Baby Belt Giveaway

My very talented friend has just started up a new etsy shop -- One Little Belt -- and it's just amazing and great quality!! Check out her shop...and then leave a comment to be put in the raffle for her giveaway!


"You have three chances to win. I am giving away two girl's fashion belts and one boy's leather belt raffle-style on Valentine's Day. Each belt will be your choice of style and size with free shipping. You can see styles here. To enter leave a comment on the giveaway post here with your e-mail address.

As an added bonus you can get a second entry if you post this giveway on your blog. Leave a extra comment here with the link to your blog.

The giveaway ends on February 14th at 7:00 pm. MST. Results will be e-mailed February 15th.

I really need all of your help getting the word out about our belts. We have them ready to go, now I just need to let people know about them. You can copy any of this post and use it in your's. Whether you need a belt or not, I will just be thrilled to have your support. Thanks everyone!"

Giveaway!!

My Suga' Baby was first started when a friend of mine decided she wanted to get better at sewing. Within months she had mastered patterns and brought in her creativity to start My Suga' Baby. She now has a very successful business selling just about anything you can imagine. She sells wipes cases, diaper bags, slings, baby shoes, nursing covers, car seat canopy, etc. And takes any custom order for any item found on her blog. You should check it out!!! Everything she makes is so darling!! To enter go to http://www.keepinthecastle.blogspot.com/

Our growing boy

Dallas is growing up too fast! The days seem to fly by and I don't know where the time goes! He's such a happy boy and we just play and "talk" to each other all day!!! He's become quite mobile with scooting around and is attempting to crawl, he just needs to get up the guts!! He loves bath time and will stick his face in the water and sit up and laugh hysterically at himself! He has quite a fun sense of humor!
We eat with our socks on in our house!:) This was Dallas' first time eating a graham cracker!! He LOVED it! It's the most sugar he's ever had!! He wasn't sure about the mess on his hands but he liked the taste!
My snugly boy!! He loves to snuggle and get his head and back tickled! (oops, I blinked!!)
Like I said, Dallas is quite mobile lately!! I set him down to play while I washed my hands and I heard him yelling and came back to see him stuck under the table!!!
We took Dallas to Cabellas thinking he would LOVE the animals!! Come to find out, they aren't so cool when they are dead and don't move!!
He did LOVE the fish though and we watched them swim for over an hour!! So the trip was a success!!!

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Some of my favorite pictures of Dallas at 7 months!! He is such a little boy now!! He sits up so well and talks non stop!! He is roughly 30 inches and 17 lbs.! He has taken himself off the binki-I haven't decided if it's good or bad!! He is such a curious little guy always wanting to get his hands on everything!! He has no teeth and no hair! He isn't crawling but is using his legs more!! He makes me smile every second of everyday! He loves his baths and loves to eat food!! He will eat anything you give him but peas!! He loves to dance!! Whenever there is an upbeat song or dad's whistling he will go crazy dancing!! He is such a blessing in our lives and we love seeing him learn and grow!!

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I took some pictures for Christmas cards but never got around to printing and sending them out. Here's our Christmas card a month late!!

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We had a good Christmas!! We had 3 of them-one at our house and one at each of the grandparents!! Dallas LOVED the paper, bows and boxes more than anything else!
Dallas and Ale the puppy! He wants a puppy of his own so bad!! He gets a hold of a dog and gets so excited and tries to give them wet slobbery kisses!!

Dallas playing with his toys in the box! He didn't want to get out!!
Christmas at our house, we didn't get too many pictures because we were more focused on recording him!! Christmas at my parents house we didn't get any pictures-I need to get them from my mom! But we had fun! Dallas went sledding for his first time and didn't love it! We went snowmobiling, snowboarding, rock climbing and had a ton of fun!!!
Dallas and mom reading books before bed time!
Our little "atrium"! I'm very ready for spring and can't wait for the snow to be gone!! Dallas and I planted this tree and are having fun watching it grow!!
Chewing on my apple core!! He loves to do big boy things!!!! He is such a happy boy all the time!
I just LOVE this picture!!! He cheeses so much whenever we pull out the camera!!
We went swimming on New Years. Dallas loves his bath so much so I thought he'd love swimming for sure!! He didn't know what to think about it at first but after some time he loved it!!
And this is one of Dallas' favorite "games"- he loves to pull the wipes out one by one and eat them!! Each one he pulls out he giggles!!

The latest

I don't know how you moms keep up with all the day to day tasks AND blog!! I suck at it all! It used to bug me that you couldn't eat off my floors but now I'm ok with it! So once again here are a few pics of hat we've been up to!
Syudying for finals! Dallas is a huge help, as you can tell!! He does love books and to be read to!
We went to see Santa!! (the university mall lets you take your own pics for free!!) Dallas did great and really wanted to get a hand full of Santa's beard!!
Dallas and his Grammy! He sure does love her!! He gets spoiled when we go to their house! Like eating whip cream!
Dallas with his great grandma and grandpa Anderson! They came for Thanksgiving and the whole extended family celebrated Thanksgiving, great grandma's birthday and their 60th wedding anniversary!
He prefers to drink out of our glass now! I think this picture is hilarious! Usually his tongue is in the glass! He loves doing big boy things!!
How can you NOT love this squash covered face?!!!
He loves to play in the water, any water!! I now get dishes done but ut takes me twice as long with my helper!!

