Asher's photo shoot

I finally took Asher's 1 year photos(only 4 months late).  I'm not gonna lie, the reason I was so late is because I was kind of dreading it. Lets face it, this kid has not had the most pleasant or friendly personality for the past....oh I don't know....about 16 months or so. I figured that trying to take a picture would be even more difficult than trying to get him to do anything else. Who knew that all you had to do was say " say cheese" and he would do the rest. Needless to say it was the easiest photo shoot I've ever had with one of my kids. Now I just have a lot of editing to do. My back drop didn't work out quite like it did the last time but with a lot of cropping I think I can make it work. 

What can I say? The kid loves the camera.

To Catch You Up

 Asher is getting bigger.

Lily is getting smarter.

 Kat is getting crankier.

 My parents went on a mission to Georgia.

 Jake has gone blind. (Not really.)

 The kids like to play in the mud. Kat does not like the kids playing in the mud.

Lily turned 5 and had an ice cream cake (which Kat made).

We are all doing well.

Love It When Daddy Comes Home and other random things.

The kids always ask if they can go outside and "look" for dad. Jacob walks home and he is usually home about the same time every day so I let them go out to wait for him but I get too stressed out when they are in the front yard so I only let them go out a few minutes before he comes. The other day they were asking to go find him a little over an hour before he would get home so I told them they needed to wait a little longer before they went out. They literally stood at the front door staring out the glass the entire time, waiting for me to give the ok for them to go outside. When it was time, they rushed out the door and over to the curbside to watch down the street. As soon as they saw him coming they ran down the sidewalk after him yelling in excitement. Luckily I had my camera out (because I was trying to take some pictures of Ash man) and was able to see them strolling down the street together. When I went outside Jake yelled to me "Mom, I found dad!" (Wow! That is one smoking hot dentist!) Their favorite thing to play when dad comes home is "Superhero"

And yes, I do get a little nervous when they play superhero. But they LOVE it.
Lily getting ready to fight.

Even Asher loves it. I'm pretty sure that "Cozy Sac" was the best thing we ever got and that one was free.
Random Things:

The other day I was making a grocery list when I had to run upstairs for a minute. When I got back, my list had a few added items. (pears, apple and marshmallow cereal) I love that Lily can write. Now if we could just work on that spelling before she starts school in the fall.
I love that Asher puts himself in his little chair to drink his bottle. Sometimes I literally can't find him and then I finally see him all the way over in the corner just chillin in his chair.

This morning I found him soothing himself with this little contraption. It is the nipple off an old bottle stuck on top of a metal pole.
It looked a bit awkward to use but he seemed to enjoy it.
What a little turkey eh?

Lily's Scriptures

In primary on Sunday the kids get to put a bean in a jar if they bring their scriptures. When the jar is full they get to have a pizza party. Lily is obsessed with this idea but after a couple weeks she lost her scriptures at church and was so sad. I realized that I hadn't even written her name in them so they just looked like all the other scriptures there. I decided to make a case for her new set in hopes that it won't get lost quite as easily. Lily picked out the material herself.
I wrote her name in them but just to make sure people saw it she wrote her name a few more times then drew a picture of herself. There is no mistaking who these belong to.

My Little Walking Man

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Asher's Nursery

I was pretty excited to design a nursery. Unfortunately, I've never really had the chance. All the other places we've lived were so small that the baby's room had to be used as a storage room also and was usually filled with boxes and other things. We were also poor students who didn't have the money to spend on decorating bedrooms.

When I got my chance, I wasn't sure what to do since Asher and Jake will be moved into the same room in about a year or so. I didn't want to do all this work just to have him switch rooms and have to change everything. Then I remembered I had bought dinosaur bedding for both the top and bottom bunk since I got it at a steal of a deal for when the boys were sharing a room so I designed the theme of the room around the bedding. At first I was just going to buy all the extra accessories that go with the bedding, but they have all been discontinued since I bought the bedding and all that was very expensive anyway. I decided to be brave and make everything myself even though I had no clue what I'm doing.

I repainted an old dresser that I used when I was a young girl. Above is a close up of the handles. I used words and designs from the bed sheets. I was nervous about the dinosaur paintings. I have never really painted anything before and I have no artistic ability whatsoever when it comes to drawing and painting. They turned out pretty good as long as you don't look too close and cost me about $4 each instead of $25 each.
This is part of the bed sheet that I got the dino's from. I had to change the colors a little on some of them because I didn't want so many of them green.
Ok ok so I realize that the A looks like a Q, the S is crooked and the A and E look like they are a completely different style of letter but I did my best. I got the striped material from the bed skirt that came with the bedding because I didn't need a bed skirt on the bunk beds. I made the curtains out of cheap bed sheets then jazzed them up with part of the bed skirt that came with the dino bedding.
I had a lot of fun doing this room and am excited to do the other kids room and my room next.

Asher Turns One

You know how people always say, "I can't believe my little baby turned one today? Where did all the time go?"

Not me. I know where the time went. The little dude cries every night. He's a royal stink. He's always screaming when he wants food or when Kat walks out of the room. He threw away our expensive Dish remote. He plays in the garbage. He tears apart the space under the kitchen sink daily. He teeths like four teeth at a time. His favorite game is Rip-Out-Your-Eyeballs-With-Sharp-Fingernails. And he has weird hair.

It's felt more like two years to me, but we love him anyway. He loves laughing, eats a pound of food, loves cuddling under blankets, follows the kids around to play with them, and is a great addition to our family.

We celebrated his birthday by hanging out, going to the Codetalker Memorial and doing a little rock climbing.




Then we had chocolate cake and ice cream. Yum.