One fun family night!

For family night we wanted to do something fun and active with the kids. It has just been TOO hot to go on a bike ride, so we headed out to Kangaroo Zoo! The kids love this place!


Andrew is fearless and Ashley loves the little slides!


As you can see Derick was getting in on the fun too....or just had to put Ashley at the top of every slide!


I don't know what you think, but I think she is the cutest little thing ever!


Andrew was just go, go, go! He loves this baseball thing too where the air blows the ball up and you hit it.


Here we go down the 3 story slide! Like I said, Andrew is fearless! Look at him going down head first!


Here are some action shots of the kids!

Exhausted Kids!

I bought a couple new items for the kids. As you can tell, they both wore themselves out by playing with them!

Andrew got new Lightening McQueen shoes that have lights on them. And yes, he is wearing them to bed. It was like pulling teeth to get him to take them off just to put his jammies on! Ashley got a jumperoo and absolutely loves it!

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Can you see it?

Ashley's first ponytail! Yeah! If she is anything related to me, then she will love to pull her hair out of her face and into a ponytail!

My Ashley!

No need to say anything, just that she is cute!

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What is wrong with this picture??

She quickly learned it wasn't as fun playing one handed.

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See is SOO stinkin' cute!

Hope some of these made you smile!!

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Thanks!

This picture is for Gramea and Aunt Emily. Thanks for the cute sweater! It is just perfect and I love love love the rick-rack on the neck and the color! Thanks Monica in my ward for the bows too! You can't see her pants, but they are some really cute ones from Kristy that she gave me at my shower. They are these cute embroidered khakis. I love girl clothes! Thank you for the gifts everyone!

Shhhhh........ASHLEY'S SLEEPING!

That is the way Andrew usually tells me. He says, "Shhh mom, we need to be quiet because ASHLEY IS SLEEPING!" Yes, that last part he yells so that she wakes up or jumps. Well not this time! I quickly swept Andrew away upstairs to his room when I noticed she was sleeping. Look how out of it she is! I love those rolls on her legs. I squish them all the time!

The latest faces of Ashley...

I am sorry, but Ashley is the cutest. Every morning when she smiles at me when I go in to get her, I just think that I am the luckiest person in the whole world! She really has been doing well lately. She is growing like a weed! And I know how fast weeds grow because my fingers hurt from pulling them!

To answer some of your questions, yes, Ashley has a MASSIVE cowlick right smack on the top of her head. Since the day she was born her hair has been going in that circle. I try to train it everyday by brushing those hairs over with the rest of them, but it doesn't help. It is cute now, it gives her hair some personality, but I am sure it is going to be a problem when she is older!

She is slowly liking to be on her stomach for longer periods of time. She has rolled over a few times. I don't want her to start rolling or crawling, I want her to stay my little baby! We are having lots of fun with her, especially dressing her up in cute spring clothes! I will try to get some pictures of her outfits before they get covered in spit!

The latest happenings of Andrew...

Wow, it is the middle of May already? Where has this year gone?! I cannot believe how fast time is flying lately. Where to begin... In April Kara, Paul's wife, told me that she signed Ada up for a sports class at the rec center. It is called Itty-Bitty Allsport for 3 and 4 year olds. It sounded like a lot of fun so I signed Andrew up for it also. The first time they got these cute yellow shirts they wear each week. Each class begins with warm ups and stretching. It is really cute. They have done soccer, football and basketball so far. We have volleyball next time, which I don't see how these kids are going to do it, then baseball and I am not sure what else. During soccer the coach had Andrew's attention for the first little bit, but then he wanted to do his own thing. What can you expect, right? Football was a disaster, probably because he woke up at 5 that morning and had NO respect for authority whatsoever! He did better at basketball. They had shorter hoops up for them to shoot into. He and Ada like to go off together and do their own thing, but so do a lot of the other kids! There is one boy who likes to pick on Andrew. From DAY ONE this boy (standing next to Andrew in the circle) has been stealing his ball, making sour faces at him or going up and bonking him. What is up with that?! His parents are there to and just let him do that to the other kids! (Ada, Andrew's cousin born on the SAME day as him, is next to the little boy in the yellow hat in the top picture)

This isn't new...maybe just heightened. Andrew loves, loves, LOVES his baby sister. I think the only way he knows how to channel his emotion for her is to BUG HER TO DEATH! Whether it is imitating her crying when she is screaming, copying her sneezes for hours after she may have sneezed, or just trying to startle her, this is his way to play with her. I have been trying to get him to play peek-a-boo with her, but it doesn't get as much a reaction as the other things do. We are trying to encourage him to play with her (thank you John) not trying to make her cry or get scared! So, this is our challenge to deal with! Let me just tell you, we are really really really tired of his fake sneezes ALL DAY LONG.

