I can not believe that my baby girl is 7 years old! Ashley is such a blessing in my life. I call her my little mama because of what a big help she is. She is always willing to help with her little brother's and does a really good job of it. Ashley loves learning and really understands most everything that we explain to her. Her little mind never stops working and it has happened more than once that she has proved her mom wrong on several things. I cherish every minute of her being little. It seems like the world would have them grow up over night. The other day I was in a store to buy her a shirt and the shirt size read 6 (tween). Is it me or when did age 6 become a tween? I am determined to keep my little girl, little as long as I can. I love her and am so proud of the little person that she is!!
Our new tradition is to decorate the kids rooms on their birthdays, so that when they wake up they have a little surprise. She was very surprised and loved it!!!
We surprised her and Ethan by taking them to see High School Musical 3. They thought we were going to run errands, but we ended up at the theater and they loved it!!! We even got them HSM shirts to wear and of course popcorn and nachos to eat!!!
We finished the day with a little family party and some ice cream. She loved all of her presents, especially her American Girl Doll bed from grandma and grandpa Watkins. Now it is on to her friends party on Saturday. They get to have a party every other year and this is party year.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Ashley's 7
Halloween Time
Trick-or-Treat
Our family loves Halloween! Jeremy and I cherish watching our little ones get all dressed up. Their excitement is overwhelming and contagious! This year the kids trick-or-treated like normal and we had a little Halloween party to follow. It was great to get together with our friends!
Our little monkeys!!! Don't they all look so cute!
And this is why we have 4 kids!!! (Brice didn't even go trick-or-treating) The kids got more candy this year than ever before. Our bed is a king size bed and it took up the entire center of the bed. They even got some full sized candy bars!! I love being the Mom (i.e. keeper of the candy)!!!
Ashley was our little Jasmin genie
Ethan was our calm non- aggressive power ranger (HAHA)
Hayden and Brice were a rooster and a chick. It is nice that I can still torture them by picking the costumes for them.
My cute little rooster!
Have you ever seen a happier chicken?
Pumpkin Carving Time
Every Halloween we carve pumpkins sometime during the week ahead . The kids love picking their pumpkins and their designs. This year we had a ghost, a pirate ship, and the normal jack-o-lantern face. I didn't get pictures of the finished products, but they were great and we got comments from all of our little trick-or-treaters on how they were the best ones they had seen.
The kids weren't too sure of the "guts", but they dug right in to help out!
