Archive for July, 2011
So May is going to be broken up into a few separate posts as it was a very exciting month! Most of the month of May we, meaning the Amber and the girls, didn’t spend in Virginia. We few out to Idaho on the 11th of May and spent 10 days in Idaho and then we drove to California, with Amber’s parents (THANKS!!) and met John there where we spent a week with his sister and husband, and then we spent 3.5 days in Utah until we headed back to Idaho! It was a very busy month full of A LOT of traveling!
With April came the first signs of spring and all that goes with it. We were able to have a big BBQ with friends from our ward. It was great to have so many kids playing in the yard and the adults just visited for a handful of hours. It was a great time and we’ve looked forward to having more BBQs. April also brought Easter. Emma’s friend had an Easter party, the kids got to decorate eggs, go on an easter hunt, and we all enjoyed a great lunch. Emma had a lot of fun really understood the hunt for the eggs. Easter Sunday we spent with John’s parents up at the lake house and the girls loved finding the eggs and enjoying the Easter candy. Ashleigh is our little eater and it was so much fun seeing her fully enjoy the sugar, I don’t think she’s had so much sugar at one time and she thoroughly enjoyed it. 
On the way home from the lake we got to stop into a farm that John’s mom knew about and the girls got to see baby chicks, calves, lambs…basically all the farm animals. Emma loved it and it was fun to really see spring in such a fun way on Easter.
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- My Little Reader…fell asleep reading….just like her mom :)
Finally at 9 months Ashleigh started crawling. YAY!! I know for some people don’t want their kids to be mobile but for me it makes life easier. All Ashleigh wanted to do was move around and play with different things so I had to be there moving her but once she started crawling we were all happier as she could get where she wanted to be! Other than that exciting news the month was filled with the every day things! We love our lives with two little girls!
We’re into the New Year
Out Jan. and Feb weren’t too exciting but we did have a few snow storms. So we had fun shoveling and playing in the snow and the rest of the time we spent inside staying warm. In Feb. some friends invited us to go to a Wizards game. We hadn’t been to a pro basketball game since we were dating so it was fun to go to that and have a night out without the kiddos.
Can’t believe I have to go all the way back to 2010 to get caught up….ahhh!! So I guess here’s our Christmas in July.
Our December was so much fun! We got to go to Idaho and spend about 10 days with Amber’s family, we went to the cabin with EVERYONE, it’s been a while since we’ve got to be all together as a family and it was great to spend time with everyone. After Idaho we went up to John’s family’s lake house at Deep Creek Lake in Maryland. It was a great transition especially for Emma since she had just left all her cousins and then she was surrounded by her Aunts and Uncles. Plus she got two Christmas, what more could a 2 year old want. It was really fun this year with her as she got opening presents and Santa but even more fun was the time we spent learning the Christmas story and hearing her talk about Baby Jesus and his Mommy Mary. We have a Fisher Price Nativity set and she loved telling the story and having it throughout the season. It was great! We just love the Holiday Season filled with family!! YAY!
I can’t believe it’s been so long since I last posted….sorry about that…granted I don’t know how many people actually look at this so really I’m sad for myself because I’ve missed documenting so many fun things! So I guess now it’s time to play catch up…the story of my life I feel like, especially these last couple of months. So hopefully in the next couple of days I can catch up on the previous 7 months and cover everything we have been doing!
