Our Latest Obsession...LILY!!

We're FINALLY back on line as of today!!!! I'm not sure I would have posted much with how busy we've been these days even if we had the internet over the past few months. But I feel like we need to share some pics with everyone of our sweet little Lily-Pie! We have all been smitten by her and are enjoying the sweet spirit that she brings into our home. So for now, I will make this a short but sweet post with just a few pictures... so here she is!!
Lily Jane Asay
7 lbs 6 oz
19 in

UNPLUGGED!!!!

We have no internet!!! It crashed about a week and a half ago... so we've been on this computer fast in our home until we can get it fixed. Let me tell you, my house is cleaner than it's ever been, I've played with my kids more , read my scriptures more, gone to bed early and have had extra (yes extra!!!) time to do things on my ongoing "to do" list. I'll admit that I've missed catching up on the blogs and it's been SO annoying not to be able to send a quick email to someone I need to contact, and I do NEED it for my church calling... but for the most part it's almost felt like a little vacation. So what have I learned?.. that I am a slave to my computer! I needed this forced upon fast! I've come up to Mike's office (which is where I am now) once to check email to make sure I haven't missed some important deadlines or some major events... but that's it! I feel so FREE!! I'm kind of hesistant to get it fixed, but we actually do need it for school projects, church stuff and to pay bills, and of course to keep up on the blogs :) I don't know how long it will take to get this fixed, and though we miss knowing what you've all been up to, I will enjoy being out of touch and "noise-free" while it last.

Josh turns 9!!!

How is that possible?! My oldest child is nine years old!!
Here are just 9 things we LOVE about Josh:
1. He's SUPER sweet and so kind to his brother and sisters and parents. And because of that he's very loved by us all. Especially Bella- she ADORES him!
2. He's quirky- he's very routine oriented and has to have certain things done in a certain way. We love this about him because he keeps us on track (for example he's the one that makes sure we say our prayers and read our scriptures at the same times everyday!)
3. He loves to read. I mean LOVES to read.
4. He's easygoing and fun to be around.
5. He's the MOST forgiving person in our family! He forgives instantly with out your even asking him.
6. He loves to be with his family more than anything else.
7. He's very sensitive to the spirit and understands things easily (even more than I do at times)
8. He's a happy boy. He always wakes up happy and is rarely ever grumpy (unless it comes to food:)
9. He still does "sunday morning cuddles" . Every Sunday he'll get in our bed before the other kids wake up and snuggle and talk to us while we're half asleep- love it!!!

We're so grateful to have this special boy in our lives! We love you J!!!!

Here are a few pictures of his b-day
Some of these are from cupcakes at school with Mrs. Z, and birthday morning opening presents and having his ritualistic saturday morning pancakes. (Zach made him a special birthday card and drew a picture of the two of them :)

We had a small party for him with some of his favorite friends. Here they are before they head out to putt n funn

The boys! Getting ready for some mini golf, laser tag and video games.


So- Mike took the boys while the girls and I stayed home and got ready for cupcakes and icecream. Mike had the camera... which can only mean one thing... NO pictures!! Ok so he actually took 2 and here they are :)


Counting to make sure there are 9 candles.

Back home for some cake and icecream


I accidentally recorded this, but I thought it was funny!

Presents!!! Thanks friends!!!

These boys are fun!!! Thanks for helping J celebrate his birthday!!

I'm gonna miss this...

Today was my last turn to teach our "Funshine" preschool co-op for the year- bitter sweet :( Next year Savannah will go to her first "real" preschool while I take care of our newborn baby.
If I were really good, this wouldn't phase me since most good mommies do crafts and letters with their kids anyway... but me... I need to have a good reason to do it- like preschool. So sad, but so true...
Are they not the cutest little preschool group you've ever seen?!




Today we learned about being an artist



They worked on their Abstract art, after showing them some of Grampy's
(my Father in law's) pictures that he's given us for a little inspiration




They were each asked to name their painting


Here's what they came up with
Asher - "Factory"
Carly- "Stripes!"
Decker- "Painty paint"
Emily- "Princess"
Savannah- "Jungle"
Bella- "hi mommy"




Such a big girl!(check out her shoes:)



( I think Bella liked mixing the colors and watching the water change colors as she rinsed the brush more than painting itself)
Fun times

A fun Easter weekend with family

I was seriously lagging on my picture taking skills, BUT here's what I have :)
(I was having too much fun)

This just in....the tie breaker goes to....

THE GIRLS !!! That's RIGHT...

The boys are now outnumbered 4:3- I can't believe we're going to be a family of 7!! We're excited!!!

Finally...Part 4... (Disney's Hollywood Studios and our trip home)

Here's the last two days of our trip days 7 and 8. (phew!!!)
We finished our 5 day disney visit at Disney's Hollywood Studios and then headed home the next day. Favorites here, Toy story midway mania ride, star tours, Beauty and the Beast musical and finishing off with Fantasmic. On our way home right at dinner time we found this AWESOME BBQ spot in a little town called Elgin, TX (Meyer's Smokehouse) = the perfect way to end our trip and feel like we're home in TEXAS again. This vacation definitely goes down in our book of all time favorite vacation spots. I'm glad it was a good one as it will have to last us a while. I'm happy and yet sad to say we are DONE with family vacations for the year. We will now spend the next few months getting ready for the arrival of our newest tiny in the summer...

Family Vacation/ Spring Break 2009 Part 3 of 4...(Magic Kingdom)

Enough already- I know... too many pictures!! These are for those of you out there that are Disney die hard fans and for the grandparents who love us enough to actually look through all of these and hopefully find them interesting...So here's days 5 and 6 of our trip (days 3 and 4 of 5 days at disney). We loved magic kingdom -it had the most rides that we could all ride together as a family (yes - including pregos!!) so we spent 2 fun filled days here. We loved the parades, the fireworks shows, and of course the magical rides here. Definitely the girls, Josh's and my favorite park (J was obsessed with obtaining signatures from the characters and the girlies of course LOVED the princesses). On the second day we went back and got to ride all of our favorites again...Magic Kingdom really is magical!!!


ps- we really aren't the stinky smelly family- I did do laundry and wash the red shirts you are seeing over and over... these were the kids favorites and they insisted we wear these- which also made it super easy to keep track of each other there!