Cesar and daddy get an amazing gift

Frank and I are huge fans of Cesar Millan 'The Dog Whisperer', we have used many of his tips with Molly and Ellie ((ohh how they really do help!)). We used to only be able to watch his show at our friends Erik and Haysel's back in Virginia since we don't have cable. But I realized about a month ago I could watch some of his shows on hulu.com. While searching around I found this.. so sweet and touching!!

Black Bean and Butternut Burritos

Tonight I ventured out and made butternut squash for the first time. I found it at Seasonal Recipes... along with a bunch of yummy desserts!! I was worried about how these were going to turn out while I was making them because the tortillas I used were sucky and kept falling apart. I started freaking out a little because we only have enough food for every night till payday, and we have no money to go out to eat [[it sucks being poor]].
I decided to go sit on the couch browsing the blog world to relax. It worked cause when the burritos were ready I tried them for the heck of it.. and ta da they were great! Frank LOVED them, I thought he was being sarcastic but he really did enjoy them. yay!
There is no picture tonight since they came out looking like poo!

Pretty day

I took all these pictures yesterday on our morning walk with Mikey and Willow and the rest were taken on our afternoon walk with Frank....

HELLO WILLOW!!!

Stupid camera, the "U" shaped object in the top left is because the camera ia broken.

MT.Helix

The rest of these are from our afternoon walk....

BREATH.BREATH.BREATH!!

YAY I MADE IT!! ha Frank runs the hills, and I try to walk up them as fast as possible. I do try to run a little bit, but I don't make it very far.

They decided to go walk down this road while they were waiting for me.. Molly looks so cute : )

WATER!!! ha I'm loving having the camelbak, I just wish the straps were cushiony. The one I have is just a standard military issued camelbak so I think it's suppose to be worn over the uniform.. not quite sure.

And off they go up another hill....

And again waiting for me ha. I love this picture of Ellie, she closed her eyes just as I took the picture.

So pretty..

I made him stop for a picture <3

UUUMMMMM they smelled so good!!

Looking out towards Spring Valley

After a good walk that wears them out, they don't want water... they want ICE CUBES!! It's there new favorite thing.

Last night for dinner I made our favorite.. lettuce wraps! I tried egg drop soup for a second time in hopes of getting it right. This time I made sure to use eggs instead of just egg whites.. and that was the problem. Woohoo it was so good. I filled up on the lettuce wraps fast so Frank ended up eating both our bowls of soup. I'd say he liked it ha. If you'd like, you can check out the recipe here from 'all recipes'.

What a day

This morning during mine and the dogs morning walk, I thought the day was going to be a crappy one. I half rolled my right ankle while walking and was worried it wouldn't turn out good later in the day. My ankle still hurts when I bend it ((from when I sprained it last month)) but thankfully after soaking it and leaving it up for a little while I was good to go!
I have a ripe banana that I need to use ((I have two but one is for the banana cinnamon pancakes I want to make later)) so I was looking through For The Love of Cooking to see if I could find a recipe that calls for only one banana. Well I had no such luck. I did however find these Lemon Blueberry Muffins! In this recipe she puts raw sugar cane on the top before baking them, but it seemed to me like there was already way too much sugar so I left it out. Frank's favorite muffins are blueberry muffins so I was hoping he would like these with the lemon.. they turned out pretty good! He had like 5 when he came home ha. Not the best thing since he didn't even work out after work today. Enjoy the muffins =]

Last week we decided to move the living room furniture around to see if we could find something we liked better. The way we had it before the couch was infront of the side window that the sun hits. In the summer it was killer sitting on the couch because the sun made it so much worse. We never opened that window because of that, so last week we were hoping to find something better. We tried moving the couch infront of the back door, but I hated that because you can't see what the dogs are doing on the patio. And there was next to no room left in the living room. So yesterday we tried yet another set up. We now have the couch on the wall with the small window so the dogs can look out the window ((it's long)) and we can open the curtains to let more light in. We really like this way and having the widow open makes the room seem so much bigger. I love it; Molly and Ellie love it more I think. They are big into laying in the sun as much as possible so they are taking advantage of having access to the window.

I think this is my favorite!

