Another One Bites The Dust

As the few of you readers know, Rob has an uncanny ability to split his pants, shorts, swimwear open at the most unopportune time. This was one of the most recent episodes. Rob called me one friday and said "You won't believe what just happened at work...." after telling me how this lovely split occurred he finished by saying "at least I was wearing blue underwear today!" I'm thinking to myself...yah, maybe that would have been camofulaged if you hadn't duct tape a silver memo to your crotch and minus the bright yellow vest that really conveys..."Look at me, my pants are now too small to be wearing". From my days of youth, 'fat man in a little coat' came playing back to my mind. But as he said, at least he was wearing underwear, unlike the unfortunate float trip of 2011 where his swim shorts split and his mesh drawers and the goods where exposed.
Thank you Rob for all of the laughter you bring into my life, whether or not you mean to :)

Carter & Chase stay the night

Well this weekend Rob and I had the pleasure of assisting in a babysitting Carter & Chase for one evening. We had a good time taking the boys fishing at James A Reed reserve park near our house.

Chase loved getting the worms out and helping uncle Robby put them on the line. I don't think I've ever seen a kid more excited about worms before :)

Chase proudly holding the fish he helped reel in!

Once again the bait-master in action

Carter posing with his fish he helped to reel in. Don't mind the beer bottle in the background. Just an extra service we provide during our babysitting service to the young-ins

Carter & Papa Mike

All in all, we had a great time with the boys, as well as seeing Mike and Teresa. Rob and I hope we get many more opportunities to babysit our favorite nephews!

My favorite faces

Yes, as stupid as it sounds I love these two monsters. Look how stinking adorable they look in their new K-State bandanas compliments of my friend Sara. Oh what majestic beasts (Rob hates it when I call them that) :)

Baseball season has arrived!

Bret's senior year of high school has come to an end. Here are just a couple pics of his last season of high school ball. Mill Valley Jags were pretty fabulous to watch. I believe they ended their season 17-4 and won their regional game and made it to state in Wichita last weekend.

Senior boys at their senior night

Senior boys after their regional win!

Eskimo Rob at the bonner game in April. What a wimp, it was a whopping 60 deg

Rob, Bret & I

Spring Cleaning

Fresh out of hibernation

Layer one off

Dirty Stache....he wears it well. I tried to convince him to go to work like this

Almost there....

Fresh & Clean, just in time for spring!

Sorry for so many posts, I have been so busy lately and slacking on getting these pics up. A couple weeks ago I finally convinced Rob that spring was here and winter wear was over....we needed to document the transformation. It only took me a week or more to get used to seeing his naked face once again

My Boys

Can hardly believe how fast the time has been going by recently. Spring is officially here and it feels that summer is right on its heels. I know I love this time of year and so do the boys. They've really enjoyed being outside and getting into all kinds of shenanigans.

This is what I look like when it hasn't rained in one week. I like to find things to get in to!!!

They love to dig. We come home to find holes like this one all the time.

After playing outside all day, we need to catch up on our beauty sleep

My Fall Project

Well, I've since tried to work on this post a couple of times but my computer has been slow to update. I'll try this again! I was going to share my prideful project from this fall.

A few years back my grandparents had down sized their home to an independent living apartment in a retirement community. I was blessed to receive my grandmother's table, chairs, china hutch and her beautiful china. However, I was a student at the time and living in a tiny apartment and didn't have the space for such a great gift, then I moved to Austin where we also had zero room. Now that we're settled into our new home in KC we have a perfect space for this gift. We picked the table, hutch and chairs up this fall.....it was just a little different than I had remembered it to be.

Before

After

The semi-finished product!!!

Newly refinished/restained/re-upholstered chairs

This was my first project I've been able to fly mostly solo on. Rob did show me a few techniques to get me started but I was able to complete a majority of the project on my own including stripping all the chairs and the china hutch, then sanding them all, staining them all, then putting a finish solution onto them all. It took me a a full weekend and two week nights to complete but I was so proud I created a quality product we'll be able to enjoy for many years to come. This spring I'm planning on finishing the table and hopefully a dresser in our guest room.

Rob told me I made the A team on this project, thank goodness I've upgraded from the C team painting projects of the past!!!!

Life lately

Okay, so I'm officially horrible with new year's resolutions. I had every intention of writing my thoughts and sharing our daily happenings more freqently, however i've just been so distracted lately. Rob and I have recently had a little bad news our way recently and I've been reflecting on the challenges that God has given us. We were expecting a little one to arrive in september and were completely elated as this exciting news happened for us much more quickly than we had anticipated. Unfortunately when we went to our first appointment, the baby had stopped growing a couple weeks prior. I had to undergo a minor surgical procedure on Valentines Day. I've been recouperating well with the support of Rob & our families. It has been very difficult to not be mad or discouraged with this dissappointing news but I know in my heart this baby was just not healthy and meant to be here with us. We're looking forward to trying again in the near future, keep us in your thoughts and prayers that we'll be successful soon and have GOOD news to share with everyone.

Thanks for your support!
Rob, Ashley, Porter & Tripp

We're Back!

So, wow! It has been incredibly too long since I've been on here to update the blog. So long in fact, Rob has continued to bug me to update it for the past two months. I've never been too big into new year's resolutions but have been working hard on eating better and taking the stairs at work everyday. Now it's time to filter in one more to get on here more often and keep our families and friends up to date on our daily happenings! So definitely look for a few more updates in the future.