Last, but definitely not least, more like what is taking most of our time is POTTY TRAINING! Who knew it would be so fun..... We have the easy part, going pee down, now just trying to master the other. Poor boy has become anal retentive and won't let it out! We are trying EVERYTHING! Trust me, EVERYTHING! The doctor said to schedule a set time during the day to have a longer period of time just to sit on the potty. So, to let the time pass, I let him watch a movie while he is sitting there! Luckily he doesn't ask for it every time or else I would be in trouble!

Tummy Time!

Ashley usually hates tummy time, but tonight she actually was happy for a few minutes! Most the time she starts screaming the minute her chest hits the floor! It was cute to see her smile and hold her head up so well! I don't want her to grow up! I want my baby to stay a little newborn baby!

Ashley, Ashley, Ashley. Why are you so cute?

Ashley was having fun sitting up on the couch, so of course I got the camera out. Besides the spit up (dark purple) on her shirt, I think these turned out pretty cute! I put her down on the floor to play while I made lunch for Andrew. By the time I got back, the whole top half of her shirt was soaked. She loves to spit and we just keep changing her clothes so she doesn't have to smell like it!

Cute Kids

Here they are in their cuteness. Andrew said he wanted Ashley's bow on, so we put it on him. Soon enough he wanted it off but I had to have a picture first! He likes to hold Ashley, for about 10 seconds, and then he is done. She doesn't mind thank goodness!

Gotta have some self portraits, especially if you are related to my family!

Beautiful Baby Girl

I'm sorry, but Ashley is just the cutest thing alive! She is doing really well these days, especially when she gets her Prevacid and Desitin! I am very lucky that everything has turned out so well with her. Lately she has been good at being entertained by dangling toys or rattles or music. This lets me lay her down on her mat and she will be happy! (knock on wood) I love it when I have left her there for a while and I come back to check on her and as soon as she makes eye contact with me she gets a HUGE smile! Today I tried to run and grab the camera and get back to her smiles, but she always just wants to check the camera out and not look at me! Come on, your beautiful, adorable gorgeous mother, or a silver, cold camera?! Anyway, We are just so glad to have her in our life. I know Andrew is too, even though he does get into trouble when he wants to maul her with his love. :) Oh, yesterday Amy was holding her and she was talking the most I have ever heard her! She was having a full on conversation with the new ceiling fan! It was so cute, I love their little voices!

Some pictures of his 3 years...

Ashley's Baby Blessing

We blessed Ashley this last Sunday. It was so nice. She was wonderful during everything, she even slept in her carseat on the way to church and until Derick needed her. She did great taking pictures with everyone afterwards. I was so glad that Grandpa Wesley could come from Alaska to be here for it. We loved having him stay at our house. I know Andrew was glad to have someone different to play with than just me!

Our weekend started out great. Paul brought Grandpa down to our house from the airport and dropped him off Friday morning. We went to dinner that night with Amy and the kids. We had to settle for the closest thing to Moose's Tooth that Utah has I guess. We went to Cobblestone Cafe. The kids were having fun playing together out to dinner together. This was Ashley's first real public place she has ever been other than the doctors office! She was pretty content in her carseat just listening to all the noise. I am sure she was glad to be out of the house just as much as I was!

Saturday morning we all met for breakfast. We had Grandpa, Paul, Kara, Ada, Seth, Dave, Amy, Wesley, Seaka, Derick, me, Andrew, Ashley, and Andy! What a group! We sure missed John and his family and mom and Emily. After breakfast we went to Costco all together. You should have seen our parade of carts! We took the kids to a park by our house for them to play next. I think they had fun, I was at home trying to calm Ashley down, she didn't like riding in her carseat, which she never does. Amy and I started preparing food for Sunday, while the boys and kids watched a movie. Seaka and Andrew took a bath together, it was cute, but poor Wesley wanted in SO bad, he is just a little old though. He got to take one after them and borrow some of Andrew's pj's. That was cute. (Wes is 6, Andrew is 2)

What kind of photoshoot would it be without some bloopers. I can't believe Amy caught this on film! Ashley likes to spit up, and usually we can catch it. This one was caught by the camera, but not the burp rag! It got all over her white dress!

I was so glad Grandma Ione was able to come down. Thanks to Aunt Myrl and Uncle Grant for bringing her, even on Aunt Myrl's birthday!

Now we can't forget Andrew on this day. He was so good at church. He was so happy to have Ada come to nursery with him. He told me all about it later that day. Back at the house he was having WAY too much fun with all the cousins at his house.

I was so happy to have Mavis booties for Ashley. Mavis was my Grandma Green's best friend and practically a second mom to my mom. She is still making these booties for us all even at ninty some years old!