Asher is 4!




2 days old!



One!



Two!

Three

Asher turned four years old on November 3rd! Four years of blessing, four years of wonderful chaos as I have watched this beautiful little boy grow. He is blessed with so much JOY! His name means happy and he lives up to that meaning. He has so much energy. He is ALL boy. I want to remember some of his favorite things and funny things about him right now, so excuse the bullet point list, but this is for preserving our family memories :)

-He loves being outside, doing anything, but especially riding his bike, digging in the dirt, playing with sticks (imagining them to be swords, guns, hammers, telescopes, binoculars, etc--it's amazing how many things a stick can be)
- He is obsessed with superheroes. Spiderman is his particular favorite, but he also loves Ironman, the Hulk, Batman, Superman, Captain America, etc. The only one he said he doesn't really like is Thor (?) I'm still not really sure how he got in to this other than maybe books from the library and his friends from school because he hasn't ever seen a movie
- He loves his sisters! They are his best little friends. He is always hugging and kissing on Isla and rough housing with Honor (poor girl ;)) He is THE BEST big brother!
-He sleeps with his teddy and turtle blanket animals. He has a very strict bedtime routine which includes bath, PJs, brushing of the teeth, reading a story, prayer time, asking for water, and getting out of bed a few times to tell us he loves us and we are his best friends before finally falling asleep.
-He knows several bible verses by heart. We have read through the story book bible at least twice. It makes my heart happy to hear God's word from his little mouth.
-He will try to charm you to get out of trouble, grinning, laughing, hugging, etc. (Bad habbit we are trying to break, especially because it usually breaks me hah!)
- He loves to read.
-His favorite food is chicken nuggets and chocolate milk. He would probably ask for that for every meal.
-He refuses to wear jeans. He only wants to wear sweat pants aka "soft pants"
-He really likes to dress up in his super hero outfits. He got some occupational dress up stuff that I think he is really going to have fun with.

I'm sure there are so many other things I can't think of right now. He makes us laugh every day. He has such a tender heart and is so kind. He has taught me so much about love. He loves so passionately, so genuinely it breaks me. It doesn't matter who they are or how they treat him, he just loves. I pray that I will love others like that. The Lord has been so gracious to allow me to see life through the eyes of my young children in all of their innocence and purity of heart. I pray that being a mom will continue to change me, grow me, challenge me and make me more like Jesus.

To celebrate his actual birthday, he said he wanted to go to the park. So we got up, made pancakes, gave him his presents (a bike!, a football helmet and Honor picked him out an iron man shirt ;)) Then we headed over to Gadsden and ate at Chick-fil-A per his request and then went to Nocalula falls, only to find out they are closed for the winter--egh! But they have a pretty sweet playground that we played on for a while and got to look out over the falls. He was happy to just play. He's not hard to please.



Closing his eyes for his birthday surprise



a BIG bike!



Honor excited to give Asher her gift: Ironman!



He also got a glove and baseball and a football helmet. He was excited!

Monkey Bars!

Pigtails!!!

Best Buds!

We had a family lunch for him on Sunday. We are out of the big party business for a while...maybe next year... Here are some pictures from our fun day.

Thanks Uncle Seaver for the cool artwork on the wrapping paper!

How many Dads does it take to figure out how to put together a toy?

My friends are so pretty!

Addie having fun as Wolverine!