August fun

On August 1st Allison came into town with her 3 children. Then on the 2nd Katie and Carson came to town. The original plan was that Katie would stay a week and Allison would be staying 2 weeks. They both ended staying in town until after the 20th. We had so much fun with all the kids playing together. Carson and Eliza are such great little friends (they are only a few months apart). Eli and Jackie got to play together too and they were hilarious! We kept saying next year at this time all these kids are going to have so much fun with one another. Our days mainly consisted of swimming, eating, napping, and then starting that all over again.

A few things of note:

• Since Eli has meet Jacob he has loved playing with him very much. However I have noticed that he holds onto things a lot tighter then he ever used to.
• I brought Eli's rocket ship over for Jackie and Eli to play with. Next thing I know they are wearing similar shirts, and Jackie is pushing Eli on the rocket ship.
• I think Eli loves trucks. I always wondered what thing he was going to get into...is it animals, dinos, bugs, snakes, but right now he really seems to like trucks!
• Eli has been taking swimming lessons and he totally loves to swim. He has not fear and is actually starting to kick and use his arms!

Jacob, Eli and Jakie's birthday's take two!!

Since Allison is now in town we thought we would celebrate Jacob, and the boy's birthday again. Here are some pictures. Eli made a little bit more of a mess this time...I guess next year he will will dig in.

Our camera is broken so these pictures seem to have a glow about them.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STUD!!

Today is Jacob's birthday! He turned the big 26!! Jacob said he was ok with this birthday (we both actually still get confused how old we are) he said his scary age is 27. (he is so funny) So we started of the day with me going to the dentist and Jacob working (I promise it gets better) Then we met up to eat lunch at Red Robbin. Jacob wanted to eat there because they mailed him a birthday coupon so he wanted his free burger. Then we got Eli and headed out to Tempe market place. We went to his favorite running store and got him some running shorts, and then went to his favorite store of all time BEST BUY. We spent sometime there looking around and then ended up buying some movies (I don't think we ever go there without buying Jacob a few movies) a new Wii game and a new TV. We were not really looking for a TV, but we did need a new one in out bedroom and they had this great deal so we bought it. It is nice and Jacob is VERY excited! At 6:30 we met up with my family to eat at Guru Palace this Indian food restaurant Jacob likes. My family never had Indian food before so it was nice trying it with them. All and All I think Jacob had a wonderful birthday. Happy birthday mister I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!

The D-back game

On Monday night Jacob got some tickets to the D-back game from Brad. We were given 6 so we invited two other couples, Chase & Shalyse, and Preston & Kelly. We went and ate a very healthy dinner and by healthy I mean IN N OUT Burger (What were we thinking???) Then headed off to the game. Like true Ash form we had a hard time finding the parking lot that we had a pass for so why would it be any different this time! I am sure everyone (ex specially Chase) thinks I am a crazy driver. I almost ran a red light, and turned the wrong way on a street!! I don't like Phoenix what is the benefit of a one way street?!!?!? Anyway we got there and then got lost in the place because we went to the wrong box. Finally we found our seats and they rocked!! We were right behind the Phillies 4th row!! We had a lot of fun!

Jacob is going to die that I posted this,I think his exact words were "tell no one this!". This kid was sitting in front of me and I wanted to pinch his ears! So I took a picture.

Dog sitting

Jacob since we have been married has talked about how much he wants a Lab. I on the other hand got bit by my own big dog, and I am not fans of them. So basically I get the master salesman trying to get me to get him a dog. Then he the future he wants another dog...yes that is right 2 dogs!! Since I am not ready for a dog, and I feel we do not have the yard to keep a big dog like that happy I still have not given in. However the Pratt's in our ward needed someone to watch their dog. Since Jacob's birthday was coming up I volunteered so my guy could have a wonderful birthday. We got Juno for 10 days. I should have known things would not go so smoothly when I was reading the letter of instructions from the Pratt's and the first sentence said something like this, Juno still jumps up and so tell her down if she keeps jumping up on you give her a good knee to the stomach. Sara also warned me that since she is still a puppy she chews on everything. So even after all these warnings, I went with it so I would have one happy hubby.

The first day with Juno Jacob was so excited he came home from work early to play with her. They went swimming. Jacob kept telling me whenever I jump in she tries to save me watch....so I went out there and watched. This is not what I observed to me it looked like Juno was jumping on top of Jacob and he was actually kind of drowning. Other then Juno jumping all over me and the glass door the first day went ok, but after that everything went down hill. We were prisoners and could never go in the back yard because she would jump on us so much, she would run in the house ever chance she got, jump and knock over Eli, scratch the glass on my back door. She also ate the tube to our grill, she pulled the vacuum our of the pool and ate that, she ate one of the pillow on my lawn chair...trust me the list goes on and on. We also took her one walks to make her happy so she wasn't always in our backyard...lets just say she took us for walks. After 4 or 5 days we called another family in the ward that said they would watch Juno. We told the Peterson's we were overwhelmed....which I think is an understatement to how I felt.

Anyway after all that I still think Juno coming and staying at our house was the best move I ever did. Ever since she stayed Jacob has not said anything about getting a dog. He actually I think feels that same way I do. So this I have to say....THANK YOU SO MUCH AARON & SARA PRATT!! Oh yeah and Juno!!

Here are some pictures of our backyard after Juno left.

9/22/09 update on Juno damage. Juno also ate a sprinkler head to our lemon tree. It has since died, and now we only have our grapefruit tree. Jacob still does not ask or want a dog.