You've Heard of the Naked Cowboy.....

But have you heard of the Naked Carpenter?

Lately we have been working on finishing our basement and Ashton has been eager to help. We bought him a little tool set and he just goes to work. The reason for the nakedness....potty training. In an attempt to have Ashton potty trained before the baby comes we are trying anything ang everything. Even letting him run around naked and constantly reminding him to use the potty when he needs to pee. So far nothing has worked. He is just too stubborn. So if anyone has any advice, tips, or tricks I would love to learn.

Here are a few other pics of everyone hard at work.

Here Ashton is with his favorite tool...the tape measure. He loves to measure anything he can even people. The only problem....he measures in minutes!

My step dad Eric, Kurtis and me hanging drywall.
Ashton thought he was helping cut the drywall....but he called it chalk.

And we even put the missinaries to work painting.

More pics will come soon. I think we are finally closing in on this big project. We are set to carpet on the 29th if everything goes as planned.

The goal is to have the Capri's room set up before her arrival which means clearing everything out and moving it to the finished basement. Wish us luck!

Halloween

I figured it is about time I do a post and what better to blog about that Halloween. It was a lot of fun this year because Ashton actually understood what was going on a lil better than last year. First we hit up the ward trunk-or-treat and then after not getting enough candy we decided to hit one block in a popular neighborhood. Ashton seemed to have a good time and even wanted to put his costume back on the next day in hopes of getting more candy.

I attended Halloween Bunco in Island park again. Its always a good time and a good excuse to get a costume. I decided to go as Octo Mom and so I strapped on my 14 babies and lined my lucious lips and off I went. And let me tell you...hanging on to 14 babies while trying to eat and play is tough and they got really heavy. But it was a great time and I always love seeing my I.P. peeps.

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Dear West Virginia

I would like to take this time to thank you for the wonderful vacation you offered me. You were able to keep me fully amazed the entire duration of my trip. I was able to see things that I didnt know existed or were even possible.

Here are a few of these modern marvels that I would like to share with the unfortunate people that do not get to have such delightful vacations.

I will start with the curvy roads ahead sign. For those of you who have never ventured to this great state you may not know that there isnt even one straight road. So to the pleasure of my pregnant stomach I was hurled around curves for miles upon miles at the great speed of atleast 50mph.

Next up is this beautiful creation made famous by no other than Billy Ray Cyrus. I was fortunate to see one of these on about 98% of the people in Calhoun County WV. And not only were these people special enough to have the most versatile haircut but they made sure to always be wearing their camo. This goes for men, women, and children. Yes, even babies.

Dont these people know what they are doing to their children? Dont they know how they will turn out? OOOH wait, they do know. Just like themselves and dang proud of it.

And while we are on the topic of pride...here is a lil something to be proud of. On the fronts of many trailors you will find some redneck proudly flying his REBEL (confederate for us refined people) flag. Did these people not get the memo...the war was over 100+ years ago and the south lost.

WARNING: this next section is not to make fun of those who live or have lived in trailors. Only to make others aware of the trailor cult that is taking over West Virginia.

Trailors, trailors, and more trailors. You can go miles without even one house in sight. And these arent just any trailors they are trash. Some have no windows, some have no floors, some have no front door, but all are filled with people with no teeth. And as this trailor cult grows and people have to out do their neighbors......thus comes the SUPER-Trailor. This means that you take 2,3, or even 4 trailors and smash them up against each other and form one big pile of trash. You then invite you cousin and your uncle and in-laws to move in with you.

I always wanted to try a sandwitsh and I found the only place in the world to offer one. Among this delight I was offered privit parking out back and a bathrum for costumers only. Unfortunately I had left all of my halloween costumes at home so I had to hold it while I ate.

All in all West Virginia is a wonderful place full of wonderful people and I had a wild time. After all it is

Its a bird, Its a plane, no its a....

BABY!

Here is my first ultrasound at 9 weeks which puts my due date on January 21st. Darn we were hoping to make it by the end of the year, so if you know any old wives tales on how to make that baby pop out early, I am open to all suggestions!

We are kinda hoping for another boy because it would be convenient but I am feeling like it is gonna be a girl. Either way we will be totally happy.

