EastCoastLove

Its been a year! Asher is a year! Can you believe it? He is our little salsa dancer that wobbles back and forth from room to room playing and babbling all day long. Thankful for this little guy.  More and more of his personality comes out daily amid all the grunts and ooo's as we try to understand him.  He belly laughs at Shepherd now at random silly things he does. Its adorable! It sometimes tickles shepherd too that he can't stop laughing with/at him.  We will be on the road today driving to visit Kimmel's granddad and extend family in east Texas, so we did the smash cake last night. Asher wasn't a huge fan of the cake, we had to ask Shepherd to show him that its yummy. A request he did not have a problem obeying. I'm sure as Asher gets older he will love cake too.  Hope you get to spend time with your loved ones today or tomorrow and its a special time! Happy Thanksgiving y'all! :) 

Man i am really out of shape with keeping up with the blog. It is a habit that i have dropped and can't seem to pick up well yet. Thanks to you who read this still! :) This month seems to have become our month of birthdays for friends and family. Kimmel's best friends' is on the 27, 4 from his family and My best friend's since first grade is the 13th, while another best friend, from college is the 15th and couple others i noticed on Facebook. Yesterday was Kimmel's bday! 29 years old. He went to work with homemade cards and blueberry muffins in his new shirt. He spoke at FCA in the morning at his middle school! Said it went really well. We have plans for dinner and Mockingjay over the weekend to celebrate! Last weekend we celebrated the newest addition to our birthday month Asher. Found a cute teepee invitation and went with that for the theme.  The best gift of all my sister flew in for it and surprised us all!! So much fun! The boys love...

If you watch any tv I'm sure you have seen this commercial but it is by far my favorite right now and makes me laugh every time! :D My favorite is when she says 'i should totally start a blog'! Its so true that there is an expectation for us SAHM (stay at home mom) to do a blog. To write inspirational wise things that everyone will love, like and share on social media. I know cause i have tried to do that....but i can only muster up about once a month of anything inspiring for anyone to read! Or find time to do it! Mostly this blog is for family keeping up with us since all mine is back in VA and now we live near no family.  I know i have had days like this commercial shows and I'm sure you have too! (cue spiritual connection) Like this lady who has allstate to call when she messed up her car, we have God to call on when our day is messed up! :) so thankful for that! 

Growing up my family didn't really participate in the halloween shenanigans of knocking door to door. I remember going to churches saying verses for candy. I know people of different opinions and thoughts about the day but for me i love the dressing up. So darn cute! Exhibit A: Exhibit B:  We will go to Opa and Layla's for dinner and then to their churches trunk or treat and walk in their neighborhood too. Should be a fun night! Be safe and get lots of treats!! Trick or treat! 

So we live 25 mins from a man made lake with a beach area and being the water lover i am we try to go once a week. Asher will just walk straight out into the water and put is face in it if i don't hold on to him! Our boys are pretty fearless when it comes to water. Since Texas is our home, its hot for a good part of the year and the water isn't too cold, we get to enjoy this thru out the year. We were the one of two families there this morning, and last two times we went we were the only family there! Gonna milk all these nice empty days cause summer will be swamped with families I'm sure.  When the boat came by we tried to jump the little waves as they came in to shore.  Shepherd did good asher just splashed them with his hands and then face. :)  Two cute little water bugs! Cant wait for all the water adventures ahead with them! 

I may be a little late to bandwagon for this show since i just started, but i LOVE it! My sister is totally hooked and a big fan so i thought i would give it a try. Moving out here was the best time to try it out since there was no dvr or cable and with all the summer shows still in rerun i decided to start from the beginning and watch all 9 seasons to get ready for tonight! I'm not a huge fan of the main characters never getting together story line, but since i knew that they were together i could muster thru the 6 seasons apart. They did a great job of stringing along for a few seasons and had some great side stories with the other cast. Love when they had the baby, love the wedding and love the change that Brennan makes. Love their banter and how they help each other. If you haven't started watching it you should! Netflix has all 9 seasons now. 

This weekend at our exit of 35 we found Lightning and Mater! We took the boys to meet them and it turned out to be a fundraiser for autism. If you wanted to take pictures behind the barricade you donate. We just had too! Asher thought it was so funny when i tried to take his picture :) Shepherd really liked it too. When we went to the store the next day he asked, 'find lightning mom?' I told him they moved on, but when we got to the parking lot for walmart he was yelling, "LIGHTNING?? where you?" hahaha