Month of June

We had a pretty uneventful month of June so far. Here are the highlights.

Her hair fits into cute pigtails. The problem is she pulls on them about 5 minutes after doing her hair.

She likes to wrap the towel around herself and run around the house.

This was Joe's Father's Day gift. I made him a new lunch box with a vinyl picture frame on it. It turned out really well.

Joseph had a work picnic and they had a snow cone booth. Ashton wasn't too sure of eating snow cones. She also got her face painted but didn't last long to take a good picture.

We spent the month dealing with two colds, which evolved into using her nebulizer both times. She's such a pro now that she holds it herself.

Ashton found an ant. This is how she is with every single ant she sees. The problem is ants in Texas bite so sometimes she walks away with another ant bite.

We also got bedroom furniture. We used to have two plastic drawer sets for our dressers and we bought those when we got married. It was time for an upgrade so when our stock money came, we bought some nice furniture. We went from having six drawers total to having 21 drawers! We don't know what to do with all of them quite yet.

Of course, our bedroom doesn't look this nice. I wish!

Ashton has some words that she mispronounces. It's comical to hear her say them. Here are some recent ones of her's.

Flop-pops - This means flip-flops. She has a pair she wears all the time and she'll yell around the house for her flop-pops.

Dumpkin - This means pumpkin. We planted a pumpkin plant in our garden and Ashton is very concerned about it. When Tropical Storm Bill came through, we weren't sure if the garden would survive so we were worried for her as well. Since the storm was non-existent, her dumpkin is okay.

More Family Pictures

It's funny how when you are set to do something outside on a weekend, it rains almost every free weekend! When we set out to do family pictures last fall, we intended to do them at the beach. Well, the one weekend we picked ended up being filled with stormy weather and a little girl with pneumonia so we did inside pictures. It was our goal the whole winter/spring to find a nice Saturday to take some pictures. But either it rained or one of us had something going on. Finally, it worked! And it was well worth the wait. Ashton was a little stinker and didn't love smiling/looking at the camera. But we still got a lot of good pictures. I'm so happy to finally have our canvas in our living room. It was the last piece of "decor" I wanted to finish decorating our house for the most part.

She loved finding seashells!

Memorial Day Weekend

For Memorial Day weekend, we had a full house. Joseph's brother and his family came to visit. Since they moved away from Austin at Christmas-time, we have missed them. It was wonderful for them to fly back to Houston and see us again. Ashton loved playing with her cousins and we enjoyed seeing how big the boys are getting.

Friday, we headed out to the beach and the kids loved it. So much that we went back Saturday since the weather cleared up. On Monday, we went swimming at a recreation center as well as at a friend's apartment complex. Lots of swimming! We enjoyed yummy food, lots of walks to the park, and played some games. I like when they come because Joseph will play BananaGrams with me. That's always a favorite.

They weren't too excited to share a chair.

Trying to get three kids to look and smile at the same time

Bonus picture- Ashton playing with bath paint and making her warrior face.