April 9, 2008

Here is our first attempt at a blog! How exciting... hopefully I'll be better at updating this than I am at sending photos through e-mail! Here is the e-mail I sent out earlier today for a quick post:
my mom, asher and i took a trip to Washington state the first part of March to visit family. we had a great time! we saw my sister Heidi and her husband Tony and his daughter Savannah in Kirkland, headed up to Mt. Vernon and saw my grandmother, her friend Sparky and Shamora, then headed to Wenatchee to see the Bakers. We went back to Heidi's the next weekend and then home. lot's of driving, but lots of fun too! here are photos of that trip, asher playing with his daddy when we got home (they were inseparable for days!) and also some of Easter and a day we played in the snow.

asher is growing up so quickly! he'll be one year old on saturday... can't believe it!!! he's so much fun. he has two teeth now and is very close to walking. he pulls himself up on everything and can stand by himself for quite awhile without holding onto anything. he has a walker toy from jeff's mom Darcey that he pushes around too. he loves us to chase him or he'll chase us and he laughs!! when jeff comes home from work, asher and i hide around the corner and 'scare' him when he comes in the door. that's one of his favorite games. he giggles while we're hiding and i have to tell him to be really quiet so we can scare jeff! he loves animals... my mom's cat gracie is his favorite. he'll crawl up to her and 'head butt' her and pet her. he chased lisa's cat prince all over lisa's house the other day... poor prince! and when he sees dogs or cats he makes little squeaks and reaches out or points at them.

so we have an announcement... we're getting a puppy!!!!!!! WAHOO!!! can you tell i'm excited?! it's been 3 years since my dog zeta died and i've been begging for a puppy ever since. we're getting a male golden retriever. jeff finally caved in and zeus will come home on may 12th (the day we get back from london). we're going to london to visit my brother scott, his wife maggie and their little girl marli (who we haven't met yet). lisa, pedro, my mom and our family are all going to visit. we're going to take a trip to scotland for a few days and tour london and the area as well. people told us that it was good that we traveled before we had kids since we won't be able to do it now... well, we've done more this year than we ever had before we had asher! we've been to yellowstone twice, puerto rico, new orleans, washington, and now london. as well as small trips around utah, to rexburg, etc. he's not slowing us down! we love being parents... more than we could ever have imagined. asher brings us so much happiness... his name is fitting, it means happiness. thank you all for your friendship and support. we are living the high life here in mendon. we are so thankful for all of our blessings and you all are included in those! love to everyone and i'll try to keep up better (do i say that everytime?), MK