Last night my mom booked a ticket to come down to San Diego for Thanksgiving! I guess she had been thinking about taking a short vacation but was looking more towards the end of December. My dad doesn't want to fly down so it's going to be just her. Oh well his loss =] She has been looking into flying out of Bellingham because it's cheaper but the flights leaving after Christmas were $100 more than if she came down for Thanksgiving. She also compared how much she'd be saving if she left out of SeaTac and I think she said she's saving like $130??! Next time Frank and I go home we'll for sure be looking into flying into Bellingham. I'm excited for her to come down cause I can't wait to show her around, and there are so many things we haven't even gotten around to seeing yet that I plan to concure while she's here. Fun times!
Tonight after Frank came home we took the dogs over to Harry Griffen Park in La Mesa to see if we could find the dog park there. We did finally find it, it was in the back of the park we never just went far enough back to find it. We hated it. The ground of the dog area was sand, nasty. We had to give the dogs bathes when we got home because they were covered in dirty sand. ick. We did find that they have trails there so we took the dogs for a run/walk before it got dark. I think we'll stick to taking the dogs to the dog park in Clairmont, we like that park.
Hope everyone is watching The Biggest Loser!!

Sesame Noodles and Fruit Muffins

For quite some time i've been wanting to make these Banana, Blueberry and Raspberry Muffins but I was always missing something. I finally decided that I was going to make them this week but couldn't find any fresh blueberries, then I realized they must not be in season? Either way I made them today and they still turned out pretty darn good! The blueberries would have been the perfect touch for the middle of the muffins, but they were still tasty. Frank decided to make a nice little display out of them for a picture... as to the milk. It's definintley not mine.

Yumm!!

Tonight's dinner was Sesame Noodles with Broccoli that I found at CookingLight.com. I loved making this because there was very little to clean up and it was super easy to make. At the last minute I decided to use all the spaghetti noodles instead of just half, that way Frank had lots of leftovers. In the future i'll add an extra tablespoon and such to the sauce so it makes more. It was still really good though. I wasn't sure what to pair it with since I was saving the lettuce for the wraps tomorrow, so I decided to make some garlic toast. We do our own garlic toast that I think is much better compared to the store bought kind. I preheat the oven to about 300 degrees, butter it up then put some garlic salt on them and bake until I want to take then out. umm good!

The good and the bad

Today was a good day for food! For an afternoon snack I made two different cresent rolls that I found at For the love of cooking. The first ones I made were peanut butter and caramel. The recipe she used is with chocolate chips, but since I didn't have any I just put a little caramel in with the peanut butter. I loved them, Frank didn't care for these ones much.. I want more now that i'm typing this! ha You can go here to check out the recipe.

The second ones I made were cinnamon and sugar. These are the ones Frank really liked, I didn't care much for them but that was because I used to much of the cinnamon and sugar and not enough butter.

For dinner tonight I made a veggie quiche! This is yet another great find I found at For the love of cooking, man I love that site ha. I added some broccoli to the quiche since to me broccoli goes great in a quiche. I loved that this was a potato crust, it made the dish so much better. If you like quiche or are a fan of veggies you should really check out the recipe here. Frank even liked this!! yay =]

A walk like no other!!!

I've been wanting to find another way to go on our walks to make it harder and more intense. Well we found it! The other route we go is all hill with a few flat areas, then one big down hill. This new route is way more hills.. bigger hills! Hardly any flat areas, and then the same big downhill. You'd think by the time we got to the downhill it'd be a piece of cake. NO WAY!! ha I was so dead tired and exhausted I could barely breath. It's been beautiful since we've had a nice Santa Ana come through so it's been in the mid 80's.. which made for a great walk =] Next time I want to remember to take the camera since there was some pretty awesome views at the top of the hill.
Instead this is me after the walk, you can't tell how red my face really is!! ha

We sprayed the dogs down with water at the car wash area of our complex when we got back.((We had water for us and them on the walk, but we all needed to be cooled down!)) Unfortunately after being sprayed with water Ellie tripped while we were walking back to our apartment, and Frank didn't realize it since she was behind him so she got drug through the dirt. So we put both dogs in a cold bath when we got home. We threw Molly in with Ellie just for the heck of it.

Molly wouldn't look at the camera =[ Ellie being a pretty little lady ha

After our walks I always give them ice cubes, they go crazy over them ha. I should try to get some pictures of that as well next time...

YYAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!

Today we paid off our personal loan.. only a few more loans and credit cards to go! ha Our personal loan was costing us the most ((besides our car loan)) each month and had the highest interest rate, so we have been trying VERY hard to get this paid off fast. AND WE FINALLY DID IT!! YAYAYA This is us excited about saving $137.98 a month!!