Good Heaven’s, the birds were chirping so loud this morning, I could hear them all the way in my bathroom as I was getting ready! 
If you could be an animal, what would you be? I think being a bird would be a pretty good choice. Chill out in the south for the winter, head north for the summer. Fly anywhere you want to go… Sounds like a pretty nice gig, if you ask me. 
In other news, last night I whipped up this morning’s breakfast of Banana-Berry Overnight Oats!
In the mix:
- 1 Raspberry AE yogurt
- 1/3 cup old fashioned oats (uncooked)
- 1/2 Tablespoon chia seeds
- splash almond milk
- 1 banana
- frozen raspberries
- frozen blueberries
Overnight, the berries melted into the yogurt and created an extra special berry sauce. Omg, no words. Ok, one word - Tropical! Plus, raspberry + banana is my favorite combo mmm, ever, so this breakfast was legendary!
Here’s my “how to” guide on overnight oats. Basically, you mix the main ingredients together and put it in the fridge overnight. How simple is that? 
For lunch, I’m packing some leftover Spring Stir Fry!
This stir fry made four, massive portions, clocking in at around 320 calories a portion – nice! I just read a quote yesterday (I forget where) that said “I’ve never seen anyone gain weight from eating too many vegetables.” It’s true, vegetables are our friends!
This shall be a healthy, and filling lunch. I can always tell when I incorporate healthy fats like almond butter or, in the case of this lunch, olive oil, because I feel satisfied longer. What about you? I can even tell that with salad dressings. My salads last me longer, fullness wise, when they’re dressed with a simple, olive oil vinaigrette vs some brand of Kraft dressing with a million ingredients.
This snack duo of popcorn and a Fuji apple was a total winner yesterday. I spaced them out for snacks at 1:30 and 2:30 – which worked out great. No rogue, iced, office brownies for me. 
Well I have to head out a little bit early today. A friend of mine just had a baby girl and I need to drop off a gifty for her. Oh babies – they’re so cute! I had so much fun looking at all the tiny little baby booties and pink outfits. Squeal! Don’t get any ideas though…
It’s hump day!
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Three Question Thursday is baaaaaaaack!
1. Do you want, or do you have, any children? How many?
2. Do you believe in aliens?
3. What’s the last thing you ate?
My answers:
1. Yes, but not for a little while. And I feel like I could only handle 2!
2. Knock on wood…no.
3. Banana-Berry OO! I demolished that bowl, I’m telling you!
1. Want, maybe 3? Too far ahead to think
2. I do! But I doubt they’re little or green with funny heads..
3. Pumpkin oatmeal with butter toffee pb and almonds before bed, but now it’s breakfast time!
Your pictures are always so gorgeous – do you use natural light or a light? They never look yellow.
1. Yes! Maybe like 5-6? I’m insane.
2. Kinda
3. Oats!
I’d love to be a cat – they have it easy as!! Plus they’re beautiful
1. Do you want, or do you have, any children? How many?
No I don’t! At least not biologically, and definetly not for a very very VERY long time!!
2. Do you believe in aliens?
No
3. What’s the last thing you ate?
Some melon dipped in cinnamon and apple sauce – yum!
1. Not really, but the husband does so I can imagine we will end up having 1.
2. No. But I do believe in angels and demons.
3. A green monster, and I am about to have some Cuties and a Glo Bar.
1. I have 2, a 3 yr old boy and a 4 yr old girl, who are 12 months and 12 days apart. Right now they keep us busy enough that we are undecided about adding a third in the future.
2. No.
3. Oatmeal/oatbran with flax, chia, cinnamon, almond butter, maple vanilla yogurt and an assortment of fruit (strawberries, blackberries, pears, and nectarines).
1. I have 3 little huckleberries and I would love to have 1 or 2 more
2. not really
3. Hot chocolate made with vanilla almond milk. so thick and creamy.
three! but not for a looong time!
nope!
‘apple pie’ oats with a healthy spoonful of almond butter
have a wonderful wednesday!
Maybe in a distant future:) and one or two
I do believe in life on other planets
popcorn and an orange:)
1. No kids now. But I want 2 when it’s all said and done. hah.
2. no.
