Category archives: Ashley

 

 

Christmas Cookies

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We baked and decorated Christmas cookies today with our friends Jan and Brody.  The kids loved it and it was neat seeing how differently they decorated their cookies.  Brody was more interested in eating the cookies plain and Ashley was more interested in eating the icing off the cookies.  They also loved eating the sprinkles.  [...]

 

Gingerbread House

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Ashley and I worked on our gingerbread house this week!  I set it up on her little table so she would have easy access to help me decorate and then cranked up the Christmas tunes.  She was doing good until she realized that the white stuff was icing!  So as I was working on one [...]

 

 

The Winter Blues

Ashley has been sick with a virus this week.  It started in the wee mornings hours on Wednesday with vomiting.  And now it’s a fever that comes and goes.  One minute, once the medicine has taken hold, she eats, drinks, smiles, and plays.  But once the medicine wears off, she quickly goes downhill as her [...]

 

So Proud!

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I have to brag about Ashley a little.  I am so stinkin’ proud of her!  For those of you that don’t know her very well, she is very introverted in public and social situations.  She’s a crazy wild woman at home, but it takes her a while to warm up to people in public.  She’s [...]

 

I Am Thankful

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How was everyone’s Thanksgiving?  Good I hope!  Mine wasn’t exactly as planned. I originally drafted a long post complaining about how nothing went right over Thanksgiving.  But after reading it, I felt like I was rambling so I will shorten it up for you.  Basically, we had to cancel our original plans (having Thanksgiving dinner [...]

 

Love the Lake

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We had such a great time at Smith Mountain Lake this weekend!  Now that we are home, I feel like I have a little more time to blog about it. So the drive there on Thursday was quite an adventure.  You wind through the mountain, part of it on an unmarked road, to get to [...]

 

Smith Mountain Lake

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Today is my birthday and what better way to celebrate than with good friends at Smith Mountain Lake!  We rented a house up here for the weekend.  It’s been a lot of fun so far and the kids are having a blast together.  Here are some pictures from our first day!

 

Supernanny, Where Are You?

“Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.” –C. Everette Koop   Parenting is hard.  It is rewarding, challenging, exhausting, yet provides a sense of accomplishment and purpose in life.  I always believed I was destined to be a Mom.  But I had no idea how hard it [...]

 

Apple Addict

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We have lots of Apple products in our house.  From iPods, iPhones, and iPad to a Mac mini; we are lovers of all things “Apple”.  So it’s no surprise that Ashley loves them, too.  We even turned the reigns of the iPad over to her because she was using it more than we were.  She’s [...]