Part 2

More Pictures?!

Baking cookies for Santa with Kellie

So excited!

We snuck in a BYU basketball game. We got 5th row seats!

New pajamas with pretty cool slippers on Christmas eve. Kason got alligator ones and Asher got some with a Tiger. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

There was alot of time spent practicing our roars due to the Tiger pajamas (and I guess alligators roar too). It is now one of Asher's favorite things to do and he frequently roars at you.

Christmas morning Kason got his most wanted Buzz Lightyear. It is now a favorite toy and whenever we get home Kason and Asher both race to get it before each other.

Asher opening his ball. This boy LOVES balls. He'll kick one around the house all day long.

He loves phones too. He calls them "Hello"

We also went to Temple square. It was freezing!

We also made it to the BYU Bean museum to look at bugs and snakes and lizards and bears- Heaven for the boys. Asher likes the bugs or "bu" as he calls them.

Kason has become quite the singer lately. He will belt out Santa Claus is coming to town, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Joy to the World, I love to see the Temple and I am a Child of God and many others frequently and loudly. I love it...usually. Yesterday at church we sang I am a Child of God and Kason was so excited he knew it and was singing it so sweet and loudly. It actually made me tear up a little.

We had such a good time, and now I think we are back to the routine of things, which is good too.

Christmas Part 1

We had such a great time over Christmas this year that I couldn't narrow down the pictures to just a few. It was great to spend time together and with family. The boys both did really great on the 16 hour drive. They are great travelers (thanks in a big part to a dvd player). Plus, it was a very white Christmas (tons of snow over our whole break). We loved it!

Snowman #1. We had to improvise with plastic bags over Kason's shoes before we headed to D.I. to get some boots.

Kason found this great hat in my parent's snow stuff.

Lots and lots of shoveling.

We headed to Island Park, ID to meet at a cabin with Isaac's family. It was so pretty and so fun!

Payton and Kason loved playing together. They went sledding down a pretty good sized hill together. The funny part was watching them try to get back up it.

We all got to see Levi before he goes on his mission. What good uncles!

Then we were back to my house and more snow! This is the bottom of our snowman.

I think this is the tallest snowman I've ever built.

Asher had to get used to his gloves so he was content to stay under the porch for a little while. And yes, Asher wore a bright pink snowsuit. It was the only one near his size at picked over D.I. We think he looked pretty good in it.

Another day we built an igloo, yes, we were in the snow alot.

We had a great time. I'll get the rest of the pictures up soon!

O Christmas Tree

Love this time of year!

At the faculty UO party. Neither one had any fear about sitting on his lap.

Setting up the Christmas tree. This picture reminded me of...

...this one taken 2 years ago in 2008.

Putting on the ornaments takes lots of concentration.

This was taken last year (2009)...

...this year(2010)!

2009...

...and 2010. He looks so much older to me.

After telling Asher to not take the ornaments off about 500 times the first couple days he did pretty good. He saw his reflection in them and said baby and kept giving them kisses.

We are excited for the season!

All About Asher

Asher is 18 months! I guess that since it seems like he has been really growing up lately and saying/doing new things I am feeling the need to write them down to remember.

(I just want to squeeze him in this picture he's so cute)

He is really into books lately, especially his animal one.

He loves his big brother and tries to copy him alot.

(This picture is from a Family Home Evening where we played super heroes - Kason's request. Kason LOVED running around with his cape and Asher had no idea what was going on, but thought it was so fun to run around with a cape, Kason and Mom and Dad.)

Before his first day at nursery during church. He did great and didn't even give me a backward glance. Yes!

Cheeeeeese!

He also had quite a mullet so I gave him his first haircut. I kept it pretty long though cause it curls a little at the ends and it looks so cute.

So, a little (or alot) about Asher:

-He weighs 28 lbs 9 oz (80%) and is 32 inches tall (40%). He's very stocky.

-He is a growler! He growls after he takes a drink, after standing up, in satisfaction, in annoyance, in happiness, he just growls!

- He likes to say hi/hello over and over until someone says it back.

-He can say apple, hi, hello, ball, no (in a high pitched voice), where go?, where are you?, go, u go (let's go), uh oh, azzzaaa (what's that), eye(while poking his eye out), goggie(doggie), joo(juice), and can sing the song "apple, apple a, a, a, baby, baby, b, b, b.

-He loves his dog and sleeps with it every night.

-He gets into everything! (A normal circuit includes taking all the dvd's out of their cases and scattering them, then while I'm cleaning that up he takes the silverware out, knives and all, so I run over to get those, then he goes to another drawer and gets the scissors out, I put those away and he runs to the toilet to put something in it or play in it. And yes, we've tried child locks, he just breaks them. :)

-He loves to snuggle after a nap and is a momma's boy. He calls both Isaac and I mama.

- He loves to make his animal sounds and can do bear, dog, bee, snake, duck, horse and cow.

-He could roll a ball back and forth all day.

-He likes TV WAY too much.

-He can already make a pretty good gun sound - thanks to big brother's games.

- I love his bright blue eyes and chubby smile .

-He is quite a determined guy, but so sweet too, he makes me tired, but he makes me laugh.

And now that I feel like I've totally left Kason out here's a picture of the both of them. Kason is so sweet and smart and I love them both!