Miracle

Courtney posted lots of pictures from Asher's birth! Go HERE to look at them!!

THANKS A MILLION KA-TRILLION COURTNEY!!!!

Out of this World Pizza

Saturday night Sean and I took Brayden and Asher to "Out of this World Pizza." We had a coupon to get Brayden in for free so we decided to take advantage of it! Dan and Courtney came with us and we had a blast! Here are a bunch of pictures from that evening.

Brayden didn't like walking in the blow up toys. Oh, and his molars are coming in so he is not a happy camper. He always has his hand in his mouth.

Proof that Asher was there!

My Boys

Asher was laying on the floor after a diaper change and Brayden got down on the floor with him. Dad decided he'd get down there as well. I love my boys!!

Brayden isn't really much of a climber. These next few picture illustrate his sheer joy when he realized that he could get up on this chair by himself.

This morning Brayden and I woke up before Sean did and played for a little bit. Brayden knew his dad was still home so he opened the door to the bedroom and wanted me to pick him up into the bed. He crawled under the covers and was so excited to be with Daddy! This is one of the pictures I got...

Milestone

Brayden went to nusery today! He technically isn't 18 months until the 21st (this Friday) but we put him in there anyway. With Sean being in Primary it was hard for me to take care of both of the boys during sunday school and relief society. I don't want Brayden to get used to us being in Nursery with him. I don't want him to know that it's okay for Mom or Dad to stay with him in there for the entire 2 hours. So, I walked in there and just dropped him off. I know this probably doesn't work for a lot of kids, but Brayden seems to do okay with other people. He isn't really afraid of strangers (which could be a bad thing.) I handed him off to one of the leaders and left. He did fine the whole time! I checked on him once (just through the peep hole) when I went to go nurse Asher and he was being held by one of the leaders but he was happy. I was really nervous about it because he gets really tired during church since he misses his nap. The leader said he started looking really overwhelmed a couple of times (there are A LOT of kids in the nursery) but I think he was probably just zoning because he was so tired. Overall though she said he did great for him being new! It's going to be nice to be able to actually pay attention again in my classes :)

Another thing for my own record, we finally moved up to size 4 diapers! He has been in size 3 for so long I don't even remember when we started...

Stockings

I've been meaning to post this for a couple weeks but haven't gotten around to it. I was waiting until I could get decent pictures but that never happened so I'll just post what I have. Anyway, I got Asher's stocking done! I finished it a couple weeks ago and was so excited because I really didn't think I'd find the time to get it done before Christmas. I'm so glad I did though!

Here are some pictures...

Pictures

I don't have anything to blog and I don't have any decent pictures either but I wanted to post something!

Running Update

So I don't think I've mentioned running since I blogged that I wanted to start running. It's going good! I've been getting out at least 3 days a week. I can tell that my endurance is building, slowly but surely. I've been trying to find a 5k or 10k that I can set a goal for but have been unsuccessful so far. You'd think they'd have a ton in Portland! The only ones I can find are either on a Sunday or at Midnight of the new year. NO thank you! So if anyone knows of any, let me know!

In order to keep this up, I've been trying to find things that motivate me. The thing that helps me the MOST is having a running buddy! Bethany and I live just under a mile apart from each other. So usually M-W-F we get out running together. It's nice to have a running buddy that lives close enough that we can go running together without having to drive anywhere. (Seems counter productive!) It also helps that she has experience running so she's good at motivating me.

The other thing that motivates me the most is my Nike Plus that I bought. It is so awesome to be able to see how far I've run, how long I've been running, how many calories I've burned, and what my pace is. I'm going to love that I can compare where I was a month ago with today, etc.

I am really excited about this still, which quite honestly I didn't think it would last. But I think that actually investing in it and feeling my endurance slowly build has made me commit to it for awhile.

4 weeks

Asher is 4 weeks old today. I can't believe it has already been that long! That completely boggles my mind. Asher is such a sweet baby. He is really mellow, and content. I love his big dark eyes and I love that he loves to be held. He is becoming more alert and is slowly getting his day/night schedule switched to how it should be. He is a good eater and is growing steadily. It's crazy that in a few short weeks they go from being a "newborn" to an infant.

Brayden loves giving Asher kisses and loves to see him. Brayden wants us to put Asher down by him so he can kiss him probably a dozen times a day. He is still a jealous older brother, but that is slowly getting better to.

I love my boys!

Best Sister Ever

So, it has been a fun weekend/week. Monday morning I had 2 wisdom teeth pulled. Sean had to work and my in-laws are in Europe for 2 weeks so my sister Lisa came down from Marysville (north of Seattle) with her youngest son to help take care of me and the boys while I recovered. She got here Saturday evening and just left this morning. We had so much fun while they were here! It was Lance's 1st birthday on Monday so on Saturday we went to Target and Lisa picked him up these really cute moccasins. We went to Joann's and I picked up the cutest fabric ever to make an apron. We went to WinCo and bought groceries for some yummy dinners. We went to Sports Authority and I bought new running shoes and a Nike Plus that hooks to your iPod. We went to REI and Lisa bought 2 new really cute shirts. Lisa taught me how to make super delicious homemade bread, chicken chowder, and chicken tetrazzini and I taught her how to make coconut sweet rice and how to do cool things with her blog since she just got one. (finally! yay!!) We bounced vinyl ideas off of each other and we watched movies and of course, hung out with the boys. My wisdom teeth that got pulled had already broken through the surface so it wasn't too invasive of a surgery. They prescribed me vicodin but I didn't have to take any. I was in pretty good shape considering, but I was still SO glad Lisa was here! We had so much fun. It was really great to have her here where we were able to do whatever we wanted for a few days. Thanks so much Lisa for making the drive, and for all that you did for us while you were down here. It was mucho appreciated and we LOVE YOU TONS!!

Lance and Brayden playing together

Lance (Is it fair that one kid can have eyes THIS blue?)


Lance and Lisa (Check out Lance's new moccasins!)

Lisa, Lance and Brayden

Brayden playing with Aunt Lisa

Aww...baby Asher

And I just HAD to post this. This is B this morning. We just started teaching him the "Do as I'm Doing" song...so now whenever we sing it, he does this! And the beat boxing thing? Priceless...I love that my kid is so musical!