Live, Laugh, Love

Finally an update!

2011-01-10T11:44:00.000-08:00

Okay so it has been awhile. I guess I will start by giving a little update on everyone.

Michael

He turned one in September. He loves to play with cars, balls, and Ashlynn. He is saying a lot more these days, his favorite word I would say is football. Bryan loves it. Gus goes around saying football all day, and loves to watch it with his Dad. I haven't got a picture of that yet, but I will tonight for the national championship game. Another favorite thing of his is to climb, especially on to the table so he can dance. He has all of his teeth and has had them for awhile. Gus also loves to read books, he loves story time at the library.

Ashlynn

Ashlynn is growing up so fast, and she lets me know by telling me that she isn't little anymore she is a big girl. I can't believe that she is in sunbeams. She isn't sure about sunbeams yet. She doesn't cry or anything she just doesn't think that it is fun. Ashlynn also loves to play outside in the snow. She loves to make snow angels and to build snow forts and have a snowball fight. She also loves to read and wants to go to school. Ashlynn also loves art. Her favorite art activity is painting.

Bryan

Is busy doing the usually thing. He works four tens, so he gets Fridays off. We have been able to do a lot of stuff. Bryan has been doing a lot of ice fishing lately. Ashlynn likes to go with him and so do I. I will post a couple of pictures of Ashlynn fishing.

I am doing the same thing as always. I don't have anything new to report.

2010-07-30T10:15:00.000-07:00

We went to a 4th of July parade in Ten Sleep. The kids had a lot of fun and got a lot of candy. After the parade we went to a fish hatchery and had lunch. Michael loved looking at the fish.

Ashlynn after the parade.

Ashlynn putting candy in her bag.

This was when we went up to a lake in the mountains. This is the first fish that Ashlynn has mostly caught on her own.

Michael at the fish hatchery.

Ashlynn eating a popsicle that she got at the parade.

Michael at the parade.

Michael

2010-05-12T13:25:00.000-07:00

Michael is doing good. He is scouting all over the place, and is very eager to start walking. He will pull to a stand and then will let go and try to go, but falls down. He has four teeth and loves to eat food. He also loves animals. He will try and grab at Papa and shorty's chickens and loves to be with Rudy. I am excited to see him with the new puppies.

Ashlynn

2010-05-12T12:59:00.000-07:00

Ashlynn is getting so big. It is hard to believe that she is turning three soon. She is a big talker (can't get her to stop). She loves to read and loves to be outside. She loves to go to papa and shorty's house and see the chickens and play in the playhouse. Ashlynn also loves to play with Michael. Another fun thing that she has been doing is pretending that we are other people. Some days I am one of my sisters Jenna or Monica and she likes to pretend that she is her cousins and Michael is her cousin too (her favorite is to be Katie and Cassidy at the same time and Gus is Rory). It is pretty funny. She loves to have friends over and to go to the park and play with friends, she is a social bug. She makes friends everywhere she goes. Ashlynn also loves to go fishing with Bryan, they both have a lot of fun.

Finally an update!

2010-05-12T08:44:00.000-07:00

Well we have been very busy lately. We finished are office, bathroom is almost done and soon we will be putting in a deck and balcony outside and a playfort for ashlynn.

Christmas

2010-01-06T18:55:00.000-08:00

Ashlynn in her christmas dress.

At the zoo. It was really cold that day. They didn't have much to see, but Ashlynn said she only wanted to see deer, elk, and moose.

Ashlynn sitting on "Santas" lap.

Gus and Alisi.

Gus in his Christmas outfit.

Halloween

2009-11-07T06:09:00.001-08:00

Michael Augustus

2009-10-29T11:16:00.000-07:00

So, I am finally putting up pictures of Gus. We still haven't gotten are camara back yet they are waiting on a part so hopefully we get it back soon. I would like to take videos and things. Michael weighed 7 lbs 10z and was 21in long. He has his two month check up next week, so we will see how big he has gotten. Ashlynn is doing okay with the change, we had some problems with her going to bed at night, but she is doing better now. Other then that nothing new.

