Happy 5th Birthday Ashlyn!

Ashlyn is 5 years old today! She is our sweet little girl, we love you Ashlyn!

A few pictures of our little cowgirl's photo shoot I did in
the backyard for her birthday invitation. Yee-haw!
 

The adorable invites that aunt Christy helped make at her work: 

 Pear Tree Greeting.

** More adorable birthday party pictures to come soon!**

She is soooo excited to be 5!
We sang happy birthday to her and she had her usual favorite breakfast - chocolate chip waffles with lots of syrup!

Love her bedhead and favorite Halo Master Chief pj's ;)

Ashlyn's 5th Birthday Party

7.7.13

Ashlyn had her cowgirl birthday party. It was a hit!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4th of July

We celebrated the 4th of July by going out to Grandma & Grandpa Loula's on Lake Washington July 3rd to watch the fireworks from pontoon on the lake.  The girls loved it!  Then on the 4th we went to the parade in St Peter and they got a lot of candy!  We ended the day with a fire in the backyard, s'mores and a few of our own fireworks. The big guys... bottle rockets, jumping jacks, snakes and of course snaps  - a childhood classic!  :)

 

 

The girls got light up star glasses from Grandma Ruth.
 

 

Forth of July parade in St Peter
 

Ashlyn got these cool glasses too.
 

Nicollet Friendship Days

6.21.2013

The girls had fun on the rides and tried to win the free bike being given away.  Ashlyn was sad she didn't win but they were both happy to go home with some cheese curds :)
 

Dad got to go on the rides with the girls since mommy couldn't  ;)
Can you see his excitement?!
 

31 Weeks

6.17.13

Baby #3 is doing great. I've been feeling pretty good. I was having sciatic pain but a few trips to the chiropractor have been a tremendous help.  I'm feeling a little unprepared since we don't know the gender this time but I'm excited to experience the big surprise on delivery day.

The girls are so excited to have a baby in the house. My belly gets a lot of hugs and kisses every day and they talk to it and tell the baby they love it.

Ashlyn went to camp on Monday and had to list three things about herself to help the other campers get to know her and one was that her mom was having a "mystery baby".  The instructor thought that was pretty funny and had to ask her to explain what she meant. She asked her if her mom was really pregnant, Ashlyn said that her mom really is pregnant and that we don't know if the baby will be a boy or a girl... it's a mystery!  I thought that was a pretty cute story :)


31 Weeks 

Sprinkler

6.12.13

The weather was perfect for getting the sprinkler out.
Ashlyn loved it and Kaelyn wanted the water warmer ;)


 

 

 

 

 

 

Pool

6.13.13

We dug the pool out of the shed since it was finally nice enough to go swimming.  Ashlyn said it finally felt like summer. Lets hope the nice warm weather continues!

Mom, I'm a mermaid!  The sun was too bright to look right at me she said ;)

Our other little mermaid woke up from her nap and couldn't wait to get in the pool!

Pheasants

5.16.13

Our 35 baby pheasants came in the mail and we got them set up in the garage.  

The girls like to say hello and goodbye to them every time we leave or come home.  Joe built an outdoor pen for them and we'll have updated pictures of them soon. They sure do grow fast!

Kaelyn and her chocolate smile ;)

Ashlyn

Pontoon Ride

5.12.2013

We went for a pontoon ride at Grandma & Grandpa Loulas... it was a little chilly!


 

Ashlyn just had to check out the water and insisted it wasn't cold... 

until about 10 minutes later when she said it was freezing!

(she had her maxi dress tucked into her supergirl undies)

Storm

5.18.2013

Meet our new silver labrador puppy Storm!
Saturday, May 18th we drove to Clear Lake, Iowa to pick out our new puppy. We had 2nd pick of 6 females (11 total pups in the litter!).  It was almost impossible to tell any of them apart - they were pretty much all identical. After playing and holding all the puppies we decided to take Storm because she was really friendly and let you cuddle her and she had a little spunk when the girls played with her.
Did I mention how adorable she is?! Her blue eyes are so pretty!

 

 

 

Ashlyn wanted to hold her and luckily Storm slept almost the whole way.
Ashlyn was in heaven!
 

 

 

Ashlyn shared her blanket with Storm. She didn't want her to get cold ;)
 

After a stop at the pet store to get a new collar and some dog food, we were home!
 

Our attempt at a nice family picture :)