I'm Famous!

Well... not really. But I did make the news on Saturday, sort of. We went to the grand opening of the Utah Transit Authority's new Pleasant View Frontrunner station on Saturday morning. Fox 13 News was there covering the event, and they asked if I wanted to talk to them. I said I would and they used clips from my interview on the news broadcast that afternoon. The story can be viewed on their website at http://www.myfoxutah.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7529300&version=5&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

If you watch closely, you'll see our entire family walking up to board the train. We took it to Ogden and back with all the kiddos. They really enjoyed seeing and riding a real train. It was fun!

Happy Birthday Jeff!

I know, it's a little late. But Jeff Turned 31 on Monday, and we had a ton of fun preparing for a Family Home Evening birthday celebration that day and I wanted to share.

After baths, it was time to get out the Halloween decorations. Sarah has
been asking for weeks when Halloween is, and Jeff kept telling her that
it would come after his birthday. So his birthday comes, we eat, sing,
have cake, and Sarah says, "Can we get out the Halloween stuff now?"
So that's what we did for Family Home Evening.






Alex and Lucas found this little witch toy that dances and sings
when you push the button on her hand. They excitedly set it in
front of them and pushed the button to watch.


Lucas wasn't quite sure what to think of it, so he hurried
away to find a better "safer" vantage point.


Then he timidly watched from a distance.

Look Who's All Grown Up!

Audrey has been leaping through her milestones in the last month. She's finally cut two teeth (bottom left, then right). She's walking all of a sudden. See, we told you she could do it! She finally decided to try it out on her own, and she's getting pretty proficient at it. She can make it down the stairs by herself. We still have yet to see how she does it because we keep finding her in the basement when the last place we saw her was upstairs in the kitchen. She's about to move into her forward facing carseat. Hooray for looking out the windows instead of at the sky!

She's sleeping in a twin bed on the floor now instead of in her crib.

And she loves it, I might add. She loves the freedom of getting up and playing with toys in the morning instead of being caged.

Here she is just waking up from a nap.

She feeds herself.

She's talking, too. She's said Mama, Papa, Dada, and lots of coos and other baby talk for a while now. But she definitely means what she says nowadays. She also grunts and groans in affirmation or disapproval just like her older brothers. She can communicate rather efficiently with her limited vocabulary. She's officially a big girl now. Of course, she's still my little baby girl. She'll always be that. But she's definitely growing up. She even enjoys playing with friends!
She's our little cutie!
Also, don't forget to check out my Impressions blog. I've posted some new ones lately. (http://ashleigh-impressions.blogspot.com)

To Whom Does This Pile Belong?

It's a big mess of hair, right? You'll never guess whose head it fell off of. Well, not "fell" so much as "was cut off" of. About a week and a half ago, I decided it was time to cut Alex's and Lucas' hair. I said something about it to Sarah around midday. She informed me that she wanted her hair cut, too. I asked her how short, and she said she wanted it short like the boys'. I said no. I told her I would trim it a little, but not cut it short like the boys'. Friday night, I did indeed trim her hair a little, then began working on Lucas' hair. I did Sarah's with scissors, and used the clippers on Lucas. Sarah climbed up on the counter where my box of "tools" was to watch me. Can you guess where this is headed? She was absolutely insistent that I cut her hair short, and since I wouldn't cut it shorter, she decided she would do it herself! Well... part of it anyway. She cut about 50 strands about six inches shorter on the right side of her head. Then another 50 strands or so a few inches behind the first set. I went to get another clipper guard out of the box, and noticed this six inch long bunch of hair lying on the counter. I FREAKED. I was NOT happy. Sarah's hair had gotten so long and was so pretty! I just wasn't ready to cut it short. But, alas, It's not MY head. Nor my hair. Sarah really REALLY wanted a short do. So I finally gave in and obliged. She LOVES it. And she does look cute. But how could she not, right? It's Sarah!

Here's her old do. (Not the best picture, but you get how long it was)

Here's her new do.

New-ish Blog. "Ashleigh's Impressions"

I have had nothing but trouble with my "Impressions" blog since setting it up months ago, so I re-created it and linked it to this one. Since I couldn't log back in and edit or delete the other one, I had to set up a new address for it. It's now found at http://ashleigh-impressions.blogspot.com. And I posted to it today, so have a look see! Thanks.

First Day of Preschool!!

And Sarah was SO excited. She woke up ready to go. The first thing she said to me this morning was, "Mama, I'm going to go to the bathroom, then I'm going to eat my pop-tart, then let's go to school." The first thing she said. And she said it from her bed, so it was more like yelling it across the house to me. Apparently, she didn't care if I could actually hear her or not. She just wanted me to know that she was ready to go. Here she is all cute.

Now, I got her a smaller backpack to take to preschool, but she insists on using this one.

It's almost as big as she is. But she loves it, and insists on using it. It was actually kind of difficult to get a good picture of her facing the camera because she wanted to show off her cute backpack. What a cutie!