For Reals

She did it...after months of pestering, we finally decided to let Ellie get her ears pierced. I always thought my girls would be eight..because I was. But after talking to Nate about it, (He let me know that just because I was 8 didn't mean that it was the rule of the universe :) we would let her do it. I decided it was ok as long as she knew all that was involved. Sitting at the shop, she kept saying "But is it gonna hurt?" She asked that 100 times and I thought she might bail out. But she was a trooper and did great. Only a few tears. So Happy 6th Birthday to my cutest oldest daughter. I thought only 2 seconds about getting Sophie's done. she'd have those suckers ripped out faster than they could be put in.

Yeah for me!

So on Saturday, I ran my first 5k ..I know what you're thinking..Ashley?? Run?? That's right I did it. Now before I get into details, let me first tell you my running history. I hate running. I hate everything about it except for how good you feel afterwards. It all began in middle school when i was fat and we had to run the cross country mile. I always had anxiety..tried everything to be gone that day.. I always finished last and it took me 21 minutes. and I am not exaggerating. you don't forget humiliating things like that. Ok so now to the present. I have 2 girlfriends i started walking with this summer and we started running..little by little. I was up to a mile and a half without stopping..don't laugh that's good for me. Well next thing I knew i was signed up for the Turkey Trot and so nervous..like diarrhea nervous (more info than you wanted..oh well) So i did but did not want to do the race but there I was Sat. morning all decked out in my running gear. So all in all, I finished the race which was my goal. I was not last and after I was pretty darn proud of myself..And to top it off, they had extra turkeys (that's what you win if you actually can run) so they drew names out of a hat and i won a turkey. So there you have it..yeah for me and my turkey :)..p.s people say you get addicted to these races...me ..not so addicted. And I did have my camera not but my friend took a pic that I'll try to post later. Power to all the runners out there!

Trick or Treat..Smell my Feet

Here we are..already to trick-or-treat. Sophie and Ellie are witches and Connor picked this random army dude. you should have seen all his sweat when he took of his helmet. Whoa! And all of you who know how much Sophie loves to wear clothes, will be proud to know that she made it half-way around the block before it was off. Happy Halloween!

MEET JACK!

We finally carved our pumpkins this year...the day before Halloween. Nate gets so worried if we do them to soon..cause they start to sag and all. Anyways here is our great art work.

Connor's pumpkin..artwork and all
Sophie's pumpkin

Guess whose this is???

Now in honor of Twilight, I did this. Edward and Bella. It might be hard to tell. for those of you who can't figure it out it is just thier profiles...Get it yet?

Captain Nate and his Pirate ship..nice work babe.