Hike

2009-08-05T06:54:00.001-07:00

Bryan was able to go on a hike with the young men in our ward for a couple of days. They are hiking 50 miles and I think Bryan hiked 35 miles of it. I will probably post more pictures later. Bryan took a lot of pictures. We also got a new video camera that you can video underwater so I will try and post one of the videos bryan took underwater. He didn't get to much because the water was so cold.

I think this is a golden trout. I am not exactly sure but it is a golden something. I guess you can only catch those if you are at a high altitude. I don't remember how high bryan said you have to be to catch one. Maybe I can get him to post more about the hike.

This is a picture of Rob and one of the boys hiking up the mountain trail. I guess there was some rough parts that they had to hike through.

I will try and post more pictures later today. I also have a doctors appointment today, so I will give an update with how the baby is doing.

Ashlynn and Rudy

2009-08-05T06:48:00.000-07:00

Ashlynn loves Rudy. She feeds him every morning and wakes up talking about him. She loves to take him for walks and even read stories to him. Here are a couple of pictures of Ashlynn reading to Rudy.

Family Reunion!

2009-08-05T06:35:00.000-07:00

In the begging of July we had a Butler Family Reunion that I hosted. We rented a cabin in the mountains by my parents house. Here are some pics. of the reunion.

This is a picture of Katie and Cassidy getting ready to preform their talent. All the kids did a great job. I would post a video but it takes a really long time to upload, so I will post that latter.

This is a picture of Ashlynn and Katie with Rudy.

This is a picture of Ashlynn taking into the pipe to the other kids. They loved it, and thought it was so funny.

This is a picture of ashlynn fishing. She loves to fish. When we drive by water she always ask to fish.

Update...

2009-06-11T18:17:00.000-07:00

Sorry no pictures this time, to lazy to go out to the car to get the camera. I have started to potty train Ashlynn. Kinda casual, she is still young but she likes her potty seat. She likes to go potty on it more and more every day. Today was a really good day for her to use it, she even told me when she needed to use the bathroom. That is her exciting news.
As for me I am six months pregnant and feel huge. I don't ever remember being this uncomfortable with Ashlynn, but I probably was. The baby is doing good. We haven't picked a name yet, nothing seems to fit. I did agree on naming him Landon Bearl (bearl after Bryan, he loves that name, I hate it). So I guess that will be his name if we don't agree on a different name. Bryan and I don't really love Landon, so that probably will not be his name. I am stuck with Bearl unless Bryan and I can agree on something else. If anyone has any good name suggestions let me know what they are I need help.
Bryan has been working a lot the last couple of weeks and will be this summer. July he will be working in riverton (which is an hour and half from our house). He hasn't been getting home until nine and is leaving at about six. So, it has been long days for us. We also are trying to finish work on our house. Bryan has been doing the prep work so we can paint and then we are going to put in a lawn. We still have to finish our bathroom upstairs and the office in our room. I was hoping that we could have it all done before I had the baby, but it looks like we won't be able. Bryan is going to be very busy. It will be done one of these days.
I also wanted to get the baby room done. But that is painting, so that can't be done right know. I will be able to get curtains made and other decorations up though. Maybe I can convince my mom to come up and help me one of these days.
We are also excited that my parents will be moving up here and will be only fifteen minutes away from us. That will be in November. I am really excited about that. It will be fun to live close to my parents, I am glade Bryan gets along with my dad. They will probably do lots of hunting. It will also be nice to have babysitters that Ashlynn loves, and I am sure the baby will love too.
I will try to get pictures up of Ashlynn, and me so everyone can see how big I am.

Ashynn

2009-06-02T10:25:00.000-07:00

This is ashlynn's first time fingerpainting. She loved it. Here are some pictures of her and her finished work of art.

