this is definitely late but i thought it was necessary. these are pictures from when we were decorating our christmas tree. lily and jack had the best time. they couldn’t give the ornaments to steven quick enough. jack would yell more ‘ments, more ‘ments! well anyways the pictures are self explanatory. enjoy!
baby ash is well loved by jack and lily. lily has decided that she likes dressing him up, thus the minney mouse ears. they both love taking pictures with him and just being around him. if he is near either one of them, they are always holding one of his hands. he is growing like a weed and is loving eating more than just milk now. he will eat anything you feed him (except mashed potatoes) and who knows why he wouldn’t eat those. he is the happiest baby i know and i am grateful that he is my baby.
lily and jack like to get in bed with baby ash
jackson loving his brother
jackson’s first ice cream cone
yes he has had ice cream before just not on a cone
lily enjoying hers as well
i have truly failed in my attempt to write something everyday that i am grateful for. well i am writing now and there are so many things to be grateful for. it is three days before christmas and my children are excited and i have to say that even though it has been kind of hectic getting everything ready, i am pretty excited too. i am grateful for the birth of our Savior. i am grateful that we have all been given the atonement because i need it desperately. i am grateful for loving parents and friends who are constantly helping me in some way or another. i am grateful for my loving husband who has learned to be mellow when i am not. i am grateful for a loving heavenly father who has entrusted 3 beautiful children into my care. i only hope that i can be the mother that he would have me be and boy do i have a long way to go. i love everyone who reads this and thank you for your friendships, i don’t know what i would do without you girls to talk to throughout the week.
well, kind of. this isn’t the actual birth or anything. we stop the camera slightly before, and resume slightly after the actual event. this one is kind of lengthy (about 9 min). i tried to edit it down and i’m sure there’s a lot more that i could have cut out, but i just thought all the footage worked, so forgive me my epic feature film moment. without further adieu…
asher’s birth from stevelucky on Vimeo.
so, we were fortunate enough to have our friend kristin come over who, as i’ve said before, takes the most amazing pictures of our kids of all time. these are the ones she took of the kids a couple weeks ago. but first, a little halloween story. you can see lily’s dress is all meshy and layery. well, we decided to go to the mall again for our halloween festivities (i know, it’s kind of a cop out but hey, it’s convenient, close and warm. good enough for me) and just as we were pulling into the parking spot, i hear an odd noise and look back just in time to see lily tossing all down the front of her dress. i climbed back to try and clean her up, but puke doesn’t like to come out of layered mesh so easily. needless to say, we turned around and had a very short, very quiet halloween at home. they were very disappointed. anyway, on to the pictures…
jack was walking around with a little toy brush wanting me to brush his hair today. i’m not much of a stylist and there’s not a lot that you can do with his hair so i thought i’d see what i could acomplish with so little to work with (talent and hair). i finally settled on a glen danzig (during the misfits years) quaff. i’m not sure if he can pull it off just now, but give him a few years and a few hundred reps of the bench press and it might be a different story. you be the judge.
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plus we might have to get him out of that osh kosh shirt.
11:32pm
we carved pumpkins at steven’s sisters house tonight and here are a few pictures we took on our walk to her house. it is starting to get cold so we broke out the hats for our walk. i am so grateful that we have the opportunity to take so many pictures now that we have digital cameras. maybe if we had them when i was growing up, it wouldn’t be so hard to find a baby picture of myself. since my children have been born, i haven’t really seen a newborn one of myself. i am grateful to be able to look back at every moment since my children have been born. i want to be able to share this with them when they are older. i want them to be able to look back at their baby pictures and see if their children look anything like they did as babies. thank you Heavenly Father for the digital age.
8:25pm
hey i am actually writing at a normal time of night. i had a quick thought so i thought i would get it done early. i am grateful for health. we have been dealing with a sick jackson for a week now and i am so ready for my healthy rambunctious boy to be back. he was actually a lot better today so i am expecting a ball full of energy tomorrow. here are a few pictures from his birthday party that i wasn’t able to add before
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here are my big kids just being their funny selves. jack likes to get into boxes and such and pretend that he is in a boat. this was a mighty small boat but he managed to fit a toy in there with him. this hat that lily has on is a pumpkin hat that she made at school. she was very proud of it!
our friends dena and brady brought their kids over to visit a couple weekends ago and here was my attempt at taking a picture of jack, lily and maddie with some pumpkins. surprisingly jack was the only one who would cooperate.
steven’s sister lisa made these dracula cupcakes and i thought they were the cutest things ever. it’s a good thing that someone in our family is creative because i am not. i told her that i was going to buy some halloween cupcakes and she said why don’t i just make them. i am glad that she did!
2:00 am
well i am still having prob;ems getting my photos into i photo so i promise they will come soon. but yesterday we had jackson’s birthday party. he was very cute! unfortunately he got crazy overwhelmed like he did last year and he didn’t even want to finish opening presents. so lily and i open the last couple. he was really happy about his presents. he will never show as much enthusiasum as lily for presents and parties, he really doesn’t care about them as much as she does. it seems like he doesn’t like being the center of attention when opening gifts. it’s like he doesn’t know quite what to do with himself.
so my mom and mike are in town and tonight they decided to take steven’t parents and us out to dinner. we wanted to go to the spaghetti factory but there was an hour and a half wait so we went to red robin instead. well right when we got our food, jack looked at his chicken and started crying. i thought great, he really doesn’t want chicken! then the next thing i know, he makes a weird sound and in a split second i realize what is happening. i push his head slightly away from my body and he throws up everywhere. he got my jacket and purse as well as my whole left arm and somehow all over my bottom and thighs. if i hadn’t have moved his head, i would have been completely covered. i couldn’t even start my food. they brought us stuff to clean off but that was the end of dinner for me. i waited for everyone to finish then boxed my food up and came home to take a shower. i can appreciate that when he doesn’t feel good he wants me but this is the third time he has done this and the second time in public. i hate throw up!!!!!!!!
lastly, steven and i saw the movie “across the universe” last night. i think that most of you who read this, especially kimmie braithwaite, would enjoy it. it is a musical based on only beatles songs. there are a few parts that were completely strange and could be taken out but for the most part it was really cool. kindof moulin rougeish.
i am grateful for good times and bad times. i would much rather have all good times but i know that with the bad, heavenly father is mostly trying to teach me patience. i guess i really have a lot to learn. i am grateful for my childrens birthdays and can not even believe how old they are getting. it is amazing how fast life is going.
