Playing at the beach on Frank's birthday

75 pounds down...

For those of you who know my mom, then you probably know that she has been on weight watchers for the second time for around a year in a half now [I believe that's how long she has been doing it]. Either way since starting W.W. she has lost 75 pounds with changing her eating habits and doing yoga 2 days a week. With my dad not wanting to change his eating habits I know it hasn't been the easiest journey, but I do know she is much happier with the new "Becky". I think it will be a little weird when we're the same size for the first time! ha For anyone wanting to start a healthy life, don't say you're going to start Monday. Start TODAY! If this is something you really want, then you will do your best and have a healthier happy life =]

Frank's 24th birthday

For Frank's birthday we went out to Dog Beach then to Sunset Cliffs to watch the sunset. Frank had just had to cliff jump.. and he ended up going 3 or 4 times. Tony joined him and jumped once. The sunset was beautiful! Which I new it would be, we were happy it didn't set as fast as it does in Virginia. So we had a little bit of time to be amazed.

The birthday boy!

yup the dogs are kayaking with them! ha

This is the time out picture! They both got in trouble at the same time, for doing two completely different things ha

This wave didn't get him, but a different one drenched Frank and the dogs while I was trying to take a picture. I freaked out and ended up taking a picture of my bathing suit!

NICK

I've decided that Monday's will be "Nick" days. For those of you who don't know Nick is a friend of mine from back home. 19 weeks ago he decided that NOW was when he was going to live his life the healthy way. He made his way to the gym for the very first time at 359.8 pounds [he said its okay to put it up, i'm hoping his story will helps other =)] and as of Monday he is 102 pounds lighter!!!!! If you watch the Biggest loser then you know who Jillian and Bob are, I call myself his Jillian through the internet ha I'm so happy for him and all he has acomplished in 19 weeks. He says he has about another 87 pounds to go till he gets to his goal weight, then it will be time to maintain for life. While Frank and I were home in July I went shopping with Nick and helped him pick out goal clothes. He just gave me an update earlier saying that he fits into the 38's [I believe that's the size] but they are still a bit tight. If anyone cares to follow Nick with his journey to a healthier life, or would like to pass his story along this is a link to his blog http://ndizzle2dafizzle.blogspot.com/

I thought I had a Before picture but I didn't so I used his "Before/After" picture for when he had lost 73 pounds for the BBQ while I was home. So the picture on the left his is actual Before.

And this is "After" losing 102 pounds!

ahh what a day..

Since it's finally been hot here in San Diego I've been wanting to get out of the house with the dogs everyday while Frank is at work. So today I took the girls to the dog park at Balboa for the first time. We had tried to find it once but never did and haven't gone back since. Once I found it today I felt stupid cause the last time we were there we kept driving past the dog park and never noticed it! We got there at 11:30 and it was pretty slow so Molly and Ellie for some reason were wanting to stay close to me [they never want to be near us at the park] once more dogs started showing up they were playing a little more. That dog park is huge! I love it ha they have so much room to run and get there energy out. We ended up being there for 2 1/2 hours, and once we left there we went out to the dog beach at Coronado for an hour in a half. Then we jotted over to base [it was such a long drive ha the gate by the dog beach was open so I was happy] to pick up Frank. Then back to the beach for another 40 minutes we went! I made sure to pack all our water bottles, a towel, clothes and swim trunks for Frank but I managed to forget the sunscreen. So now I'm a tad bit burnt. Oh well we had an amazing day!! Today would have been a great day to be taking pictures, but of course I forgot it at home arr!

Summer!

It finally feels like a little bit of summer is in San Diego finally! Today after Frank got off work we took the dogs out to dog beach to enjoy the nice weather. I forgot the camera and of course today was the day I should have had it! Ellie was going crazy running and swimming in the water the whole time, for once Molly didn't care to be in the water much. We all had fun then came home and had a yummy breakfast-dinner of french toast, egg whites, and hashbrowns =]

Sunset Cliffs

Today Tony, Ashley, me, Frank and all the dogs went out to La Jolla and walked the Sunset Cliffs. It was AMAZING! We all had an awesome time and can't wait to do it again. I want to go out there at sunset sometime, it's not called Sunset Cliffs for nothing ha I thought this was going to be more of a hike, but it was really more of a walk. It seriously didn't feel like we had walked very far though. I am so ready to go on a real hike now!!

All the dogs were excited to go for the walk! Molly ducked down just as I took the picture

Cliff jumpers

Frank and Tony went down to this secluded beach with Molly and Ellie, they ended up leaving Moose behind.

The Sherman family =]

Charlie was getting the VIP treatment! His little feet were too hot

These stairs take you down to the water, it's mostly for surfers or divers cause all it is is a slab of rock at the bottom.

They already had there turn going down to the water, but didn't want to wait up top while Moose was getting his turn

Ashley and Charlie

Lasagna

Tonight I made my first homemade Lasagna!!... meat-free of course! I used the easiest recipe I could find so it wasn't too hard ha. It turned out okay, a little dry once it started to cool down but for the most part it was okay. The dish I used was too big and I didn't have enough noodles, but I'm still proud of myself =] Once I get some more baking dishes (I need variety!) I want to try this again.