Mothers day!

2009-05-11T12:50:00.000-07:00

My mothers day was wonderful. My parents were here in the morning to eat breakfast with us, along with my grandma and sister Jenna. Jenna was able to stay until after church so that was nice. Bryan made me a wonderful breakfast and did all the cleaning. He also got me a new set of scriptures that I have been wanting for a while. He also made me dinner (pizza) that was really good. Then we were all able to take a nice long nap, we have had a busy week so we were all really tired. So overall my mothers day was great. Jenna also got me this really cute sweater, that I love.

House Pictures.

2009-05-09T07:37:00.001-07:00

So here are some pictures of our house. Bryan has been working on the master bedroom bathroom. It is looking really good. We still need to paint, tile the walk in shower and finish a few other things.

This is a picture of the shower and a dividing wall that seperates the tolit and gives it a little more privacy. I think Bryan did a really good job on it. The shower is probably going to be in a blue tile and the wall is going to be painted white. The trim in the bathroom is going to be white, the walls blue and I am going to do sunny yellow color as accent and a light green color that is more on the yellow side.

This is our wirlpool tub that Bryan put in. It is very nice. He also did the floors and all the trim.

This is a picture from my living room. Bryan put in the woodstove and we painted it brown and I did the back of the niches to match. I think it turned out cute.

Easter

2009-05-09T07:28:00.000-07:00

We spent easter here at home with Vanessa and her family. We did an easter egg hunt at her house on saturday and invited Bryan's co-worker, kelly, and his family. Then on sunday we had a big easter dinner. Here are a few pictures....

Baby update

2009-03-19T11:30:00.000-07:00

I had my first doc. apt. yesterday and everything is going good. I was able to hear the baby's heart beat. They had me worried for a minute because they kept asking if there were twins in my family, and how I felt about twins. There was only one heart beat though. We will be able to find out what we are having in six weeks.

Update on Ashlynn

2009-03-10T10:03:00.000-07:00

So Ashlynn is 19 months, it is really weird that she is getting so big. She has learned a few new things. She likes to count, but she really only counts to two. She also loves to say prayers. We read scriptures with her before we put her to bed and she loves to get the scriptures and waits for us to read them. Ashlynn has also started a new habit of calling me Heather, boo, and on occasion she might call me mommy. She mostly calls me Heather. She wakes up in the morning and calls Heather until I come to get her. But she always calls Bryan daddy.
Ashlynn also is very good at saying please and thank you. I am very proud of her. Ashlynn is also in nursery now, and she loves it. She goes very good, she has been going for about a month now and we never have any problems. She was nervous this Sunday, but a nursery leader just picked her up and I left and she was fine.

I will post pictures soon. We have been working on our bathroom upstairs, so I will put some pictures up of it. I will also post pictures of ashlynn.

Bryan's Surgery

2009-03-10T10:01:00.000-07:00

Well Bryan is doing really good, most days. Today he isn't feeling so good, but he hopes to do a full day of work tomorrow. We will see what happens. Other then that everything is going great.

Just some cute pictures!

2009-01-24T09:43:00.001-08:00

Bryan and Ashlynn

2009-01-13T13:04:00.000-08:00

The other day I left Bryan to watch Ashlynn in her room while I took care of some things around the house. A little while latter this is what I found.....

Bryan sleeping in Ashlynn's crib!

And Ashlynn's room a complete disaster!!!

Bryan must have tired him self out from all of the playing.

Ashlynn and Cheese

2009-01-08T19:24:00.000-08:00

Ashlynn got very hungry so she got a hard boiled egg and a huge chunk of cheese, and decided to go to the fridge and look for more. She has very cute caring around her food, but the cheese got to heavy so we cut her off a smaller chunk.

Ashlynn's room

2009-01-02T12:32:00.000-08:00

I have been busy decorating Ashlynn's room. I still have a couple more things to do, but I think it looks cute so far.

