Good times with friends

Our good friends Brian and Jessie (and their girls) came to visit us for a day and a half. We wished we had better weather while they were here visiting but it was still good to have them here. The girls wanted to golf every minute that they could, but the paying customers didn't really like that idea so we only let them run around after the flags had been pulled. Friday night we put Asher to sleep, put a movie on for the girls and the adults played cards. Of course, we played Rummy, I think that's James' favorite game of all time. And according to James, I won, but I actually think he won, he had more points then me but I guess since I went out I got to 500 before him. Anyway, it was a lot of fun and we were sad to see them go this morning. But they had to get home and get ready for the Easter Bunny to visit. I hope everyone has a great Easter holiday tomorrow. I will, of course, have pictures of Asher's first Easter up soon for all to see. Until then...have a great holiday!

Christmas Eve with the Wellers

For Christmas Eve we went to our friends house to have dinner with them. It was a lot of fun. We had great food, great conversation and it left us with great memories. After James, Asher and I left we stopped by James' parents house to wish them a merry Christmas Eve and then headed home. Asher was exhausted and went right to sleep (remember he and I had been up since 6 that morning, of course he had naps). With Asher asleep and the rest of the kids at their other parents house that left just James and me so we decided to stick with trandition and watch Christmas Vacation. I have to watch that movie every year. Usually we watch it Thanksgiving weekend to get us in the Christmas spirit but we kept forgetting about it. I didn't make it through the whole movie, I was so tired. But it was a great night and I'm so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family in my life. Here are a few pictures:

Its way too early!

So Asher has this new schedule...and it involves waking up at 6 am with so much energy there is no hope for him falling back asleep. This is the 4th day in a row he has gotten up this early. He was sleeping until 8 am before this and I had no idea how wonderful I had it until now!

Well its Christmas Eve. I can't believe this year has gone by so quickly. Its been year of such highs and lows that I can't decide if I'm sad to see it come to an end or happy. Asher is such a blessing to our family (even when he wakes up at 6 am). He is like the glue that holds us all together, I'm not really sure why we waited so long to have him. I am sad that we won't be in California this Christmas Eve to have our Riley Christmas with my dad and Kimmie. We will miss everyone there, but we are looking forward to Dad and Kimmie's visit the day after Christmas. I miss Bailey tons this year. I think its because he has been talking about moving to his dad's the end of this school and I am just beginning to realize how much I will miss him when he does move there. I know that he is having a great time there though and that makes me happy.

We are going to our friends the Weller's house tonight to have a family candlelight dinner. I am really looking forward to that. We really enjoying spending time with them. Patti is due any day now with her little boy and I can't wait to meet him. I'm just happy that someone else is having a little boy so I can give away all of the clothes Asher never fit into. All of my other friends and family that are pregnant are having little girls.

I thought it would be fun to post some pictures from Christmases past so everyone can see just how much our kids have grown since James and I got married.