Crawling!

Dallin started crawling about 2 weeks ago! Of course he started out slow but now he is everywhere! It cracks me up to see him pass by the hall going from room to room and listen to him giggle as he goes by. There are so many new things that hs just never knew where there that you can tell he wishes he would have found sooner like the dog food and the outlets. Dallin absolutely loves his daddy! At lunch time Dallin and I will be in the kitchen making lunch and when he hears the front door open he just starts squealing with excitement! I love it! It is just so much fun to watch him learn and discover new things every day. Here are a few pictures of him recently.

We had to lower the crib since he started crawling. He has now figured out how to pull himself up.




Mr. Mechanic






Waiting for dad to come back inside.





Its really fun to crawl under everything!



We love to take Dallin to see all the new baby calves on the farm. We usually go when Andrew gets home from work. I'll ask Dallin "where are the cows!?" and he'll look around and think really hard about where they are. Sometimes Papa is out there feeding so we'll usually help. He loves to get out of the truck to watch everything that is going on. I can already tell he is going to be and outside little boy.

I love the babies!









This is our Mamma



And this is her baby





We have always loved going out on the farm. It so pretty, even in the winter!

10 Months Old

My Dallin boy is 10 months old today! I can't believe that he'll be 1 year old in 2 months. It sure shows how fast a year goes by. He is so much fun and changing every day. We haven't quite gotten down the crawling thing yet. Although he still gets around by rolling side to side until he is in arms reach of whatever he wants (usually something he shouldn't be getting). He can get up on his hands and knees and sit from that position too so I know that it won't be very long before he crawls! He is one curious little boy and so when he does crawl ... Oh he'll be into EVERYTHING! We are still waiting on teeth too! I keep thinking any day now but still nothin yet!

His favorite toy (besides my cell phone) is a spoon or a spatula. Give him one of those and he'll be happy for a while! For Christmas my grandma gave him a cute monkey that is bigger than he is. He gets a kick out of hit when Andrew throws it on him while he is laying down. He loves to look at himself in the mirror. He laughs and thinks that he is just so cute! We laugh just watching him.

Oh what would we do without Dallin! He is so sweet and so much fun to have around! I can't remember what we did with out him here! He sure keeps us busy trying to entertain him!

He loves looking in the mirror!

Cousins!

His "my size" monkey!

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!