Whirlwind Tour Of Life Begins....

Our 'social' calendar for the next few weeks...

3/28 - Bridal Shower for my cousin
4/4 & 4/5 - Scotty umpires a tournament
4/11 - Easter at Scotty's Mom
4/17 & 4/18 - Myrtle Beach to vist Nana
(Side Note -- Baby Samantha M. due on her moms birthday 4/22!)
4/25 - Zoo Trip
4/26 - Megan Grace run/walk
5/1-5/8 VACATION from our life, we have to go to Mexico to get away!
5/16 - Jody & Maija's wedding
5/30 - Alex starts swim lessons
6/6 - Michele & Chris' Wedding

I think we need a vacation from our life. Haha.

We had a great weekend, weather wise, and Alex likes to go out to play. Notice his shirt. It says Daddy Thinks He Is In Charge!

Praying for Miracles

I don't ask a lot of others in my blog but I think there are two friends who could really use a lot of prayers, thoughts, well wishes -- whatever you believe in.

First - one of my friends who is 19.5 weeks pregnant found out last week that her baby girl, Megan Grace, would be a dwarf -- and then the next day she was faced with the news that her baby had skeletal dysplasia and would carry to term (probably) but not live longer than a few days (at most). This is obviously gut wrenching news to them and to all who have come to know them. We are praying for a miracle for Miss Megan Grace and praying that her Mom and Dad have the strength and courage to face this heart breaking news.

We have some other friends who have been trying to have a baby for a while now and she has pretty bad endometriosis. She has another surgery scheduled for this week and I know she could use some prayers as well -- if all goes well hopefully they can have a baby. They also have some major decisions facing them as well -- so I ask for the courage and guidance to make it through these trying times.

Thats all I have today, just asking for a few minutes of your time to pray for my friends.

Thanks,
Ashley

Mashed Potato Mess!

We let Alex have free reign over some mashed potatoes tonight and he had a BLAST! But it was a mess.

In other news we have a total of 3 teeth - the two original bottom and one upper snaggletooth on the side and we think the front top two are about to bust through.

Tales of the Traveling Baby Shower

Our friends, Amanda & Jon, who live outside of Baltimore are expecting their first baby - Samantha Lyn. So our other friends, Allison & Weston, helped us host a shower for them - 7 hours from home in a town called Columbia, Maryland. Allison & Weston flew - Scotty and I - well a flight would be the cost of 2 weeks worth of daycare so we hopped in the car and headed out - thanks to the GPS we were routed through downtown DC - so we could see all the monuments (from a distance) and were even on Pennsylvania Ave for a hot second - but Im thinking the White House was at the OTHER end of Pennsylvania Ave.

The shower went over great, it was a girls shower and turned out to be the perfect size. They racked up on tons of clothes and goodies. I hope we have helped start Samantha out on track!

After the shower, Amanda was our tour guide and was a TROOPER with all the walking and site seeing we did. We hit up Camden Yards - Geppi's Entertainment Museum, Ace of Cakes (Charm City Cakes) from Food Network (we saw 'them' carrying out a Rubix Cube cake...really cool! But no sight of Duff or Mary Ellis) , saw the site of Homicide Life on the Streets, and then toured around downtown looking for parking...and BOY was Mama's on the Halfshell worth the walk and trouble parking. Crab Soup, Crab Dip, Shrimp...all to die for!

Packed up early to head home today to see Alex - it was our first weekend away!!! He did great...and Grandama Ann and PawPaw didnt even realize it but they made it through teething! He popped another tooth out while we were gone so he now has 3 teeth. This one is upper and on the side. And some pictures of him with his new Orioels hat!

Alex and the Snowman

Photos courtesy of my lovely husband who is on vacation this week - so since I had to work he played with Alex in the snow...but first a picture before all the snow melted...keep in mind the table & chairs are the wrought iron with the holes so not everything stayed up top! Thats a lot of snow!!

Waiting on the Snow

We sit here patiently waiting on the snow to arrive -- hopefully I will be able to have some Snow Pictures by tomorrow. They are calling for somewhere around 6inches of snow here in Charlotte - and its been raining like crazy since yesterday - hopefully the weathermen get this one right. I could use a snow day, and in case the Muzak God's think that its ok to go to work tomorrow, Scotty is on vacation this week!! So I dont have to use any PTO.

Im doing a favor for my mom - she cant get her camera card to work at Target so Im loading them onto snapfish for her and found a few I wanted to post here. They arent new pictures, but of my little (haha!) Alex none-the-less.

Enjoy!