Where's Ashton?

Ashton was playing hide-and-go-seek with daddy and he hid in this box. He wasn't a very quiet hider so daddy just messed around with him and picked up the box. We didn't know which side was up and Ashton was laughing the whole time.

He Can Crawl!!

Okay so he has been crawling for a little over a month now. He army crawled for the month of January, but I was a bad mommy and didn't get a picture of that. For the record I do not know what is in his mouth in this picture. It could be anything, this kid puts everything in his mouth and he likes to eat paper.

Baseball

Ashton loves pretty much all sports. Here he is with his bat.

Doesn't he have good form. You can see the ball flying forward in the front right corner, what you can't see is the tee. As you can tell he likes to see the tee go flying. (he is looking at the tee not the ball) I keep telling him he is supposed to hit the ball but he insists on hitting the stick. Well he hits the ball more now, but it took some work.

Grand Canyon

On the way home from our wonderful visit with the Wrights we decided to take a mini-vacation to the Grand Canyon South Rim. I am so glad that we did. This is a place that I have never been and it is absolutely breathtaking. If you have never been I highly recommend it.

When we brought Ashton up to the edge all he could say was "Whoa". Then the rest of the day he would say "Whoa, canyon big." I think that he liked it. All in all it was a great Christmas vacation.

Jump and Play

We took the kids to a jump and play playground in Arizona. They had a lot of fun. Ashton and Olivia were just old enough to enjoy most of the toys. Some of it however, was a little hard.
This is Jeff helping them climb through the obstacle course. It was pretty fun to watch and the kids were loving it.
In the basketball court I let Dallen roll around on his own. He is making this face in all of the pictures.
This is Daddy bouncing him on the edge of the giant slide. He was loving it.

Arizona for New Years

This is Dallen's first time in a swing. This is in Aunt Sally's backyard, in December. We were so happy to get out of the snow and into some nicer weather.
Ashton and Aunt Jamie were a little tired after that long drive. They were snuggled up on the couch for quite some time. It was soooo cute.
Dallen scooted himself back into the corner. That was the most he had moved himself ever. Now he scoots all over the place. No crawling yet though.
This is Ashton and Olivia on New Year's Eve around 8:00pm. We did a little celebration with the kids and then put them to bed. It was a little chilly outside but Jeff and Uncle Darren got some poppers that we had to do outside.
Before bed we tried to get a picture of all the kids together. This is all we could get to hold still, and Mason was only there for a split second. Dallen was the only one that would listen. (Ha, Ha)

Christmas Morning

This is the first look on Christmas Morning. Doesn't he look so excited. That makes it all worth it. You can see part of his track in the bottom right corner. That is his favorite toy. After he saw that he didn't want to open any presents. We had to move the track to the other room so he would open his other presents.
The morning was a little bit overwhelming for Dallen. Ashton's cars and his track were noisy and kindof scary for Dallen. (He likes them now though.) When we got him settled down with one of his toys it didn't take him long to figure out how to drive it. It was a good Christmas for our family.

Merry Christmas

We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas. This is such a fun time of year. Tonight is Christmas Eve and even at the age of 2 Ashton is pretty anxious. He got out of bed a few minutes ago 9:30pm , (he never gets out of bed) and he said, "see the toys". He knows that Santa is coming tonight. It should be a fun day tomorrow.

Temple Square

We went to Temple Square in SLC the first weekend in December. This is one of my favorite things to do at Christmas time. The boys were bundled up and I think they liked all the lights. Ashton kept telling us the colors of the lights. It was pretty cute.
We got some nice ladies to take a picture of all of us. It is pretty hard to get a picture all together so this was nice.
We left soon after this picture. (The boys were pretty much done, if you can't tell.) I love the temple in the background of this picture.

Christmas Tree

We went up into the Uintah Mountains to find our tree this year. We went the weekend before Thanksgiving and it was a really nice afternoon. We searched forever because Daddy is really picky. (He still isn't satisfied with the one we picked.)
Here we are by our Christmas Tree. This was a fun day and hopefully we can make it a tradition.