A Blast from the Past

I think only my mom, dad, and myself might understand this post, but it was awesome to me. When I was a little girl, I had a stuffed up nose one time and I thought if I put a band-aid on it, it'd feel better. Today, Emily did the same thing. She had a little scrape on her nose and wanted to cover it up so she also put a band-aid on her nose. She came down and looked just like me so I had to capture that memory. I sure love my Em!

Boy, does she love her brother!!

Ashley loves, Loves, LOVES her baby brother!! Loves him so much in fact that she won't leave him alone!! All day long whenever she sees him her exact words every time are, "I'm going to give him a hug." It doesn't matter if he's eating, sleeping, crying, in his crib, in his car seat, or in his swing. She manages to crawl on him and give him a hug. It's really cute and annoying at the same time (especially if he's sleeping and after the hug he's not!). I'm so glad she loves her brother. Maybe I should just cherish this because in a year or so she'll probably never want him around. Who knows?

It starts out nice

Gets a little tighter

And usually ends up with Tyler looking like this

Happy Birthday, Ashley!!

This is a couple weeks behind, but my little Ashley isn't so little anymore! She turned four on June 20th. We had a coach pitch game for Emily that night and Kenny worked until about 10:00, his usual lately. So her birthday was VERY low key. Em and I sang happy birthday and she blew out her candles and opened up a couple presents. Then we just hung out together. I love my little Ashley. She can be a handful many times a day, but I am so smitten with her. I love her independence, her fiery spirit, her love for her baby brother, and so many other things. I can't imagine our family without her!! I love you so much Ash! Happy Birthday!

I love that if you look at her face, you can see that she snitched cake before we sang. So cute!

Blowing out her 4 candles

Ready to open her presents

Super Tyler!

One night after feeding Tyler, his bib turned around and went on his back. It made it look like a cape so we dubbed him "SuperTyler". He's so cute!!

Up, up and away :-)

As a bonus picture, this is his first time at church outfit. Isn't it so cute?! A student gave it to me.

Father's Day

This year for Father's Day I splurged and got Kenny an ice cream cake. I thought he would love it. Gotta say, it was very disappointing!! It didn't taste that wonderful and I would have been better suited (and spent a lot less) if I had just made him a cake and served up the ice cream that's already in our freezer. Oh well, live and learn.
Other than the cake, it was a good day for Kenny. Emily got him a hammer that she has been convinced for many months that he needs and Ash got him some screw drivers. We sang and enjoyed our time together and Kenny even got to take a Father's Day nap.

Happy Father's Day, Kenny, we love you!!

At least the cake was pretty
Posing with the cake before we ate it. The good news was that Emily really liked it so she finished it off for us over the next few days.

A precious moment

I'm in Love!!

I have a confession to make; I'm in love with another guy! Sure, he's not very tall, he sleeps a lot, he cries when he's hungry and he's not even potty trained! But his smile just melts my heart! Have you figured it out yet? It's my little guy, Tyler. (Sorry if I scared some of you with my first sentence. I couldn't resist! ;-) )

I am so in love with Tyler. He is the cutest thing and I'm so grateful that he finally made it to our family. Sure he has his ornery moments during the evening and he LOVES to be held--while standing up, which can get very tiring, but the feeling of love and satisfaction that I get from him is so overwhelming. I can't believe he's 7 weeks old already and the size of at least a three month old. Where does the time go?? I don't know, but what I do know is that I'm going to savor and take advantage of every moment I can with my little cutie pie. Speaking of which, I hear him stirring from sleep. I'm off to feed and snuggle with my new love of my life. I'm pretty sure that Kenny won't be jealous though! :-)

Content and happy in Daddy's arms (because he's standing up!)

Who can resist that face? I sure can't!

P.S. Happy 4th of July!!

Stawberry Days

Pleasant Grove does Strawberry Days every year for its summer celebration. There's always a carnival, parade, and of course Strawberries and Cream. This year we took the girls and Tyler to the carnival and Kenny took the girls to the parade where they got to see the princess floats (royalty) and a big Pepsi can was a favorite (especially cuz Daddy loves Pepsi so much!). They also had strawberries and cream for the first time. Yummy! (I don't have any pictures of the parade though because I didn't go) I love living in Pleasant Grove!

Em going down the slide with Ash right behind

Ashley on the rug slide

Riding the motorcycles--always a favorite! We happened to go the first night it was open and they had a special going on--all rides were only 1 ticket! That made for lots of rides for pretty cheap!

And this is what baby brother did the whole time :-)