Figured it out....

One of the reasons why I haven't been posting is my publish post button on my laptop isn't working, yes I will blame it on that. Any who, I saved the two I did and tried publishing it on my way cool Mother's Day present -an IPad- and by golly it worked. So new method for now, write on my laptop, save, then publish it on my IPad. I don't have any pictures on this and since I know how much it annoys people (Janelle) to not have pictures in my posts, I will go the extra mile:). Yes I understand that I am making my life harder by doing it this way, but what can you do?

Up coming posts:
1. Mine and Zach's cruise.....Ahh ready for another one.
2. Another BOY!!!!! Coming on August 6th.
3. Easter.
4. Vacation plans for summer.
5. Anything else people want to know.

Can't smell...

So I am sick and not being able to smell has not only affected me, but poor Gray. I can't smell his dirty diapers and his little bum is NOT happy. I am sorry Gray, hope he will forgive me soon:)

"Call me Birthday Boy.."

Today is Asher's 6th birthday, hard to believe. For those of you who may not know this little fact about Asher, he LOVES his birthday. He gave us specific instructions on how to decorate the house. What color of streamers and how to hang them, as well as the balloons. Today he told me that I needed to call him "birthday boy" not Asher. If I said Asher, he would let me know that he is the birthday boy. When we have his friend birthday party, we could call him Asher again, but until then he was the birthday boy.

Asher was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma a day later than his due date. He gave us quite the scare when I was 32 weeks. He was ready to come early...so we thought. I was then put on bed rest until 38-39 weeks, but even then I had to be careful. Well, his due date was the 24th...nothing...so we went in the following morning and started the process. My doctor broke my water and we started the pitocin. Once I got my epidural I was in heaven. I actually was sleeping, Zach was watching cribs and life was good. Then o then how things changed quickly. Nurses came rushing in, flipping me side to side, checking me and then my doctor came in and said prep for C-section. Mind you I was SLEEPING!!!!! Some one please tell me what is going on. I was getting IV'S in me, handed this nasty stuff to drink, rushed down the hall. Asher's heart rate was going down due to the lack of break in between contractions. It was too much for him. Zach and I were in shock and numb to the whole situation. My doctor at the time was awesome. He got in there, cut and pulled out sweet little Asher in seriously like 10 max seconds. You should have Zach act it out, he does a good job. We then had our little boy, healthy and happy since he was born at 12:11pm.

Asher has been such a blessing in our lives. What a perfect first baby anyone could ever ask for. He was a GREAT sleeper. He slept through the night when he was only 8weeks old. He has always been such a happy boy. He loves life and everything it has to offer. He gets so excited about any and everything thing. He has such a big heart and is always trying to make those "good choices" we are asking of him. He has such a sweet spirit and is so in tuned to the teachings of the gospel. He honestly will tell Zach and I stories and make comments and we are in awe of him. He is going to do great things in life. He teaches me daily on how to be a better person. We are so thankful for the kind, sweet, fun, energetic, thoughtful boy he is, and that Heavenly Father has blessed our family with him. I feel so privileged to be his mom, like I said he is going to do great things in his life and I get front row seats.

Thanks Asher for being a great son and big brother to not only Cohen and Gray but your soon to be brother #3. We love you!!!!! I hope your birthday was all you hoped it would be.

Here are a few pictures down memory lane with Asher. I don't think I have his baby pictures on my computer or it could just be me.

Happy Easter

Asher and Cohen love coloring eggs. I am sure Zach enjoyed it more though:-)

We had our Easter egg hunt at Jill and Adam's new house this year. They recently moved to Parker (Yay!!) into a house on 5 acres. So as you can imagine there was plently of places for the Easter Bunny to hide eggs and baskets. Like usual it was so cold and windy, but the kids didn't seem to care. We had a jolly ole' time and enjoyed a nice spread of delicious food.

These are the only pictures I have of Easter. My camera had enough with the rain from Disneyland and the sand from our cruise. What can you do? Ask for a new one, I guess.

