San Diego

We went to San Diego with Adam's family to celebrate Christmas. It was so much fun! We went to the zoo, Sea World, shopping, the beach, and so many more fun places. Here are so pictures from our trip...

Sea World



Mamas and babies. Let me just say...getting a picture with all the kids looking at the camera is IMPOSSIBLE!





Petting a sting ray




Charlotte's beautiful smile!





Sorry Dagny!

Cute little bugs

Cousins

"One...two...Shamu Shamu!"

Christmas

I have so much catching up to do. My camera has been very stubborn about uploading pictures. It has been making me sooo mad!!! Anyways....here's some pictures from December.

Every year a church in Tulsa puts up these AMAZING Christmas lights throughout their property. Of course, Asher the elf child loves it!!



That was an American flag but my flash doesn't let it show very well.



The family




I don't know how to delete this one... I'm not great with computers.




The light show. All the trees went with the music.




The park is huge. This is not even half.

A bridge that goes with music too.

Asher and his mommy :)

What a cutie!!

Happy Halloween!

I think they rang the doorbell and knocked a thousand times on each door!


Halloween party....Adam and I were morning people...I know...LAME...but it was free.


Pirate from the aquarium

Shooting webs at me.

Still shooting webs. I couldn't get a picture of him without his hands up shooting webs.

Asher was Spiderman for Halloween this year. Surprise surprise right?! His obsession has yet to die but now I think we could be moving on to transformers. We'll see. Anyways, Halloween was super fun this year. He was into every aspect of it. He was looking forward to trick-or-treating for weeks. Being that I had to spend $30 on a costume, I was looking for every opportunity for him to wear it. SO...Wednesday night we dressed him up and took him to the aquarium. They always have a huge Halloween event. The theme this year was pirates and mermaids. It was a lot of fun! Asher got TONS of candy and saw a pirate scuba dive with the fish. We started our Halloween day off early with a Halloween party at some friend's house. The kids and the parents dressed up. Very funny! The kids played games and ate Halloween cupcakes. And the finale, TRICK-OR-TREATING!! Asher loved it!!! Our friends came over and we just went around our neighborhood. Asher, of course, had to be the first one to the door. It was a race every time. After a few house, Asher decides to stop saying "trick-or-treat" and started saying "we need candy!" UGHHH!!! Also, while all the other kids stood on the porch, Asher would walk into the house. One time, in his race to be first, he got to the door of another house and opened it and just walked on in. No knock, no doorbell, NOTHING!! The lady was very sweet about it. Maybe next year I should work with him on proper Halloween etiquette.

Pumpkin Patch

Hay ride.


I just love this picture. Look at that huge smile on Asher's face. I know he's thinking he's real lucky!



Yee-haw!


Mean pigs!

Seriously?! Free to roam?!

This guy was really hungry. After this picture he stole the bag right out of Adam's hand.

What a cutie! :-)

We have an awesome pumpkin patch in Tulsa. We have gone two years in a row and Asher absolutely loves it!! This Sunday, we went back with our community group from church. Besides climbing on top of all the pumpkins, I think Asher's favorite part is all the animals. You can buy feed and feed goats, sheep, and pigs. However, I would not recommend feeding the pigs. The goats and sheep very kindly lick the feed off your hand...but the pigs...not so nice. One bit Asher's fingers and caused a cry fest for about five minutes. I don't blame him though...I'm sure it really hurt. Besides feeding the animals, Asher rode a pony and a camel. The whole group went on a hay ride and the men raced through a corn maze. I think they were excepting a big manly competition but they came out extremely disappointed. Apparently, the finish line was right next to the entrance. As for me, well I just try not to have a heart attack while I'm there. Anyone who knows me knows that I despise birds! This place has chickens that just freely roam around. UGHHHH!!!! They also have a pen in the middle with huge turkeys in there. It would be my luck that one would escape the pen while I'm there. The thought seriously makes my heart pound!! So I walk around the whole time looking over my shoulder hoping that some evil bird isn't following me.

