all suited up

asher man was able to wear his corduroy blazer today. unfortunately he has not been feeling good so he wasn't very thrilled with the idea. aside from his crying, steven and i thought he looked pretty swank. the turtle neck was an added touch i thought.

gray

do you see it? what is happening to me? i guess this was my 31st birthday surprise. i saw this in my hair the other day and dug through the rest and found like 10 more of them. they were all exactly the same length so i know they start about two months ago when my hair started falling our after i stopped nursing (happens to me after every baby.) do you think these little monsters have anything to do with it? probably not, they are too cute to give me gray hair.

jackson likes saying cheese now when i take his picture.

it's too bad this one is blurry because i think it is the cutest picture of him.

lily is not the easiest child to take her picture, unless someone else is taking it and she accepts that it is her time to perform. she just wont do it for me. this turned out pretty good though.

happy easter

the saturday before easter we had an egg hunt with our new ward. we arrived late (of course) and so the hunt was over but they put a bunch of eggs out just for lily and jackson. here are a couple of pics of jack and lily hunting their eggs. asher was strapped to me in a sling and i was the one taking pictures so ash didn't get any taken of him. there were many really nice cameras there and a lot of pictures were taken so maybe i will be able to add some of asher when i get them.

jack picking up his first egg.

lily's first egg.

jack started getting really excited and picking up as many as he could.

the last egg found of the day. lily was happy to show it to her daddy.

milk goes modern

this is a very weird post but a couple of weeks ago i was at costco and when i went to purchase milk they had completely changed the milk carton. at first i was thrown and i wondered if i was in the wrong section. i mean, this isn't what the gallon of milk looks like. well i put it in my cart and took it home and have since decided that i really like it. it is easier to pour and supposedly stays fresher longer. i know that i am weirdo for posting about the shape of a milk carton but everyone that i have asked about it hasn't seen one, so here it is. well in 6 weeks i will be going on a cruise, just steven and me. hopefully i will be able to forget about my daily cleaning and shopping and maybe you will get more interesting posts when i return. until then, who knows.

 

baby boys

 

the above is jackson and below is asher. i love these toothless smiles. for some reason they look a lot alike in these picture to me besides one being super white and blonde hair while the other not so that way. well, i love these boys and maybe they will end up looking like each other after all.

asher gets a highchair

my little ashman hasn't had a highchair since we moved to seattle. we couldn't fit it in our moving truck so it was left a grandmas house in spokane. since we have been here asher has either been held or sat in his little rocking chair while he ate, it has been a huge pain. well, this weekend i finally got steven to put our kitchen table together and i got out our travel highchair. as you can see, ash was extremely happy.

a big sucker

on saturday we took the kids to the seattle children's museum. when we were getting ready to leave lily was given one of those amazingly large blowpops. she couldn't wait to eat it but we made her wait until she got home because i didn't want a sticky mess in her carseat. so, when we got home she sat at her little table for like an hour and a half one lick at a time. she was kind enough to share with jackson so here are the pics.   

i thought the picture of jackson with the giraffe was funny because he was just kicking back, wearing his watch and chewing on  a giraffe. he is a funny kid, he will chew on anything. 

the ash man

i thought this was really funny. lily and jack were playing outside
and asher wanted out with them in the worst way. he just sat at the
slider and watched and begged to go out. it was really quite sweet to
see him wanting to play with his brother and sister.


my little ash man has finally started sitting up. all three of
my children have been late sitters and he has finally caught on.
is he not the cutest baby you have seen?

lily's thoughts

lily is quite the conversationalist. the other night i took the kids to the book store and on the way lily was questioning me about Heavenly Father and Jesus. she told me that she missed them and that she was glad that they gave her a body. she also wanted to know when they were going to put a baby in her body, since of course, that is how they get there. she then proceeded to ask me the unanswerable question, "mommy, who made Heavenly Father and Jesus' bodies?" what do i say to that? i am so impressed with her ability to think things through. we are quite sure that she will be our scholastic child. that is not to say that the boys wont be scholastic but, i know that she will.
lily is going through withdraws since leaving spokane because she doesn't go to school anymore. everyday she tells me mommy, i miss going to school. i have her signed up for school starting in september but all of the schools are full for the rest of the school year. i feel sorry for her because i know that she is getting bored which is why her a jack are fighting over everything. i am going to try and see if the community center has something for her or something. she really needs to get out of the house.
i am so grateful to be here in seattle. i know that it is going to be crazy for a while but in the end, i think it will be worth it. Heavenly Father can see the picture a bit better than i can so i will just trust that everything will work out and it will.

