Sunday, December 20, 2009

Whew... here goes months of not posting... I hope you don't get too bored.


To start here are some funny picture I took of the girls yesterday I just think even with marker mustaches they are still cute.

















Oh goodness lets see if I can do this backwards... HA! I have not really posted anything in such a long time so I will start with the latest and go back... all the way to LOLO's birthday? Shoot, we might be here a while.


We are getting ready for Christmas. It is a strange year this year because my mom is gone. My sister had a baby ( yesterday!! YAY! ) so my mom went out to be with her and that means we had Christmas early. These boys are all so silly together and all the nieces are so sweet we had fun opening up some presents and playing together.
My dear sweet brother thought it would be something nice to give my little Lolo a kit full of 440 tattoos, I will just say I have had mess kids for a week and well Thank you Uncle Jerry, but that box has been stashed up in the closet in the office where the girls are not allowed to go. We had good food and got to have an odd weeks before Christmas, Christmas.

We always go to Ogden's Christmas light parade and go walk around the Christmas village and see Santa. This year Mommy decided to be a little silly and run in the Santa 5K before the parade. My good friends Shelley and Haylee ran with me and we had tons of fun despite my sad finishing time. ( I like to pretend that I like to run, but it is definitely something that I aspire to be good at am really not.) The girls had fun with all of their friends and got to watch mommy run.
I couldn't stop laughing all night because Lauren wanted to hold Nate and Cally's hands and I just thought it look like she had two dad's. They are sweet to look like a spectacle just for her to be happy.














Lolo was loving the hot cocoa and it goes to a good cause so we can't pass it up. The girls both got to sit with Santa ( after standing in line behind the CRAZIEST man ever and dealing with him smoking and no joke counting his SEVEN kids ( under 10 YOWZA!) to make sure they were all there.) They both asked for Violin's well... sorry in advanced from Santa ( we will let him let them down right? We are the heroes not him) Regan will get one for her birthday, just not for Christmas.

We have been having fun with friends and having fun parties! We have received some rocking white elephant gifts this year... pretty much too good to talk about. HA! We love our friends... don't know what we would do with out you all ! (muah!)

I have been busy like always killing myself trying to get through school. This semester has been a butt kicker and unfortunately the worst grade I have gotten ever!... ok well Freshman year doesn't count right? That was a billion and a half years ago. Anyway We still find time to have fun and play. I made some cute little things for all of my nieces and soon to be nephews. Did I mention all of my sisters and my sister in law are all pregnant except for one and we won't put the pressure on Rachel. :)So I have had the material and idea for months but just have not a spare moment to get things done. I made aprons for all the nieces and still have about five more to get done for my girls and some of our friends three girls. I decided to try making designs on onsies for all the soon to be babies. They turned out cute even though it was hard on such small little shirts. ( the "J" was so hard I cannot even describe)So many more to finish in the next couple days I will post when they are done. I wish I had more time for sewing, because when I do have the time I really like it.

OK I have made it back three weeks... AH and left out so much... I should keep this up better, I just don't have time to update every week. Just know that we are having a blast together and it's a non stop party at the Cason home... we have done something every night since I have been out of school, not exaggerating. I am loving seeing friends and getting to play, I just am getting a little tired and well.. I guess I still have two weeks to get somethings done and rest before school start again.

November is one big blur of teaching and school and studying and nonsense I did get to teach and awesome lesson on body image and felt it was one of the best lessons that I have ever taught. We had some family pictures taken and for all of you that we sent our Christmas cards. We had fun and my sister, pregnant and all always does such a good job, and at such a good price (free ah.)












On to HALLOWEEN . We had fun dressing up and taking the girls out. Regan was a dragonfly, Lolo was a fly, mommy was a bumble bee and daddy was the orkin man.We went trick or treating with our friends the Holliens and the girls just love Kaydence she was a butterfly so she fit right in. We had a fun party with some good friends and played life sized clue at a mortuary ( It was fun and like always a little creepy... no dead people in there today, but I never want to see an embalming room again! EW NASTY AND SMELLY! and oddly warm) We got to hear fun ghost stories from the mortuary and had YUMMY food and good time with friends.
Here are the girls diving into their candy... they were wired for days.






We started a new game at the park that we just love to play. We put a ball on the play ground, spread out in all directions and all race to see who can get to it the fastest. The girls love to run and play and their daddy is so good at coming up with ways to keep them occupied.

It rained for like two weeks straight and everyday Regan would go out and dance in the rain. She is so cute I had to post a least on picture. She is just a little dancer. She does her cheerleading moves everyday and puts girls twice her age to shame with her dance skills. I love that girl.
We planted a apple tree when we first moved in and this year finally got a few apples. I made a super yummy apple pie ( did I mention I love making pies and they are tasty... if I do say so myself) I only can hope that next year we will get enough to make two pies. They were awesome though, nothing tastes better then some thing plucked from your backyard.

If you are STILL reading than, thank you, I love you too. I let Lolo take pictures all the time I should just do a post of all of her awesome pictures, she actually is pretty good. A lot of the pictures that I am in are because she takes them, but here is a photo I loved because there really is nothing cuter than a pair of chubby little feet.


The girls have been loving school here is a picture of the first day of school this year. They are so lucky to be in such a great program and with teachers that we all love and trust. We love WSU children's school. I will find all their picture from school and post them. They have so much fun and learn so much.


We missed the first week of school because we were in Oregon for Cal's cousin Sarah and best friend Jason's wedding. ( Cal hooked them up a couple years ago and it all worked out! They are an awesome couple!)
Before we left for Portland we had a party for Lolo with lots of friends and few family members and one crazy ward activity lady. It is a good thing that this post is not letting me go into detail about everything but this lady was a monster and if I had written about it when it just had happened the post would have been "R" rated because I was so mad. ANYWAY, we had lots of fun at the splash pad and Lauren had so much fun... obviously.When we finally did get to Portland we had a party for her there. We sang to her three times because people kept coming in while we were singing... she really thought we were crazy. We missed Daddy on her actually birthday but we did get a happy surprise and got him a few days earlier than anticipated. The girls had so much fun playing with their aunts and uncles and Grandparents. They did so many fun things... like the zoo, oaks park, train rides around the city and just all around fun with everyone. More sewing and I did it all by myself with the kind guidence of my awesome mother in law. We miss them all so much and cannot wait to go out again in March.

I left out so much! So many pictures and fun stories, but these are the highlights. I doubt anyone made it all the way through, but again if you did... I love you too. We are a happy bunch we have a fun time together! I promise that I will be better at keeping this up. I have so many fantastic things to write about still, but won't I will save it for later. Life is good. Hope yours is too.

3 comments:

Marc and Liz Anson said...

WOW! That was a lot Ashley :) I bet that feels good. I think the dresses, aprons and onsies turned out super duper cute!!! I want to makes some shirts for Rachel and Benjamin like you did. One day I'll get to it.

Tracy said...

Now that is a true marathon post! I love the pics, you guys do have a lot of fun. Love, love, love the dresses, did you use a pattern? So cute!

clairesmom05 said...

Holy Crap Girl! I can't believe I actually stuck through that! lol! Seriously though, that was fun to look at all those pics. You are quite the little sewer, good job! Your comment on my elfyourself thing was so funny! I keep thinking about it and cracking up :)