April

Here are some pictures from April...

August L.O.V.E.S. getting time with his dad and loves emulating him- even in the way he dresses :)

Easter!

We had a wonderful easter going to church and spending time with family and friends! Here are a few pics of the little dude on his first easter...

March

March was an amazing month for us...

Andy got a new amazing job and is loving the nicer weather for fishing, skate boarding, biking etc

I am now getting to stay home with August more which is where I am supposed to be. Plus I am getting to do more in the birthing community here. Words can not express how blessed I feel! And on top of all that Andy and I are getting to have more date nights!

Here we are going out to see our friend Thomas play and to go to an art show opening!

August is doing great-growing up so fast! He cut his first tooth, learned how to wave and is loving life!

Here he is taking a picture for his myspace

just being cute

We went to the Pregnancy Center's fundraiser which was western theme so August dressed the part.

We also finally took August swimming!

He loved it!

Lastly, here he is brushing his tooth! Good dental hygiene starts early.

August is 6 months old!!!

Our little man only turns 6 months once :) so we took a trip to visit Family and Friends!!!

We went to Co Springs to spend some time with Bob and Sue. While there we visited a number of places including The Olympics Training Center & Focus on the Family

August and Andy visiting Narnia

We also finally had a chance to visit Verde Farms and see a bunch of our good friends!

We all just partied- ate lots of food- drank some latte stout- and had an amazing time

as an added bonus we got to meet Huck for the first time and I (Ashley) got to see Missy!

We also got to spend some time with Rocky and Jill- which, of course, was great.

Oh and we ate a lot of chipotle. duh.

Here August is saying goodbye to his grandparents. He is loved!

Overall we had a blast playing tourist, seeing our friends, and celebrating 6 months of August blessing our lives.

Side Note: While in Co Springs Andy got a phone call with a job offer at Mercury. Needless to say, God answered our many prayers! This means mama gets to stay home more!!!! woo hoo!!!

February

The month of February held a new sense of independence for August..

He perfected his rolling over skills- able now to go front to back and back to front.

He discovered he could sit up on his own

He got to taste a number of new foods

He realized he could stand on his own when holding on to things

and he does not want us holding his bottle for him any more- he has got it.

our little dude is growing up so fast! Its unbelievable!

2010

here is an update and some more pics.

Andy is still working at Duranglers, the fly fishing shop and is loving it! He gets paid to talk about fly fishing all day and to tie flies... must be rough! Oh and they have blog now that he writes for. Check it out at http://duranglers.com/wordpress/. Because its the winter and they have cut hours Andy is looking for another part time job. Until he finds one he has two days a week where he gets to stay home with August and work on his art. He is loving it!

I am now working 30 hours a week - not my ideal set up but i do enjoy my job and August is always with my mom or Andy while I am there so its not so bad. I am still planning on being a Doula I am just waiting till August is around 1 before I start working on getting established here. I am also learning a lot more about cooking. August has a number of allergies so my diet has been extremely limited. It has caused me to have to get creative and I have actually begun to really enjoy the challenge.

Now for August. His sleeping and eating schedule became extremely out of whack so we are now working on helping him get back onto one. He is still growing like crazy. He is now in 12-18 month old clothing. He still can't role over (probably because he is HUGE), but he is MAJORLY developing in every other way!

He has way out grown his chair

he now takes a bath in his duck tub and he LOVES it!

This is him in his cute new shark towel. He has outgrown his other baby ones.

He is working on tummy time. The only way he likes it is propped up on the boppy. SO lazy!

He loves to lay there and talk to himself. I love getting to watch him. So Cute.

We had a MAJOR snow storm! Here is Andy's car.

We had fun watching our neighbors dig their cars out.

Since there was over three days of major snow we mainly stayed in.

Andy and August worked on tying flies. It was so cute :)

We also did a lot of movie watching and just enjoying having quality family time!

Next week August goes for a check up so I will have more updates then...

2009 August Update

Ok so I have done a horrible job of keeping this up so here is a quick 2009 update...

Here is August as a fly fisherman for halloween- he handed out candy to all the kids.
Here is August working on his push-ups- He and his dad workout together every day.

him in his winter hat

our christmas pictures

he loved christmas!He enjoyed watching me decorate the tree (esp. the lights) and he helped us with opening presants. he also loves christmas music.

At the end of 2009 August is 4 months old

He weighs almost 20lbs and is over 27 inches long

He loves to talk LOTS and hang out with people

He loves standing up and rough housing as much as possible

Basicly he is a ton of fun and he has made 2009 our best year yet!

I will put up more on our lives soon...