updated for quiet sometime but I am back. I am sorry I have just been with busy with school and keeping up with the girls. But I am going to make an effort to keep up with the updates. We have more catching up to do and will update as soon as I can with other activities we have done. But just wanted to brush up on everyone of the most current thing we did here recently.

From left to right.

Allana, Bella, Atiana, Segan and Rosy.

These were the kids at our Valentines day party. I had to do one more since Rosy was turned on the other one...lol.

The girls Halloween costumes.

2009-12-28T09:30:00.000-10:00

Pictures of the girls at their first Halloween party. They had a good time and they got to dress up in their costumes. Allana was the Little Mermaid "Ariel" and Atiana wanted to be a Cheerleader for some reason.

I know I am posting like months later but I had not had a chance to really sit down and blogg with school and all been pretty busy few months here lately. But I am back until school starts all over again here in January.

Pumpkin Patch ....

2009-10-25T19:26:00.000-10:00

We went today to the Pumpkin Patch. Let me start off by saying..."What the hell was I thinking." It was ridiculously hot out there today. It was like 100 degree weather and we are out there in the blazin sun trying to find a freaken pumpkin when all we had to do was go to the Commissary where it is nice and air conditioned...lol. But oh well I guess it's all about the experience. The girls had fun for the firt 20 minutes and then they were ready to go home and thirsty. My dumb butt forgot to walk out there in the field with water. Luckily I had juices in the truck so when we got back they had a snack and juice and they were happy to be resting in their nice air conditioned truck...lol. It was nice to go out there to bad we are not where it is nice and cold and all we have to do is just put on jackets and run till we get all warmed up. Oh well we shall soon be on the mainland where we can hopefully experience the pumpkin patch the way it is suppose to be experienced. So these are just a few pictures of the girls hope you enjoy them.

Ghost Footprints...

2009-10-20T16:55:00.002-10:00

These were the girls art project that we did today. We are getting ready for Halloween so we went back to a good ole faithful blog that I just love. We found this art project from this site.
The girls love to do art projects so I decided I'd have them do this one that was easy for them to do themselves of course with a little of mommy's help. So I just wanted to share this with the people that follow my blog. I hope you enjoy and the directions you can find by clicking on her site. We will be doing more Halloween projects from her site and other sites until Halloween gets here. Hope you will follow us and enjoy my girls art.

This past weekend....

2009-10-20T16:46:00.001-10:00

was the busiest weekend ever. We had two parties to attend this past weekend. The girls of course enjoyed it due to all the cake and treats they got. We had Blake's party on Saturday and then Sunday was Ian's birthday. The girls had nice art projects that they were able to bring home with them and enjoy. I loved the painting they did at Blake's party. I don't have any pics at the moment but will post some at a later time. Then at Ian's birthday party they brought home the project to do. It was as you can see in the following pictures crowns that they design themselves. Atiana loved her crown she loved it so much she went to sleep with it...lol.

Allana also loved her crown as you can see her just chillin at home with it on watching tv with Daddy to the side. The girls just love doing art projects. It helps them stay busy and not get into stuff that they are not suppose to...lol. So I do try to keep them occupied as much as possible when I am not being lazy that is of course :).

Atiana showing off her crown with her sunglasses.

Atiana again showing off her crown.

Allana not ready for the pic as you can see she was not smiling.

Allana modeling her newly designed crown.

For my people....

2009-10-11T15:43:00.001-10:00

trying to loose weight. I highly recommend you follow Gina's blog. Her recipes are to die for. If you are really interested in loosing weight this is the way to go. She makes her recipes weight watcher friendly for those of us who are on weight watchers. This is where I get all my recipes from. I never thought I could loose weight by eating such flavorful food but let me say you can just watch your portions and that is all to it. I have lost 11lbs by just eating her food...and of course watching what I eat.

Here was tonights dinner.

Sofrito Chicken Stew

Hope everyone enjoys it as much as I am enjoying trying Gina's food.

My Weight Watchers meals.

2009-09-24T17:54:00.001-10:00

As you all know I have been trying to loose weight. And let me say again that WW just rocks. I can still eat what I want just of course in portion control. I am posting a few pictures of my meals from Gina Skinny Weight Watchers blog.

Sept 23, 2009 Dinner

This was 3.3 oz of flank steak for 4 points I believe. The rice you see here was worth 4.25 for a cup but I only served myself 1/2 cup so less points. To make it more filling and for me to not feel hungry an hour later I made the salad that Gina had posted on her blog. So total for this meal was about 6points roughly give and take.

September 24, 2009 Dinner

This was what Gina calls "Huevos Pericos". I am mexican and we call these "Huevos a la Mexicana". I altered her recipe a little. I used onions, tomatoes, and chiles serranos. The same amount of eggs she has on her blog but just a little bit of different vegetable and same amount of points. 3points for 2 servings. Also since I am Mexican Huevos are not Huevos without a tortilla. So I had 3 Tortillas each tortilla is worth 1 point. So my whole dinner was worth 6 points not bad at all.

Oh and I have to say that I have lost already just by being on the WW 8 lbs. I have been loosing about 1 lb a week (give and take) only because I am just doing the diet and no exercise. But I think once I start getting my lazy but out to the gym I will loose more. I have been on it for roughly about less than 7weeks.

I weighed myself today and I am at 159.6. I am so happy I have not seen those digits in quite some time. I hope they keep going down. Just an update for you of who keep up with my blog.