Biggest Loser Challenge Starts January 4th!!!

So I've been doing a Biggest Loser Challenge for the past 8 weeks with a few other ladies. Its been great!! I have such a hard time losing weight by myself and this was just what I needed for motivation and it was a chance to win some money too! I've lost 11 lbs so far and it ends on monday. I was hoping I would do better than what I did, but hey I'm not complaining about 11lbs lost!!!

Anyways she is starting another challenge that starts January 4th going for 8 weeks and everyone weighs in every monday on their own. If you want to play for the pot , you have to pay $20 or you can play for free (not for the pot). If anyone is interested leave me a comment with your e-mail and I'll send you more info! The more we get the better!!

Cake Decorating

So lately I have gotten into cake decorating. I've had an interest in it for a while now but have never really tried it until my mom volunteered me to make my cousins wedding cake! I about died when she told me that! But I decided I'd give it a try. It was SO much fun!!! It turned out pretty good and I was happy with it. She also volunteered me again to make another cake the next week. It was fun to make too, but I realized I need lots of practice. I'm wanting to get into it more but I don't want to make the a cake just to decorate and throw it away and I know if I made one, I'd probably eat it all and that wouldn't be very good. Oh well, I guess i'll just have to do it sometime. Maybe i'll take all the cake to Steph, LOL! She'd probably kill me! Anyways, here are the one's I've made.

I made this one with fondant. She didn't want it to all be cake so I just used styrofoam underneath.

This one is real cake with Almond Buttercream Icing. Yum! And I made the flowers and leaves out of fondant.

1st Hair Cut!

We gave Dallin his first hair cut tonight! I was so sad to see his soft baby hair go but he really needed it. It was getting to long to even do anything with so we decided to just cut it. And of course he is still so cute with his new little boy hair cut!

A few before:

And After!

He looks just like his dad in this picture! He's just SO CUTE!!!!!

Family Pictures

So it's a little late I know but while we were in Utah we have family pictures taken. They turned out really cute! Dallin was a crack up in his pictures, he would not smile for us! Here are a few!

Utah Trip!

So this year on conference weekend we all took a trip up to Utah. Andrew and I went up a tad earlier so we could make a quick trip up to Idaho and visit his grandparents. I've never met them and it's been a while since Andrew had seen them so we decided that we were too close not to go visit. We had lots of fun and it was nice to get to spend some time with them. We did quite a bit of driving.... 1400+ miles. I was so nervous to even go on that far of a trip with a 7 month old in a car seat. I took everything possible to keep him entertained. All I have to say is that Baby Einstein was a LIFE SAVER!!!! I propped the computer up in front of him, plugged the binky in and turned it on! There were times he was entertained for quite a while! I think it would have been alot longer trip with out it.
While we were in Utah we all went to Corn Belly's at Thanksgiving point. That was lots of fun! We went through the corn maze.... and after getting lost a few time we finally made it out. They had lots of fun props to take pictures at so we did of course.

One of the reasons we went to Utah was to take family pictures. We went up the canyon where the fall colors were SO pretty and thats were we had them taken. We haven't gotten them back yet though.

After pictures we went to a Brazilian restaurant called Tucono's. They bring out different kinds of meat on long skewers and cut you a piece off to try. It was SO good! They also bring out fresh grilled pineapple. I'm not a fan of hot pineapple but this was to die for! YUM!

On Saturday night all the guys went to the priesthood session of conference and of course all the of us girls went shopping!

It was a fun week and was fun to spend time with all of my family. Its always fun to get together with everyone.

Summer Update

This summer has just flown by! We've mostly been doing the usual, nothin too exciting. We went and visited family in Safford a few times which is always fun. We also played CoEd Softball again this year. We were on the Henling Tech team. Lots of fun! We won the championship again too! Camping came and went. It was lots of fun like always.
Dallin is just growing and growing. Getting to be more fun everyday! He will be 7 months old next week! I can hardly believe it. I love watching him learn new things. Learning how to roll over, trying to sit up, discovering that he has hands and that he controls them, finding out that he has a voice, and so many more things. He loves his bath time and loves to play with dad. Andrew can always get him to laugh!

One night I decided to try and play with my camera so I could figure out how to take better pictures with it...... and lets just say that I won't be doing that again. Some how I erased all my pictures that I had taken, over 500. I wanted to CRY! Thank goodnes I had already put most of them on my computer already. So here are a few that I have taken over the summer... the ones I didn't lose.

I could help but get a picture of this! This is what I found after Dallin woke up from his nap one afternoon. Made me laugh!

I almost walked right into this one night as I opened the back door!

He is such a goof ball! We put the binky in side ways and he tried to suck on it.... it didn't work. LOL!

The Past Few Weeks

Boy how time flys! Dallin is already 3 months old He is getting bigger and is SO much fun! He's smiling alot and he laughed for the first time on Sunday. He also rolled over the other night. He hasn't done it since but we'll keep trying. Its just so much fun to sit a play with him!

Usually for memorial day we go camping for the weekend, but we just went for a day this time. Besides the muddy mess that it was we had lots of fun! Grandpa pushed Dallin in the tire swing and put them both to sleep. It was a little chilly so we bundled him up and he looked so cute in his little hat. And we finally got some pictures of all three of us. We are so excited to go again in September for Labor day!!!!!

