Funny girl

We had a fly one night who couldn't fly. It was crawling across the floor and ashlynn squated and watched that fly for a looong time.








When I told her to touch it....she would squeel and give me these faces :) It was pretty entertaining.

January

Occasionally we enjoy going over to circleville to have a night away from home.  So a few weekends ago Danny's nephews were staying over at his moms house for the weekend.  It was fun to see them and play games.  One of the games was Jenga.  I don't remember ever playing Jenga seriously and we realized it is an entertaining game.  We also got pretty good at it.  We learned you do a lot better if you don't take any middle pieces.  One round we got 27 high!! I thought it was a record. 

 

We helped Danny's nephew Hunter learn to ride a bike

We took Ashlynn out to see the cows.  I've come to the conclusion that she's already sorta a girly girl.  She would whine when we told her to pet the cows and she wouldn't really go near them.

Trevin, Hunter (cousins) and Ashlynn. She kinda looks like a boy with the camo beanie...but it's all we had

We chansed around the chickens with grandma Chris

Trevin and Ashlynn followed each other around.  They're only about 2 months apart

Snow Canyon

Over the Christmas break we had to make a trip to St. George to ship a package to my sister. so we figured we should make good use of our time. We went to Snow Canyon, somewhere that I've never really spent much time. It's amazing all the things southern Utah has to offer and how I still have not experienced it all. Snow Canyon is seriously like an hour away and it's beautiful! who knew. Danny and I will definitly have to take some bikes down too and go riding. We've never gone biking before together but I think it'd be a good place to start. It also gave Danny a chance to take a whole lotta picture with the new camera. Just as a followup from my last post about our camera we got a Nikon 5100. He is much better at using all the functions on it and getting some cool pictures. I'm really good at using the auto button... :)

Good Job on the pictures honey! and these are only a few of them.... seriously

My mom and dad...and me

Grandma Decker and Ashlynn...they kinda look similar

She's so cute

The new Camera

So Danny and I aren't really with it when it comes to electronics. We have a 6 year old TV (no flat screens here) we don't have any smart phones and no video games of any sort. But there is one thing we have talked about for a long time that we could both enjoy and it was a nice camera. So I didn't know we were getting one and Danny surprised me for Christmas and I was super excited!!!

At first I didn't know how much of a difference it would make but it totally does!! the color and lighting is soo much better and the pictures are so much more clear and crisp looking. Absolutely love it! Danny has done exstensive research about which one to get. He even got an app for his ipod that tells him how to use it. He knew how to use the camera and which buttons to push to do what before the camera even came. This is more of a gift for him to start a new hobby....but i'm definitly benefitting from it :) be prepared for lots of pics.

She just got caught getting into things she shouldn't have....uh oh is what she's sayin right now.

I love the faces this girl pulls. and I love I can finally get some of them on camera. Don't mind the constant crazy hair thought....She has sooo much!! and these were taken right after nap

Christ mas

Danny had to work Christmas Day this year :( So we decided to celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas Day on Friday and Saturday. It worked out great. After loading all these pictures I'm bummed our nice camera didn't come till after Christmas becuase these pictures would have turned out a whole lot better! but you get the idea....For Christmas Eve dinner we had rolls, baked potatoes, steamed veggies and some marinated/grilled sitka blacktail deer that Danny had killed while in Alaska. It was deeelish! Blacktail tastes much better than mule deer.

Opening our Christmas Eve presents...

On Christmas Day Ashlynn first opened a little stuffed kitten and after she got that she didn't want to open anything else. She was so happy with that kitten her day was made. But after some coaxing by mom she opened her toy stroller and was even more excited. She loves to push it everywhere around the house and put her toys in it and push it around.

So she has a step aunt who makes those flower bows. Well she totally went crazy and gave Ashlynn a TON of flower bows. I don't even know what to do with them all. So i decided to put them all in at once. It kind of looked like on of those flowering sancronized swimming caps. It made me laugh :)

Sweaters for mom! yay. don't mind the wet hair....

Ashlynns head of flowers. so funny

Oh what fun...

Here are a few pics of what we've been up to that last few weeks. I finally figured out how to use picasa so here are some collages for your enjoyment :).


We went hunting....but didn't get anything

We got a reeeallly tall Christmas tree. It was quite the process getting this guy. It had snowed about 3 feet a few days earlier so lets just say it wasn't easy......and I definitly was not prepared with my clothes. As you can see my jeans are soaked up to my thighs and i didn't wear any long johns underneath... can you say numb legs??

We traveled up to Heber for an early christmas with the inlaws.

Opened some early presents

Met Santa for the first time. Danny has an Uncle who seriously looks just like him...he grows out his beard and everything all year so he can play santa. Then he goes around circleville and Junction and goes to every single house to say Merry Christmas. Ashlynn did well. She wasn't too scared, just weirded out probably becuase she had been playing with Toby (Santa) before he had gotten all dressed up. And I just realized I have the same picture twice...but i'm not going to fix it.