3. yogurt with apples and cinnamon and almond butter and a sprinkling of Fiber One buds.
1. Not sure about that one yet
2. You never know!
3. I’m eating cereal right now….mmmm
I think if I could be any animal I’d be a horse. I’ve been riding since I was 6 (I’m 23 now) and they’re amazing animals!!
Yes, I want children. twin boys and a girl (I’m a twin)– in that order. haha! Wouldn’t it be nice to decide..? haha
Aliens?!… maybe… it’s interesting to question why, out of billions of galaxies with planets in them, Earth would be the only one to form life
Last thing I ate: Butter pecan ice cream [last night for desert]!! yum!!
3 Great Kiddos—Hopefully 1 or 2 more (LOVE kids)
I assume it’s plausible.
Baked banana bread oatmeal (which the kiddos DEVOURED…thanx for the recipe!!)
1. I have one beautiful baby girl and would like one more
2. I think aliens are fake
3. PB Toast
1. Do you want, or do you have, any children? How many? Yes to kids, my husband and I debate between them one or two. We’ll see how one goes. Eventually. Like in two or three years.
2. Do you believe in aliens? Yes, but not the movie kind.
3. What’s the last thing you ate? Cinnamin oatmeal squares.
YAY! 3 question Thursday??? Wait…it’s wednesday… oh well, I’ll answer anyway
1. Do you want, or do you have, any children? How many? YES! 2 for sure, maybe 3… probably 2.
2. Do you believe in aliens? Absolutely. I think the movie Contact said it best: If we’re alone out here, it’s an awfully big waste of space!
3. What’s the last thing you ate? a donut hole
1) I have 2, 22 months and 7 months. We are done, no more midgets for us!
2) No.
3) Green monster.
1. I do – someday – between 2 & 3
2. Jury’s still out
3. Bagel sandwich.
1) Maybe on kids, will decide when I turn 30 next year. If we do, 2
2) I do believe in Aliens and anything else that is out there
3) Yogurt with homemade granola
1. I want to have 2-3 kids and plan on trying for them at the end of this year/early next year!
2. No
3. The last thing I ate was potatoes and eggs at the Hampton Inn hotel! It was pretty delicious for hotel breakfast food!
The banana-berry overnight oats look delicious!
Your stir-fry looks delish for lunch! So does that banana-berry overnight oats you made! I still haven’t tried overnight oats, I’m a sucker for warm oaty yumminess.
1. I want kids eventually, but not till I establish myself. Prob 2 will do.
2. Gaw I have no idea…I think I believe in some other cooky cuter type thing.
3. Yogoats! I love saying that out loud haha. I added coconut extra and it was fabulous!
I WISH it was Thursday!
1) Yes – but like you not for awhile. Sometimes i go back and fourth. but 2 would be ideal
2) hmmm. yes, i do sometimes think their are other forms of life in this galaxy, call them what you want.
3)Eating an Egg and Cheese w/ Bacon on an English Muffun as I type this.
PS I read that veggie quote too. I think you probs read it on CNC (her trainer said it!)
uh oh. you just reminded me at about broccoli I have in the fridge. I better steam it up. But first! I must check out the overnight oats info.
uhm it’s only wednesday!!
1. no kids! i’d much rather be the aunt!
2. no i don’t think so.
3. banana oats with a spoon of peanut butter & raisins!
1. We have a 6 mo. old baby boy! And I’m sure we’ll have at least one more.
2. Aliens – NO.
3. Dinner last night – french toast!
I eat veggies all the time for snacks because I can eat an entire pepper and not feel guilty. And I love viniagrettes instead of store bought dressings. Especially since most are made with sugar and mess up my digestive system.
1. Do you want, or do you have, any children? How many? Yes we want to adopt. We’d like 2 or 3. Not for at least another year though.
2. Do you believe in aliens? Nope. I think we are special.
3. What’s the last thing you ate? WW English muffin with homemade cream cheese and Crofters. Yummy and got on my outfit.
1. Do you want, or do you have, any children? How many?
I have a 10 1/2 month old baby girl! We may have one or two more.
