losing it...

Here's a pic a little lighter...

Here's the biggest I got...

So as most everyone knows, I gained about 50 pounds when I moved down south and I recently lost about 25 of those pounds...I'm still working out and eating right buuuuut I lost another 10 pounds and I'm starting to feel a little smaller finally! I thought I'd post a recent pic of me (and my friend Kendria, from her sisters bachelorette party on Friday night) just to show the progress...and I guess I'll post an old pic too lol.

I just wanted to post a pic of our hibiscus plant out front! Even though the dogs lay in the flower bed, they are still doing great!

The other night Brian took me out for dinner and a movie. We saw Taking of Pelham 123 (or something like that) and I'm not a huge fan of John Travolta but I am a huge fan of Denzel Washington and it was a pretty awsome movie! You should go see it...

Happy Father's Day!

For fathers day, my dad and I went out to St. Augustine and went to Gander MT and then we went a looked for sharks teeth on Valono Beach, little did we know that we would find a whole shark haha. Well its a baby shark but it was still really cool! I thought it was a hammer head, but Brian corrected me when I showed him the pics and it's actually a shovel head shark. I'd never heard of one before but look it up, they're pretty cool!

Here's a pic of a sharks tooth that we found.

Summer time and the livin's easy..

Awww... summer time in Florida...I know, it's been a while since we last blogged, I did start a new job though so give me a little bit of a break! I did want to post some pics on here of what we have been working at in our yard though...Here are some key limes that we planted in March and they are already producing! We are so excited! It usually takes a few years before fruit trees produce any blooms and especially any fruit so we are very fortunate that this little tree is already putting fruit out! The tree is only about 1 foot tall...maybe 2 feet.

Here are some HOT HOT HOT pink habiscus flowers that my dad and I planted in front of the house, we had two pretty small bushes but they are both putting on a lot of flowers....the only bad thing is that the dogs think this is where they are suppose to lay, so they've broken a limb off of one of them and dug up the roots on our azaelia plant, one day we will have the back yard fenced off from the front yard and maybe then our garden can survive...does anyone have any ideas on how to keep the dogs out of there until we get the fence put up?

Wii, jetskis, and BBQ...

This weekend I was pretty sick with a soar throat and did not want to do anything, but God willing, I was able to hang with the best of them on Monday for the BBQ for Memorial Day. We went out and played on the river again and it was such a fun day! After most everyone had left (there was dosh, pappy, mel, shawn, shane, chey, jaiden, jade, lauren, theresa, me, brian, mary, marys child?, doshys mom, brother joey-our preacher- and his wife donna, brian-staceys husband, and larry) I talked Brian and Shawn into playing the wii with me. For those of you who haven't played this game, let me explain. There is a board that you stand on and it can read your weight and balance and any movement. You also hold a controller but thats just to choose options on the screen (it has a motion sensor too but only for certain games). So there is a game where you can hula hoop and Brian and I were having a contest to see who could get the most spins. Plus while you're spinning, you have to lean to each side and catch hula hoops that are being thrown at you. So, without Brian knowing.........I got a pic of him doing this lol...shhhh don't tell!

O and I wanted to tell everyone that I almost got eaten by an aligator...just kidding, Lauren and I were playing on a wave runner and we were sitting around waiting for Brian and a wave hit us and rolled the whole jet ski over and we couldn't get it flipped back over so Shawn had to come flip it for us cuz we were in the middle of the river! It wasn't scary getting tipped over, it was scary just floating in the middle of the river without knowing what could be underneath us in the water. Also, to add to this excitement, Brian was riding on a wave runner and it broke down, so he kept floating down the river and we had to go find him and towe him back!

Another cool thing that happend Monday, Brian and I saw a manatee for the first time! It was so amazing! It looked like an elephant swimming(only it doesn't have a long nose!)...I tried to get my camera but I didn't make it back in time. Brother Joey said that they loved fresh water from a hose so we got the hose and hung it off the dock and the manatee came up to it and put the hose right in its mouth and drank from it for a long time! What an awsome animal!

A few Randos....

Here's a pic is of brian, otto, molli and me after we watched Marley and Me...its just a sad movie, by the end of it we were all laying on the floor together...otto was our pillow and you can just barely see mollis nose!

Here are some pictures of the boys when they went bow fishing...can you see the slime coming off the fish? They got 3 or 4 tilalpia...yum!

A couple more pics from the other night..

I took a couple of pictures from Dee's Myspace, from us going out the other night! Me, Brian, and Dee at Chili's before we went dancin
                                          Ashley, Me, and Dee all dressed up and ready to go!