My girls

I just thought this picture turned out cute. Eliza insisted on being in a shot with her as I was taking pictures of Ashlyn with her blessing dress.

Ashlyn's Blessing

We blessed Ashlyn on Sunday and it was a beautiful experience. She was so good throughout the whole thing--awake and still not a peep! Daddy blessed her. Shiloh's Family and mine were there (with the exception of my brother Jens in Alabama). Here are some pictures I took of her.

Tombstone

We went to Tombstone with Shiloh's family this past weekend. It was actually quite interesting. There are several gunshows to see and they have fun downtown area with shops, restaurants and historical museums. We enjoyed ourselves.

The famous shootout at the OK Corral with Wyett Earp. They have statues of the Earp brothers and the other guys at the site.

Our new piano!

Here's a picture of our new-to-us piano. We just got it off craigslist as an early chrismas present to the family. It is 25 years old, and was an economy piano even then, so it's nothing to brag about, but I am SOOOO happy to finally have a piano to learn on! I have been playing on it daily and just can't get enough! Yay!

Ashlyn: 13 days

Okay, so my friend Brandi took these newborn shots of Ashlyn when she was just 13 days old. They are AMAZING! I love them... I had a hard time picking just a few that I liked so I ended up loading 96 of them to picasa! Hahaha! Here's the slideshow.

My kids are fish!

So both of my children can swim across the pool now! Ezra can swim across the small end and Eliza can swim the entire length of the pool! It is absolutely amazing! It brings such peace of mind to know that if they fell in, they would be safe. Shiloh takes them swimming almost every day now and I'd say it is their favorite thing to do! Here's Ezra, at just 2 years old, swimming:

Ashlyn: Week 2 & 3

Ezra has been more mischievous than normal since Ashlyn was born. He's always been a little incorrigible, but as you can see in this picture, it is a little heightened. The pink mark on his face is 12-hour lipstick. Yes, he loves to play "Picasso" and so here he is in action. The unfortunate part about it is that we had pictures scheduled this night! We scrubbed and scrubbed and that lipstick would NOT come off!!! I had planned to just put cover-up over it and call it good. I did so and Shiloh thought it looked too feminine and tried to get it off. Well, wouldn't ya know it just wiped off after that? Apparently the cover-up had some sort of binding agent in it and made that lipstick just come right off! So tip of the week: you can take 12-hour lipstick off with liquid powder cover up (ya know the kind that is pasty--not powdery--and you use a sponge to put it on).


Our AC went out for 3 days last week. It got up to 91 degrees in our house! Thankfully, we have a pool, so the kids spent a lot of time with Grandma out in our pool. Here's them running around in undies because it felt too hot for clothes! And poor little Ashlyn was nearly comatose all the time she was so warm. Keeping her awake for any amount of time was definitely a chore.

Our little doll.