Thursday, February 24, 2011

February Fun!!

February has been filled with a lot of fun things! So this might be a LONG post.
First of all Gray turned 10 months! He is such a wonderful happy little boy. He is now walking really well, he's almost ready to run, he tries sometimes but can't seem to get his little legs to move as fast as he wants them to go so then he falls over. But I am so impressed at how fast he learned to walk. He is also clapping it's really cute every time I say yay he claps I love it he makes life so much fun. He also just started waving hello and goodbye, and giving kisses. He loves to give kisses of course they are the big slobbery open mouth kisses but I love it!
Here are a few pictures of my cute little guy:

If you look closely at this picture you will notice Gray's top two teeth are now popping out
Krew is so much fun, lately he has such a wonderful imagination somedays he will just be playing with his toys and then say "oh no mommy we need to run away there's a scary Dragon," then we will start running, then he will turn and say "now I'm the scary dragon RROAR i'm going to get you mommy". He does things like this all the time it's so much fun I really enjoy his creativity. But he also has been giving me an attitude a lot lately some of his favorite phrases are "don't tell me what to do" or "I'm the child I make the rules" It's funny to talk about but not in the moment. He is still such a sweet and loving kid he is always giving me hugs and kisses and cuddles, the other day he told me that I look like a princess, He melts my heart I love him so much.
This is what most days look like Krew giving hugs, tackling, and tickling Gray. Gray Laughs most of the time, but sometimes Krew doesn't understand that Gray is much smaller than him.

They sure are good friends and love to play together


Something we did that was fun this month is go to a place called Little Gym. They give one free class for first timers so we signed Krew up to go to a class he really enjoyed it, too bad it's way too expensive for our budget.
Swinging on the bars:
Krew doing a forward roll
Gray really enjoyed playing around on the bars too

we had a few snow days this month. We had a lot of fun having Brandon home and playing in the snow together as a family.

And last but not least I was able to help throw a baby shower for one of my good friends. We had a really fun time. I loved throwing this shower it was really fun making the decorations (with help from my sister, thanks Heidi)


this was one of the games that we did, I made these little diapers and some one had the privilege of getting the "dirty diaper"
The little thank you party favor I made, the theme was airplanes, these are little suit cases.

While the girls were all together at the baby shower a few guys got together and went to a car show Brandon went and took the boys they had a great time looking at the cars and playing in them.





Wednesday, February 9, 2011

8 Week Challenge!!!

These past 8 weeks Brandon and I have been a part of an 8 week challenge given by Mixers nutrition. We made goals for ourselves and had 8 weeks to reach our goals, we took before pictures of ourselves and I took an after picture (brandon doesn't want to give an after picture yet, he wants to keep going and losing more weight, he wants his picture to be more dramatic.)
Here are our goals and my before and after pictures (Brandon just refused me to put his on because he wants his pictures to be more drastic I think he looks really good, I wish he would let me put up his pictures:

Brandon's Goals:
Lose 35 lbs
exercise everyday for at least 1/2 hour
Eat healthy meals
Start and finish a book
Personal prayers every morning and night
Family scripture study every night
Go to Temple at least once a month

Diedre's Goals:
Lose 10 lbs
Tone muscles especially my abs
eat healthier
exercise every day
Start and finish a book
Personal prayers every morning and night
Family scripture study every night
Go to Temple at least once a month
Organize house

Before: (as I was putting these pictures on Krew tunes to me and points to my before picture and said I don't like that one, then points to my after picture and said I like that one haha, Thanks Krew. I know I hate this before picture too, I wish I could burn it!!)
And After:

If you want to read more about our 8 week challenge please go to www.mixersnutrition.blogspot.com and while you are there you can vote for us to win!!! It was really really fun and we plan on sticking with our diets for a long time!!