Asher's Birthday

Asher turned 5!

I feel like 5 is the age when they start to really seem older.

He's not a little kid anymore!

Just a "few" photos we took

A common Asher face

Another common face we see alot of - mischevious

opening presents

He decided he must have a ninja turtle birthday party.  

I don't know how he got so into ninja turtles, but they are one of his current obsessions.  Leo is the favorite, to be exact.  I really don't care for them all that much and won't be too sad when this phase, hopefully, passes!

Pretty happy with how his cake turned out, despite that one eye!

He was happy with it!

Birthday party craziness.  A whole band of boys played pin the mask on Leo, and became ninja's to get the bad guy balloons with their staffs and throw their ninja stars.  But lets be realistic, mostly there was alot of running and sword hitting and gun noises.

I think Emry enjoyed the cake too.

Asher got a sleeping bag for his birthday and so he and Kason camped in a fort that night

And a blackmail picture?!

A little bit about Asher:

-His big, bright blue eyes get me every time.

-He has a pretty happy go lucky, care-free attitude and can usually be seen with a goofy grin on his face.

-He is sweet and is my child who will randomly come up to me and give me a hug or kiss for no reason at all.

-Sometimes that care-free attitude manifests itself with...carelessness...obliviousness...forgetfulness to remember/pay attention to the rules

-He's still stocky - 50% for height, and 75% for weight.
-He goes full force, he floors the snowmobile, he rides his bike way too fast the first time.
-I never really know what hilarious thing is going to come out of his mouth. I'm nervous sometimes, but secretly excited to hear what funny thing he is going to come up with.
I asked him some questions:
-Favorite animal: Bald Eagle
-Favorite food: Alfredo
-Favorite color: Blue
-Favorite sport: Basketball
-What do you want to be when you grow up: a basketball player
-Favorite superhero: Hulk
-Who do you want to be like? Helaman
-Then he said, don't you want to know my favorite poisonous animal?  of course! Gila Monster

We love our Asher!

Rattlesnakes!

We got to go to a rattlesnake class!  

The boys thought it was one of the best things ever. 

 A friend of ours lives a little ways out in the country and always has this man clear out the rattlesnake dens near her house.  Knowing there were rattlesnake dens around would  probably be enough to make me move, but I'm glad she's tough so we could have such a fun class.

We learned about the rattlesnake that lives in Montana and what the rattle sounds like - it sounds like the scratchy bug noises you hear when you go hiking.  Now you can be as paranoid as I will be next time we go hiking.

baby rattlesnake - you can't hear their rattle yet very well, but they have just as powerful of venom

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We also had one beautiful day that felt warm-ish.  72 degrees doesn't really count as warm in my book, but it still felt great.  It has since snowed twice.  Oh well, it let us know that summer is coming!

The boys play basketball out back for hours at a time.

Easter

Before we get to Easter, here's a picture of Asher and Emry keeping occupied while Kason does school.  Emry puts this crown and skirt on every day and even wants to wear it when we go places.  It was her Halloween costume and she's just rediscovered it.  Also, notice the one sock on, one sock off look. This also seems to be a permanent fashion statement.  I'm always hunting for that other sock.

Easter was a special one this year.  We got to go to Isaac's Grandma's funeral and it really helped us remember what Easter is really about and what we are celebrating.

And we did dye Easter eggs too

His bald eagle.  The kid is obsessed with them.