Christmas

Christmas was so much fun this year! Ashlynn was so cute and Austin was just trying to take it all in. We had so much fun though...

Gingerbread house, Snow, and a new hair-do pic

Just some more pictures of Ashlynn.......


One of her famous hair-do's that she likes to do






Eating the snow!







Making a ginger bread house for Christmas!

It's about time........

So, I know I havent posted forever and this post is going to be kind of lame. But oh well.
Here's what's been going on with the kids-

Ashlynn is real big into fixing her own hair and wont let me do it at all (see picture below). She is still into picking out her own clothes too. It's an everyday battle. So, if you ever see us and wonder why we look like white trash, that might be why.
She has been really sweet though too. Through out the day she will just say, 'mom, I love ya, or mom I like ya.'
Her favorite movie right now is The Polar Express. The other day she was helping my mom put up Christmas decorations and she found a stocking with little tiny bells on it. And she started shaking it and she said, 'Grandma, I believe'. (From the Polar express). She cant wait for Christmas!

Austin is into everything. He climbs on everything. He has figured out that if he pushes the chairs around he can climb on the chair and then on to something higher. He wants everything he cant have (the laptop for example-one reason posting has been so hard). Oh ya, his other favorite toy is the toilet!
He still isnt a very good sleeper so I have excepted the fact that we will be up at 6 or 6:30 every morning. Oh well.
Austin loves books and knows what the dog, monkey and owl say. He is just starting to pick up little words. He loves waving and blowing kisses.

Well I guess that's it. More stories after Christmas!! TTFN


Austin just being crazy



Ashlynn after she just fixed her hair and picked out her clothes for the day (this outfit is one of the better ones.)



Another thing Austin likes to do is sit in this swing when his cousin Lily is sitting in the other one.



Lunch with the cousins!

Hmmmm........

I really need to update my blog....................... Later...................

Photo Tag

Thanks Lindsey for the photo tag. If you haven't been tagged, here's how it works:

Go to the picture area on your computer, pick the 4th picture in the 4th folder, post it and then tell about it.

So here's mine. It's a picture of Ash when she was about 8 months I think. I love this picture of her. It makes me miss her as a baby, but not so much that I want to go back to that stage. The stage she is in right now is much better. She has such an imagination and just says the funniest things.

Anyways, I tag whoever reads my blog... (does anyone read my blog). It really is fun to see what picture you are going to post so do it.

Halloween

Halloween was so much fun this year. It was warm outside and Ashlynn loved trick-or-treating. Mark out-did himself this year again by shaving his head so that he could dress up as a baby. I added a picture from last year though just for memories. Anyways, here's what we got.

Mark as a baby this year



Mark as Officer Dangle last year




Austin was Charlie Brown




Ashlynn, Bailee, Tyson, Austin and Davis




More Austin




Ashlynn and Bailee again




And Ashlynn as Cinderella

Camping, the pumpkin patch and other random stuff

I feel like it has been forever since I have blogged. We went camping the last week of September with my dad's family. It was a lot of fun, except for when it was time for bed. Austin fell asleep for a few hours and then woke up and would not go back to bed so Mark took him home and Ashlynn and I stayed up with the rest of the family. Camping with kids is crazy.
We also made it to the pumpkin patch, or the 'pumpkin field' as Ashlynn calls it. She loved it. IT was pretty cold but it was fun. She kept saying to me, 'I wish the pumpkin boy would come clean the pumpkins so we could get more.'
We also started watching Ashlynn and Austin's cute cousin Lily a couple of days a week. And for some reason whenever Lily cries, Ashlynn tells her, 'It's ok Lily. We're not witches, we're nice people.' So funny.
Ashlynn has been so big into playing house lately. She likes to be the mom, Austin is the dad, Mark is the son and I am the sweetie. I asked her what the sweetie does and she said, 'the sweetie cleans.' Lucky for me. She was playing with her dolls the other day and told me to hold one and she said, ' sweetie, hold this doll. She's not fake.' The things she comes up with?
Austin has been such a funny little guy. He loves Ashlynn. He is so close to walking but since he can get places faster by crawling, he sticks to that. He is still not sleeping through the night and it's driving me crazy. I'm in for another few nights of 'crying it out'- again. Crazy little kid.
I guess that's it for now. Go jazz.