A Little Bit of Everything

I love Christmas time! Its such a fun time of year! It was great! We stayed home and spent it with my famiy. We got to see so many cousins and their kids that we haven't seen for a while. We had our Christmas Eve party with everyone. We had a nativity, played Christmas songs on the chimes, and ate all the yummy food! This year I mad a Candy Cane Coffee Cake to take to the party. It was yummy! It rose a bit more than I thought it would but Oh it was good! I love all the baking at Christmas time!

All the little shepherds need a spatula to help them sit still. It was so funny!

Candy Cane Coffee Cake

I was so excited to see how Dallin was going to do Christmas morning with presents. He was so funny! He coulda cared less about any fun toys he got. He was more excited about the wrapping paper! He was entertained for quite a while with it! Rolling around in it, tearing it apart, tasting it.... JUST SO MUCH FUN!!!!

My boys!

The funnest part of Christmas!!!

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!