For the last 12 weeks Carter & I have been in a competition with some of his family members to see who could lose the most weight. The "Biggest Loser" competition. It ended today. Carter has lost 17 lbs!! (The thinnest I've ever known him to be.) Amazing to me. I, on the other hand, have lost 5 lbs. I really want to try to lose at least 5 more in the next two weeks before our vacation. Carter's amazing weight loss is mostly to change of diet. We've been eating better over the last 3 months; barely any red meat, low fat or fat free dairy, more fruits and nuts and less sweets, which is our downfall. I have to say, I really hate the fact that Carter can change his diet and work out "occasionally" and lose 17 lbs., but I can work out more than him and not lose more than 5 lbs.!! We should find out soon who won the whole competition, (days worked out was a factor too) and I hope it was Carter, he deserves it!!

Update

Savannah is just the cutest right now. She is saying so many new words and putting them together. She has always mimicked really well. Some of the new words or phrases she's saying are: Oh Boy, Where'd it go?, out, pretty, cute, movie, walk, goodbye. I'm sure theirs a few others, but I just can't think of them. She still loves to dance around when any music comes on and she loves to go outside and "walk" everywhere. If you let her go out, she does not want to come back in. Her hair is getting longer in the front and back, but if I put pigtails or a barrette in and then put her in the car to go somewhere, it's not in her hair when I pull her out of the car. She loves to make a mess of the computer room and sit on my lap when I'm on the computer. Tonight we decided to make some cookies and she wanted some chocolate chips. So we gave her some, but then she was freaking out and wanting more. We kept trying to get her to say Please & Thank you, but she was getting so upset that she wasn't about to say anything. Once the cookies were done, of course she wanted some, and she so enjoyed them. She got chocolate all over her mouth. She actually looked even more like Carter because it looked like she had a goatee and mustache all around her mouth. She really is just the sweetest little girl. She is such a joy to have in our lives!

Carter has spent the whole weekend sick and miserable and we're hoping he's better enough to go back to work tomorrow. He hates being sick and I hate when he's sick because he sleeps a lot and doesn't talk a lot, so I get kind of lonely. Today he feels a little better though, so crossing my fingers.

I've been doing lots of mystery shops lately and have a bunch coming up too. Saturday we spent all day at my families helping them with there yard. Well, I helped; Carter watched Savannah most of the time and took it easy. I actually enjoyed being outside and pulling weeds which is so unlike me because I'm not much of an outdoors or get dirty kind of girl. (Believe me, a few times I was looking around checking for spiders and bugs.) I do wish it wouldn't have been so windy and then it would have felt so nice out. My back and legs are pretty sore today though. At least it's a good workout!

3 1/2 weeks and we'll be in Hawaii! We're looking so forward to that!!

Silly girl

We had Savannah's car seat in the house on Friday night and whenever it's in the house, she likes to use it as a little seat for her. She decided to take a little time and read a book.

Best Buddies....big & small

Melissa and Stella came into town on Wednesday and we met them and there family at Chili's for lunch. Here are the two little ones meeting up after 9 months.


Savannah kept stealing Stella's cheerios and yogurt bites (she loved these) even though she had her own snacks and meal.
Then we came all came back to our house and took endless pictures of the two of them playing. Of course, if you look at Melissa's blog, they will be 10 times better of pictures, so check out hers. Savannah was fascinated with Melissa's camera; I think because it was so big.

They were playing with this stationary type toy that makes noises and plays music. I thought Stella would really like it and she seemed too.

Cute girls.
So it's really hard to get a picture with each of them looking at the camera. Darn it. This one is funny to me though because Stella is playing with Savannah's toy and Savannah is playing with Stella's toy. Real friends share!
I think Savannah really liked Melissa (what's not to like) because she just went right over and sat next to her.

If Melissa sends me some GOOD pictures, I'll post some. I don't have a good one of the four of us on my camera. Bummer. Anyway, it was great to see them (and the rest of the Lund clan) and let the little girls play and the big girls talk. Hope to see you girls soon!!

This ones just cute. Love the jellies!
She likes to look out the window sometimes.

Savannah loves to go over to Carter's alarm clock every morning and start pressing buttons and turn on the music. Every morning I have to push it back as far as I can so she stops messing with it.

Abercrombie & Fitch Baby

This is still one of Savannah's favorite things to do: take out all the videos!!

Tickle time with Mommy! I love this Toothy smile!
Isn't this outfit the cutest? So abercrombie preppy....

Funny faces...

For Uncle Taylor's birthday we went to Goodwood Barbecue and then to see Definitely, Maybe. Such an adorable movie. Highly recommend it; it wasn't anything like I thought it would be. Grandma Barbara now brings an old cell phone for Savannah to play with, and boy does it keep her occupied. She loves it!