2. Do you believe in aliens?
I believe there is other life out there, but I don’t think they are like what cartoons/movies portray them to be. How could Earth be the only planet with living beings?
3. What’s the last thing you ate?
Natural peanut butter and Smucker’s Simply Fruit- Concord grape on toast…yummy!
I don’t have any children yet, but I’m 9.5 weeks into working on one bun in the oven. I want 10, realistically I’ll probably have 3-5.
I don’t believe in aliens.
The last thing that I ate was a cup of low-fat cottage cheese 5 minutes ago. Being pregnant I get ravenously hungry and have to snack between every meal.
Your overnight oats always look so much better than mine! Perhaps Iowa fruit is just more excited to be there than North Dakota fruit, who knows!
My answers…
1. I am a twenty-two year-old college student, so I am happy to say that I don’t have any children. Between work and school full time, that would not be a good addition. I want to have one or two children, but probably not until I am thirty or so. I want to graduate and get comfortable in a location and job before any of that “other stuff.”
2. Aliens? Yes! My mentality is that I believe in anything that could come “get me” for not believing in it if it actually did exist. Aliens, ghosts, vampires (no, not Twilight vampire, but the real ones)… I stick to saying “yes” in believe in stuff like that. If the end of the world comes from aliens, I’d like to think they’d remember me.
3. The last thing I ate was a nibble of a friend’s muffin last night (banana nut). We were having a late night coffee so I could finish an essay I’ll been procrastinating on for a while. I need to eat breakfast still…so I’ll get on that. I’ll probably eat and apple and a Larabar.
Have a great day!
1. I’d love to have kids! 2-3, maybe twins!
2. No
3. A homemade bran muffin and some strawberry Fage 2% Greeek Yogurt!
1) I definitely do and say I want 4, but I’ll probably have 2.
2) Not sure. Sometimes, I think it would naive of us to think that in all the giant universe, we are the only living creatures. We may the only ones in he Solar System, but the universe streches so much further!
3) Banana oats topped with PB and raisins. YUMTASTIC!!
loving the overnight oats!!!!! I think I have to try it!!!!
I have a son now, he is 10!!!!!!!!!!! I had him when I was 17, very young! I do want one more, but in like 3 years!! maybe 2, my fiance really wants two but told him lets start with one first, I know how hard it is to raise a child, he has not gone through that yet : )
Love ya girl!
Hmmmmm I dont believe in aliens but my son does!!! I do however think some people I meet could be aliens, cause they act like they are from another planet, lol!
1. I have 3 kids, 10 yr old boy, 8.5 yr old girl, and 5.5 yr old boy. They’re awesome kids if I do say so myself!
2. Nope
3. Larabar–PBJ.
1. I have two kids, boy (12), girl (8)
2. Yes, I believe there is some other life out there, but not aliens in the sci fi sense.
3. The last think I ate was a cinnamon roll from the tube. It’s a snow day here, so it will be a day of grazing on bad things.
Oh gosh… I WISH it were Thursday already
1.) I’m preggy with my first right now! I’m thinking 1-2 more after this little bundle.
2.) I believe in life on other planets in other universes, but I don’t think we’ll see them in this lifetime.
3.) A strawberry-banana smoothie with a handful of spinach blended in, and 2 giant horse-pill prenatal vitamins. Folic acid all the way!
This is going to sound terrible but after being a teacher I have no desire to have children.
I just ate a peanut butter jelly Larabar.
And no there is no such things as aliens.
I love salads with full fat dressings because they are so much more satisfying. And simple is definitely best.
1. I have one 1.5 year old daughter already who I LOVE so much and can’t imagine life without her. And we are trying to conceive our 2nd now. I’m pretty sure we will be done after two.
2. I don’t believe in aliens, but I did have a freaky experience in 4th grade where I had a dream I was abducted and woke up throwing up. It was so real so that freaks me out. They better not be real!
3. I have been drinking coffee, but last thing I ATE would be my morning bowl of oats with pb & dried fruit
Well now, your popcorn and apple snack is making me hungry for elevenses!
