Fall Festivities!!

This past Thursday our church had our annual Fall Festival. Of course, we got Asher dressed up in his Halloween costume and set out for an evening of lots of food and fun! Asher was Max from Where the Wild Things Are this year for Halloween. His very first Halloween by the way. My mom made his costume and it was amazing!! He looked absolutely adorable!! I, however didn't get very many good pictures, but I wanted to share the ones I did get. We are having his on-year pictures made next weekend and I am going to take his costume to see if we can get some shots of him in it because it is just too darn cute. And as many of you with children on the move know, it is almost impossible to get a picture that isn't blurry (especially with a dinky little camera like ours--hint, hint, Zack :)) ok so here are the pics from Thursday.

Doesn't he look like such a big boy!

With his Wild Thing

Trying to give Gracie some love

I know neither one is looking at the camera, but I thought it was a good shot of his costume

going down the slide---he is not afraid of anything!

Tired after a long and fun night!

Happy Birthday Daddy!!

Smile with Daddy!!

Zack's turned 26 last Monday and we spent the day in Birmingham, did some shopping and ate at Superior Grill--Daddy's favorite! We had a fun day!! Happy Birthday Daddy! You are such an amazing husband and father!! Asher and I are sooo lucky to have you!!! We LOVE YOU!!

First Haircut!!

We had our first haircut actually almost two weeks ago....I've been a bad blogger. Anyways he did great. He LOVES Mrs Jennifer, so he wasn't scared. He just kept reaching for her to hold him. He was pretty content once she let him play with comb though. Here are a few pictures from his first haircut. We didn't cut much off, just a little bit off of the back and trimmed up the front--it's actually grown out a good bit since then. And ever since we got it cut--he wakes up with the funniest bedhead---it stick

Before shot: Look at all that hair!!

Thanks Mrs Jennifer!!

Family Shot after the haircut!

Asher on the Move

Some Happenings

So here is what has been going on with us lately. Well about three weeks ago, Asher came down with an upper respiratory infection and a double ear infection. Right as we had recovered from that and just about finished up our antibiotic. He came down with a fever. We decided to take him to the doctor just to make sure nothing was wrong. Turns out--he had the swine flu! Luckily, it was very mild. He only had a fever and was achy. After a round of Tamiflu and being stuck at home for a week, we have completely recovered from that and gotten back into our routine. This was our first full week of school and work, so I think we are finally back to normal. He is walking so much now---he walks more than he crawls! It is so fun to watch him. He is so independent and wants to do things for himself. He is just more precious than ever! We will be celebrating his first birthday in 2 short weeks!! As far as pregnancy goes, I have one more week in the first trimester and boy am I ready for the second!! I have been pretty sick this time around and VERY tired---and I'm sure the fact that I have to chase an 11 month old around has nothing to do with that--haha. Other than that, everything is going wonderfully. We got to hear the sweet heartbeat yesterday for the first time. 145 bpm--another boy maybe?? Who knows? We also celebrated Daddy's birthday this week and had our first hair cut--so more updates and pictures to come soon!!

Point One

Eaglepoint had our one year celebration last Saturday. We had blow up games, food vendors, face painting and live music--it was awesome! We have been so blessed this past year. God has done some amazing things this past year! We are so, so grateful for Eaglepoint Church. God is so faithful!! Here are a few pictures of Asher at the celebration.

Asher and Marshall saying hello

You can't tell, but that's the EP logo on his cheek :)

Asher and Lolli!

A smile with Mommy

Giving Gracie hugs!!

jumping with Auntie!

This is a cake--can you believe it?? It is in the shape of Eaglepoint--sooo incredible!! One of our members from the North Campus made it. She also did Kimberly's cake for her going away party and is going to make Asher's birthday cake. She is AMAZING!

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11 months

Asher turned 11 months on Monday!! He is getting sooooo big!! He is the sweetest little boy! 11 months has brought us two more teeth. We now have a total of 8. Four on top and Four on bottom. He is very, very close to walking. He will take steps on his own, he just hasn't quite figured out that walking will be a faster way of going places. Once he does, I'm sure he'll be everywhere. He has really good balance, right now he just prefers crawling. He has had his first ear infection (sad). Last week he developed a cough and runny nose. We took him to the doctor and he said that Asher had a double ear infection, and an upper respiratory infection. So we are still finishing up our antibiotics. He was a trooper! He will sign please and say 'ma, ma" when he wants more of something. And he will sign thank you, but you have to prompt him to do this. AND yesterday Zack came home from work and Asher said 'Da-da'. First words? We are going to count it. He is very smart and such a sweet, sweet boy. He LOVES giving hugs and kisses. Every time he walks to us, he thinks he needs a hug. It is so sweet. Anyways--we are one month from our first birthday! We are having a party on Halloween--monster theme--sooo excited. Anywho, here are a few pictures from lately.

You can't really tell, but he's standing up on his own here--yay!

Neat Freak?

The other night, Asher finished eating his dinner and we got him out of his high chair. He picked up a napkin off of our table and started wiping his tray off. It was so cute--maybe he has inherited his Daddy's 'cleanliness' gene :) He doesn't like for things to be messy. He is always cleaning things off of the coffee table and if he has a messy dinner he LOVES to be cleaned up. I had to take pictures because I thought it was so funny.

I know this picture is blurry--but I love that face :)