Family Vacation/ Spring Break 2009 Part 1 (Animal Kingdom)

Disney Fever!!!

We're going to Disney World! For Christmas this year our family gift was a family trip to Orlando, over spring break to visit my parents and of course while we're there go see Mickey! We have been counting down since then and let me tell you... our family has a bad case of Disney Fever!!!! That's all the kids (and the adults too!) have talked about since Christmas- oh the anticipation!!! We're almost there- 3 days and counting! (we leave thursday morning) We can't wait to go explore "The World" and see Mickey!!! Oh and we're excited to see my parents too! ;)

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!!)