{Our Girl is 3}

Here is our 'I Want Fabulous' girl! Grandma dolled her up with the glasses and accessories (purse, feather boa, fancy nancy tutu-more pics of that coming!) But here she is the night before her third bday.

Ashtyn loved opening up her presents all by herself; very carefully! Grandma wrapped everything for her so fancy and girlie. She loved it! And she couldn't wait to dress up!


Here she is in her new Cinderella dress up clothes (too bad those were the shoes that broke when she was dancing & stomping so hard on our tile floors, it broke right in half!) Dad got her a Sleeping Beauty make-up set with earrings, necklace, glitter hair gel; and Ash was wearing it all.

The Castle cake!

...and of course, it was pink inside too! Strawberry cake and strawberry ice cream.

We loved having everyone over for Taco, Taco Soup & Cake. It was good to see Caitlyn and get to know her hubbie Matt more! And we always love having Aunt Pam & Uncle Joe with cousins Zachy & CP over...Harley was in AZ playing soccer, but we know she was thinking of Ashtyn!
Happy, happy birthday Ash! We love how you keep us laughing and entertained with all your singing and dancing! Our favorite right now is when she gets in trouble, and Ash will you, "You not being nice to me!"

Guess who's a brace face?

Yes, we're already paying for braces. Here's our cutie patootie looking like a teenager in his new braces! Beautiful smile Hayden. (Of course, it couldn't last long. The second night of having them, Hayden & Jantz bonk heads and are both in tears. I rush downstairs to find Jantz with the top of his head sliced open, and Hayden's top brace popped off. All Jantz can think about is if he's gonna have to pay for Hayden's braces to be fixed. Guess we enforce the 'you break it, you pay for it' theory a little too harsh sometimes :) They both survived.

Bowling Over with Laughs

Over the Christmas break, we took the kids bowling finally. They'd been beggin for weeks, and we hurried over one morning before it got too busy. We didn't want their balls rolling into other lanes, and only one of us fell down over the line landing on her bum (no, not me, but poor Ash was running after her ball and those slick bowling shoes didn't hold her up once she crossed the line. Down she went in one quick swoosh-she didn't know what to think. Hmmm, maybe I should obey my mom & dad). Needless to say, we had many laughs that day; especially at my bowling score!

Stylin' in the bowling shoes! Even Ashtyn wore them when they weren't in pink. Must've been a good color for her though, since she's the one who kept getting strikes! I'm using the bumpers and kiddie rolling thing next time! The boys loved it, and Ash just loved her ICEE and playing with the pretty bowling balls.

We definately should've done boys against girls...at least we got the last of the tator tots.

Christmas Celebration

OK, I better hurry and post some pics so my family can see. We spent the holidays away from them, and it was hard but we had the better end of the deal with having the kids excitement to see. Grandma and Papa had just the older 'kids' to watch open gifts, and their excitement wasn't much to get up for Christmas morning (sorry Amy & Kelly). I know you missed Hayden's waking us up at 1:00 A.M. when he saw Santa had brought Ashtyn a kitchen, so he has to go in and wake her. Then we make her go back to bed and her screams wake us all up (poor Uncle Randy had only been asleep for a few minutes anyways!) So glad you were with us though!! Even Indi was glad too!

Thanks everyone as always for spoiling the kids (and showing up mom & dad with your presents). Somehow, your gifts are far better than shirts and socks-NATHAN! Not to say I don't love meat grinders either!


We also got to act out the nativity the best we could on Christmas Eve, and then spent Christmas Day rocking out with Aunt Pam, Uncle Joe, Harley, Zach, and CP. Getting stuck in the fresh snow was fun too when we went sledding, but I was too cold to take pics then! Thanks for the memories Nath and pulling our car out Spiers!