Smores Anyone?

One of my favorite things in the world is

to get my loved ones together, build a fire, and eat smores. Yum!

Krista, with a mouth full.

Jessica, enjoying the fruits of her labor.

Mimi!!!!! YUMMY!!!

Enjoy this cute boy, and his firts steps.

Turning ONE!!

Zack is sure getting big. He just had his first birthday, and we can't believe how the time has flown bye. This is the toy he got, and he loves it. It helps him walk around all the time.

Zack's birthday cake. He made the biggest mess. We had to take his chair outside and use the hose to clean it off.

Like Dad, like Son. He was helping his dad put his new toy together.

(okay, he really just wanted to eat the screwdriver.)

Who says that boys don't help in the kitchen?

When I was in the girls room cleaning up toys, and getting them ready for bed. Zack crawled out of the room and went off to play. Now most of the time he goes into his room and pulls all his toys off the shelf. When I went into the kitchen this is what I found.

All the dishes in the dishwasher were dirty, but he was helping me unload anyway.

Thanks Zack for all your help and many great laughs.

What does a snow queen and a black eye have in common?

Emma!!!

All winter long Emma has been wanting to build a snow queen. So this last snow storm we got Uncle Craig came over and helped them build the best snow queen I have ever seen. You can't tell from this picture, but she is very well endowed(Andrew helped with that part). After church today they wanted to take a picture of her before she melted away.

On Thursday I got a call from Emma's teacher telling me that she fell on the playground and hit her eye. Three days later this is what it looks like. It gets more and more purple every day. The morning after she hit it her eye was swollen shut. She missed two days of school and got a lot of attention at church. She was kinda embarrassed, but I told her is looked really cool.

Just another week at the Ashby house!!!!

Changing

As I look back on the last year, my family has had many changes. The best change was having Zack come into our family. He is a great little boy, full of energy and spunk. In September Emma went to her first year of school, and then we moved. Four days before Thanksgiving we moved back. Why all the moving? Well, many reasons, but mostly because it was the best thing for my family. All changes are not easy, and ours were not, but now that we can see the past we are grateful for all that the change has brought us. I have many things in my life to be grateful for, but most of all are these wounderful kids. As you can see they have also changed in many ways.

Christmas Gift

This year for Christmas Marci & I gave my family their last name spelled on blocks. As part of the gift, we found a song by Dierks Bentley "My Last Name." It talks about being a part of something and how special it should be. Here is the link if you want to listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUYzCbZLS0Y
and here is the link for the lyrics:
http://www.lyrics007.com/Dierks%20Bentley%20Lyrics/My%20Last%20Name%20Lyrics.html
...more later...