Weekend update...

Josh's first Pinewood Derby Race...

From 2009-03-02

Josh A and Josh B showing off their babies


Enjoying some popcorn and cuddles with Grampy before the big show.
It was so fun to have Grampy there to help cheer him on!


The race is on.


Josh won this round (the green striped blurr with Spikes.


The award for "Car Most Likely to Eat Someone" goes to...Josh A



Fun night!!

A field trip to the dental office! and some random things...

Last week for Savannah's preschool co-op we had a field trip at Mike's office...

Cleaning Decker's teeth while the kids watch the plaque bugs disappear!
Having fun with Doby the puppet (in the way back)


The preschool gang!


How many people does is take to make GFCF cookies?... An entire Asay family

Cooking kiddies

A"new" room...




Josh and Zach's "new" room (I love that rearranging some furniture and hanging a couple of old pictures can make them so excited and proud) I took pictures to help them remember what it's supposed to look like.

Random pictures I found on my camera...

Posing for a group hug.


this is what they usually look like :)

Love is in the air???

At least that's what we're shooting for in our house!

Our kids are usually pretty good about getting along and being nice to each other for the most part, but like most normal kids have their moments where they bug each other and bicker... well lately with them being sick and around each other more than usual (cabin fever from all the sickness!!) they've been getting on each others' nerves a little more than the norm. So we decided that Valentine's Day this year came at the perfect time for us!! This is why I LOVE our family home evening nights! I feel like it gives Mike and I the opportunity to address (in a fun and unintimidating way) things going on at home and encourage our kids to work on them. So our lesson of course was "love one another" and for the activity we decided that we would decorate personal mailboxes, write a love note to each person in our family to be delivered in our boxes on Valentine's Day. I was so happy to see some of the things that the older kids were writing on their own!! For Savannah she drew a picture with random letters and had us write what she wanted to say to that person.
It felt good to see them excited to do something nice for each other and to see what they thought of each other (when asked to think of the good stuff of course:) It brought a good a feeling to our home and they were cute with each other the rest of the night- I'm enjoying this while it lasts;)



ps- in case you're wondering if we're all better now... almost...Mike came down with the flu this weekend :(, and Josh is being treated for pink eye now...so we're tapering off now, I can just feel it.

look who's back!!

Zach is back!! After a rough week of the flu, pink eye and and an ear infection he recovered just in time for the 100th day of school- he's been talking about this for over a month now and was excited to show off his 100 pennies shirt that he made. It's so good to see my cute little guy up and about again!

Here's Zach during the parade, parents got to go and watch them... unfortunately I also got an ear infection the night before and was at home in MAJOR pain (I now have a tremendous amount of sympathy for kids with ear aches- OUCH!) Apparently they're common after the flu. Fortunately it was early enough in the morning that Mike could go and take some pictures for me.

Zach with his little buddy getting ready for the festivities.

Later that evening Josh had a 3rd grade musical... that once again I didn't get to go to. I went to the dr's office and was still waiting for the pain meds to kick in and knock me out... so super Dad and Zach got to go and watch our handsome boy sing and do his little part. (Josh is the one in the right bottom corner, this isn't the greatest footage, but good enough for me at least :)


The highlight of my week....

A french manicure with Savannah. Probably the only fun thing I did this week. She took advantage of me on the couch and brought me this box of french manicure stuff that I've never used and had me paint her nails in exchange for being such a little helper (she fed herself and Bella goldfish and caprisuns for breakfast, brought me clothes and diapers to change Bella, would bring me drinks of water and would pat me on the head every once in a while wishing me back to health:) Thanks for helping mommy get through the week!! I love my girls!

My Hero... my bestfriend...

