Christmas snow

Like many others, we enjoyed the snow this Christmas!
Spencer, his brother, sister, and brother-in-law spent a day building a fort in our front yard with the huge piles of snow. His dad even came over to help for a while.

Asher wasn't so keen on opening gifts this year. He completly enjoyed playing with all of his new things after they were open. I'm not sure he liked all of the fuss. Maybe next year he'll tear into the gifts. But for now, I love how sweet and gentle he is.

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.

it was a lot of snow!

There was a lot of snow that Spencer had to get through! good thing he didn't have to go to work that day!!

comparing pregnancies

This is me when I was 36 weeks pregnant with Asher.
This is me now. I'm 36 weeks along.

Maybe comparing my 36 week pictures actually wasn't that exciting. Oh well. I've been battling some kind of cold or sinus something. Today it's a sore throat, and watery, goopy eyes. I haven't been able to wear my contacts for 4 days now. I guess this is taking my mind off of being uncomfortably pregnant. Who am I kidding...it's just making it worse. I've already started counting down to the baby. I really don't want to have a baby on Christmas, but I'd also just like to meet this little guy. Well, I'm going to get some cleaning done and relax a little while I can before he gets here.

No better time....

Gosh, It's been almost a year since I wrote on our blog. As much as I love reading in the blog world, you'd think I'd be better, but I'm not. It's hard to encourage myself to get back to updating a blog. It feels a bit like there is a mountain in front of me that I must climb over. In all honesty, I really don't like writing that much, so I don't really think about what I should write, or really enjoy doing it. However, it is something that I'd like to get better at...so I guess that's why I'm back at it. I also have a lost blog. I don't really have a theme, or a reason to keep a blog...I just have it. I guess so I can show off my adorable little boy to the world (and soon his little brother).

Since it's been a year, here is a quick run-down of some things that have happened around our home and family:

1. I packed up my classroom in May. It was only a 2 year run, which I enjoyed. This year I am back to the world of subbing. I work a couple days a week, grandparents usually watch Asher when I'm working, and the other days I get to be home with Asher and taking care of our home.

2. In May also, we found out that we were expecting another baby....HE is set to arrive at the beginning of January. I'm counting down the days already.

3. Asher turned one in July! He started walking a couple months after his b-day and now he's a full-time little boy that gets into any and all things!

4. Spencer ran his first marathon, and did an awesome job! I can't really speak for him, but I think he really loved training for the marathon. If I had to guess, I'd say there is probably another marathon in the future for him.

I guess that's all I've got for now. Sorry if you get a christmas letter and some of these - acutally all of them - are mentioned there. If you get a christmas letter, then that probably means you already knew most of these anyways.

Just because I can't go without posting some pictures of Asher...and since he's changed so much since the last post.....

at the pumpkin patch this october

Climbing up on the stool to see what is on the counter....

Checking out his new toy box. (He had some help from Daddy getting into the toy box.)

welcome 2009

A late Merry Christmas from us. We didn't send a Christmas letter this year. Maybe I didn't have time to write, maybe I didn't feel like there was much to write. Our letter would have probably consisted of this. Asher was born in July. 'nuf said. Spencer and I stay busy taking care of Asher, our home, and our jobs, and our marriage.

The past 2 weeks have been busy. They started with a surprise snow day from school. We got an extra day of break! now, the last day of break, and I don't know where that extra day went. We were busy with celebrating Christmas. We went to Kansas City to celebrate with Spencer's mom's family. We had our small group to our house for dinner. Christmas eve we saw both families. Christmas day we celebrated with my family. Saturday after Christmas was with Spencer's family. After the Christmas celebrating, Spencer worked for 2 days and then left for Jacksonville, FL to cheer for the Huskers at the Gator bowl. It may not sound like much, but it was a busy break! I got to hang out with Asher every day!

School (work) starts again tomorrow. How many months till summer break? :)

As you can see Asher is much more interested in the tree than in smiling for the picture. :) This is our Finley Family 2009.
Asher is growing and changing so much! He'll be 6 months soon! He's laughing and experimenting with using his voice. It's even fun to see him mimick us at times!

This is Asher with all of the toys he had before Christmas. Asher and I were perfectly happy with the number of toys. They kept him entertained, and I could keep them all in a nice small basket in the corner.
This is Asher with all of the toys he recieved as Christmas gifts. Spencer I didn't buy him one toy for Christmas. Well, I take that back, I bought him a book. As you can see I didn't insist on only wooden toys. Some parents don't allow toys that light up and make noise. Should I be one of those parents? Maybe I should take a poll of my kids at school and find out if the smart kids were the ones that played with the wooden toys, and the struggling kids had light up and noise making toys. That's what the research says I'll find. I guess at this point, I'm chancing it. Maybe we can find a healthy balance. Maybe these are all of the toys we will ever need (and recieve). :) For now, Asher really enjoys them!