2009-01-02T12:20:00.000-08:00

On the way home from ice fishing we saw a lot of deer. I was only able to get a couple of pictures.

New Years Day

2009-01-02T11:55:00.000-08:00

For new years we went ice fishing with Vanessa and all of her family. It was lots of fun. I caught two fish and I think we caught thirteen all together. Ashlynn even got into the fishing. The kids caught most of the fish. One time a fish pulled the fishing pole into the water and we had to drill another hole to get it out, and it was a pretty big fish. Here are just a couple of pictures.

2008-12-19T13:00:00.000-08:00

So I was finally able to get pictures of Ashlynn in her cupboard. She wanted the camera so I didn't get very many and she was reaching for the camera in one of the pictures.

2008-12-19T12:46:00.000-08:00

So I made curtains for my kitchen and I made this thing for Ashlynn's bench. I thought that they turned out cute, but I don't know. Here are the pictures. Tell me what you think.

2008-12-18T14:17:00.000-08:00

These are just a few pictures of ashlynn. She decicec she wanted to sit in Rudy's bowl.

Update on Ashlynn

2008-10-15T20:18:00.001-07:00

Ashlynn is getting so big. She has been walking for a few months and she loves it. She also says a lot of words. She says no, yes, bye, hi, daddy, baby, sit, rudy (our dog), JJ (that is what she calls my sister Jenna), she trys to to say tickle. I think that is all the words she is saying.

She also loves to read. I have always read to her but she has never been very interested in the books, but the last couple of days she has loved it. She brings me books all the time to have me read them to her and when Bryan gets home from work that is one of the first things she does. She finds a book for Bryan to read and brings it to him. On sunday Bryan was talking on the phone to his dad and was fliping threw the pages and not reading the book for ashlynn so she got mad and started to hit him with the book. She really does love to read.

I have cleared a cupboard in the kitchen for Ashlynn to help her stay out of the other ones. She does a good job of staying out of the other cupboards and it is really cute to see her climb into her cupboard. She loves to sit in there and put her toys in it. I will try to get pictures up of her in there.

Update on us

2008-10-15T20:02:00.000-07:00

Well we have been very busy the past couple of months. Bryan has been working in Dubois, Wy for about 2 months, and we also have been doing a lot of construction on our house. We have finished putting up the siding but problable wont be able to paint until next summer because it is getting to cold. We have put in all new windows and are putting in a woodstove. We hope to have the woodstove done by the weekend. Next week we will be starting to refinish our wood floors. I also have been busy painting things for Ashlynn's room and also painting the game\tv room.

We are excited that Bryan's parents and grandparents will be here in a couple of weeks. My parents are also coming up for a couple of days so it will be a lot of fun. Bryan is really excited about his hunting trip. Bryan has been really busy so it will be a fun brake for us to have his family here and for him to be doing something he enjoys.

Anniversary!

2008-08-18T21:23:00.000-07:00

So today is are second anniversary. We weren't able to do much because Bryan is working in Dubois so I drove up to see him and am staying with him while he is working in Dubois. So we went out to dinner and there is really anything else to do here because it is a small town so we got dessert and went back to the hotel. For our anniversary we got a picture frame that does the slide show of the pictures.

Ashlynn's Birthday

2008-08-18T21:16:00.001-07:00

Ashlynn's first birthday was on the 8th. I will put pictures up soon of her cake and her opening presents. Thanks for all the presents she got from everyone.
Ashlynn's got from us a new outfit, blocks, magnet numbers, and a doll
Grandpa and Grandma strasser she got a new pair of pants and two shirts that were really cute
Shorty and Papa she got a couple of new toys that Ashlynn loves
Vanessa and Rob got her a cute new skirt and shirt
Aleta and Joe she got new clips for her hair (that Ashlynn will only keep in for a little while her hair is still a little to fine to keep them in for long times)
From a coeworker of Bryans she got a kick ball.
David and kimber a gift card to target
Her cousins drew pictures for her that she loved to look at.
Ashlynn loves all of her new toys and cloths.