1) I want some but not yet! Can’t think about that until I at least hit thirty! Two or three would be lovely!
2) Errr no.
3) Oatmeal! It was breakfast time after all…with peanut butter and raisins a-top. Not the most exciting….
1.I have 3 children, planned on only 2, but suprise the second child turned out to be twins! My oldest is 20 and the twins are 17 (going on 25!)
2. Maybe, we can’t be the only living beings in the universe.
3.Peanut butter toast and a yummy pear.
It’s it only Wednesday??
1. Yes, I think 3.
2. Nope.
3. Toast w/peanut butter and pumpkin butter and an apple.
You’re messing with my mind. The veggie quote is from your doppelganger blogger Carrot ‘N’ Cake. I started reading your blogs around the same time and they overlap. (Case and point: Starbucks’ Free Pastry Day. You got the pumpkin bread; she wanted the pumpkin bread but got the Iced Lemon.) Plus the strange love for coffee and chia seeds…
Ah well, you both rock. To answer your questions:
1. I want kids (but am in no rush). I’m leaning towards three (so I can have a middle child to love!)
2. I believe in life outside of our world… but aliens as depicted on TV? Naaah…
3. Ironically, I last ate Carrot ‘N’ Cake’s Blueberry Coconut Oats for breakfast. Hence why I recognised the quote.
Love your blog! Tomorrow I’m trying your Breakfast Cookie!
Katrina
PS: I’ve always wanted to be a duck. They can fly, run, swim, dive, and waddle.
1. Do you want, or do you have, any children? How many? I have baby fever and I’m not even married! I want 3 I think
2. Do you believe in aliens? yes
3. What’s the last thing you ate? pineapple and strawberries
Just curious, you often talk about your afternoon snacks, but never a morning snack. Do you typically make it all the way through the morning without a snack? If not, what kind of morning snacks do you typically have?
I guess now that I’ve posted a comment I shoudl play along:
1. Yes, I have a one, a 1 year old son and will likely have one more some day.
2. No.
3. Gala apple w/peanut butter
1. I have 2 lovely kids – a daughter & son. I pretty sure I’m done having babies, but I would be open to the possibility of one more if circumstances allowed. But that just might be my hormones talking – I know at least a dozen women having babies this year!
2. I have NO idea. The universe is huge!
3. A juicy navel orange.
1. I have 3 kids – Twins (boy and girl) that are 5 & a little boy who is 18 months. 3 is PLENTY for us!!!! But they are funny and don’t know what I would do without them!
2 . I don’t believe in aliens.
3. I made a green monster this morning! LOVED it. Has to go & get more spinach today for another one on Friday morning!
NO BABIES – nooooo! The aliens would probably steal it anyways, and I wouldn’t be able to fend them off since all I’ve had today is a banana.
I have no kids, but I’m one of 5 so I definitely want a few of my own…aliens, good question. I used to love the show Roswell, so I like the idea of aliens but I don’t know if they are real, haha. And the last thing I ate was some CC+pineapple! Have fun meeting the new little baby!!
1. I want to have kids. At least 2 and if hubby agrees 3
2. I never thought about this but I think I don’t believe in aliens. I loved the movie ET though. I enjoy movies on aliens.
3. I had a cup of tea in a rush-rush and will be having an apple now.
Breakfast looks so fresh and amazing!
Hope you are having the best day dear!
Yes, I do want kids but it’s going to be a WHILE. I think I want 2 or 3. But that also depends on who I marry and what he wants so… who knows.
I DO believe in aliens!
The last thing I ate was lunch – a egg sammie on an Ezekial cinnamon raisin english muffin with a runny egg and a bowl of fruit – watermelon, pineapple, raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries.
1. I have a 5-year-old little girl who is going on 15. . . .people say “You should have more, the second one is usually much more mellow than the first.” My reply is usually, “I don’t know if that’s a chance I’m willing to take.” Hehe, I’m just kidding of course. Maybe one more in the future. . .
2. Until there is evidence that aliens 100% don’t exist, I will always allow room for the possibility that they are out there!
3. The last thing I ate – Puffins cereal with sliced banana and skim milk. . . .mmmmmmm.