Bowling

Saturday night my mom kept the girls for James and I. We have not been out in a while, so we wanted to hangout with our friends. It was The Pifer's, The Sim's, Aimee (my sister), Matt and his friend. We all met at La Fiest first and ate dinner and hungout. After dinner, we headed to the Westview Lanes and got our bowl on.

I have not been bowling in a couple of years and it was too much fun. We got there about 11 and the Extreme Bowling had already begun. The lights were all off, black lights on, music and unlimited bowling. I am def. not good, but I think my game improved as the night went on. Tiffany was really good and got tones of spares! James is really good, but he use to play in a league a long time ago! Aimee shocked me by how well she plays. She was 1 pin away from a Turkey (3 strikes in a row)and she def. kicked my butt. My arm was so tired after about 4 games and I had to quit and I def. felt it the next day. Those balls are so heavy and my weak arms really have to work to get it down the lane..haha! We bowled til about 1:00 am and then all headed home. I love nights like these and I want to go bowling again soon. We are even talking about joining a league...that should be interesting!!!

My Honey and I...


Us girls..


Me bowling..


James and Zach bowling..


Me and My Tiff...

Souper Salad & Our Girls..

Our girls favorite place to go and eat would be Souper Salad!! They absolutely love their veggies and fruit and they eat soo much!! Both girls love salad, broccoli, cucumbers, tomatoes, watermelon, cantaloupe and honey dew melon. That is what their meals consist of. Avery will tell us that she wants to eat, "Soup Salad". We took them last Friday night and I snapped a couple of pics with my phone of them bc they are just too cute!

Haidyn kicked back in her high chair, eating her ice cream cone


Haidyn with her leg kicked up, just relaxing and enjoying herself..haha


Avery eating some fruit-It is very serious business when she is eating her fruit!


She loves it and looks so cute!


She had to have an ice cream cone too..

BIG thanks to a new look!!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to Tiffany and Julie for my new blog look!! I love it and I enjoyed working with Julie on this! She is awesome at what she does and I highly recommend her :). You two ladies are so amazing and I am very proud of my blog now!

Happy 4th of July-pic overload

I hope that everyone had a fabulous 4th of July!! Our day was wonderful and it was so nice to spend it with our family.

Saturday- we got up and played around the house for most of the morning. We left Waco about 2:00 and headed to the lakehouse. The lakehouse is on Cedar Creek Lake and it is about an hour and a half away at most. This is our 2nd year to spend the 4th there. We were able to spend it with James's mom, sister and other family. It was our house and the house next door just having a big celebration. There was delicious bbq, live band, amazing fireworks, boating, fishing and swimming!

We took the girls out on the boat when we got there. It was Avery's 2nd time on the boat and Haidyn's 1st. They both loved it! It was so hot outside, so it was nice to get on the boat and go for a breezy ride. Some of the girls did some tubing and Avery loved watching them do that. After, the boat we sat on the dock and watched James, his sister and the other kids jump off of the very top. The kids think that James is so much fun bc he does the stuff they want him too! Haha..he is just a big kid himself.

We then ate some food and just hungout. I guess the firework show started about 10:00 and it was AMAZING!! I looked out at the lake before the show started and there were about 10 boats just parked in the middle of the lake waiting. The girls liked the show too. I was really worried that the loud pops would scare them, but they both did so well. After, the fireworks we changed the girls into their pj's and headed home. We finally got home about 1:15 in the morning and we passed out!

We had so much fun and I love going to the lakehouse bc it is so beautiful out there and so relaxing!! We are going to go and spend a weekend there coming up really soon and I can't wait!! This is also, the place that we want to have our wedding ceremony and we got the dates blacked out for it next year. It is just so peaceful and would love to get married by the water at sunset and just have a nice reception afterwards.


Me and my honey sitting on top of the dock


Haidyn making a break for the water!!


Our little firecracker!


Getting ready to go out on the boat


Me and my girls relaxing in the hammock




Our Patriotic Girls


Our other little firecracker!!


Sweet Girl


Getting ready to jump of the dock


I love my family


Starting to set up the fireworks


James, Lesley (his mom), Avery and Haidyn watching the fireworks








The other house that was celebrating with us


I loved sitting on the very top of the dock


The lakehouse

**Dance Party**

Well, my little girls are some dancin' fools!! It has basically become a nightly ritual that we have a dance party before bedtime. It is sooo cute, how Avery has to have the perfect song and she has to have everyone one of us in the room to dance. I love how she will grab my hand or her daddy's hand and we just dance and laugh as if there is not a care in world (which when it is dance party time...there really isn't bc it is just us and it is so much fun)!! Haidyn is getting to where she really gets into the dancing too. She tries dancing standing up, but usually ends up on the floor jamming out. She watches her sister and tries to copy the moves she is doing. They are so amazing together!

I love our sweet little family moments and I think I am just so blessed to be able to share them with you!

Awesome Suprise!!!!!

Last week, I got an email from Tiffany and she said, that she wanted to thank me for everything that I have done for her Zach and for always being there for her. I really don't need anything to know how thankful she is, but she has teamed up with Julie of Sweet T Designs and Julie is redoing my blog!!!! I was in total shock and I can't tell you how exicited I am. Julie did Tiffany's blog and her blog designs are amazing! I cannot wait to see the end product. Julie is going to be busy this week and will most likely start on it next week. I will be sure to announce when it is all done, so you can head over and take a look.

Here is the email that I got from Tiffany..

Ashley-

You have been there for me throughout so much the past few months, and esp. within the last couple weeks-as well as yesterday and today!! Your friendship and your support means more than you will ever know. I wanted to do something to give back to you and let you know just how much you mean to me-just how much Zach and I appreciate you helping and totally taking over this fundraiser. Although even this can’t repay you for everything you have done, I hope it helps you realize how much you mean to us.

I recently got with Julie at Sweet T Designs and she will be making you a 3coulmn Standard Blog Design (SURPRISE!!!!); this even comes with a signature and a post divider. Julie will be getting with you so you can pick out your own template and all the details you want. All you have to do is give her the information you want on there---everything else has been taking care of :)

Thank you Ashley, thank you for helping me throughout this. I love you girl!!!

(Julie-thank you as well; you helping me do something for my friend means the world to me…I am extremely blessed to know such amazing people!!! Love you!)


Thank you ladies for this!! You 2 are amazing and you really didn't have to do this. Tiff- you know I am always here for you girl and I love being able to help you and Zach out. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!

My Baby is a WALKER!!!

Last Thursday, out sweet little girl took her first big girl steps all by herself!! I have been trying ever since to get it on video and I finally did today! She is just so cute doing her wobbly walk! I just love it!!


This morning after she woke up...



Tonight, while playing in Avery's room....