As you may have known, I celebrated my birthday last week and I am now one year older but getting younger, LOL!  Kidding aside, I had a very good birthday.  Since it was my day off that day and the weather was not as bad as previous weeks, we both decided to travel down to the valley and spent the weekend with my mother-in-law.  We were supposed to have a birthday dinner on my birthday, but since we arrived quite late, she just suggested that we have the dinner the next day.  Sure enough we had it the next day and instead of us paying the bill, she paid everything!  She said it was my birthday, so she had to treat us instead of us treating her for my birthdayJ  I tell you, I really consider myself lucky having a mother in law like her.  I know some of of you are also as lucky as I am but I feel so blessed to have her because I grew up without a mother and having a mother in law like her is considered a jackpot for me.  Just look at this card that she gave me; it just melted my heart to read what she wrote and was also kind of surprise that she again inserted some cash on it.  I tell you, it's quite hard to argue with her about these gifts that she gives us on special occasions; we would always tell her not to give us anything but she always does it anyway.

Yesterday, I had another birthday celebration again.  My friend Marilyn, who always stood up like a mother to me, called before my birthday last week and told me that we’re going out along with her sister Sue and our common friend, Trish, for my birthday.  But since we spent birthday weekend with my MIL, we just decided to have the celebration yesterday.  She treated me to a Mexican Restaurant over here in Bend and I did receive gifts again from them (oh what a lucky girl I amJ).  As I was telling them yesterday, I feel so loved and it’s such a great feeling!

To my family, relatives and friends who greeted me happy birthday, thank you so much and it’s really a blessing to have you all in my life.

FITNESS ADVENTURE…

To keep myself fit and healthy is always my goal all these years, so I always try to exercise and eat healthy foods.   My problem is even if I eat healthy foods and sometimes cheats on the side with my sweet treats, my weight hasn’t been going down, and instead it’s going up!  When winter started, my energy level was very low and I was always tired to do any exercise or go to the gym, in short I became a lazy bum.  But anyway, before the New Year, I became hooked to watching the BIGGEST LOSER and that show became an eye opener for me and realized that I certainly don’t want to be BIGGGGG!!!  So even if I felt so tired after work, I always make it a point to drive over to the gym or do my exercise at home using my weights, ball and my Turbo Jam DVD.  But no matter how hard I exercise, my weight wasn’t going down at all.  So 3 weeks ago, after I was inspired about Geri’s weight improvement by joining Weight Watchers, I also decided to join Weight Watchers just for the heck of it (just kidding).  Good thing about weight watchers is they teach you how to eat the right way and you’re allowed to have treats (but I don’t really abuse itJ).  Anyway, after one week of watching what I eat with the combination of my exercise, I lost 5 lbs.!!  That was considered a milestone for me and I was really happy about it.  On my second week though (which last week), I only lost 1 lb.  But still, I was so happy about it considering that when we spent the weekend with my MIL, she was feeding us like hogsJ.  

I am hoping to reach my weight goal in 3 months and that means more exercise, portion control with everything that I feed myself and no slacking!!  Also, having an online fitness buddies like Ger, Rhebs and Mel will make me inspire more to reach my goal.  Good luck to us, ladies!

Have a great weekend all!!