Little Miss is changing so quickly! She learns something new everyday it seems. She loves to smile and talk to me...especially when she's getting her diaper changed! She also loves looking in the mirror then trying to find the mama and make eye contact. She's also really good at messing her pants as soon as I put a clean diaper on her...I swear all I do is change one diaper after another...it never ends! Welcome to motherhood! haha. I have quickly learned which diapers I do and do not like...Costco diapers = awful! Huggies = awful! Parent Choice = ok/bearable. White Cloud = good. Pampers = heaven! We love our pampers diapers! Little Miss has also learned to love bath time. She hates being cold though, so it's quite the task to get her dressed fast enough after getting out of the tub so she doesn't get cold. Otherwise she basically screams until she's fully clothed and snuggled up to mommy.
Most of all she just loves her mommy and daddy, and we love her more than we ever thought possible! She's so fun and such a blessing! We've loved just being our own little family and have come to realize that this is truly what life is all about. I'm so grateful that families can be together forever and for my temple marriage that makes that possible.
As for Justin and I...
Justin is enjoying school for the most part. He recently went to Las Vegas with his dad for a home builders convention, and he loved it! He saw all kinds of neat stuff and cool ideas for homes, and he came back wanting to build...smoothies! And not just any smoothies...healthy fruit smoothies. Random?? Umm yes! He goes to a home builders convention, so naturally I assumed he'd come back wanting to build a house or something. Smoothies? How in the world do the two even connect? Well apparently there was a guy at the convention showing off this new and improved VitaMix blender by making all kinds of smoothies made with only fruit and some vegetables, water, and ice. And of course there were free samples that Justin took full advantage of! So naturally Justin loved them and came home in a smoothie frenzy! First thing he did was go to the store and buy fruit, and when I say he bought fruit I mean we had fruit and spinach coming out of our ears!! Every kind of fruit you can imagine, he got it. He came home, whipped out the Ninja and threw in all kinds of fruit with a little water and ice. That's it!
I must admit I didn't think it was going to taste that great having like 12 random kinds of fruit blended together with only water and ice, but let me tell you that was one tasty treat! So yummy! I was shocked that he actually stayed with just the fruit and water and didn't want to add any kind of sweetener or anything, because if any of you know Justin you know that he's got a major sweet tooth and doesn't skimp on the sugar, nor is he one to choose things that don't have sugar as the first ingredient (ok that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the point...he likes his sugar!). Anyway, to make a long story short, we've definitely been getting our 4-5 servings of fruits and vegetables everyday, and I love it! They are seriously amazing!
While Justin plans the fruit combo for the next smoothie, or while he's doing homework, I have been just loving making hair bows that match pretty much every outfit for the little Miss. It's so fun, and I've loved being able to have an excuse/reason to put my creative cap on again! I've missed it! She's gonna have more hair bows than she can even wear, but oh well! I'm having fun! So if anyone needs some hair bows, I'll hook you up! :)
These are just a few of the ones I've made so far...
We've also taken a huge step together...we got a gym membership...hold the phone! Probably one of the craziest things I've ever agreed to...I don't even know who I am anymore! haha! Just kidding! For FHE a couple weeks ago we decided we needed to each set some goals to help get our life back on track. One of the goals we both set was to eat better and exercise. Why you might ask? Well I wanted to for obvious reasons, and Justin because he just wants to get in shape again...and eating better and exercising just seems to be the thing to do right now. I think it's trending. haha. So I'm not one that's ever really been big on exercising...honestly it's not my favorite thing to do. In fact it's not even close! So I knew I wasn't going to just exercise on my own at home. If I did this goal would be out the window within the first day guaranteed! And Justin pretty much felt the same way especially since we don't really have anything to exercise with at home other than our 1/2 flight of stairs and maybe some chairs. So gym membership here we come! Justin stayed home with the missy while I went to Zumba for the first time last night. I felt like an idiot, but I did anyway! It was a great workout, and I think once I get the hang of it it'll be a little more fun for me, but it was still fun. Then when I got back I stayed home and put missy to bed and he went to the gym to workout. After day 1, we are both definitely feeling all that time we spent not exercising for the past year+. Hopefully having a gym membership and knowing that it's costing me money to have it will be enough motivation to get us there!
