Our Father's Day Celebration

Since last year I felt like I didn't do too great of a job at making Father's Day special for Isaac (I blame it all on being somewhat postpartum), I decided that this year I would try to do better. I got up early and made him his favorite breakfast, homemade hash browns, eggs, sausage, toast, and orange juice. I was going to give it to him in bed, but just as I was finishing he had woke up and was already downstairs. I gave him a candy gram as part of his present, which he loved. He had never seen one before and thought that I had made it up! We finished the day with his favorite dinner, bow tie chicken pasta. I gave him his last present on Tuesday when I gave him the new Cold Play CD (which we thought was somewhat of a letdown compared to their other albums).

Anyways, I just wanted to let Isaac know that I think that he is such a great Dad. I appreciate all of his help. I love watching him play with Dylan. It's so funny to hear all of the laughter that erupts when they play together. That was something that attracted me to Isaac when we were dating. He was so sweet with our nephews and I knew that he would be such a great Dad. I was definitely right!

The candy gram
Yummy bow tie chicken pasta!

Swimming

I took these cute pictures the other day of Dylan in his inflatable pool. He had so much fun playing with his bath toys and hanging out in the water. We went swimming at my parent's house yesterday, but I forgot to bring my camera. I'll make sure to bring it next time we head over. I wish I could go everyday but gas is way too expensive to do that. It's crazy that it costs over $10 to go visit my family. Lucky for me, my parents gave me gas money this past time in exchange for haircuts. That works in my book!

Taking a break to give me a smile.

Splashing around!

Giving me a high five.

I thought that this was such a cute silhouette. I have no idea what he was staring at, but I was happy to get a shot of his side profile.

Photo Montages

My friend Vanessa has started up a business putting pictures into a video presentation. She put together a beautiful video of our wedding. You can check it out here. I am so excited about it. If you would like to have one of these done for you or no of someone who may, I would highly recommend her. Look at her other videos on the site, they are all so good!

Memorial Day Weekend

For Memorial day weekend we went to visit with my family and to spend time with Katelyn and Kimberly before they left on Monday to move to New Mexico. Besides Isaac's massive headache, we had a pretty good time. We got there on Saturday night and went to our family's favorite Mexican restaurant, El Ranchero. Sunday we had a barbecue and took some family pictures. We used Kara's fancy new camera and got some great shots. We had so much fun hanging out with everyone!



On Monday we had dinner with Isaac's family and had some very good hamburgers and hot dogs. I love watching my nephews dance around the house. They all get down! My favorite is when Cole shakes it (you can see him doing that below, he's the one with the headband around his forehead). I was going to post a super cute video but wasn't sure how Annie, my sister-in-law, would feel about me posting a video with one of her kids running around in his underwear!


Cameron has become quite the helper. He's so sweet with Dylan.

Dylan loves his Papa Ashment!

Isaac knows how to rock out!

Train conductor photo shoot

Here are some pictures of Dylan in the outfit that he was supposed to wear (minus the train shoes) for his birthday party. I was surprised that he actually kept the hat on his head for longer than 5 seconds!

Hmmm... He's being awfully quiet in there!

Through out the many different stages in Dylan's life, I've always been able to put him in something (i.e. swing, bouncer, exersaucer, jumperoo, pack-n-play) so that I could take a quick shower. But, unfortunately for me, he's outgrown all of these things. Now, I have to shut the door and leave him in his baby safe room. When I got out of the shower I noticed that I didn't hear him playing with any of his toys. When I opened the door I found him like this. I had filled a storage container with his outgrown clothes and he was sitting inside it! Notice the green toothbrush in his hand that he carries around with him whenever he gets the chance! He had it in his hand when I left him, and still had it when I came back! How funny!

No Mom! Let me do it!

For so long I have tried to prevent Dylan from feeding himself. It's a good thing to learn how to feed yourself but I have tried to not allow it because it is SO messy and wasteful! The other night he would not have it any longer. He took my spoon and cried every time I tried to steal it back. So I let in and gave him the spoon. I grabbed another spoon so that he could hold one and so that I could still feed him as well. Then he took that one too! Oh dear! I'll be so glad when he gets this all figured out !