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Feb

hugging lessons

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Asher’s cousin, Caden, came over this morning to play! We do not get to see him enough, and when they are together, I am reminded of the blessing of family. I grew up with my cousins, and I have such fond memories with them. Caden is almost 19 months and Asher will be 3 in April. Asher may be a head taller than Caden, but they weigh the same! 🙂
First try at a hug:

Caden not feeling the love

Second try at a hug (um, this is awkward):

We don’t condone this behavior.

Third try’s a charm!

awww!

More cute pictures from their playdate:
Mowing our dead lawn

future family business?

“It’s for you cuz”

They really had a swingin’ good time! (pardon the cheesiness)

wheeeeee

Thanks grandma for the matching t-shirts!

Feb

Jimmy Neutron sings Jesus Loves Me

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Categories: Asher

At preschool, Asher’s teachers have a nickname for him: Jimmy Neutron.

I went online to look up this Jimmy Neutron, and I have to say, (after I edited his eyes to brown,) they were pretty right on!

Jimmy!

after his bath I spiked up his hair (yes, he needs a haircut!)

Also, I couldn’t resist posting this adorable video of Asher singing “Jesus Loves Me” and our “Go to Sleep” song. I sing to him almost every night before bed. One night, while driving home, I heard him singing the songs to Rilyn who was falling asleep in the car. He really knew all the words and it was just precious to hear. So, two nights ago I got out the video camera before bed and asked him to sing both of his bedtime songs to capture the sweet voice of his.

Feb

Celebrate the love

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Categories: Asher, Ella and Rilyn

Valentine’s Day was celebrated here in grandious style! James and I went out on Friday night to the Cheesecake Factory, (I am a simple girl with simple tastebuds, and I like to go to restaurants where I know that I will LOVE the menu, especially the dessert menu!) I got 2 bouquets of flowers, chocolate dipped strawberries, brownies, and cookies from Tiff’s Treats (which are my favorite), and a boatload of scrapbooking stuff from my momma! James took the girls out to IHOP last night for a sweetheart dinner (or rather breakfast!)

Here is Rilyn at her school Valentine party. She is at the age where she gets excited about every Valentine. It’s cute to watch!

Ella loves to come to Rilyn’s school parties!

We went to my mom’s on Sunday afternoon for a Valentine dinner. She always outdoes herself for any holiday, and this year was no exception! My kids are very blessed indeed!

Valentine gifts from grandma (cousin Caden far left)

Valentine treats galore!

Feb

poor Asher

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Categories: Asher, Ella and Rilyn
Tags: valentines day photo

Asher asks, “Will YOU be my Valentine PLEASE?!?”

Asher resorting to use the “pick off petals from a flower to tell you the answer” trick

How is a brotha’ supposed to choose between these two?!? 😉

Feb

austin’s second annual snow day!

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Categories: Asher, Ella and Rilyn

Last February we had one, so it looks like this may become an annual tradition! 😉 Last year the snow fell during the day, and this time, it snowed while we all were asleep. The kids loved waking up to a winter wonderland outside! I estimate 2 inches maybe? Schools were closed today so it truly is a ‘snow day!’ Sadly, it is already melting outside from the sun, but Ella and Asher just can’t get enough of it. They are in the backyard right now savoring every last ‘flake’.

our car windshield

joy

our street this morning

gotta make the snow angel in the driveway!

Asher with mommy’s gloves on

get ready to blow…

SNOW!!!!!!!

fun to throw

ella

Asher gets in on the fun of throwing snow

The kids got these snow shoes for Christmas from Oma.

They make bigfoot prints

and Ella loved them!

Jan

flashback Friday-baby it’s cold outside!

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Categories: Asher, Ella and Rilyn

Just looking at these old photos makes me feel warmer! 😉

newborn Ella with her Oma-January 2006

February 2006- Rilyn 20 months, Ella 1 month

December 2005-Rilyn 18 months old

January 2005 Rilyn age 7 months old

Asher December 2008- 8 months old

Jan

God’s perfect timing

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Categories: Asher, Ella, James, Julie, photography and Rilyn

Today started out pretty rough.

Being a Saturday, and James not being home all day, meant I was planning on going to Temple to spend the day with my parents and the kids. Well, Rilyn got an ear infection on Friday and as it turns out, the probiotic she started using (with her antibiotic) made her sick to her stomach and she started vomiting 5 minutes before we were about to drive away this morning. Blessing for sure, because she got sick three more times, and if I was driving in the car with her, and with the way she was screaming how she was going to die, (she is a little dramatic if you don’t know her), I probably would of had a panic attack on I-35. But God knows just what I can handle, and I am so thankful we were not in the car! And so I called my mom to cancel our trip, and sat on the couch with a barfing bowl for Rilyn as I looked out the window at the crappy weather (cold, wet, rainy) and thought about how James was going to be gone ALL day, and it was a Saturday (Saturday for me means James is home to help me with the kids!) Yes, I was having a major pity party for myself.

