Cousins

This makes my heart so happy.

 

One of the reasons we wanted to move back, really the main reason, was to be close to family. Asher loves his Lij so very much! I love watching them together and love that they are really getting to know each other. Asher is a very shy little guy. Each visit has been rough because everyone loves him so much and wants to hold, play, and love on him. But he wants nothing to do with them, because he doesn't remember them. He's finally getting to really know and love all our family. Every day he asks for some family member. When I go through who we'll see that day he even tries to bargain and add other family members in there! I love it!

Wedding Weekend

This weekend was Chris' brother's wedding. It's hard to believe that Dalton is all grown up and married now!! We had a great weekend celebrating with them.

Asher enjoyed sharing his snack with the pigs during the rehearsal.

 Practicing his corn hole skills while we waited for things to get under way.

 Asher tried his hand at the ring bearer gig yet again.And yet again, he decided there were entirely too many people watching and had to be carried down the aisle. At least he looked incredibly cute!!

 We couldn't have picked a more beautiful and perfect girl for Dalton. We're so happy to have Katelyn as part of the family!

The wedding was absolutely beautiful and the ceremony was perfect. There may have been 60mph wind during the reception, but they made the best of it!

The Big Move

Well we made the big move from Colorado to Missouri! Asher did amazing for the 12- hour car ride. He was entertained by Uncle Dalton, whom he now calls Uncle Doe-Doe. We've been so busy combining all our stuff from Colorado with our house in Missouri. We've never lived here with Asher so we had to completely clear out the office and officially make it Asher's room. I feel like we've been going 1000 miles an hour for the last week. We're trying to squeeze tons of projects and unpacking in before Chris starts his new job. We've made a ton of progress, but it's hard to not look at everything else that still needs done. I don't have a lot of pictures from the move and  the past week. I've been busy wrangling Asher and keeping him out of the way!

 Aunt Katelyn, Uncle Doe-Doe and Asher at REI

Saying good-bye to Uncle Ben. It hasn't really sunk in yet that we won't live within walking distance of each other for the first time in 4 years. Asher will seriously miss his Uncle Ben! And Chris and I will miss our movie and dinner buddy!

27 weeks

Seeing as how I've been so bad at updating here, clearly I haven't posted much about the pregnancy. But things are going great! Our little girl is growing strong and I can feel her dancing all day! Here's our 27 week photo....Asher needed in the pic-his belly is filled with 2 peanut butter sandwiches! That kid can seriously eat!!

Monthly Post....

Well, it seems my posting has become a monthly thing....I used to be so good and stayed on top of this, but with a toddler running around, my computer time is limited. We spent a couple week in Missouri for Easter. I helped throw a bridal shower for my soon to be sister-in-law while we were there. So we kept plenty busy! Then, of course there were all the usual Easter festivities. Here's a few pictures of all the fun!

 Playing in his 'house' Uncle Dalton made him

 He's finally figured out how to blow bubbles!

I feel the need to mention that I had dress shoes, but apparently he outgrew them since I tried them on 2 weeks before Easter....so Nikes it is!

Surviving Winter

Yep, I've been seriously slacking. Possibly worse than ever. Oops....what can I say? It's winter. with a toddler. in an apartment. and I'm pregnant. I used to enjoy winter. I'm not really sure when it changed, but I'm not that person anymore. I want hot days filled with playing and running outside. But, alas, we live in Colorado so that's not to be for a while. I really shouldn't complain, because this winter hasn't been all that bad. But I'm still anxious to get outside! In the mean time, here's a sample of what we do to burn energy and keep active lately. 

We went to the Aquarium a few weeks ago.

 Asher was much more into the aquarium than he was last spring.

 We play a lot of play-dough and he's all about it!


A few weeks ago we discovered a great place called Monkey Business. It's a great indoor play area, and we go a few times a week.

Asher also took swim lessons for the past two months. He absolutely loved it, and has learned a ton!
Hopefully, I'll keep up on the blog more now, but at least you know a little of what we've been up to!

2012 In Pictures

I love doing this post every year. It's so fun to look back on our year and see all we've done and everywhere we've been!

January:

This was a pretty chill month, but our little man started being more and more mobile! Funny, we thought he was hard to keep up with then!

February:

 It was finally warm enough for Asher and I to start putting our BOB to good use!

March:

 We moved out of West Virginia and spent the month in Missouri with our family. Asher and Elijah became fast and inseparable friends!

April:

 We (as in, Chris) decided it was time to cut off Asher's long locks.

 Then we celebrated Easter with our handsome big man!

May:

 We explored some of the great parks around our new home state of Colorado!

June:

 Our little guy turned 1! I still can't believe it's gone by so fast!

July:

 We celebrated the 4th of July in Missouri.

 And spent lots of time at the sprinkler park nearby.

August:

 This was another quiet month, but Asher started his 'cheese' face and we couldn't get enough!

September:

 We went back to Missouri for Asher's first ring bearer gig. He may not have walked down the aisle alone, but he looked pretty darn handsome!

October:

 I checked off a bucket list item and ran my first half!

Asher dressed as a tiger and went trick or treating at the zoo.

November:

 Once again, we headed to Missouri for Thanksgiving with the family. And we made the big announcement that Asher would be a big brother in July!

December:

We ended the year with lots of family time and Christmas celebrations.

2012 saw us moving across the country, our little man became a toddler, and we decided to grow our family by one more!! It was a fantastic year! We're eagerly embracing and looking forward to 2013 and all it has to bring!