Being sick :(

So I'm sick today and it's not fun. I woke up with a cough yesterday that I thought came from all the yelling I did at the U2 concert I went to on Sunday night (which was amazing by the way) but the cough just lingered and lingered. Today I'm running fever and just feel really ran down. I swear I'm not trying to be a big baby about being sick but to make matters worse, Adam is out of town all week. AND my usual helper, my mom, is sick too!! So my poor dad came all the way to Tulsa to keep Asher for me. They are staying at a hotel tonight and have just been running around all day doing boy things. :) Again, I promise I'm not trying to be a baby. I would really muster up the energy to take care of Asher while being sick but truth be told, I'm so scared to be around him. I don't know about anyone else but this whole swine flu thing has me freaked out!! Especially for my little boy. There are so many different stories out there right now and I'm so scared for Asher to get it. Some people say oh it's a mild cold and others say it's terrible with 104 fever. Some people say absolutely do not vaccinate and other say it's dumb not to. I just don't know what to do!!! So all of this to say that my sweet dad is keeping Asher away from me....and now I'm terribly lonely! :(

Happy 3rd birthday!!

Birthday boy and daddy at the zoo. It was hot!


He loves the petting zoo. He loved that specific goat for some reason. Followed it around the whole time. I had to tell him not to kiss it...that's gross!



Fear the Stache! Asher says he has a "dirty mustache just like Boom!"


Yea!!

Look at that huge smile!!

Spiderman and the kids

Spiderman, Asher, and Zach

Spidey himself!

Pinata time! Sorry for the sugar rush parents!

Cruisin the rides

Asher's new ride.

My little boy is 3!! WOW!! It really does go by so fast. I'm trying to remember everything I can about his little life but it seems like his life is moving faster than my brain works! He is just so much fun right now. He hasn't even been 3 for a week yet but I'm loving this age. He's so funny!! This year was the first year that he was so excited to have a party. We have been talking about this party, planning this party, buying things for this party for over a month now. Every week he would say, "My friends come to my party this weekend?" And I would have to say, "Not this week." SO when the time finally came....man he was excited!! We had a spiderman birthday party in our backyard. He had tons of friends there and the real Spiderman made an appearance. Asher loved it!!! Spiderman's strength was really put to the test by three little boys. I think the cutest part of the whole party was singing happy birthday to him. He just smiled and laughed the entire time! Definitely melted my heart! After the party, my family stayed with us and we just played with toys and watched football. We had his party on Saturday but his real birthday was Sunday. Of course we had to celebrate the real birthday so we went to church and then headed straight out to the zoo. After the zoo, we played outside until the sun went down. We ended the birthday weekend by singing happy birthday as our good night song. Of course he was so excited that we had to sing it again! I love you Asher man and I thank God everyday for 3 amazing years with you. I'm so lucky!

BOOMER SOONER!!

Ok I think this family is completely converted to the Boomer Sooners. Yes, we are now members of the Sooner Nation!! We have unexpectedly been able to see Landry, aka Uncle Boom, start in two games. We are so proud of him!! He has been amazing and we love watching him play. Here are some pictures from our fun weekend.

Asher preparing for the big game, uniform and all.

Landry, doing what he does.

Landry on the big screen....so weird to see my little brother like this.

Asher and Wa-Wa-Britney at the game.

Yeah!!

Good news...I heard from the camera lady and my camera is finally ready. Now I can download all of my summer pictures. I will probably be blogging about things that happened months ago, but will that really be any different from what I do now? haha. Ok so in the meantime, I have been trying to write down some of the funny things Asher tells. He's sooo funny now. I try to remember them all but he'll say things at random times and I don't have time to write them all down. I try really hard to remember them all because these are memories that I want forever! Here's a quick list:

-We say our prayers together every night as a family. Asher's prayers are always very detailed. The other night it went like this..."Dear Dod (God)...thank you for my puppies and the fence that shocks them and that Cashy gets shocked...Amen." (we had to put an inground electric fence in our yard. we are not mean dog people...I promise but this is the only way we can keep them from tearing up our fence. I blogged about this problem earier.)

