8 months

Grant (top row) & Brett (bottom row) at aprox. 5 1/2 months

Grant 7 months.
Crawling like crazy and pulling up on everything.

Brett 7 months.  Army crawling.

Grant 8 months.

Brett 8 months.

What the boys have been up to

Brett is learning to make silly faces 

One of the best things I've done recently was take the legs off of this activity table so busy Brett can play with it.

Grant frequently tells me with a heavy sigh, "I'm work'n hard!"

Driving "Bertie" the bus around his bro's crib

Busy Brett roaming the halls.
He gets up in crawling position often, but then plops down and army crawls really fast.

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Thank you to all who helped make my birthday special!  Keith and I enjoyed a little bit of time at his parent's cabin.  We intended to stay for two nights but our van decided to go crazy so we spent the first night at our house and then took a rental car up to the cabin the next day.  Keith's parents watched our boys so we could have some relaxing time.  We watched the whole first season of Chuck on DVD.  It was so funny!  Then my parents watched Grant & Brett while we went out to dinner at LGO with my bro and his pretty wife.  Yummy pizza, yummy gelato.  It was a great birthday.

the "deer" by the cabin

Crazy good salads at LGO

back row: Phil, Leila, Me, Keith
front row: their tasty pizza, our amazing avocado pizza

Tonight's Salad

I made tonight's salad like one that I had at the Cheesecake Factory a few weeks ago.  It was yummy.  I think my favorite part is the fresh corn.  I love the sweetness it adds.  What's your favorite thing to put on a salad?

Over the weekend

Grant started peddling his bike a week ago and has been perfecting his skills over the past week.  He is speedy and can turn really well now.  He loves it.

We've started having a big salad to start off our dinners each night.  Then we have much smaller portions of the rest of our meal.  It has been great.  Sometimes, like Saturday night, the salad is the main course.  Last night we had our big salad and then a small portion of yummy peach/mango salmon with roasted pecans on top.  I have my salads with a little bit of olive oil and balsamic vinegar on them, and Keith likes to have his with Sweet Vidalia dressing.

Saturday's salad 

Keith was camping with the Young Men in our ward last week.  He had a blast.  We missed him, but luckily we got to go swimming a couple times and do some other fun things with Grandmas & Grandpas to pass the time.  It is so nice to have him home!  So I made him a sign.

Swimming & a movie

Talk about a fun morning.  We went swimming with BOTH grandmas.  It's getting hot here, and that water was so refreshing.  Grant did super good swimming around with his floaty-jacket-thing.  Brett loved floating in his contraption too.  After some R&R this afternoon, we are now watching Finding Nemo.  My boys are captivated by it.  And now I'm going to go make our dinner...while Grant eats popcorn.  Hmmmm...I guess I didn't plan that one too well.  Oh well, it's Friday afternoon.  And that means anything flies around here.