Ashton's Birthday

Ashton and I have the same birthday, so we had two cakes..... a more kid-friendly chocolate cake, and then my fave brown sugar chocolate fudge cake... mmmmm.... we had a blast and had so much of our family there... it was great! :) Thanks to Uncle Ron for the pics! :) They turned out awesome! :)



Ashton before Dinner



Candles waiting to be blown



Blowing the candles



The kids chose the "trunchbull" chocolate cake



Ashton enjoying the cake

Lexi's Birthday

Well, it's official, my little baby is a big girl. She just turned 5 this year and is heading off to Kindergarten. She is so excited! And somehow we ended up having 3 birthday parties for her this year... lol... I'll post pics from the other ones later! :)

4th of July

Abbie and Bobby and their son Major were able to come up around the 4th of July this year for family pictures. We all had a great time. It was great to see them. We went to this farm in Salt Lake: the kids all had a great time. It was fun to take the hay ride and see all the animals.



Lexi Paige and Benson petting the bunny



Abbie and Major on the tractor



Ashton and I on the hay ride



The kids in the strollers



Everett petting the Bunny

4th of July with Sparklers :)

Ashton-Pie

Ashton updates:
Today Ashton accidentally pulled the baby-doll out of the stroller. At first, she was kinda shocked/scared, but then she got really excited and pulled the doll up to her mouth and "kissed" its head. I ran to get the camera, and when I got back and I was getting set up to take pics she took the headband off the doll.

After I started taking pics I told her to "kiss" the baby and she obliged.

Then she picked up the headband and tried to put the headband back on and looked at it all confused when she couldn't get it to stay on.

Then we moved from "kissing" the baby to biting it's hand... I guess we'll have to talk about that. ;)

Her crawling pose. Although she doesn't technically crawl...lol... she more body crawls... with almost equal speed.


Every once in a while Ashton off-sets her jaw to the side and smiles.... it cracks me up... especially since she only has the two teeth! :)

Lexi-Girl

Lexi got dressed this morning and I'm not sure where she got the idea to do a sash, but she tied her nylons around her waist to look like one and was surprised she couldn't wear it to the park.... she's so determined about what she thinks looks good, it's funny! :)

Feeling Froggy

I was getting Ashton dressed for bed after her bath and gave her the frog finger-puppet to keep her entertained. She totally ate and mauled it. It looked really funny with the frog
protruding from her mouth. :)

Sleeping

So actually, really cute story to go with these first few pics.

Ashton woke up in the night and wanted to eat so I brought her into our room and put her on the bed with Britton for a sec so I could use the potty.

When I came back, she was cuddled up next to Britton, holding his arm and looking intently up into his face. I couldn't get a picture before she was only haphazardly holding his arm, but she smiled when I asked if she was taking care of daddy (I'm aware she probably didn't understand, but it was really cute!)

The girls snuggling their daddy.... it's my fault that Lexi still comes in because I allowed co-sleeping for so long while I breast-fed the Alexis.