Merry Christmas

My parents came in to celebrate Christmas with us and to meet Ashton. We ended up celebrating Christmas on the 27th. We had such a great time opening presents and of course Cate thought is was great fun to open all of the gifts. It was so nice having my family here to celebrate Christmas with us.

Cate checking out what is in her stocking

New princess hair tie and necklace

Proud Grammy with her two grandkids

Cate saying: "I so excited!!"

My parents and I gave Eric a brand new lawn mower for Christmas. He was so surprised and excited to get one. The one that he has been using is very bad and hard to use. His new one is self propelled and will be a huge improvement from the other one. I love his face in this picture.

Aunt Pat and Uncle Don gave Cate a trike for Christmas. She loved it right away.

One big happy family

Grammy and Ashton

Uncle Q and Ashton

Coloring with Grammy

Riding the trike outside with Grandpa

Grandpa and Ashton

Playing in the snow

Eric took Cate outside to make a snowman today. She had a lot of fun with him.


A picture of the boys relaxing

Settling In

We are continuing to settle in at home. Ashton is a very laid back baby. It is great having him home with us. Cate continues to be a great big sister. She is very sweet with Ashton.

Our little burrito

Steph and I took Ashton out for a walk today. You can barely see him because he is so bundled up.

More pictures

Proud Daddy

Aunt Steph has been such a great help. Things would be a lot more stressful without her.

Welcome Ashton Richard

On Friday at noon my sister Steph arrived to help out with Cate when I went into labor. Right on cue I started having contractions that night. The baby was just waiting to have his Aunt Steph here. At 1:30 am I woke Eric up and told him that we needed to go to the hospital. When we got to the hospital they told us that it was a very busy night and to wait in the lobby. An hour later they called us in to see a doctor. At that point I was already 7cm dilated. So luckily that got us a bed upstairs on the labor floor. After we got upstairs everything went very smoothly and at 7:47 am on December 19th Ashton Richard came in to the world. He weighed in at 8lb 5oz and was 20 1/4 inches long. He is a very sweet baby. We were able to bring him home today and we are all very happy to be home.




Cate was very excited to meet her new baby brother. For the last few weeks she had been asking me for a baby brother, so she really lucked out. When we brought him in the house she said, "Hi baby Ashton, I eat lunch now" She asked to hold him after she had her lunch and when I put him in her arms she said "he is heavy" , then she gave him a big kiss. She seems to like him so far : )

Fun with Daddy

Here are some videos of the things that Cate likes to do with Daddy when he gets home from work.


Here is a picture of Cate licking the spoon after we made gingerbread cookies. I think the glasses really complete the look.