1st Day of Summer!

Today was my 1st official day of summer!! What a great day! I spent the day with an old friend & her 2 precious little ones. Valerie & I met at freshmen orientation at CU (Thanks to Courtney, the blog stalker =) JK!). We hit it off & the girls of Day Dorm shared many memories! Valerie & I soon learned we were only "reunited" at college- see we were born 1 day apart at the very same hospital so we decided that we had to have been in the nursery at the same point at some time, & as much as the 2 of us talk we just decided we became friends back in 1979 at Rex & were only reunited at CU in '97! I spent the day with Valerie, her son Cooper (21 months), & her precious little daughter Paisley (almost 1 month old) all day- what fun! What a great way to start the summer!

Big Brother Cooper kissing on his little sister!

Paisley Ann Jarmon
May 17, 2009
Look at that head full of hair! She is precious!

Reffit Weekend

Mom & Dad came down for the weekend- their last stay at 220 Deep Pool! We had a great time. We stayed up late on Friday night when they got in =), had a full pancake breakfast on Saturday morning, a trip to the Farmer's Market & a good afternoon nap! We ate dinner w/ Mom & Grandma & enjoyed church & Sunday lunch. It was a great visit- as always! Next time they come we'll be in the new house! Sorry- we were so busy having fun we didn't get any pictures!

Summer is Here!

Just had to share my excitement- summer is here! The kid's last day was Wednesday & I will finish up Friday afternoon! Summer is here! I do love my job, it is so hard to let them go each year, but I do love the summer!!!

Birds part2

So it was about a week or so after our last visitors gained the gift of flight and together with mom, they no longer stayed in their bird nest. I decided since we were selling our house to remove the old bird nest and clean it up. No sooner had I done that, there was a new starter-nest in full construction. I asked Ashley if the bird had lost his mind and wondered if we should remove this one as well. Well we left it and..our new housemate continued to live there.

Today I get home and look up...and we have more than just a mommy bird. I count 5 atleast, 1 already having hatched. Who knew we had such a popular nesting ground :)

Sailing into Summer!

We headed to Wilmington Friday night to visit Tyler & the fam & hit the beach on Saturday. It was a beautiful day! We cleaned up, enjoyed some dinner together, then headed home Saturday night. Short trip, but a good one!

Check out the rest of the family fun.

We all know I didn't inherit any of the tanning genes in my family. I am a ghost, I like to call it healthy, but the rest of you just call me pasty or pale!! Sunscreen is my best friend! I only wore 15 & hate to say I didn't get much sun even though we were out there for 6 hours. I like the "healthy" look much better than the "lobster" look & it is less painful! Funny though- we went into town to grab dinner before we headed home. Ty (my sweet little brother/nephew!) was commenting on the lack of sun....he comes up with this..... "Aunt Ashley, you are sour cream & Seth is a taco.... Hey, at least they go good together!" Every seat in the Tahoe was filled & we were all laughing.....Sour cream! He said he was going to start calling me "Daisy"....gotta love middle schoolers!

It's Official!

The sign was updated today when we got home. This house has been so good to Ashley and a great purchase. It's just so beautiful and quiet here...its hard to say were leaving. We're so happy the new owners saw the same features and put in an offer.

...here we come Garner!!!!

We close on our new house July 7th & here on July 10th. Busy week- seeking volunteers!!

I (Ashley) have to add in all the details! God is good! The house we bought was one we saw the 1st day we went out. We fell in love with it & compared every house since to it. We finally decided it was time to make an offer. We went to VA for Mother's Day & most of the way home we talked about houses & tried to make a plan. Seth says, " I think we should put an offer in tomorrow." Great I thought! Then, reality hit me- but what about our house? What if it takes a while longer to sell? The questions set in & I started to worry, most of you know I love to over analyze & worry!! Seth's response- "Where's your faith?" We had prayed about this move since the beginning & felt that God was in control of it all & had a peace He would work it all out. He had a point- God would provide & we had to trust Him. We prayed about it, went in on Monday afternoon & wrote up an offer. Monday night the listing agency called to say they were showing our house on Tuesday night. Excited!!! Tuesday night they called to extend the showing time....even more excited! We heard great things from their visit & anxiously awaited... On Wednesday we finalized our contract on our new house & 1st thing Thursday morning my phone rang! It was our agent & she had an offer on our house! We worked it out that day & it was all settled! 1 bought, 1 sold, dates set, get the boxes ready! God is good! It will be hard to say goodbye here, but we're excited at all that is to come!

Empty Nest

I am having empty nest syndrome! No, I haven't completely lost my mind!! Our baby birds flew away today. They have gotten so big over the last week & hardly fit in the nest. This morning they were on the edge of the nest & just looked at me when I left for work- guess that was their "good bye". I got home tonight & looked up to check on my little birdies.......empty nest & I was really sad. Guess there comes a time when we all have to spread our wings & fly. I just wish I could have seen them take that big jump! It has been a neat experience & hopefully we'll see them flying around the yard!

These pics were from a day or so ago- SO much bigger than the 1st ones we posted.

Happy Birthday Carter!

Happy 5th Birthday to our nephew Carter!

When I talked to him tonight I asked him if he could be 4 again- "no", how about 3?- "no, I am already 5!"......how does time fly by so fast?! We celebrated at his party on Saturday- lots of fun! Hope you had a great birthday!

Well, that rounds up the birthday marathon! We have 4 nephews & 1 niece. They are ALL born from late March-early May- Happy Birthday!!