I am alive.....just lazy

I just wanted to let you all know I am still alive, just have been sooooo lazy. I will do a better post soon with pictures and all the updates in our life. Thank you and good night!

A much needed vacation

What a great combined birthday present, totally recommend it. Zach was the brains of this vacation. Yes, I have the best husband EVER! He is so creative with his gifts no matter what the occasion may be. I want to make it clear that is not the only reason why he is the best...although it is an added bonus. We left early Saturday morning on March 5th. We flew into San Diego where we made our way to the port. You could see the boat from the airport, but we were able to catch the shuttle by Holland America so we didn't have to worry about our luggage. We went on a seven day Mexican Riviera Cruise, where we stopped in Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas.

View of downtown San Diego from our balcony.

First two days of our cruise we were at sea. We went to shows, tried to get some sun, walked around the ship, ate, and caught up on some sleep.

Zach playing a little old man's game of shuffle board.

On board they had several activities to choose from, we did the kitchen tour. They have pictures of each meal and how it should look before sending it out to eat.

Zach LOVES cheese. Every night after dessert he would order a cheese plate. They have a separate menu of 14 different kinds, but you could ONLY choose 4-they will cut you off. We figured from the pictures of presentation it would ruin the look. We had room service as well all the time and he again ordered the cheese plate.

Appetizers ready to be served for dinner. Not sure what it is now, but Zach thought it deserved a thumbs up.

This talented guy made all kinds of animals out of dough for decorations. It was pretty impressive what he could do.

Amazing!!!

FIRST STOP - PUERTO VALLARTA

We would have gone diving at some point during our cruise, but since I was pregnant that was not an option. In fact, it was kind of hard finding something we could do since the things that interested us I couldn't do. So at our first stop we just walked around the city. We went into the Sam's club and Wal*Mart to see the differences.

Now if that doesn't make you hungry I don't know what will?!?

Every night we would come in and find such cool animals.

NEXT STOP - MAZATLAN

We didn't have anything planned here. Apparently when our ship pulled up here, they had their military and police in helicopters and trucks all decked out in gear with guns. This was their way of letting all people on board know they had everything under control. A lot of people got scared by this, our room was facing the other direction so we didn't see the warm welcome. Through out the town they had people who moved to Mazatlan from the US dressed in blue volunteer shirts directing tourists and answering any questions. Zach being able to speak Spanish came in handy not just for us, but two other couples followed along.

Beautiful Catholic Church. Felt kind of weird taking pictures inside a church. It happened to be Ash Wednesday when we were there and interesting thing to see. We opted out of participating. After walking around the town we had heard of this beach (we can't remember the name of it) that was across from Mazatlan that was a boat ride away. After paying an arm and a leg to a taxi who took us on a tour, we got on a boat and made it to the beach. We went to a restaurant on the beach and ordered water and layed out for a few hours. We decided to take a different way back to the ship that was much faster and like $2 for the both of us.

After the beach we headed back to the ship for the day. Here was the nightly towel animal.

LAST STOP: CABO SAN LUCAS

Cabo is such a pretty place. This is where our ship was docked and you took boats to the main land. Here, we finally did an excursion. We went on a Rhino tour. Once on land we took a 45 minute bus ride to the ranch where our Rhino tour began.

These Rhino's were great because I got to be the passenger while Zach had the time of his life driving. We drove on the beach, up and down mountains and saw some amazing views. We looked like bank robbers with the get up we had to sport. I decided against having a picture taken of me.

Cabo was a happening tourist place. The water as you can tell was so pretty. Once we got back on the ship and were heading out the big rock with boats by it was sea lion island. They were pretty loud.

Good bye Cabo San Lucas!

The Disney Cruise Ship also made a stop in Cabo. That is a future family vacation!

Penguins by the pool.

A swan ice sculpture carved out in minutes.

Final night on board we went to a show, had a nice dinner and then packed and got ready to head home. We had such a nice, relaxing trip. Too bad it only took me months to do this post. Better late than never. Ready for our next cruise-Alaska next summer for our 10 year!!!