Ashlynns Birthday cupcakes

2008-07-28T13:21:00.000-07:00

The 4th of july was busy at my parents house. Everyone has able to come up and visit. We went to a parade and made a cupcake flag that turned out really cute. Ashlynn was really tired at the parade so she did not enjoy it at all. My brother-in-law had to carry her around in a backpack to calm her down. Bryan went fishing that day so it wasn't there for the parade.

2008-07-04T18:17:00.000-07:00

The other day the girls got together to make necklaces and bracelets. Ashlynn likes to chew on her bracelet. I posted a couple of pictures of her new bracelet (hopefully she will stop chewing on it).

Fishing Day 2...

2008-07-04T13:14:00.001-07:00

Back out to the reservoir and another limit of fish but this time they ran smaller except for this 20" brown and kokane.

Fishing Day 1...

2008-07-04T12:55:00.000-07:00

Bryan went fishing with my Dad and caught a bunch of beautiful fish. Rainbows, browns, cuts, and kokane all 18+ inches. Fontenelle Reservoir Wyoming.

Hot Summer Days

2008-06-30T20:12:00.000-07:00

We finally have nice weather in Rexburg, so we decided to buy Ashlynn a swimming pool. She didn't like it as much as I thought she would. The first day we put it up She only sat in one place and didn't move around much. When I was in the pool with her she tried to crawl on top of me to get out of the water. The next day she liked it a lot better. The water was warmer for her and she had some fun playing with her toys in the pool. We also took her to a play in the water at Porter Park. She really didn't like it because there were older kids and it wasn't very warm. We got a couple of pictures and took her out and had a picnic in the park.

4th of July

2008-06-30T19:56:00.000-07:00

We are at my patents house for the 4th of July, and they actually had there celebrations this weekend. Ashlynn wasn't really excited about the parade but she seemed to enjoy the fireworks. These are pictures at the parade and of her watching fireworks.

2008-06-08T20:25:00.000-07:00

We went fishing on Thursday with Bryan's cousin, Matthew, to Aldous lake. It was really cold and there was still a lot of snow on the ground. Bryan had to push Ashlynn's stroller in a mile and a half.

2008-06-08T20:14:00.000-07:00

Ashlynn has been getting into everything and is being very active. The other day I put Ashlynn in her walker (which of course she hates to be in because it ties her down) so I could take care of some things in the other room. When I came back a few seconds latter she was no longer in her walker but was sitting on the kitchen floor. I was completely shocked. I have no idea how she did it, she only had a little red mark on her head.

Fun in the Sun

2008-06-01T19:55:00.000-07:00

The weather hasn't been to good lately but yesterday it was very nice so we had a bar-b-que at the park. All of the Strasser cousins came and my parents and brother and sister. Ashlynn enjoys being outside and we took her to feed the ducks while we were at the park. She didn't get very excited about it like I thought she would, but that's okay.
So we just played a couple of games after we ate lunch. We played soccer and ultimate Frisbee. I believe my team won both games.

A New Home

2008-05-28T18:53:00.002-07:00

We have finally got a blog up and running. I started one earlier but I didn't remember any of the information.

We have been busy the past few weeks moving into our house, we went up this past weekend and wanted to do some work on the siding but it rained the entire time so we didn't get much done. We love our new house and are excited to get moved in and to be living in Wyoming.

Ashlynn is getting so big. She has eight teeth already and is crawling, climbing, and getting into anything and everything. She has learned how to make kissing noises, fish faces, and to wave bye (we are still working on teaching her to wave bye she likes to copy what we do, but she doesn't wave goodbye every time). Ashlynn has also been standing without holding on to something for a few seconds at a time but she gets nervous after a little while and decides to sit down.

I hope to get some pictures posted soon so you can see pictures of Ashlynn and our new house.