cinnamon swirl cupcakes

These cupcakes turned out very pretty, and very yummy. I made them for my dad to take to work for a meeting.

You can find the recipe here. And you should probably make them. They're delicious!

They were also very photogenic, which is why there are so many pictures! :)

pictures, pictures, pictures

christmas cupcakes - take two

I made these cupcakes for our Webb family Christmas Eve party. They were super simple, but very pretty (I think). :)

8 months

Since my cute baby turned 8 months old, I wanted to get down some milestones she has accomplished in the past few months. I haven't been keeping a very good record of her accomplishments, so at least I'll have some here. It's just a lot of rambling, so sorry about that.

• She has gone from scooting around like an inchworm to being a full-fledged crawler. And man is she fast! She is also quite talented at crawling around with a  toy in each hand. When she gets hold of something she really wants, there's no putting it down for her.
• She can sit up from her tummy all by herself. She just figured it out in the past few weeks, and she cheers for herself whenever she finishes sitting up.
• She can say a few words. The first word she ever said was "kitty." She can also say: mommy, daddy, hi, and yay. She said "no" once, while I was saying it over and over to try and get Mr. Webb to stop tickling me. And she can almost say "teddy." But she hasn't said it since. Mostly she just babbles with mammas, dadadas, baobabs, and nananas.
• She can wave.
• I've been putting her on the potty after every nap, and she has gone on the potty a few times. Not that she realizes what she's doing, but eventually she'll get it.
• She can almost pull herself up to stand. She's getting really good at it, and probably in the next month or so she'll be able to do it.
• She's started eating little snacks, like cheerios. She's not too good at feeding them to herself, but she's getting there.
• She has 4 teeth, and is really good at gnawing on things. When she got her first two teeth about a month ago, I didn't even realize it. I was waiting for her to get all grumpy and fussy. But one day I saw her teeth and realized that she is just the happiest baby ever and didn't fuss or whine at all when she cut her teeth. What a good girl!
• When I'm not paying enough attention to her, she'll crawl over to where her books are and bang on them until I go over and read to her. It's really cute.

Here's a picture of her vampire fangs that my brother took on his phone.

say bye-bye, binky!

This was supposed to be a lot of pictures. Some of cupcakes, some of my baby on Christmas...but I'm too lazy to load the cupcake pictures on my computer, and I have to ask Mr. Webb to send me the pictures of Christmas, because we took them on his phone.

So instead, I'm going to tell you some of my resolutions. We learned last week in Relief Society that you usually succeed more in your goals if you tell people about them. So instead of telling real people in real life(although I've told my husband, and I'm fairly certain he counts as real), I'm telling you all.

#1 - Baby only gets her binky when she sleeps. I started the last couple days of December, and you know what? She hasn't missed it at all. I want to have her completely off her binky by the time she's one, but we'll see about that...

#2 - I'm probably going to get a lot of people calling me crazy about this one, but I'm trying to potty train my baby. There was a girl in my ward a year or two ago who did this with her baby boy. He wasn't even a year old yet, and she hadn't changed his diaper in months. You have them go enough on the potty, and they start asking to go. So I'm going to do it! Hopefully...

#3 - Lose weight. I don't think I really have to explain this one. Except that I'm trying to lose it by my birthday. That's about 4 1/2 months. Good luck to me!

#4 - Be a better mom. This includes a lot of stuff. Keeping my house cleaner, making meals more often, spending more quality time with both the baby and the husband, etc.

So wish me luck; check up on me if you feel so inclined. And good luck to you and your goals for the new year!