We blessed Dallin a few weeks ago also. He did so good and didn't even cry! Andrew's parents and little brother came for the weekend. It was lots of fun having them here!

He's A Growing Boy!

Well I'm long over due for a new update. I can't believe how hard it is sometimes to even get on here to update my blog now with a baby. I didn't think it would be this hard. Before, I thought "I'll have a ton of time to do things after I have the baby and getting to stay home all day. I can update my blog more, work on my baby quilt, make curtains, do some spring cleaning and whatever else I want!" ........ Well I was completely wrong! I've not done any of those things... yet. Just as I start to do somthing, he starts crying or on somedays he just will not let me put him down. Oh well! It's still tons of fun being a mom and I have to keep reminding myself that he is only going to be little and cuddly once! I can't believe how big he is getting! He is 7 weeks old now and getting bigger every day. I've never seen a new born eat as much as he does! Andrew said it in a good way.... He can't run on 3/4 of a tank, he has to be full and topped off in order to be happy. I knew he was getting bigger but I didn't realize how big he was getting until I saw little Tanner, who was born last week. He was 8lbs 9oz and is itty bitty. I feel like I might break him. I can't remember Dallin being so tiny and he was actully alot smaller than Tanner. We weighed him the other day and he is now over 12 lbs. To me, since I'm with him all day everyday, he doesn't seem that much bigger from when he was born.... but he is! He also just started smiling about a week ago! And it was an actual smile, not the gassy smiles new borns give. It has been so much fun being a mom .... Maybe not so much at about 2 am and 4 am, but once we get through the night its much better. When we first brought him home I told him that I was really sorry, but he couldn't have any bothers or sisters. But I'm starting to change my mind. Not any time soon, but eventually!

He's here!!!

Sorry it has taken me so long to post! Well he is here!!!! Meet Dallin Andrew. He came on Friday March 13th. I went into my appointment on thursday the 12th and my blood pressure was WAY too high and my doctor didn't want to take any chances so he told me they needed to induce me and for us to head to the hospital. I think my blood presssure hit the roof when he told me that! I wasn't expecting that nor was I mentally ready to have a baby! So we went to the hospital and they started everything. I wasn't progressing so they decided to let me sleep through the night and continue on in the morning. At about 5 am they started again. I was progressing faster and they finally broke my water. That made everything get going. I was ready for an epidural so they gave me one. Some how they put it in and it made only my whole right side go numb and I could still feel everthing on the left. That was horrible! So she decided to take it out and put in a second one. By this time i've had 3 doses. It finally worked but my whole right side was completely numb! I couldn't feel nor move a thing. With in about 45 min to an hour I went from a 3 to a 10. Thank goodness!!! I didn't want it to last forever. I started pushing at 10:50 and had him at 11:25 am! He weighed 6 lbs 15.5 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long. Everthing went great! We got to bring him home on Saturday afternoon. It has been completely different with our little guy here. Lots of fun and not a whole lot of sleep. Its fun getting to know him and see how much he changes from day to day. I can't wait for the next months and years to come!

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Do you ever feel like this???

I do!!!! I swore I would never get to the point in my pregnancy that my pants in front are sagging to my knees and my shirts are getting to short that my belly hangs out! Guess what. I'm at that point and it's driving me crazy!!! And there isn't much I can do about it any more. I only have about 2 weeks left and i'm not spending the money on MORE maternity clothes. They should make special suspenders for pregnant women. I'd buy some if they did (and maybe they do and I just haven't looked hard enough for them). I'll just be glad when I can just wear my normal clothes again!!

2 years ago today!

Yup it's been 2 years!! It has just flown by! So much has happened! We've moved to Winslow, bought our first house, got our wild Roxy dog, are managing the rental business, bought our first car, have great callings in our ward, expecting our first little boy here in about 4 weeks, and have done SO much more!! How blessed we have been in the past 2 years. I see how much we have done and accomplished so far I can only wonder what the next years are going to bring. There is no one else I'd rather spend the rest of forever with than Andrew!

The Little Painted Desert

So on saturday Andrew wanted to go "Site Seeing"...... In Winslow..... Where is there to go site seeing in Winslow?? I had no clue where to take him that would be fun that we haven't already been. So he asked me about the Little Painted Desert that he had driven by on his way to the rez one day. It sounded fun and we didn't have to drive forever to get there. So we went! I haven't been since I was little! Probably for a field trip in elementary school. It was SO neat! SO amazing that there is something that beautiful so close to Winslow. After taking pictures we headed down the road alittle ways more just for a fun drive. I guess I have never realized how pretty this area really is. I couldn't stop taking pictures. What a fun day we had. Now we have to hit all the other places that I have completely forgotten about that are so neat and fun to go see. If you haven't ever been to see the Little Painted Desert I would definitely recommend going! Now I want to see the bigger Painted Desert.

30 weeks down... 10 to go!!!!

Oh how I don't like taking pictures of me! Andrew took this one for me a few days ago and I don't know how many I took before I just gave up and said NEVERMIND! I told a few people that I haven't seen in a while that I would post one so I guess I will. I really don't like how I look right now but oh well.... here in about 8 weeks i'll be looking back and thinking "oh I didn't look too bad!" So here is a lovely picture of me... the best one I could find out of the many we took.