Haven Marion Aileen

haven is growing and growing. for her birthday we had her fave eats: butternut squash risotto and oranges!



haven turned 2 in march, and of course we celebrated, but it was very low key. haven loves ice cream and so we had a variety of our favorite ben & jerry's for the occasion.


haven got some pretty new dresses and a matching one for her baby (cheesy yes, but SOO cute!) haven loves her babies, and dresses too! she also got some great new books: a magnet one with farm animals and harold and the purple crayon (baby #4 and we are finally owning that book!)


here is haven with 2 new birthday babies one from grandma and grandpa (kissing that one) and another from ciela. that baby she carries around nude, and in a teeny tiny backpack! i love the 2's and i think it will be a super fun year with our haven! she is talking more like an actual toddler and climbs on everything the law allows (not my law, the monkey brothers). she has the funniest fake laugh and my favorite word she says right now "si-yee" (silly). she says it a lot! she knows most of her shapes, all of her vowels and a few consonants, various colors and loves to find birds out the window. we love HAVEN!

Haven-Pie!

because haven is around all the time, i seem to have a lot of pictures of her. and ciela and the boys love to take pictures of her too! here is the cuddly princess with daddy!


glenn was taking shots of haven while she watched dora, during an evening of not wanting to go to bed on time. she made this funny, grumpy face which she makes a lot when she is thinking!


haven loves to be outside, and loves loves her cherry boots! she wears them inside and outside, which means i get to get them clean all the time.


haven and caleb are a special team. they are sweet together and silly together, and look how cabes is deftly stealing from her!

Mentos Avec Soda Equals Fun!

for fhe last week, we did something that toran has been BEGGING us to do since the fall. i know this is not new and cool to everyone, but it is the first time we have ever performed the trick ourselves. as part of a take-home goodie bag from a party, toran received an actual mentos tube to insert into a bottle of diet soda. pretty cool party favor!


so check out that geyser-o-soda! pretty sweet. we had to wait until it wasn't actually freezing outside to dispatch said trick, that took awhile here in the land of the cold.


afterwards, glenn let the kids take a swig of candified soda, and then we each ate a soda infused mentos. ummm....gross!

Little Miss Ciela

as of late, little miss ciela has been stealing the camera...A LOT! when i go to download my weekly pictures there are at least 10 of and by ciela! she is begging for her own blog, but until we say yes to that i thought i would spotlight some of her recent work!



this is on the way to her 3rd grade musical last week. she was part of the chorus and a dancer, and she loved it! it is hard to get ciela motivated to perform or do ANYTHING in front of people, but once she starts she does such a marvelous job!


this is a great shot! sometimes she gets everything just perfect for her silly model shots! i love this one! i found some random cars and stuffed animals in here, but honestly i have no use for them at this moment...i will save them though!

Easter Snow-again!

so of course easter was several weeks ago, but late is better then never right? we decided to have the egg hunt be a part of monday fhe, and that was a sterling way to celebrate!
haven, was a master this year. it was great watching her search out the "edds" and convincing her to wait until we went inside to open them up!



the boys decided we would have the egg hunt outside this year (ciela was not excited, poor summer girl!) and honestly it was super fun to have the snow part of the escapade. glenn, of course, did the hiding and did a fabulous job.


cabes and toran were running around like chickens-with-the-heads-cut-off! they had no plan, just GO! they missed a lot with that method, but eventually we guided them to the proper locations. i think that snow and easter were awesome this year!

We Need You!

sorry, this is not an actual ash fam posting here, although that will be happening in a few days i promise! i just thought i would mention to any of you who haven't checked out the lizzie and me site-we need you! we are getting quite a bit of hits each day, but lower numbers of comments, so so sad! this week we are having our first ever "tip off" and giving away a cool prize (cool if you need it for ANY body that can use it!) so get on over to the tip spot and fire away! and please tell everyone else that you haven't told yet! we are having such a great time over there!