Today Ashton has...

knocked over a lamp.

pulled the vacuum down on top of himself.

figured out how to open cabinents.

gotten under the kitchen sink.

pulled up and grabbed onto the oven handle (while it was on).
used the toilet to stand up and proceeded to unroll the whole roll of toilet paper.

Remind me why I wanted him to be mobile sooo badly.

No New News

So I thought I'd share my desktop picture from my laptop. I don't know if Ashton thinks he's a football or superman - either way he's completely content.

San Antonio

We got back yesterday from our vacation to San Antonio with David's family. It was hotter than stink but we had A LOT of fun!

The first day we headed to the Alamo...
But it was so hot that we decided to spend our time in the souvenir shops...

This is the fam minus 2 brothers and their wives. We filled up every seat in the van on the way down. It was pretty funny.

We discovered the wall of hats was more entertaining than standing outside in the heat.

Ashton was sweating to death but he looked good in his little racoon hat.

These are David's parents.

Don't you wish your in-laws were as cool as mine and had dread locks?

David and his little brother Cody were looking at the romance machine. I think they decided on passionate and sexy.

Don't quit your day jobs boys!

What on earth is going on in this picture you might ask? See video #2 at the bottom of the blog for the full explanation. At our dinner on the River Walk they had a Mexican Band go aroudn to all the tables to play something. We requested the Devil Went Down To Georgia. Don't let Ashton's face fool you - he really liked it.

Us on the River Walk. So cool. We're defintiely going back there some day.

Now onto SEA WORLD!

David was the star of the sea lion pre-show.

He is actually proposing to this girl.

She was doing this big theatrical miming act with the audience and picked David out as her crush. It was hilarious. She tricked him into getting onto his knee and then asked for a kiss on the cheek and turned her head for a real kiss. To see David dancing infront of a huge audience see video #1. (And here I was thinking he was shy....)

Here is Ashton enjoying Shamu. You can see how bad he was sweating the poor kid. Can we say HEAT WAVE!! Shamu was better than I could have imagined. I'm not an animal lover nor did I expect to be wowed by a whale. But the show was amazing and was set around believing that anything is possible. The videos, the music and the trainer basically dancing with this killer whale made me cry. YES, I cried at the Shamu show. You would have too... it was MAGICAL.

This is Ashton's new best friend. He spent most of the early mornings in our hotel room playing with him. I think they are a match made in Heaven.

And in case you wonder what Ashton does if I'm blogging while he's awake this is it. He dumps out our basket of junk from the computer desk and is happy for a good 20 minutes. His recent favorites are the metal whole punch and the gym key.

After Sea World we headed to Schlitterbahn, one of the biggest water parks in the U.S. It was really huge and a lot of fun. Ashton loved the kiddie pool and since we couldn't do a lot of the big rides.

Other news: Ashton is "real" crawling everywhere and has been for almost 2 weeks. He can eat a whole vanilla wafer without anyone breaking it apart for him. And our thrush is almost gone (thank goodness).

And we have officially 9 days left before David goes back to school. Now to go take advantage of it...
 

This is serious karma...

This is yours truly.Out of all 8 kids my mom only got thrush with me.

And here is my baby boy with his genetian vioilet meds treating his thrush.

I deserved this.

If you have no idea what thrush is, thank your lucky stars.

It's 2 in the morning and I'm updating my blog...

am I sick or what?

David has been out of school since July 11th so we've both been home all day. It's the best. We've been home from Utah for a week now and are just about the 2 laziest people you have ever met. We decided to start watching Lost on abc.com starting from season 1. Basically during all of Ashton's naps and when he goes to bed at 7 we are in bed watching Lost b/c the computer is in our bedroom. We even bought a wireless mouse for the sole purpose of not having to get up after the commercials to click contine. We're acting like crazed college students because we've been staying up until 2am to watch "just 1 more episode" that turns into 3 hours of fun. Anyway, tonight it finally hit me that I can't live on 5 hours of sleep so I crashed at 8pm only to wake up at midnight. So David took pity on me and we watched another episode and a half. Now he is passed out and I am up trying to kill time until I am tired again. Ohh the irony of it all.

Anyway, it's been so nice having him home and I'll have him all to myself for almost another month! This summer has been one of the only redeeming things about dental school.

I haven't uploaded any new pictures so I'll give a quick update on Ashton or as we like to call him "the bug".

*He is not yet really crawling but his army crawl is fast enough to get him out of our line of site in a matter of seconds.
*He still has a CRAZY love for water. He can spot a water bottle from 30 feet away.
*He chews on EVERYTHING still only has his bottom 2 teeth.
*If I start singing to him he'll make a loud "baaa baaa" and try to drown me out. It's amazing that he already knows I'm tone deaf. You might try to tell me he's singing with me but I know better.

Until my next 2am 2:30am update...

Warning: Picture Overload Below

Well it's the 4th of July and that only means one thing: Family Reunion in Midway.
It was a GREAT weekend with lots of laughs. I love the 4th of July. My Dad had all the kids sing Happy Birthday to America. I'm grateful I grew up in a very patriotic family with parents who reminded me how blessed we are to live in a free country. And having Josh in Afghanistan over the 4th hit home for all of us. At church on Sunday the closing song was the Battle Hymn of the Republic. The verse that reads "As He died to make men holy, Let us live to make men free..." really made me proud of Josh.
Now onto the weekend:
Ashton was SO glad to be out of the airplane. I caught him army crawling out of our room.
Does this picture alone make you want to be an Ashton grandkid? Abe took all the kids up Memorial Hill in his little ranger. I still can't believe they all fit.

This is Ashton and his newest baby cousin Owen look at the kid's feet! Everyone calls them skiis. What a difference 7 months makes huh?? Ashton looks HUGE!

There are all the girls in the family who had babies within a year of eachother. All 6 of us. The funny thing is Mandy is 6 months pregnant!!

This was too funny not to post. This is my nephew Will. Don't you love it, Kara?

This is only HALF of my parent's backyard. Paired with Utah weather this place is heavenly!

The 4 sisters and Mom!

We were taking pictures of the grandkids in a row and all the cows started to line up against the fence behind them in a row too. They were ready for their closeup apparently.

And here is the family picture. In the matching shirts that say "Ashton -08". As soon as Ashton can read I'm sure he'll be very impressed that everyone is actually wearing his name.

Here are the 19 grandkids. Notice some of the babies are holding on for dear life.

And last but not least TODAY is our 2 year anniversary. I don't know what I ever did without David.

Never going to the grocery store again...

Our nearest grocery store is about 3 miles away and it's an Albertson's. To get to the grocery store that is cheaper it's about 7-8 miles away. But, today David & I went to the Farmer's Market. It CHANGED MY LIFE. Yes, this is what it is really like. The picture doesn't feature the vendors begging you to sample their fruits. We had almost a complete breakfast of FREE fruit.
Good thing we're going out of town in 4 days or we would have spent a lot more.

This was our loot. We got it all for $18.00. And I'm pretty sure we only spent about $.50 on gas getting there.

So this is a shout out to all you Dallas Folks. Why aren't you going to the Farmer's Market? And if you have been - WHY HAVEN'T YOU TOLD US ABOUT IT?

I can't believe we've lived downtown for 2 years and this is the first time we've been. I'm resting calmly that we'll be able to take advantage of this for another blessed 2 years. YUM.

Now I'm off to eat my waffles with fresh strawberries!