Then I remembered that the photographer who took our portraits in December told me she mailed our photo CD on Thursday. I literally pleaded with God that if it’s His will, I would really love to get that CD in the mail today!! (Because ya know, photography=happiness in my book and God knows I needed something positive today!) And so, I opened our mail box, and there it was!!!! I praised God for His perfect timing! I think I even had tears of joy in my eyes. And then I spent the afternoon going through the photo CD! (And Rilyn felt 100% better in the afternoon! I even felt so good, that I put Asher in underwear for the first time- DURING HIS NAP TIME! That’s right, I felt so good, that I didn’t care if I had to wash all his sheets if he peed through his new Cars Underoos! (And he looked sooo cute in them!) He woke up dry too, so it was another added blessing from God!

I’ve mentioned before on my blog, but the photographer was Jennifer McKinney, or MckMama, as she is known in the blogging world. She is from Minnesota, and has such a fan following that she is able to travel the States doing photography! Here is a picture of me and Jennifer in mid-December when she took our portraits.

MckMama!

Okay, here are “a few” of my favorites from the 20 minute shoot at the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens! 😉

I’m getting this one on canvas!

Rilyn 6 1/2 years old

A girl without freckles is like a night without stars!

married 9 1/2 years…

Rilyn and Asher, our two look-alikes

I think it’s safe to say Asher will have more than enough kisses in his life!

more kisses!

Asher just being Asher!

gotta love the gap!

Asher looks thrilled

Jan

half trained

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Categories: Asher

We started potty training after Christmas because 1.) I knew he was ready and 2.) I’m tired of diapers. Well, we are happy to say that in just one short week, I believe he is “half potty trained!” Yay! Now I know what I’m in for with the other half…both of the girls took a long time (like 3 months) to finally go poo poo in the potty, but I’m just excited that he took so easily to peeing in the potty! He was fighting us at first, (we were sitting him down on the potty), but when he discovered standing up and peeing, it was love at first sight! 😉 And, Asher is one lucky boy because BOTH his sisters are really into potty training him as well, and have both created sticker charts for him! So when Asher goes potty (he hasn’t had one accident in several days), he gets a sticker from Rilyn on her chart she made for him:

Rilyn’s chart

and then a sticker on Ella’s chart, (you might notice that Ella isn’t into straight lines!):

I couldn’t resist a little bum shot!

And finally, he gets a jelly bean from me! Wow, no wonder he likes to go pee pee in the potty! We have this little jingle we say together after he goes. “I did it! I did it! I shout to the crowd! Going pee pee in the potty makes me feel proud!!!” And then he pumps his fist in the air like this:

such a big boy!

Jan

my ‘golden’ girl!

By Julie P. 2 Comments

Categories: Asher, Ella and Rilyn

Yesterday was Ella’s ‘golden birthday’, meaning the birthday when you turn the same age as your birthdate. I missed Rilyn’s ‘golden birthday’ but she was only three, so no big deal, right? (If you know Rilyn, it IS a big deal!) I had never heard of this though until a couple years ago when my friend told me about it. So, in honor of Ella turning 5 on the 5th, she had to follow a trail of golden ribbon throughout the house (90 feet of it!) to find her presents!

following the ribbon around the house

upstairs where her presents were found in the gold treasure box!

Before presents, we went to Chuck E Cheese to have her birthday dinner! She got to invite one friend, who not surprisingly, she picked Anna!

Ella, Anna, and Rilyn

Ella with the mouse (she wanted to take a picture with

his wife, she told him)

Chuck E Cheese did this song and dance with any children who wanted to during the night, and my kids loved it! Afterwards, he threw tickets up in the air for all the kids to grab!

Pure joy from Asher, and airborne Ella!

Now that Rilyn started school back and it is the second semester, she has more homework! Poor thing had to finish up her homework at Chuck E Cheese!

She might be the only child who has ever done homework at Chuck E Cheese!

I’m such a mean mommy!

BUT, her winning 254 tickets from putting ONE token in one game made up for the homework!

Can you see Rilyn waaaay back there! The tickets

just kept on coming!

Elation

We are the parents that make our kids save their tickets instead of spending them on cheap crap like a toy spider ring (I also take away their happy meal toys before they can open them. I really hate cheap crap!) 😉 So far, we have 1500 tickets saved up!

Jan

Happy 2011!

By Julie P. 1 Comment

Categories: Asher and Rilyn

‎2011 has lots of exciting things in store! 10 year anniversary Hawaii trip, Disneyland, Ella starting kindergarten…but I’m really looking forward to being diaper free!!!! I’ve been buying diapers since 2004. (6 1/2 years straight if you are counting!) We are beginning to potty train Asher right now, and he is doing pretty well.

We had a fun New Year’s Eve celebrating with friends by having smores with the kids, and then Pappasitos for the adults (take-out, because we couldn’t find a babysitter.) Then we played a pretty fun, (and VERY random) game called Quelf. There were definitely tears from laughing so hard. Let’s just say one of the cards I drew said I had to snort every time I laughed, and we all had to add ‘izzle’ to the end of every sentence the WHOLE game. No pictures this year, although there was a video that was made (and destroyed) on someone’s phone from the game.

Enjoy some old pictures from the past New Years. (Just because I like all my posts to have pictures!)