This one goes out to the one I love...

I really can't believe that it was ten years ago today that Nate and I were married. Ten Years! It has flown by. It's such a cliche saying but how does time really fly so fast? Ten years ago, we were in a fog of la la haze...ready to face the world...but totally, unrealistically unprepared. Sometimes I wonder how we have made it this far. We were so young and naive. I guess true love does prevail. And here we are 3 1/2 kids later, our own home, liven the middle class life and I can not complain. I won't complain. At least not today. I am truly blessed to have this man in my life and not only for today but forever. How amazing is that! So this one goes out to the one I love. I love you more today than I did ten years ago and I can not wait to see what the next 10 plus forever years bring for us. Thanks for choosing me. Happy Anniversary babe. I love you!

PS... Don't you all just love looking back at your wedding photos? Such classics. Hello! Were we 12 or what. No wonder my parents were freaking out a bit.

Dear Pregnant Body

Dear Pregnant Body,
I give up...you win ok. I am tired of staring into my closet forever trying to decide what might look half decent on you. I am trying to make you look flattering, but you are making it extremely difficult. So today was it! Because of what you are doing ( at an alarming rate) I chose to wear maternity pants today. That's right..only 16 weeks into this pregnancy and already I am having to pull out the fat clothes.
I don't want you to feel too bad and these pants are much more comfy but seriously, why is your butt so big when the baby is in your belly? And it's only about 5 inches long at that. Those huge belly rolls should not be that big. People are looking at you and wondering why you are so chubby. So I am just telling you to watch it. The bike riding, walking and chasing 3 other kids, just isn't doing enough. So I would really appreciate it if you could slow the weight gain down. You have 24 more weeks to go and that's a long time.
I hope this is not to harsh. I mean you are a good body. You are healthy and you help me do everything. And we get to carry another baby. ..that's so exciting. I am happy you can walk, and run, and breathe, and carry the kids around. But I just might lose my mind if I end up having to be rolled into the delivery room.
Thanks again for all you do.

Sincerely, Ashley

Sophie Grace

I woke up at 5:00 this morning because we were sleeping with the window open and I heard an airplane so loud, I just knew it was going to hit our home. We were all going to be burned to death. I just knew it. The noise was so loud and as it got nearer, I just layed there. Snug in my bed waiting to die. What kind of mom reflexes do i have? None apparently. Well after it did not hit my house and we were still alive and I figured it was probably just the mosquito plane guy..spraying for those pesky suckers, I could not go back to sleep. Oh I wanted to and I tried but instead my thoughts drifted to blogging. What should I blog about next? How lame am I? I wasted precious moments of sleep to think about blogging? Wow I'm special. So my thoughts turned towards my darling little Sophie. She is almost 2 1/2 and I love this age. She talks so much and is just my favorite little 2 1/2 girl. Here are my top 10 favorite sayings-

1. I lu you much mom (I love you much mom)

2. I miss you much

3. I hungwee (I'm hungry-which always makes me so thankful that I have food to feed this child)

4. Conno in twuble? (Connor in trouble?)

5. I so pwoud you mom (I'm so proud of you mom...she says this because she now loves Nursery and will stay the whole time so I made a huge deal about how proud I was of her)

6. Ewee..time out? (Ellie, time out?) Shows you who the middle child is

7. Come ear, needjo hewp (Come here, I need your help)

8. I wan watch Dooa (I want to watch Dora)

9. Daddy Wookin? ( Daddy working?)

10. Go where? ( which means, where are we going?)

Hearing her cute, sweet voice makes it all the better. I love this crazy fun girl who keeps me on my toes and laughing every day

Good Things Utah

So my amazing friend Amber, invited me to a taping of Good Things Utah and so last night I got all the kids situated, left explicit instructions for Nate and headed up north. We went this morning and it ended up being a great day.

First off let me say how ghetto the whole stage is. I'm mean it's nice just super small and we get comfy bleachers to sit on. The ladies seem nice...p.s. they are like all size zeros. And I decided I could never do a show where I had to pretend to like all their Roberts crafty items made of glitter and beads, but they do a good job. So when it was over they had a couple of cakes that they had featured left and I got this one. Well actually the producer guy called on Amber but I told her the answer.. which was "what is the name of Utah's first lady?" Mary Kay Hunstman for all of you who didn't know. So I ate a piece a minute ago and it is super good. The place is call "Nothing Bundt Cake" catchy eh? So all in all, we had a fun time, sat by some crazy ladies who were like "Hey Regan...Over here Angie...cute shoes Necia..it's my birthday"..on and on. Goll you get around a semi famous-ish person and people are just plain weird, and had a great outing that was much needed by your truly. Thanks Amber for keeping me sort of fun.

PS...To Amber..you are amazingly clean and organized. Kudos to you. Seriously everyone this girl has baskets for everything...the remotes, blankets, Ryans junk, granola bars, everything. I want to be like you when I grow up. Love you!