Biggest Loser Challenge

As some of you may know Sheri and I participated with the Wright family in their Biggest Loser Challenge.

The challenge was 17 weeks long with "weigh in" each monday. With everyone having such varying goals with weight loss, progress would be measured by % of weight lost. Each week there would be a weekly winner and the at the end an overall winner.

Sheri and I got together and took before photos and the we did it again at the end of the challenge and let me tell you, have we changed!!

I won bragging rights by winning the challenge of biggest % lost but Sheri is the one that lost the most pounds.

Here are our before, after (same clothes), and after (new cute clothes)

I lost 24.88% of my body weight/ 51lbs

Sheri lost 24.23% of her body weight/ 55lbs (can you say close race)

Butt you haven't seen the "end" of our weight loss as we still have more to lose to hit our goals!

Washington Park

One of my favorite places to go is Washington Park in Anacortes. It's such a fun park to spend the day in or just to enjoy a nice slow scenic 3 mile drive. So a few weeks ago we had a nice sunny day and not wanting to waste it we (sheri, joel, seth, ellie, matt and myself) set out to have a day at the park.

Matt has a new camera so we got-

some fun...

some cute...

some cool...

some playful...

some helpful... (please note this is a Ford diesel F350 1Ton Crew Cab jump starting a Prius)

some not so fun...

pictures of our day!

After spending time driving around playing at the park the kids wanted to know when we were going to go "play" at the park?! So just before heading home we stopped off at the toys. The ground was very wet and slippery resulting as you can see in a tragic end to Matt's care free days of mobility for the next 4-6 weeks. (he got his very own pair of crutches and boot the next day) No I'm not a mean wife who has to take a pic before going to help. It just happened that as I went to take a photo of seth rolling down the hill Matt slipped. (I knew I should have had it in video mode!) =)

We also decided to stop over at Grandma & Grandpa's house with dessert to finish off our fun filled day only to find Matt was not the only one who had been injured that day.

Grandma stepped wrong on her little step stool and it flipped up and hit her leg! Then while we were there I went to get the ice cream back out of the freezer and was attacked by a butter tub full of frozen strawberry puree.

Still all and all we had a great day and we think next time...

YOU should come with us!