~The Toothfairy Comes Tonight~

A few days after his birthday Grandma Nicole saw that Ashton had a loose tooth. He had known about it for a while, but didn't tell anyone because he was trying to put it back in :) I guess he thought he was going to be in trouble. This is what it looked like an hour before his dad got home today! This is what it looked like 5 seconds after his dad got home today!
I took a billion pictures of Ashton because he wouldn't hold still so of course the other little ones wanted pictures too. Ashton and Brielle are going to have the exact opposite amount of teeth...but you can't get a picture of hers without her tongue or fingers covering them up :)

Dallen was trying to get in every picture, but of course when I try to get a pic of him he won't hold still for 2 seconds! But when he does its a good one!

And then I tried to get all 3! Gotta love em'!!!

hE's FiVe

I wouldn't believe that Jeff and I had a 5 year old if he wasn't right in front of my face ;). Seriously though 5 just seems soooo old. He is going to be in preschool this year....I can't even comprehend the fact that we could have put him in kindergarten this year. Anyway moving on :)



I asked Ashton what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday. Most kids would say chocolate or vanilla maybe....but I was prepared for something else. He has asked for a basketball cake every year since he was 2! This year he said he wanted an Optimus Prime cake. He meant it too! He wanted the cake to look like Optimus...who does he think I am.....we don't have an ace of cakes out here! So I did the best that I could being the amateur that I am. This is what I came up with. I'm not gonna lie...He was a little disappointed, but after I explained to him the Ace of Cakes thing he understood and was happy. (I was proud of myself)

He was very specific about what he wanted for his birthday this year. My mom and I looked all over the store for Battle Strikers....I didn't even know what they were. He loved all of his presents.

When we went to cut the cake Ashton said he wanted the autobot part. So I was telling Jeff that Ashton wanted part of the face thing. Ashton quickly corrected me and said no the whole thing! It was his birthday afterall :) He didn't end up eating that whole piece.....he gave his all though.

I had to throw this one in. I have a pic like this of Dallen at every birthday party he has ever been to.






Here are the other guests at the party....well the cute ones anyway ;)

Play in the Pool Lessons

This year Ashton took "Play in the pool lessons" the second week of July. Don't get me wrong I'm cool with the little ones playing in the pool, but when I saw all the stuff they were supposed to be doing to pass off the preschool level....I was left wondering when they taught all that stuff because I didn't see it once. He loved it though. Dallen unfortunately wasn't old enough :(

He was a good little rule follower! He never got into the pool with out his teachers permission.

He is the one on the end turning his head back so his face wouldn't get wet.

He would not dunk his head. He informed his teacher that he would do it when he was 5. In his defense he kept to his word. We went swimming last week and he dunked his head 4 times :) He is a silly kid!

Our Favorite Fireworks Tradition

For the past couple of years Jeff has set off fireworks in front of our house. I love doing it! We just buy the packs you can get from Walmart and the boys love them just the same as the big ones. We sit on our little trampoline and get out some lawn chairs if more people come. It's just a good time!
The boys get really excited about it. (The little sweetie was already in bed and she stayed asleep the whole time.)

We let Ashton do a sparkler this year. Dallen wouldn't go near the things :)

Cowboys....and girl

Father's Day weekend we moved my Dad's cows onto the Mountain.

Ashton absolutely loves riding horses. Looks like we have a cowboy on our hands.

(he takes this puppy everywhere)

Dallen not so much. I didn't think that we would get him on a horse but......

Uncle Casey talked him into it. You can see his little hand holding on for dear life on the right side.

And he kept riding. He did a great job.


Brielle was happy in the truck until....

She became a cowgirl! ;)

Funny story about the cowboy boots! Ashton needed some new ones so Grandma Nicole took him boot shopping. As soon as he saw those blue boots he wouldn't even try on other ones. Believe me we tried! My mom and I are not huge fans but he fell in love :). So she got him the ones he wanted. Dallen on the other hand would not look at any boots, but when we got home and Ashton had boots on and Daddy had boots on he had to wear some too. Luckily we still had Ashton's old ones from Grandma Kathleen and Grandpa Jimmy.

I Don't Know If I Like This :P

A few weeks ago Brielle got her first taste of solidish food. (rice cereal mixed with water and gerber apple juice) Here's how it went.

I think it went "OK" ;) She loves it now. Her favorite is pears!

I'll Hold Her

I want to hold her mom! Well maybe not.......

Well okay, I want to hold her.......

I changed my mind I don't want to hold her......

I love my baby sister! Although she doesn't know what to think about me ;)

Tough little Man

Yesterday we were at the park and Ashton fell on the stairs, splitting is eyebrow pretty bad. After some encouragement from my mother and a few others I took him to the ER. This was our first stitches. He had to be sedated and that was maybe the worst part for me :). I caught glimpses of what was going on, but I couldn't watch. I just held his hands (adrianna had his feet). He got 6 stitches on the inside and 7 on the outside. Whenever he sees it he just says "oh" :) he is more concerned about the shot he had to get to be sedated.

This morning I asked him how he was doing and if he wanted to see his owie. He looked and then he said, " Don't worry mom, I'm not sad." What a tough little man.

Who had a BiRtHdAy?

It was Dallen 2 or 3 weeks ago :)! He turned 3...can you believe that! I have a picture just like this one when he turned 1. He had a great birthday...for a kid who for weeks leading up to his birthday said he didn't want one. Ya...I don't know what was going on with that.

Toy Story and Transformers....what more could a kid ask for? Well it turns out a lot more. He got some great gifts this year that he loves from all of his family.

And of course the Dallen cake face. He looks like this every time he eats cake. He hasn't changed his technique since he was a year old :)

Maybe we "ARE" on T.V.

This is the conversation I just had with my "4" year old. Very deep!

Ashton: Maybe the Monsters are watching us on t.v. on their planet.
Me: (confused) Where did you see this honey?
Ashton: Nowhere I just thought it.
Me: Oh...(I have to tell him monsters aren't real and we are not on a television show ect...)
Ashton: Yeah, maybe at the movies; their's are just longer.
Me: (chuckling a little thinking about our whole lives being a movie and that he came up with that...oh yah I need to tell him that monsters aren't real and we are not....oh well he has already moved on)