Busy Busy May

This month has started out amazingly busy.  May is very eventful at our house!  David and my anniversary is on the 3rd, my birthday is the 5th, and Mother's Day was the 8th!  Also, David's mom came to visit and we were able to spend a weekend with her.  Here are lots of pictures!

David can fall asleep anywhere, and Asher still wanted to sit in his spot on the couch!

4 generations!  David's grandma had an accident and so we went to visit her in the rehab facility.

We like to spend a lot of time outside.

David and Asher putting candles on my cake.

David plays in the West Jordan Symphony.  This lady has the coolest scroll!  It's carved in the shape of a dragon's head.

The day after my birthday my parents and sisters made a surprise trip down here!  They showed us my Dad's new truck and brought us a kitchen table and dresser!  On Saturday we went to the Museum of Natural Curiosity in Lehi.  It was mostly for Asher, but I think we all had fun.  I loved having them here!

Asher playing cars with Grandpa.

We all made it across the rope bridge!  Even with my Dad being terrifying and trying to run everyone over.

Asher was so brave on the bridge and had a lot of fun in the airplane!

The crew.

In the wind vortex!  Also, Joni is 7 months pregnant.  Can't you tell?

I think the music room was Asher's favorite!  He loves playing the piano.

Making sand patterns on the wheel.

Puppet theater!

April Showers Bring May Flowers

Starting last fall, my sweet grandmother started getting sick.  Over the coming months she continued to get worse and worse and none of the doctors she was seeing could figure out what was wrong.  Early this month, she passed away.  Her whole family was very sad about it, but we all knew she had lived a good life and was ready to see her husband and little boy that were waiting in heaven for her! 

She taught me many great things.  She was the greatest yarner I've ever seen.  She could knit and crochet, even when her eyesight started going and she had to do it all by feel!  She had the most beautiful jewelry and loved anything gold.  I once had a pair of gold shoes that she always commented on how much she loved them.  She was so kind and lovely and lived her life for her family.  My uncle gave an amazing life sketch that he put on his blog if you would like to read it. We love you and will miss you!

As sad as it was for the reason for our visit, I always love it when we get to visit Idaho.  I think Idaho will always be home for me.  David drove Asher, Millie, and I halfway to Idaho where my dad met us and drove us to Rexburg.  David came up a couple days later in time for the funeral.  Almost our entire extended family was together for the funeral. There was such a sweet spirit with us that whole week.  I only have a few pictures from that week so here they are!

When we first got Millie, Oscar wasn't a big fan.  But this trip they got along really well! (most of the time)

Twinner crazy boys eating candy.  These two are such great buds!

More buds!

Asher and Ledger.  Even after we left they kept asking about each other.

At the cemetery.  David was kind enough to chase the boys around so Joni and I could spend time with the family.

My mother handled everything so well.  It was a tough week and I'm glad we live close enough to be there to support her when she needs us!

Asher has been doing so much better with his speech and even sings songs with me!  It makes me a little emotional to think about where he was 6 months ago versus where he is now.  He has made so much progress.  I love that now that he's able to vocalize his quirky, funny personality is shining through so much better.  He likes to say the "5 Little Monkeys" rhyme, loves songs that have actions like Popcorn Popping, loves to help cook, and wants to be involved in anything David and I are doing!  When I am sewing, he likes to stick his little nose right up to what I'm doing and is supremely fascinated by my sewing machine.  Here are a few more pictures of our April.

David insists Millie is a lap-dog.

Grandma Mitchell was nice enough to lend Asher a puzzle that he has put together about 100 times since we got home.

 Asher has never tried to get out of his crib by himself, but he's basically outgrown it so we decided it was time to move him up to a big boy bed.  David didn't like the options to buy bed frames so he wanted to build it instead.  And he volunteered me as his helper.  I really don't like woodworking, but do my best to be supportive of what David's doing.  So I try not to complain too much and David tries not to be annoyed when I have no idea what I'm doing and mess things up.

Asher and I "helping" David get stuff at Home Depot.  Asher did his best to climb all over everything and move stuff around and I was unhelpful and couldn't help David lift stuff off the shelves.

Asher and Millie love it when we work outside.  Millie loves chilling and Asher likes exploring.  I can't wait until we can get our own backyard!

March Fun

March has been a busy month.  David's groups at school have been having festival this month, and since he teaches 3 different subjects, he has 3 different festival's to prepare for.  He's also had 2 other concerts just for fun!  So he's been very tired and exhausted lately.  His groups are all doing really well, though, so he's doing a good job!  In the midst of all this craziness, he had a birthday!  I was pretty small and quiet, but I think that's what he preferred.  He requested sushi for dinner and a cookies and cream ice cream cake!  Happy birthday David!

Asher got Wendy's because I knew he wouldn't like the sushi.  He was pretty excited about it.

A few days after David's birthday, Asher and I headed to Idaho for my nephew's kemem.  Isaac was adopted a year ago after his birth.  He is Marshallese (Pacific Islands) and the kemem is traditionally a celebration that the baby made it through their first year.  My sister tries to include parts of their culture because both of her babies are from the Marshall Islands.  So we went to Idaho to have fun at this big party!  There was a lot of food and leis and she even got some dancers from the Polynesian Society on campus to do a few dances!  We didn't stay long, but had a lot of fun.  And Asher loved seeing all his cousins!  I wish we lived closer!

I let Asher take a car to bed with him at night.  This was his pick at Grandma's house!

Chickens!

Ledger and Asher thought the nursery room was more fun than the  kemem.

My cute little baby!

Polynesian dancers, they were really good!

Doing the Haka

Happy birthday Isaac!

My mom with her mother and most of her siblings.

Asher loves Millie.  Sometimes very aggressively.

After haircut!  He is really good during haircuts and doesn't mind it as long as I let him watch his show.

About once a week the fire department takes their trucks out and does inspections.  There's a guy clear at the top of the ladder!  It's really interesting to watch!

I just love this little boy!

February

I did a lot better at taking pictures in February than in January!  We didn't have too much going on, so this post will be mostly pictures.  Valentine's weekend we drove up to Rexburg so we could meet with the guy who does our taxes.  I am very glad we have someone else do it!  I hate taxes and think it is so worth it to have someone else deal with all that paperwork, and he always gets us more money than we would get it we did it ourselves!  I was especially glad we had him do it this year because we had 3 moves that were tax deductible, and me just trying to get all the receipts together gave me a headache.  And he did get us lots of money back that will all basically go to paying off debt from all the moving we did!  But we should be pretty stable now and hopefully no moves this year! Now here are some pictures!

 

Asher didn't want to get out of his crib after a nap one day.  So I gave him a buddy.  I was a little worried the crib wouldn't be able to hold the extra 50 pounds. But Asher thought it was hilarious!

There's a little playground across the street from us that we spend a lot of time at.  One day this little girl was out there and thought Asher was lots of fun and spent the whole time following him around!

Watching tv.  He likes to be all snuggly warm.

Cousins!  We had a lot of fun in Rexburg!

Everybody loves the marble works!  Except Andy who was trying to sleep in the next room.

David giving Asher a cello lesson.

I had to leave right after David got home from work.  I came back to David asleep, but Asher looked nice and cozy!

Asher loves David's headphones.

David complained that he wasn't in my last few blog posts, so I told him if he wanted to be in the blog, he had to let me take pictures of him!

The family.