you're welcome, candy lovers

You're welcome, Jeff, Mags, Pops, Ansley and Aunt Alice! Julie, Asher and I rode bikes to the grocery store to fulfill all your sugar dreams! We bought 132 GBPs worth of chocolate, gummis and other sweets. Julie carried the load on her back. The full backpack weighed much more than Asher (22 lbs.), so we're guessing it was probably around 35 lbs. The lady at the checkout thought we were nuts, but we explained to her that we were getting all of this for people in the States. It was a great ride for a great cause! Enjoy all your goodies when they arrive.

The massive pile of sweets

Strong Julie with all the goodies

Fun times!

absolutely fantastic!

Fantastic husband! Fantastic surprise getaway with just the two of us! Fantastic hotel! Fantastic food! Fantastic show! Fantastic sister who stayed with Asher!

The Park Plaza Riverfront--where we stayed. It's on the Thames River, just across from Parliament. Great views!

Our Room

Our Bathroom

Ice Cream for dessert...this is how it was served

WONDERFUL Show! Go see it if you haven't! Music was phenomenal!

Standing along the river outside our hotel. Big Ben lit up in the background.

asher with auntie julie

Asher got to spend a fun-filled night with Auntie Julie while Dada took Mama on a surprise getaway to London! Dada took Mama to a nice 4-star hotel on the Thames and to a great Sushi dinner and to see "Phantom of the Opera." They had a fabulous time! Asher and Auntie Julie had a blast, too! Here are some videos of their fun times...

quasi walking

Sunday night, Asher grabbed his push toy and started walking back and forth across the living room. This might not seem like such a big deal, because, afterall, that is what that toy is for. Well, up until Sunday night, he would push it and get his arms so far out in front of him, and never move his legs then he'd just fall down. So I guess this means he might be walking soon. Auntie Julie is here for a week, so maybe he'll start walking while she's here! That would be super fun! We'll practice, practice, practice...

asher's 1st b'day and dedication

Asher had a lot going on in the month of May. May 10th was his first birthday! His Aunt Abi threw him a big, super fun birthday party with lots of his favorite people! A week later, we dedicated him at church. We had lots of good friends come out and support us for that, and we are so grateful for them and their prayers and support as we venture on this parenting thing....yikes! We need your prayers. Thank you! We were also very excited that Pops and Gram were able to make it out here for his dedication. They definitely had the longest trip to get here for it! Here are pictures from the big days.

Birthday King

Dori and Aunt Abi (Dori isn't prego any more!!! Welcome Baby Charlotte!!)

Asher always had lots of help from friends opening presents!

A and A

A and E

Emily, Noah, Whitney, Katie

The yellow cake

The chocolate cake (we had a lot of people to feed). We made sure to never put the cakes side by side so then it didn't look like "11"

The food table

The presents!

Sitting with his buddy, Brady, doing "Touchdown!"

crash and crawl

I was in the kitchen this morning and heard a loud CRASH from the living room. I immediately knew what it was. Asher pulled over a candle stand with a glass hurricane on it, and well, the hurricane didn't survive. This will be the first of many I'm sure. Oh well. No one was hurt so that's good. Proof of Asher's destruction...

The second excitement of the day was he started crawling A LOT today. Apparently he just wanted to wait until Uncle Matt came home from Downrange and Dada came home from Romania to crawl. We were at Uncle Matt's and Aunt Abi's today and Uncle Matt chased him all around the first floor crawling. Asher's favorite thing to do is to take a toy, like a ball, and throw it up in the air and in front of him and then crawl to it and he'll do that across an entire room. It's pretty funny to watch. Check out Asher and his new skillz...

christ is risen

Here are some pictures from our Easter. Asher and I had a great day! Of course it would have been better having Ryan around, but we spent the day with great friends! We went to church with our friends the Meads, Ally and Lily, Katie and Kristen. After church we went to the O'Club at M'hall for an Easter Brunch which was yummy and Asher got to see the Easter Bunny. He didn't really think much of him. He was more interested in the food! We came home and Asher took a good nap while I made a Sweet Potato Casserole, then went over to the Meads for a great Easter Dinner. It was super yummy and we had a great time. Here are some pictures of Asher playing with his friends Ella, Lily and Taylor (he's a pimp).

Asher, Ella, Taylor

Lily (Her Daddy would be proud)

Asher, Ella, Taylor

Ella, Asher, Taylor

Ella, Asher