Its Raining, Its Pouring, the old man is snooring

So it has been raining for about the last 2 weeks now and I hate it...so does Ashton. He just looks out the window all day while saying "outside." So finally I gave in, put on his rain coat and l let him go at it. He had the best time playing in the mud and in the gutter water and he didnt even get neumonia! (sp) So now there is a ray of hope once more for us to both have some sanity amongst all this freakin rain. But please, let there be an end to it soon.

And look at this, 2 blogs all in one day! Woot Woot

A Quick look at the Past Couple Months

It starts in Denver. We made a trip to Denver in March for my sisters wedding (which I will post pics of if she ever gives me some.) Here we are at the aquarium, it was pretty cool. Ashton enjoyed seeing some of it and others he didnt even notice. But I liked it and it was the first aquarium I have ever been to.

Next on the list is Easter! I made Ashton a custom Easter basket cuz I am just that awesome. Besides every Easter basket I have ever seen in the store is pretty ugly. He loved digging through it and opening the eggs. He just about made himself sick form candy but not quite to the ralphing point.

And here Ashton is just being his usual crazy self. He knows just the right

face to get exactly what he wants.

I know I know I need to get on the ball with taking more pics and posting blogs. But I'm a slacker and atleast I admit it. It is sad that my friend that just had twins can find the time to keep up on her blog and make it awesome and I cant! You go Kristin!!! Way to be a super mom blogger.

8 Great

Tagged
Here are the rules:

1) Post rules on your blog

2) Answer the six '8' items

3) Let each person know by leaving them a comment.


8 favorite TV shows:

1. Chelsea Lately

2. Desperate Housewives

3. American Idol

4. America's Next Top Model

5. House

6. Cops

7. Ace of Cakes

8. HGTV shows


8 Things I did yesterday:

1. Worked

2. Had lunch with Jessica & Halley

3. talked to my mom

4. visited with Jess and Jeremy when they came over

5. played with Ashton

6. Kissed my hot husband

7. Highlighted Julie's hair

8. ate chocolate cake

8 Things I'm looking forward to:

1. SUMMER

2. A certain pregnant friend having her baby in like 9 months

3. not being sick anymore

4. Going to my moms this summer

5. walking normal

6. Kurtis not working nights for a lil while (it has been 3 months people)

7. getting my basement finished...any volunteers

8. taking Ashton to the splash park this summer


8 Favorite restaurants:

1. Red Lobster

2. Applebees

3. Cocoa Bean

4. Godfathers

5. Johny Carinos

6. Sub Zero

7. Mexan Food

8. Giovanni's


8 Things on my wish list:

1. Go to Australia

2. For it to be summer everyday

3. skydiving

4. a housekeeper

5. my family to move closer

6. have more babies one day

7. this is hard

8. i dont want much


People I tag:
1. Vanessa
2. Kristin
3. Heather
4. Jill
5. Melody
6. Jess
7. Heidi
8. Audree

Update on Life

So since I havent blogged in a long time I figured I had better get on the ball. So here is a family update on what has been going on.
My sis is getting married on March 28 so I have been busy planning and making things for the wedding.
Kurtis has turned 30 which makes him officially OLD.
Ashton is a wild animal that should be caged. He is in everything and goes everywhere he can.
I had knee surgery on Friday which makes it a lil hard to chase after the lil animal..... and hard to walk.
Ashton got his first curling iron burn a couple weeks ago. It was bound to happen with my hot appliances around.
We got a brief taste of spring which only left us wanting more. (It is supposed to snow tomorrow though.)
So yeah that is about all for us. We are really boring people right now. Once summer comes hopefully there will be more to blog about.

Christmas Bliss

Kurtis kind-of smiled, right?

Just a few pics from Christmas this year. We had a great Christmas in our new home. My mom was here with us this year which mean Ashton is more spoiled than ever now. My sis and I cooked dinner for everyone, which was a first. And unfortunately Kurtis had to work on Christmas night but was with us for the morning. Ashotn got some really nice stuff this year and it was a lot of fun to see his face light up when he saw his car under the tree. He did well with unwrapping, although he wanted to carry every piece of trach straight to the garbage....so it took a while.