6 months and gratitude

Before I get into this post I wanted to note his measurements!! He is 16.10 lbs- 50th% and 29 inches-which is off the charts!! I can't believe my baby is 6 months!! I know all moms say that but when it's your own it's so real and crazy how quickly they grow up. I've been thinking a lot about Dallas and our little family and I get overwhelmed with emotion! It's amazing to me how much light and joy one little boy can bring to our lives! I remember about a year ago when we found out I was pregnant, we were very nervous. We didn't think he would survive. He is definitely a fighter and a huge blessing! Now our lives revolve around him! With every babble, smile, cry and squeal we realize how blessed we are. He is a very happy and healthy baby and for that I am very grateful for! I love every second of everyday with our family! I love the sad times and the happy times! I love the huge smile and the pouty lip cry! I love his cackling laugh and seeing him learn and take everything in around him! I love watching him imitate us! I love rocking him to sleep! I love his tantrums he throws and he arches his back to try to get away! I can't imagine anything better than being a mother to my sweet baby boy! He always brings a smile to my face!! He has such a fun personality and a great sense of humor! When we throw a blanket over his face he freezes, when we pull it off and say peekaboo he bursts out laughing!! I love him beyond words!! I love our family!!! I love watching Mike take care of and love Dallas!! They are such good friends! Dallas will sometimes watch the door and wait for Mike to walk in! It's the sweetest thing to see them play together!! I love my husband! He is so good for me and truely amazing!! I am greatful for him!! I love this time of year!! It's so great to really focus on what I have been blessed with in my life! It brings tears to my eyes and joy to my heart! We are all blessed and can blessings in others lives!! I hope we all have a very happy Thanksgiving!!

More of our sweet boy!

So, here are some more pics! They aren't in any specific order! And they are taken with my phone! This is going to be long!!

Melissa, the boys and I love to meet at IKEA for breakfast (it's so yummy and cheap) and just chat!! We were looking around and found these hats!! This is Viking Dallas!! He seems to not mind hats...yet!

We love to call this face his bitter beer face!! He is so funny! After he does this he lifts up his chin again and laughs!! He's got such a great sense of humor!!

We've started Dallas on a sippy!! He loves it and thinks he's so cool and such a big boy with it!! It keeps him from wanting to drink out of our cups too!!!

I went to the school to be a model for one of my new students and took Dallas with me! This was the only thing that kept him happy and occupied and not grab the foils out of my hair!! He loves to look at himself!!

This is Dallas' way of watching the tv now!! We used to be able to have it on and keep him turned away from it but now he can move himself to watch it! Needless to say we now have DVR so we can watch our shows when he's in bed!!

Dallas LOVES to go on walks!! His day is not complete without them!! We actually went and walked in the mall with all the gramdmas and grandpas when it was too cold!! He loves to sit up in it and put his feet up!! What a cutie!!

This is Dallas' halloween costume (more pics to come)! He was a monkey!! He wanted to chew on the banana so bad but it was so fuzzy!! He's the cutest monkey if I do say so myself!!

Another 5 month pic!! He's so big!!

This is his favorite toy-Mr. Frog! He loves to give him kisses and chew on his hands and feet!!

Trying to keep Dallas holding still while eating is quite the chore these days!! He would rather look around at everything else!!

He likes to "help" with holding the bottle!! Really he just makes it more difficult!! He wants to be so big too fast!!

Another one of him looking at himself in the mirror!! I told you he LOVES it!!

So, this toy actually has an arch that goes over the top with toys that hang down from it. I was trying to use it to distract him so I could work in Christmas presents. He's a little too smart and started to kick the toys, then he got his feet on the arch and pushed it down and just stared at me and waited for me to notice that it wasn't going to work!! I laughed so hard!!

Dallas doesn't like his car seat anymore, when i put him in it he arches his back and throws a fit. I really needed to grab a few groceries but didn't want to deal with him in his car seat...so I sat him in the front and he LOVED it!! He thought it was the BEST thing in the world!! I guess I can go grocery shopping from now on!!

This is an older picture but had to get it off my phone and onto my computer. He's such a peaceful sleeper!! I love to snuggle with him while he's sleeping and can't push off me!!

First time tring rice cereal!! Notice it's all over his face and nothing in his mouth!! It took a few tries!! Now he's a pro at eating and loves everything so far but apple juice!!

Mike really wants Dallas to use his Mavericks binki. He kept it in for about a minute but still loves his hospital binki!!

Dallas is so playful right before bed! I love it!! This is us laughing away!! Sometimes he'll grab my face and try to eat it!! I love it!

Here he is cracking up!! He's such a funny baby!! He loves to laugh!! He's such a happy baby!!

Here's the 1st costume I bought him!! It was a 6 month but he was WAY to big for it!! His monkey costume was a 9-12 month!!

Trying to feed himself. He's got good cordination and all but he sticks it a little too far down his throat and ends up gagging himself!!

So our little guy won't stand on his legs for anything!! I was worried and got this jumper for him! He loves it!! And I love that he's using his legs!! He's so cute in it!!

I love to kiss his cheeks!! They are so soft and squishy and oh so kissable!! He's such a sweety!

He is always wanting what we are eating and screams and makes so much noise about it!! So, I decided he could suck on a slice of my apple!! He LOVED it!! and once again felt like such a big boy!!

This Halloween I was so excited to not have to worry about a costume for Mike!! Instead I got to make a treat!! I was feeling a little crafty and didn't realize what I was getting myself into! (that happens a lot!!) So here is my treat!! Donut holes dipped in colored chocolate, then dipped into cookie and candie crumbs on a stick with a ribbon. They turned out and were yummy too!!

Dallas in his beany!! He got to wear it the day it snowed!! He loved it!! I had a friends mom make it for him and it's perfect!! (if you want one let me know, I'll get you the info)!!

Another hat at IKEA!! This is an airplane hat!! He's such a trooper and loves hats!!
As you can see Dallas is our everything!! We love him to pieces and can't imagine our lives without him!!