Playing on the motorcycle video game with Uncle Taylor after the movie. About half way through the movie Savannah was getting really restless, so Aunt Kacey was nice enough to take her out since she'd already seen the movie. Apparently, Savannah was running up and down the hallway and Kacey was chasing her. Both of them looked so tired when the movie was over, but I think they had fun. Kacey was like, "I'm sweating." Funny. Thanks again Kacey.

The past few days Savannah has been "getting into" old photo albums, and she keeps pulling out this picture. My guess is that she's thinking, "Who are these girls?" I'm trying to figure out what year this was, but my best guess is '03 or '04. Maybe someone can refresh my memory. This was in Carpenteria; the place all of us used to go every August. I haven't made it back since getting married but I'm hoping we can this year.

18 month check up

Savannah had her 18 month check up today and she did great as usual. She kept saying "Hi" to the doctor and trying to touch her laptop. Figures. She just barely missed the 20 lb. mark. She's 19 lbs. 15 oz. I now believe that since my daughter has taken 18 months to NOT even weigh 20 lbs., that she is always going to be very tiny and petite. Since our car seat says that she has to weigh 22 lbs. to face forward, the poor girl will still be backwards until she can gain 2 lbs. At this rate, that will be around 2!! Hopefully not. : ( So at least now she is back ON the charts at the 3% in weight. She is 33 inches long, which the doctor said was around the 90% but then the nurse wrote down 75%, so I'm not really sure. She grew 2 inches though in 3 months! (If Carter were here right now, he'd probably be cracking some joke about how Savannah is going to tower over me! Although, I hope not. I like being small and would love her to be small too. But with her LONG legs, I don't know that that will happen.) Tangent, sorry. Her head is in the 50%, which never makes that much of a difference to me; it fits her little body just right. She said she looks great!

On a different note, today I was feeling nostalgic about my teenage years and all the teeny bopping I did with my friends. Good Times. So I added a bunch of songs that I loved 10 years or so ago. That is so weird to say. I can't believe it's been 10 years since I was 15!! How easy life was then, when I only needed to worry about marrying Justin Timberlake someday.....

Warmth

After a warm day outside Savannah was ready for bed.
She did not want to come in at all but her face started to get really red and we didn't want her getting a sunburn. Luckily she is fine and it went away.

This is one of our little neighbor girls and Savannah. They were trying to "share" the ball.
Carter grilling up some chicken.

Sorry the resolution is so bad on these, I changed something on my camera and now they're all blurry.

Sunday was Savannah's first day in the nursery at church. Carter and I stayed in there with her even though she didn't even need us. Carter left after the first hour but I decided to stay. I was curious as to what they actually do with them. It's pretty boring and in the tiniest little room for 10 kids. I think the nursery is split like 5 ways, so each class has there own room. She colored a picture but wasn't crazy about sitting in a chair for too long. I think overall she enjoyed it and being around other kids. Tomorrow she has her 18 month check up so I'll give an update then.

Our "Chill" Saturday

This was really the first day that I could dress Savannah in a cool spring outfit, and I was so excited about it.

I love when Daddy has the weekend off! So does Mommy!

So Carter and I were in the kitchen doing dishes or something and Savannah was in the family room, and Carter went into check on her and comes back and says to me, "That is so cute, you've got to go see." So I go in there and she's got this book open and is looking at it, (it's a healing/aromatherapy/massage book; really with no appeal to her) And is watching Star Wars on tv.

We went to Chili's for lunch & since the weather was so nice we barbecued chicken for dinner and it was yummy good.

Grandma Barbara babysits!

Grandma Barbara always has a silly wig with her that Mommy has to make me wear!
S-A-V-A-N-N-A-H!
Where'd she go?

Our Visit with Aunt Annie

My Aunt Annie came into town last week for a few days and these were some of the pictures from then. These first ones were last Wednesday at this restaurant called the Mayan. It is so cool. The whole place has this Indiana Jones feel to it. They have this waterfall diving show throughout dinner and you can sit up in these tree houses and eat. It was so neat and Savannah loved watching the divers and the waterfall. Great entertainment for a kid.


Savannah, Annie & Grandma.
Holding Grandma's hair.
This ones a little dark, but this is her being so excited about her baby Shrek.

This picture just turned out so cool. They had these fire twirlers/dancers come out and this was one of them.
I love my baby Shrek.
On Wednesday afternoon Annie, my Mom, Savannah and I went to the mall, (our fav place) and had some fun. Savannah and I got spoiled. Annie bought Savannah the cutest cherry outfit. Shorts, shirt, sandals and sunglasses. She is going to be styling in Hawaii! She also bought her the baby Shrek that you see in all these pictures. It is her Babyyy! I got a cute green dress too!
This was on Tuesday night watching American Idol and Dancing with the Stars at my parents. Annie is reading Savannah a book.
Savannah got into the Grasshopper cookies when Grandma wasn't looking! One for each hand!