together

lily, jack and ash are quite the team lately. they love to spend time playing and just hanging out with one another. now that ash is a little more sturdy, he tries to do everything that they do. he wants to be with them all of the time. when he wakes up from a nap both lily and jack can't wait to get him out of his bed or get in with him.



i thought that this picture of lily and jack in the bath was really funny. they could not be built more different.

this was a little ball tent that jack got for christmas and it was popped within 1 hour of blowing it up.

asher likes to hold hands and i think it is cute that in both pictures he is trying to hold lily's. she loves it of course because she just can't get enough of him. i will indulge her now because in about six months when he is getting into all of her stuff she will not be as amused.

my children like to eat

i am not really sure why i took pictures of my children eating but i did so here they are. the one of asher is him eating his first cheese. he really liked it! lily and jackson were eating some pumpkin cheesecakethat i made and were really enjoying themselves as well. i am grateful that jackson is such a good eater. most days i have such a struggle getting lily to eat things that when i can give jackson salad and he eats it i feel so fortunate. i never thought that food would be one of my biggest battles so it makes me extremely grateful when i don't have to fight someone to get them to eat. i pray that asher is like jackson when it comes to food. i would be happy if he had a little less of jackson's energy but would be thrilled if he got his eating abilities.

jackson growing up

my little boy has finally moved into a big boy toddler bed. i was worried that he would be getting up all of the time but once we put him to bed or down for a nap he doesn't get up until he is done sleeping. when he wakes up he yells, "i want to get up now!" and then all i have to say is "ok, come downstairs then" and down he comes. it is so fun to see him growing up. it was really hard getting him to sit still for the pictures so these are what i was left with. enjoy!

 

EMG christmas party

well we went to salt lake city for steven's work christmas party. we took baby ash and left lily and jack at home with steven's family. it was a lot of fun. we stayed with his sister lani for two nights and stayed at the hotel the night of the party. the pic of ash was on the plane (his first plane flight). the picture of steven and i was at the party. we left asher at his sisters for the night so we could hang out with our friends after the party was over. we stayed up until 2am and in the morning, i wondered why i hadn't gone to bed early and took advantage of not having to get up with a baby in the middle of the night. i tried to sleep in but 8:30 was as late as i could. oh-well i guess that 6 1/2 hours of uninterrupted sleep is better than normal.
steven's sister also took us to dogwood and sent us home with a ton of clothes for jack and ash. it was the most amazing thing to just pick out anything i wanted and just take it home. they look so cute in their dogwood duds. dogwood really makes the cutest boy clothes ever!

getting ready for christmas

this is definitely late but i thought it was necessary. these are pictures from when we were decorating our christmas tree. lily and jack had the best time. they couldn't give the ornaments to steven quick enough. jack would yell more 'ments, more 'ments! well anyways the pictures are self explanatory. enjoy!

baby ash

baby ash is well loved by jack and lily. lily has decided that she likes dressing him up, thus the minney mouse ears. they both love taking pictures with him and just being around him. if he is near either one of them, they are always holding one of his hands. he is growing like a weed and is loving eating more than just milk now. he will eat anything you feed him (except mashed potatoes) and who knows why he wouldn't eat those. he is the happiest baby i know and i am grateful that he is my baby.

hello again

lily and jack like to get in bed with baby ash

jackson loving his brother

jackson's first ice cream cone

yes he has had ice cream before just not on a cone

lily enjoying hers as well

i have truly failed in my attempt to write something everyday that i am grateful for. well i am writing now and there are so many things to be grateful for. it is three days before christmas and my children are excited and i have to say that even though it has been kind of hectic getting everything ready, i am pretty excited too. i am grateful for the birth of our Savior. i am grateful that we have all been given the atonement because i need it desperately. i am grateful for loving parents and friends who are constantly helping me in some way or another. i am grateful for my loving husband who has learned to be mellow when i am not. i am grateful for a loving heavenly father who has entrusted 3 beautiful children into my care. i only hope that i can be the mother that he would have me be and boy do i have a long way to go. i love everyone who reads this and thank you for your friendships, i don't know what i would do without you girls to talk to throughout the week.