Just Life

Asher's favorite past time lately:  wrapping Emry up in blankets

 My sisters gave us a tent and we finally broke it out.  We moved the couch to squeeze the tent in our tiny living room.  The boys were so excited.  We watched Arthur Christmas and then we all ended up sleeping in the tent.

Supposed to be going to sleep

My Gerber baby

Kason took a karate class and loved it.  

 I couldn't resist putting this picture on...I love it

  All the kids have ended up getting this shot taken at around 10ish months - Isaac holding them just out of the bath in a white towel

 Emry -11 months

Kason - 10 months

Asher - 11 months

The Oregon rain is here.  We had so much rain the other day that the streams all flooded onto the streets, I went on a run and was in ankle deep water.

Emry ready to head out in her rain jacket

Isaac finished his "applecations"!!!  It was quite the ordeal, much more difficult than I had anticipated.  With teaching a new class, getting these individualized applications out, and finishing his job market paper it was eat, sleep and drink school.  This was Isaac's spot when he was home.  He'd hook up the double monitors and work.  Kason called them "applecations".

He was also on 2 local news stations for a previous paper!  Here's the link:

http://www.kval.com/news/local/Does-Duck-football-have-an-affect-on-getting-good-grades--179731071.html?tab=video&c=y

Happy girl!  She's cruising around the furniture now

Thanksgiving was just a great day.  We did a "Thankful Tree" this year, which was really fun for all of us.  That morning I ran the "Turkey Trot", which was really fun and I'd like to do one every year.  I was really happy with how it went and beat my goal time by 3 minutes and was 193rd out of 852.

We had a yummy dinner at home with just us, and then met up with good friends for pie.  

It was a great day!

Snapshots

Here are a bunch of snapshots from the last little while:

Isaac is so busy with school.  I think it's the last thing he thinks about when he goes to sleep, what he dreams about, and first thing he thinks of when he wakes up.  We are filling out applications right now and we do it every night from when the kids go to bed until we go to bed.  People say it will be worth it, I guess we'll see!    We've done about 40ish of the 180 applications! 

The kids are always so excited to get some time with Dad

Emry is growing up!  She's 11 months old today and getting her two top front teeth.

She figured out how to pull herself up and does it all the time now.  When her legs were first getting strong enough to stand, she'd get herself up and then not know how to get back down, so her little legs would start shaking with all that work.  I went in to her room to get her from her nap and she was standing up in her crib practically having a seizure her legs were shaking so much! 

Halloween happened!  We carved pumpkins.  Asher was still grossed out by the goop, and so was I.

Pouting because Isaac tossed some goop on his arm

Holding "Emry girl"

Halloween night

Robin Hood

A knight

And a bee!

Last, but not least, Asher took a shower and I found him in there some time later combing his hair up "like a real man" and making tough/cool faces in the mirror...

...what a stud.

Jumbled

This post is jumbled!  It's Saturday, Isaac is at the school, Emry is asleep -actually I just heard her jabbering, but I've got 3 more minutes to finish this- Kason and Asher are pullling out all their robots, transformers, planes, and pillows from the whole house and putting them into some sort of game in the middle of the room, the BYU game is on and I want to get some pictures up here.  Some of these are pretty old and from Isaac's phone, but I love them and so I wanted to have them on here.  

We do the pledge of allegiance every morning and I was so surprised how quickly the boys learned it for themselves.

Sunday morning activities

This picture is pretty old - sometime last year- but it makes my heart happy

Isaac and Kason at an Oregon game this summer.  Apparently, Kason yelled "O" the entire game and Isaac was shocked he didn't lose his voice.  Yes, we have become total Duck fans.

This is at Mckay and Katie's on one of our trips this summer.  Asher loves this dog stuffed animal, appropriately called "doggie",  you can see it curled up under him.  He sleeps with it every night. 

Kason rode his bike with Isaac to one of Isaac's soccer games and took some self portraits to keep occupied.

Last Saturday I took the boys to the Duck Drop.  I have wanted to go every year we've lived here, but haven't for one reason or another.  It's a fundraiser they do every year.  People buy a rubber duck and get their number written on the bottom of it.  Then, all the ducks are dropped into the river, I heard someone say there were 70,000 this year and they race down the river to the finish.  First place gets a prize, I don't even know what it is.  We didn't buy a duck, but it was still exciting.

Waiting for the ducks

Here they come...

There was also a local zoo there and I was shocked at how little kids were just grabbing the snakes and picking them up and carrying them around.  I didn't see many "zoo keepers" around.

Some guy just handed Kason this snake when he was done holding it.  Kason was delighted, but after a minute I got nervous that I was going to have to pull it out as it started to go up his shirt sleeve so I told him to put it back for someone else to grab.

On the walk back  home.  I am getting all sentimental about Oregon since it looks like we'll probably be leaving next year.  It's so pretty - all this green everywhere!

Another sentimental day - the changing leaves are so pretty! 

Some friends - whom Asher affectionately calls "Brandon and Joey" raked some leaves into a pile and the boys thought it was the best thing ever.

Waking up from nap.  I just want to squeeze her, she's such a happy and chill baby!

A baby that has been eating a ton lately!

I think she has us all wrapped around her little finger