Ashley August 2007
Ashley August 2008

Every year we go to Island Park Idaho for a week long stay with Dave's family in a large cabin. Believe it or not we manage to share this cabin with 15 people and only one bathroom!! Showers are a rare luxury during the week:) Each year I've taken a picture of Ash on the backyard swing set to see how she has grown up....so fast! We spent the week fishing, swimming in Firehole River in Yellowstone, rafting Henry's River and watching lots of movies. We share cooking duties and clean up duties and we had a great time as always.

Exciting news!

Dave and I are happy to announce that we are having another baby! So far I feel fine, just tired. I am sitting on pins and needles until I hit 6 weeks because that's when the morning sickness hit with Ash. Hopefully I'll be luckier this time around! We are due March 28th 2009, but will schedule my C-section as soon as the Dr. will let me:)

Ashley's new toy

Last night while Deb was getting her hair cut, Dave bought Ash a kitchen set to play with and spent 2 hours putting it together. she loved it so much she threw a huge fit at bedtime when we made her quit playing and go to bed.

Weekend in Capitol Reef

We spent last weekend in Capitol Reef where Dave's parents have a cabin. On Saturday we drove to Calf Creek campground/picnic area to enjoy the shallow wading and swim with Chaco. Sunday we drove up the Boulder mountain to Donkey Lake and let Chaco swim freely after throwing the ball in the water many, many times! The cousins, Alex and Gavin came down Saturday so we had a FULL cabin Saturday night with 9 people..lots of fun.

Look at that face!

A rare moment of peace in the car! Mom was thrilled:)

4th of July

Ash and the cousins
Munching on a banana
Jenny Lake hike
The BBQ
Ash and Alex, our cowgirls

We had a great 3 day weekend in Jackson Hole WY with Dave's brother and his family. We shared a 2 bedroom condo and the kids had a blast! We spent the 4th just goofing off in Jackson then watching the fireworks that night at the base of the mountain. Ash cried loudly for the first 20 minutes then slept the last 10 min. She loved the fireworks at WDW 2 months ago...go figure. On Saturday we took a boat across Jenny Lake to hike to the waterfall then went to a covered wagon BBQ. The wagon, pulled by horses takes about 30 minutes to get up the canyon. You then are dropped off at an outdoor dinner theater to eat all you can and sing cowboy songs. It was so much fun to see the kids with the horses and we even saw a few wild Indians!! The only sad part to the trip was Deb felt achy/feverish the whole time. It ended Saturday night with a fever of 102.5 and 12 hours of Tylenol induced sleep. It was a fun trip I just wished I had felt better:)

I've learned the secret!!

I am so excited to finally know how to customize my blog page! I spent a good chunk of time with Whitney Fassio (the craftiest girl I know) and she helped show me how to do this. Many, many thanks Whit:)