Our garden and a little Zoolander

I have always wanted to have my own garden so this year (since I have not been working) I started one. It was not very hard at all and we got a really good deal on the raised bed. It has been very cool seeing Noah show people his garden and tell them what is in each square. It is too cute. We have a watermelon, a cucumber, a squash, strawberries, corn, onions, basil and cilantro. We will see how it goes ;)


Noah posing in front of his garden. He helped me plant each item and has helped me to water also.


He wanted to take a picture of me in front of the garden. I think he did a great job.


Now here is where he went all Zoolander on me. He would jump, twist, and turn and then say 'Mom is this a good pose. Take a picture of this pose.'

He would again jump, twist, and turn and pose again wanting me to take a picture.

I know we took more than just these few pictures (but I did not want to put them all on here) b/c he just kept on. It was so funny. I didn't know he was such a model.

Asher 6 months

My little Ash man is 6 months old. Look how cute he is!!!! He is just growing so much. At his doctor appointment this week he was in the 77% for length, 62% for weight and 95% for head circ. Asher is such a happy baby and only cries when tired or hungry. He has started rolling over YEA! He is also able to sit up on his own for at least a few seconds. This boy loves his feet and he is always grabbing them and trying to get them in his mouth. Funny thing is I used to do the same thing as a baby. Asher may look just like Brian but I think he is going to act like me =)



Half of the time his paci strap is in his mouth instead of the actual paci. So cute!!

Big boy. 18lbs and 7.8 oz


Noah absolutely loves his little brother. I love how he calls him Ash man. It just warms my heart to see Noah loving on Asher.

Official Easter Pics

I know these are totally late but I just figured out how to get pics off of our other camera and onto my computer. These are our offical family Easter pictures.

Easter 2010

Easter was very low key for us this year. My Mom, Ashley and David came over and we went out to eat, colored eggs, and hunted them. That was it! It was so nice to not have a crazy rushed lets get all of this done kind of day.


Noah and Asher's Easter baskets. I love getting little things like this for them.


Noah was so excited to get a Phineas and Ferb CD. The Easter Bunny didn't come in the morning time because the Easter bunny didn't know Noah was going to wake up so early.


Asher enjoyed chewing on his Easter basket. Everything you put in front of him goes to his mouth.


I finally convinced Brian it was time to color Easter eggs. If you know Brian, you know he can hardly stand this sort of thing due to the potential amount of mess. I was good and covered the table but he wanted to cover the floor or go outside. Noah did a good job and got design help from his oh so talented Aunt Ashley. She is showing him how to do the double dip egg.

All of the eggs just waiting to be colored. I think Noah liked this but like all things artsy it only lasted a few minutes then he was done. Ashley spent more time on her one egg than Noah did on all of his. I even got a "Cars" coloring kit hoping he would spend more time with it but no such luck.

Noah's lovely eggs. Notice the nasty brown one in the carton. He want to put an egg in each of the colors for a while and see what happens. Brown and not cute chocolate brown but gross brown. Boys!!!!

This is the typical face he likes to give these days when taking pictures.

He does love pink. Noah and I with our "girl" eggs.

We sat Asher up so he could watch. Happy first Easter kiddo. Noah wanted him to have a pink egg. Notice thumb in mouth, everything to his mouth.

Look how intently he is looking at this egg. I know he is thinking 'how can I get this to my mouth.'

Noah on his second egg hunt this Easter but this time it was all his. He still loved it and ran just as hard and fast as he did when there were a whole bunch of kids around.

Brian and Asher hanging out (in their Easter outfits) watching Noah hunt eggs.

Noah's Egg Hunt at School

For some reason (could be that we have a new baby) Easter snuck up on us this year. We normally go to one of the city's Easter events but we missed them. So, thankfully Noah's school did an egg hunt and we didn't have to go to one. This year was the best one yet, he actually understood was the egg hunting was all about. It was so much fun to see him run to get eggs. I even had to tell him to let the girls get some of the eggs.


Noah's Penguin class lined up and ready to hunt.

Ayden, Noah, Mason and Ryan still waiting.

Look at that face! He is so excited to go get the eggs.

He so did not want to stop to let mommy get a picture.

Braden and Noah have become great friends this year.

Asher 5 months

Look at my precious little man who is growing so much. This month has had a lot of changes for Asher. He is sitting up so much better but not on his own just yet.

He is such a happy baby and loves to be with all of us. This month we started on solid food. We started first with Rice cereal but when he didn't go to the bathroom for 10 days we switched to Oatmeal. The oatmeal was a big hit and helped in the bathroom department. After doing oatmeal for a while we moved to peas.


He does a great job eating but it does get a little messy.


He loves to eat. He gets so excited and just kicks his legs.


Asher's favorite toy. Mouth open b/c he is constantly chewing on things.


This is how I found Asher one day after Noah said 'Mommy, I played with Asher.' We had a little talk about not covering up Asher's face =).


Like I said before baby brother is growing and growing. He is already up to 17 lbs. and 1.9oz. I just love going and taking these pictures each month and seeing how much he is growing.

My Big Boy Noah

No more little bed, no more diapers, and now no more passy. Noah is officially a big boy. I am just as happy as I am sad to say Noah is done with baby stuff (except sippy cups but that is b/c Brian is very worried about stains). The last big thing to give up was his pooh passy (sounds gross but it had a pic of Winnie the pooh on the outside hence pooh passy) and he finally did it. I am so proud of him because I know it was and still is hard on him. Just this morning he asked for his pooh passy =(. I know he is kind of old to just now be getting rid of it but he didn't really get attach to it until he was 2. As an infant he wouldn't take a passy but as he got older he figured out how to use it and was hooked. He mostly used it when he was tired but he would find other times to sneak it.

So, how did we convince him to give it up? Well first Brian tried the passy fairy but that would just make him very upset. Then after spending the day with Gabe and riding Gabe's bike Noah asked us for a bike. His birthday is not for awhile and we knew we would be hearing about this bike a lot. So, Brian and I had a brilliant idea! Give up pooh passy and you get a bike and Noah agreed (although I am sure he didn't really know what he was doing). When we were in Jackson I kept talking to Noah about giving up the passy and he would say "I want both. That works for me." I would gently remind him if he didn't give the passy up no bike. We got home on Thursday night and told Noah we would get the bike on Friday. So, Friday morning he was ready. We put the passy in his trash can (I think this was his ploy b/c there is nothing in his trash can) so he and daddy could go get a bike that night. Well at nap time Noah asked for his pooh passy just till Daddy got home. So sweet and cute I couldn't resist and gave it back to him. Then he finally did it! When daddy got home the passy went into the big trash can and they headed to walmart.


Noah on his first big boy bike. He loves it and has been riding it everyday since. Yes, everyday even the day it snowed. He still got on it and rode it around the block. He is actually very good at riding it which I had no idea he could do.

Noah loves this bike not just because it is a bike but because it is a motorcycle bike. Thank you uncle Chris. In the video Noah shows you how you can turn one of the handle bars and it revs just like a motorcycle.