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| My birthday~AND our 11th Engagement Anniversary!
My wonderful parents who brought me into this life 34 years ago!
They sure do age well. I hope I get the same genes. 
Seth had mom & dad join us for breakfast on my birthday, July 3rd.......
just as they had taken me to breakfast 11 years ago when Seth SURPRISED
me and showed up with a question & a ring!
SO, this year, Seth had another surprise for me.
When the waitress brought out the food we ordered mine came in this.....
But it wasn't food.
(The following pics are actually RE-enacted LOL)
I was pretty excited. Although I knew this gift was coming at some point,
I didn't know exactly when! In fact, I had thought it was coming last October on our 10th anniversary.
See, my wedding rings have not really fit me since over 4 years ago, and not only that but they had totally worn down.
So, I was given brand new platinum rings with my same diamond! They were beautiful!
What a FUN birthday breakfast surprise!
The rest of my day was spent at home with my family, & doing some shopping and then I left all SIX of them to go get a pedicure! That was a gift to myself, I guess.
That evening, we got together with all my family. Here's all the girls, minus the 2 babies.
What a blessing my family is, and that they are nearby.
My cake is almost always patriotic themed.
 
Some of my sweet nieces waving their flags from Grandma~
 
 
  
My sis lining the kids up for a patriotic parade......
Ready to march.....
In their own parade! (Can't wait to see more of these, Lys, they were so fun!)
The blonde & the brown~
It was a great, tiring, fun day! I thank the Lord for another year of life!
And for another year of FREEDOM in Christ, and FREEDOM here in our country!
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| Tyler, Texas tripA few weekends ago we made a trip to Tyler, which is about 6 hours or so from here, (but still in Texas!)
to meet Seth's family halfway between their house and ours. It was great to see everyone.
Just outside of Tyler, TX is a little "City With a Heart"
We visited a fish hatchery in Athens, TX
 
 
The kids got to go fishing in a pond stocked with a few thousand catfish.
 
They fished in the 100+ degree heat until they could fish no more!
My hot faced little Chan man~
 
 
lovely, eh?
Ashlyn meeting her Aunt Stephanie for the first time
Bryan calls his cousin, Ian, "Butterfingers"
Zach & Chan liked "helping" Ian
Tiffany loved getting to see her cousin, Rebekah
We had a great "walk in the park" one evening. I think at 8pm it was 98 degrees, thus the sweaty, shiny faces.
Enjoying one of Uncle John's funny stories
Fishing at the lake~
 
 
 
 
 
It was a great time with family!
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| It's JULY!So, I thought I'd change up the colors & put up a new picture up top.
And I can't believe that Ashlyn is 2 MONTHS OLD already & those pics were taken when she was a month old. And she's already changed SO much!
She is practically perfect, and just such an easy going amazingly happy baby. I'm loving the smiling stage she's in right now. Sometimes her whole entire face smiles, and you'd think she is going to break into laughter, but no sound comes out! It's pretty cute. And it makes anyone who sees it laugh.
Ashlyn loves to "talk" (coo) to her sister & brothers and adores the attention they give her. The new-ness of waking her every morning, kissing her constantly, wanting to hold her, check on her, etc... has not worn off even after 2 months. (Sometimes I almost wish it would...but then really I don't!)
Tiffany is an amazing help. Just so very responsible & sensitive. The best big sister.
Zachary loves holding his sister & singing & talking to her.
Bryan has quite a few nicknames for Ashlyn already. "Baby-cakes" is the most common. Sometimes he calls her "Sweetie Poo" (instead of Sweetie Pie") I frequently hear "Baby Doll" or "Ashlyn Tweetie" also. Bryan is famous for running through rooms, ALWAYS on the go, but always stopping to give a kiss to his "sweet baby."
Chandler is just so sweet to his baby sister. He's adjusted SO well to being a big brother and not the "baby" anymore, because he was that around here for quite a while! Chan is always telling me what Ashlyn "needs." Today he told me "Ashlyn needs you. She wants you to come."
IN the past two months:
Our sweet baby girl has survived a fall off the couch, and a fall from a brother's arms...thankfully onto a carpeted area rather than the tile that runs through most of our house.
She tends to sleep away the heat. And we've sure got it bad down here!
She smiles at anyone who will talk to her.
She loves music & we all love singing to her.
She really enjoys taking a bath.
Also being outside in the evenings whether in her stroller on a walk or in her bouncer watching us play with the other kids.
She's gone on two little "trips." One to Austin for 2 days in May, and this past week to Tyler, TX for a long weekend.
She's slept a 9 hour stretch for me ONCE, and a few 7 hour stretches at night. If she nurses during the night, she usually goes right back to sleep. I get better sleep now than I did during my whole pregnancy so I'm not complaining.
Ashlyn has been to soccer games, basketball games, track meets, the gym, the neighborhood pool, a few birthday parties, to church, and to the lake.....and many other places. As the 5th born, she just goes with the flow quite easily. We're very blessed.
Here's a shot of the three Prescott GIRL cousins from this past weekend.
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