Oh BOY!

Here is my attempts with catching up and posting some photos of my little man playing in the kitchen.

He was starting to get curious with what I was doing.  He wanted to hold the camera.

It is always hard for me to get a good picture of me and Ethan.  But these are a few attempts to get some but he never smiled!

He was pushing his chair around and Ry was walking by right when I took this picture it kind of looks cool!

Ok these are a few attempts of me trying to get pictures of him in his new fall clothes but he didn't want to do it at all! Can you tell?

He didn't want me to take his binki out at all or taking pictures.  he just wasnt' in the mood!

I finally got him to calm down but I couldn't get a smile at all!  He was mad at me!

Look at those sad little eyes he knows how to melt my heart with those eyes! 

He was distracted here watching the tv. I know I am a bad mom I turn the tv on for him to calm him down.

He was starting to get mad again because I was right in front of him trying to get some pictures again.  Man this little boy can be so stubborn.

Here is a pretty decent picture but still that binki wouldnt' come out!

I love this little outfit that we bought at Kohls!  Kohls is great they have the best sales and I love going there.  We got more for him but he just didn't want me to be dressing him up and taking pictures today so maybe I can try again another day.  I need to get professional pictures of him so that we can hang them on our wall.  He is almost 18 months and we don't have any pictures of hiim on the wall.  That is horrible.

Anyways to catch up on things:

ETHAN:  He is getting so big!  I actually love this stage because he is starting to talk more and understand things.  We weighed him the other day and he weighed 25.6 pounds.  We didn't measure him though we go to the dr. next month so we will find out then.  But he is getting so big.  It is getting hard for me to haul him around the place.  He knows where his nose, ears, mouth, eyes and spikey hair are.  He also knows what his hands and feet are.  He will point to them when you ask them.  He loves reading books with mommy and daddy.  He is starting to get more and more independent he always wants to feed himself. I try to let him but he just makes such a big mess, but that is ok.  His favorite movies are Meet the Robinsons and Cars.  he will sometimes sit through the whole movie.  But that is very rare.  He loves wrestling with his daddy and playing hide and seek. If he could he would live outside.  We dont' have a yard yet so he will go out there and sit down and throw the rocks around.  He usually screams when we have to bring him in. He sleeps great at night we put him to bed at 8 and he usually wakes up at 7:45.  he only takes one nap a day and it ranges from 2 to 3 hours.  He is just so much fun I love him so much!

RYAN:  He is still working for AFLAC.  It is a little stressful but I am hoping if he sticks with it that will turn out amazing in a year or so.  We will just have to see.  He is looking for another job to work part time until AFLAC can fully support us.  He is a great daddy to Ethan, whenever Ethan hears the garage door open he runs to the door to wait for his daddy to come in.  Ryan is in the Sunday School Presidency he is going to be teaching a temple prep class starting this Sunday.  He will do great.

ASHLEY:  I have been lucky to be able to be at home with Ethan this whole summer!  It has been nice it is a lot of work and sometimes really hard but I wouldn't trade it for the world.  I like being a little homemaker.  it is fun for me to be able to have time to cook new things and try to keep the house clean which is hard when you have a one year old running all over the place.  I have been training for the half marathon but I wasn't able to get into it this year which was a bummer.  But there are other ones I am going to do!  I just got put into the Young Womens Presidency as teh 2nd counselor and I love this calling.  I couldn't have asked for a better calling and it came at the right time.  I love the girls in there they are all so great. 

That is a little bit of a catch up on what we have been doing this summer.  Summer has flown by and I can't believe that August is almost over.  I am ready for the weather to cool down a bit but I am not ready for the COLD!!! 

We are doing great and just trying to enjoy life.  I know I promise this everytime but I do want to keep in touch better on my blog so I will try It just takes so much time and it is hard to get time to do it.  But I will try!!