Halloween adventures

This year my sweet hearts had their very own ideas of who they wanted to be for Halloween. Holden always changes his mind several times before the big day so we always wait until the last min to actual set it in writing but little miss Ashlynn knew the minute I asked and never changed her mind she could be no one else but Snow White. Holden's mind changed from a ninja turtle to karate Elvis to a vampire and finally to an 80's punk rock vampire as in the movie the lost boys their current favorite movie thanks to Dad.

Billy went to a concert that night that he just couldn't miss so I enlisted Sarah the great to help us trick or treat and to keep us safe she knows tae kwon do and is a kick boxer and punched a guy in the face while in the MTC (jokingly of course but everyone heard it and turned around to stare in shock and he never joked with her again about punching him in the face) Nobody messes with Sarah

No one in my house is shy of strangers when candy is involved


After about half hour of this neighborhood Ashlynn batted her eyes and made Sarah carry her, but the almighty Sarah picked her up and kept on trekking only to turn around to tell me I'm a slow poke good thing she came cause I wasn't going to carry her

The kids had a blast and so did Sarah and I and then we had fun checking the candy after the kids went to bed.

Holden's first day of 2nd grade

My Birthday Present

Yes I know it was in August.

Holden's birthday is three days before mine but it just so happened we celebrated his birthday on mine which is fine by me I really don't like making a big deal just a nice dinner with my hubby is all I need but this year Billy gave me a beautiful surprise before Holden's party. Oh he knows me so well, I need new hobbies to keep me sane and he is all the happier supporting my silliness. This year I decided to try my hand at carpentry and it turns out I'm actually pretty good so he decided to add some more pieces to my collection, it even has a laser level. I already have a skill saw but this one makes me so happy, the first thing I built was a couple of chairs for the kids table which they enjoy every day.

Next I need to get my hands on a jig saw and a nail gun and oh the possibilities. I suppose I'll need to be building a couple more chairs to match

I don't have time for this

I'd rather be taking a nap since this is the last while I'll be able to, it won't be long before Ashlynn gives up on her nap time. If stupid blogspot didn't take so long to upload pictures I would be up to date on my blog but alas I don't have time so all my updates are late.


There I'm done complaining now, stay tuned for fun adventures

Family portraits

I don't know how long it's been since we've had family portraits that I actually like. I mean the studio kinds are nice but just not my style so thankfully Greg lent us his time and took some really good pictures, ones that I can be proud to hang on my wall and it's about time too we have lived in our new house for 7 months now and still don't have any pictures on the wall just empty frames that everyone always asks if they are empty on purpose as decoration, no I just haven't found the pictures of display in them. Thats what I get for being too picky.

beautiful

How dare I make them wear nice clothes and pose for pictures .

My brother Greg was nice enough to take some family photos of us and these are just the funny ones he got some really nice shots too.

I feel old now

2555 days ago I reluctantly faked being in labor and to my surprise it actually resulted in a baby being born. Lucky for me I was only in labor for 8 hours, pushed for half an hour and out came a perfect little person/creature with red peach fuzz weighing 8 lbs 6oz who was now my responsibility, his name, William Holden Dassler!

Over the passed 7 years my darling son has been nothing what I had expected I foolishly assumed he would be mellow and calm and always stay right by my side afraid to leave the security of my leg, I thought he would be shy and need my encouragement to go play with the other kids and have fun, but oh how I was so very very wrong. He is exactly opposite of everything I imagined. He is confident and outgoing, he makes friends very easily and never sits still, he has more energy than I thought was humanly possible, and quite the little ladies man apparently, he's already had two sweet young ladies plan their future nuptials. I love his personality and I wish I can say he gets all these great qualities from me but alas it's his Father with the personality and confidence in life that has giving him such a good example and inspired me to help him become such an awesome little man. Here's to you El Guapo even though you make me feel old.

Dear Holden, you make me smile and laugh everyday, you wear your shirts backwards or inside out or both on purpose just because you want to, when I say thanks for behaving so well today you tell me it's because your starting to act like a man now, you want to be just like your dad and think he is so cool. You like to wear deodorant even though you don't need it, you love your vegetables and get excited when the bread they pass in sacrament is wheat bread, you ask for green smoothies with lots of spinach, you love your family especially your Oma you can talk her into almost anything, I don't know why but you want to go to China and ask me several times a week when I think we'll be able to go there. You never clean your room, you take your sweet time to do things which is pretty annoying when we're all waiting to leave and you still don't have your shoes on or have brushed your teeth. You tell me that snakes are God's creatures too so I have to like them, you hold them up to my face even though you know I'm scared, you shout where to go and what to do when I'm trying to play super mario bros. You can always talk your Dad into getting you Slurpee's you usually start by saying oh dad it's such a hot day don't you think, maybe we should get something to cool us off, Slurpee's would cool us off how bout we head to 7-11 real quick. I love you very much and I hope you never change. Love Mom.