This was a pretty interesting weekend... for the past few weeks we've had random illnesses coming through, one kid with a cold, next week another one kind of thing...you know- the norm. But then last week hit...
Zach came down with "the cold" so I kept him home for 2 days, felt better, sent him back to school, while I came down with "the cold" on Thurs. Thurs night... I'm feeling B-A-D when in the middle of the night (with out my knowing) Savannah wakes up throwing up with a blazing fever (my sweet husband washed the sheets and cleaned up Sav). Next day fri, I've gotten worse, Bella's starting to get a fever (which later came with diarrhea), Sav can't keep anything down so I call the dr and the verdict is - can you guess... THE FLU!!! ARGH!! WE all have the stinkin flu! I can't have the flu right- I'm pregnant ! Thank heavens for 1/2 day fridays for Mike- my salvation. So for the next 2 days this is how it went: throw up, diarrhea, more fever, severe congestion, cough, more throw up, more blow outs and so forth. Mike my kind, sweet, dear husband who NEVER complains managed to feed us, get the well kids to do their chores, do the laundry , grocery shop, clean up poopy and throw up messes (all over the place), help Josh with his pinewood derby project, keep the house in semi-order, and prepare his Elder's Quorum lesson for Sunday. By the way, Zach now has "the flu" and not "the cold" - poor kid has all the symptoms. So what have I learned this weekend... 1. Mike is my hero and that I need to be good to him like he is to us, 2. that the flu and pregnancy are not a good combo (duh!) 3. that with the flu you can have any variation of the above listed nasty symptoms- (Z and I had them all) 4. Last I learned to be thankful for tastebuds... yes tastebuds... I've lost 6 lbs since thurs and can't taste my food which really doesn't help. I can't even enjoy being pregnant and being able to savor food (which for me during pregnancy is the BEST part!!) So for those of you who are still reading this I'm not posting this for sympathy, but rather to brag about the amazing man that I am fortunate enough to be married to. On the upside now that Z is at his worse I'm starting to feel better so now I can do my share and take care of him. There is a light at the end of the tunnel - I can see it!
(I posted the picture of Mike in Mexico because I feel like that is where he deserves to be right now- love you babe!!)

No I'm not just fat, I'm pregnant....

So for those of you that have been wondering what happened to that skinny (ok- normal sized) girl named Caroline A.- I didn't just let myself go over the holidays (well maybe I used the baby card just a little) I'm just expecting. I've been anxious to share this for quite sometime now as I'm really bad and keeping it a secret. At 12 weeks and a dr's visit later I figured it was safe to share. We're so excited to see this little bundle make her/his debut sometime around Aug 9th. So there you go, stop wondering why I'm looking so chubby these days- it's for a good cause :)

Over the break...

We enjoyed a visit to Grammy and Grampy's in Dallas after Christmas and were able to go to holiday in the park at six flags, relax, eat too much food, sleep in, and Mike and I got to watch way too many movies (oh so fun for us) and most of all just be with people that we love. Though I got (annoyingly) sick over the break I was grateful we were still able to relax and have fun (thanks for taking good care of us!!) We always really enjoy going to visit Grammy, Grampy, Brett, and this year we missed Uncle/Elder Jeff, and the Grants! :( Love you guys!

Opening presents from Grammy and Grampy- thank you for all the fun Christmas stuff!!We love it

We got to go to six flags holiday in the park with the fam while we were there.

olympic champions Zach and Savannah

Jackson and Bella

just a few of the fun rides

getting ready for a spin

Jacks's favorite- the train (the "choo")

It was so fun to get to hang out with the Aaneruds-
even if only for a while!

This is what Savannah does anytime I ask her to smile. At least Grammy smiles at me :)

Zach always wants in on the action, while poor Grammy is getting smothered by all our kids!

Super boys!

pretty lights everywhere

yes we're in t-shirts!! I think it was like 78 degrees or something crazy-warm like that

restless kids anxiously waiting for the sled ride.

cute cousins

Mike and Grampy entertaining the busy 2 year olds

REAL SNOW!!(or atleast ice) in Texas!! this was unanimously the favorite ride for us.

Jack and Grampy sledding down the hill!

we love the merry go round

cuties

Jack's mommy- aunt Sarah with the the tiny ones

see we told Sav to smile again... and this is what she gives us

She does smile for cupcakes though We celebrated Savannah's 4th while we were there. She got to decorate her very own cupcake

making a wish

Savannah LOVES her stuff from G & G- Thank you!! We love you!

Savannah and cousin Addie (who she now constantly talks about) stylin in their gifts from Aunt Carrie- we love them - thanks Carrie and Sarah!!!

Back home to RR for New Year's we enjoyed a fun get together with some good friends (thanks Bullocks we had a blast!!) but had to rush home to put Bella to bed and ring in the New Year with some of our favorite traditions...

the awaited for pinata

Sav was cute, she hit well...like a girl!

Zach Attack!

And of course Josh monster mashed it and...

now for some CANDY!!!

getting ready to count down!! this was the before picture unfortunately (or should I say fortunately) the camera died, so you don't get to see the mass destruction that swept through our house- confetti, confetti and more confetti!! It was well worth it though!! Austin Park n Pizza To finish off the break we ended with going to Austin's Park and Pizza. Mike won an auction a while back so we got in for a measely $10 each (reg price is more than 2X that!!) and the the girls were free. What we got for $40= Fun filled, exhausting day. We got there at noon and got home at 8:30pm. So we ate lunch, played video games, rock climbed, bumper boated, go carted, mini golfed, rode some rides, did the batting cages, laser tag, ate dinner and played some more video games to finish off the day (hey after all it's all included- so of course we had to get the most bang for our buck!)Phew, it makes me tired just thinking about it. Good day and fun way to end the break.