-We took the dogs for a walk the other day and I was walking June and Asher was walking cash. Asher: "Mom, Cash is freakin me out back here!" Me: "Why?" Asher: "He's just walkin real funny!" Not sure what Cash was doing different but it was "freakin" him out.

-I was taking him to Adam's work the other day so he could have lunch with his daddy. He yawned real big in the backseat. Me: "Oh no Ash, are you tired?" Asher: "No I just yawned." Me: "Do you need a nap?" Asher: "Yeah, I think I take one at work. Do they have a sleepin bag or something for me?" Hummmm.....do you take nap at work? Is that allowed?

-Talking about Uncle Boom's (Landry) truck. Asher: "Boom's truck is realllllll fast! It really bumpy too!" I don't remember my reply but whatever it was Asher said, "Ohhhhhhh Holy Cow!!! You need to pank his hiney!!" I seriously have no idea where he learned Holy Cow. Surely I don't say that anymore?!

There are just some of the funny stories that little boy has told me lately. I love him sooooo much and I'm sooooo glad I'm his mommy!!!

DANG IT!!!!!!

Sad times guys!!!! My camera broke!!!!! That's why I haven't blogged. I can't upload my pictures. My screen broke and I can't turn my camera on. UGHHH!!!!! I have so many cute summer pics on it. I'm gonna get it fixed...just hope it doesn't cost as much to fix it as it would to just buy a new one. Anyways...I'm super bummed out but I'm gonna work on getting those pictures because I have some good stories to tell.

Here's one funny story though, (while I'm thinking about it...)

Here's proof that Asher is definitely Adam's son... Asher LOVES music and he likes to listen to it loudly. He always tells me to turn it up. Most of the time it's Vegitales, Dr. Joan, or other kid music playing in the car but every once in a while I have to have a change in tunes. Just for my sanity. So the other we are driving along and I decide to plug in the ipod. I'm flipping through songs and Asher would say "No this one boring song" or he would bob his head try to sing along. I'm listening to some Red Hot Chili Peppers and Asher says, "No this boring...I want JOHNNY CASH!" What?!!!!! For some weird reason Asher finds Red Hot Chili Peppers boring and thinks Johnny Cash is the best singer ever. Adam - you have seriously brain washed this kid!!

Mt. Rainier

This is the base of the mountain. This is the visability they had when they started climbing.


I dont know if that's fog or cloud.


They are above the clouds now.

This area was on their path to the top. I don't know if you can see it, but there's an area of rocks that kept falling all day long, right across their path.

I love this picture. It's so beautiful. I love admiring the beauty that God created. This is a view that I will probably never see personally so I just love looking at this picture. We really have an amazing God!

There's so much more to these photos and Adam has stories for each one, but he would never post about them. Sorry you had to get the explanation from me!

Swimming

Ok first, I want you all to be impressed with my posting. This is 4 in one month!!! I know, it's even surprising me. Anyways, I think I have a fish for a son. I should probably change his name to Nemo. We live in the pool. It's wonderful since the weather here is almost unbearable. I'm so used to dry 105 degree heat. This humidity kills me so the pool is my lifesaver and it's Asher's favorite thing to do. We usually go twice a day. The nicest thing about it is that Asher is really swimming now. He recently graduated from ISR, a survival class for infants. It was such an amazing experience. He doesn't know the exact strokes, but he swims with his face in the water and rolls to his back to float when he's tired. He can swim all the way across the pool! Of course, we still stay in the water with him and help him when he needs it but the course was a serious lifesaver. Asher has NO FEAR!!!! He thinks nothing of jumping off the side and just going for it. My biggest fear was him falling in the water without floaties and thinking that he would just be able to float. Now he knows how. It's awesome! If anyone has kids who are fearless around water then this class is totally for you. Here are some pictures of Asher on his last day. They practice swimming fully clothed so that they will know what to do if they fell into a pool with clothes on.