zumba

 taylor just started teaching zumba after school for some of the teachers that work with her. yesterday, me and tanner decided we wanted to try it out...he was pretty entertained watching everyone! he laughs anytime i dance around the kitchen or living room acting goofy so i knew he'd be pretty entertained by watching us attempt to zumba! taylor did a great job...now if i can only learn to zumba like her!

and one of my favorite pictures from this past weekend. my mom was able to catch tanner giving me a kiss (he only gives kisses when he wants and usually i can count on them early in the morning when tanner wakes up...but during the day they're way less predictable!). i just love these slobbery kisses-so sweet!!

                                                   

and one other funny pic i captured last week. tanner has learned how the nosefrida works. for those of you that don't know, the nosefrida is AWESOME! something i couldn't have lived without these last 8.5 months! mom calls it the snot sucker and it sounds super gross, but it works WONDERS (and there's no way for anything icky to get to your mouth!). i wouldn't say that he loves it, but he definitely knows that he feels much better after we use the nosefrida. and since we use it almost every day, he's learned how it works. he's started reaching for it and as soon as he gets it, he sticks the red end into his mouth...hilarious!

                                                          

shower for baby riley

this past weekend tman and i headed to temple to help throw a shower for rachel and baby riley (due in early december).

and i actually did a little crafting for the shower...and i think it turned out pretty cute (not quite as cute as if stacie or aimee or steph were crafting it, but hey, it's a start!). i got part of the idea off another blog so mom and dad built the base and i made the letters...you'll probably be seeing this again (with pictures instead of letters) at tman's first birthday (that was actually where the idea originated-for a 1st birthday). and then tanner so generously shared some of his toys and books to help add to the decorations.

we also had a basket of texas goodies for baby riley (since his momma loves all things texas...especially cowboy boots...and he will live in tennessee). allison and her mom found some super cute texas stuff-a fun book, a onesie and burp cloth, a bib and a wooden teether in the shape of texas. yes, kind of a silly gift, but it was totally rachel! :-)

and tamara added to the texas goodie basket with a GREAT idea...she got some dirt from rachel's parents' yard...so riley can be born on texas soil! it was so cute!

here's a pic of all the hostesses with rachel and her mom.

and the three of us (we missed you allison!!!)

and here are all 3 babies that were at the shower...they had lots of fun playing together on the couch! henry (tamara's little boy), tanner (in his little man clothes...LOVE it!), and caleb (sarah's little boy).

we had so much fun helping rachel get ready for riley and can't wait to meet him!!!

the new look

hope everyone likes the new look! i LOVE it! i got a FREE (yes-can you believe it!?!?) blog makeover by Cristin. she was great...gave me a fun, new look that i really love and was super quick and easy to work with!!! my most favorite part is that she knew how to make everything wider...so now i won't have to keep shrinking my pictures to fit the skinny little text box (yes i tried but couldn't figure out for the life of me how to change it...but she knew!) thanks Cristin! i'm loving the new look!

labor day at the lake

we had a great labor day weekend...i love long weekends-they should all be 3 days i think! we headed to the lake house friday night and taylor, brian, grant and mom and dad all came up saturday morning. tanner had c.o.n.s.t.a.n.t. attention since he had pops, gigi, ipop and grammy there...not to mention aunt taylor, uncle brian and uncle grant! tanner got some new blocks to play with this weekend...with pictures of family members on each side (just to remind tanner who everyone is in case he doesn't get to see everyone every.single.week...don't worry grammy-he's got a good memory!). he loves them! he also had fun discovering all the toys kept at the lake house-they were all new and exciting to him!

the weather was wonderful so we spent lots of time down at the dock and hanging out on the porch. everyone loved the hammock (it's my FAVORITE spot at the lake house!).

even tanner had fun swinging in the hammock!

we took the boat out a couple of times on saturday and let everyone wakeboard. gigi stayed back on the dock with tanner (thanks gigi!)...he had fun just chillin in his shades!

some wakeboarding pics...

there's grant...

and then there's the rest of us who are just glad to be able to get up and stay up for longer than 10 seconds (lance is actually pretty good...but old knee surgeries and wake boarding don't go that great together)

and then there's dad...this was his first time to wake board and he got up on his second or third try which is pretty impressive. he was a pro at falling...he had us laughing pretty hard (even mom...after she made sure he was ok!). pic 1-he's up. pic 2-everyone is yelling at him to fix his shorts...fixing his shorts results in picture 3 and the whole boat crying we're laughing so hard. he was good at getting up and a master at major wipeouts!

there was also lots of swimming...dakota even decided he wanted to go for a swim and jumped off the dock into the water (he's never done this before...it's a pretty big jump for him!). gizmo, on the other hand, just loves laying around and sunbathing...he's got relaxing at the lake house down!

tanner got to go swimming in his own miniature swimming pool...he loved it!

what a fun weekend!!!

We WON!!!

I was so excited tonight...we got home from the lake and i got on blogger to read a few of my blogs. one of the ones i have on my reader had a contest a few days ago and when i looked at the preview of its post, i saw MY name! kind of funny because i remember thinking as i was commenting/entering to win..."i never win these things so this really isn't going to work, but i have to win one day right?!?"

what did we win?!?!? well it's a personalized super hero cape for tman! i'm getting a head start on his costume collection! we ordered it tonight (blue cape, yellow circle with a big red T)...i'll make sure to take his pic once it arrives (it'll be a little big but he'll just get even more fun adventures in it this way!). so fun!!!