Home Sweet Home!!

 

 

Well it's official, we are home owners for the first time in our lives!! We're extremely happy and excited about it and can't wait to get going on our project list. Time however is pretty limited at the moment as you might expect so for now we're (very) slowly chipping away at things and just enjoying the family and summer in our new home. We love it and the girls love it so what more could you ask for than that?!

 

Ashley is two weeks old now and still sleeping extremely well for us. She goes 3, 4 or even 5 hours at a time usually and has her days and nights straight already (I'm sure I just jinxed that) but things are going about as well as you could expect with a newborn around here. She's already gained a pound over her birth weight and is doing perfect according to the doctor.

 

The Girls are having fun with her as well as fun with the nice summer weather. They love to hold their baby sister and so far have adjusted to her and everything else we have going on lately really well. Last week they spent a lot of time at Buppy and Dew's pool keeping cool while Charlene was on vacation and when they're not there they're keeping cool in the yard with a slip and slide, the "mini" pool I found for free on the side of the road and the sprinkler. Lot's of fun in the summer sun for sure. We've also had a couple cookouts and some great fireworks in the yards that Uncle Jeff set off. Really amazing for the backyard type. I took the girls along with Danny, Kim and Hailey for a hike up in the mountains and a swim up there last week too so they're busy busy busy but loving every minute of summer and we're all having lots of fun.

 

I'll stop there for now. We hope to have the internet hooked up here soon, for now I'm mobile hot spotting this with Jen's phone (thanks Chris for showing me how!) and there are a few albums of pictures to catch up on if you're interested. I actually have a lot more too that I might get up eventually but for now there's some of the summer fun, Ashley meeting everyone (they're in the order she met people/they held her, so don't feel bad if you're near the end) and another from the hiking trip. Hopefully that holds you over for a bit and I'll get more up soon. That's all for now, click on the links below to get to the pics.  

 

Ashley Meets the World

 

 

Summer Fun & The 4th of July

 

 

Bald Mountain & Artists Bluff

 

 



Ashley Lynn Fieldsend

So, for those of you who voted in the poll it was close and a last minute decision but we ended up with the name we wanted all along. It was the also ran name for Emily and so we went with that, although Jen ALMOST went with Molly. Anyhow at 4:21 on July 1st (sorry you have to share Chris!) Ashley Lynn Fieldsend came into our world. I don't have a lot to say right now from the hospital room other than Jen and Baby are both doing great, the girls are incredibly excited, proud and wonderful with her and our newest bundle of joy is perfect in every way (we think so at least :-) ) and getting cuter by the minute, although that's not really hard to do when you consider they come out water-logged, wrinkled, squashed and covered in blood and guts. I'll spare you those photos but for some of her cleaned up and looking her best you can click  right here. There aren't a whole lot up yet, just a few of little lady A and her sisters, but I have a lot of others and will continue to stockpile them for some more frequent updates now that Chris has shown me how to use our phones to get onto the internet even though we don't have it at home yet and have been out of touch for a while because of that. So for now thanks to everyone who's come to visit, called and sent along well wishes. We appreciate it all and hope to see everyone soon. We hope to be home tomorrow (Wednesday) so stop by and visit us anytime and meet Ashley.