Fun Things

Asher is crawling.....everywhere......like a madman.....

Climbed ONTO the dishwasher in a matter of seconds....he is eight months old.....

I am in for it and I know it.....lucky for him he is stinking cute......

He was finally blessed on November 7.......He looks so big and grown up in his suit....

We went to the Zoo with my sisters......The End.

Walking!

I have been up and walking now for over a month! It is so nice and the broken leg is slowly becoming a distant memory!

Halloween

Asher was a chicken for Halloween

Asher Eating

Asher may look just like Jonny, but he is definitely partly mine! I know this because he has a sweet tooth. When I give him real baby food - on numerous occasions - he gags and cries. When I give him Oreos he eats them up happy as can be! He likes anything that has sugar as a main ingredient!

Leg X-rays

Sorry it took so long to get these up but these are xrays of my bionic leg.

Summer at a glance

Played with my baby......

Spent a lot of time with my sisters and my mom ....

Went to the State Fair......

Rode the sand dunes with good friends....

More dune riding.....

Camped at the dunes.....

Rode in the Razor with Asher.....

Camped in the mountains.....

Rode Farmington Canyon.....

Got some sun at Cherry Hill......

Every other day......

Grew bigger, got sweeter, and cuter.....

Let the healing begin!

On 6/11/2009 I underwent surgery to fix my broken leg. Four hour surgery with seven incisions (2 big, 5 scope holes), seven screws, one plate and a complicated ACL evulsion fracture wire suture repair. I spent 2 nights and 3 days in the hospital. I just got the bill for the hospital only and it was $21,000! Thank goodness we are still on COBRA from having Asher and we have now met our max out of pocket for the year (finally something went our way). I will be completely none weight bearing for 12 weeks which makes for a long summer! I have already started physical therapy and can move much better and feel much better than before the surgery, however. I still suck on crutches, by the way, which makes for some good laughs! :)

Another addition to the farm

I finally got a goat! (Before all of the bad luck hit.) His a Billy Goat/Fainter mix and is five months old. His name is Henry. Jonny let us get Henry to help keep the weeds down on our lot until we get grass and on all the empty lots around us after we do.

It can only get better from here.....

So along with me breaking my leg over Memorial Day weekend, our beloved Saint Bernard, Bruce, died. He died in his sleep from an unknown cause. We really miss him.

More Pictures of The Ash-Man

Already protesting Mommy's kisses because little boys don't like kisses!

Check out that smile for Daddy!

In Daddy's hat.

Happy Family!

Finally a smile for Mommy!

Oops!

We had a fun - yet short Memorial Day camping trip this year. It was not planned to be short but it ended up that way because I broke my leg. How, you might ask, did I break my leg? The answer is simple: riding (and wrecking) a dirt bike. Why would I be on a dirt bike? Because I really want to learn to ride one well. This was not my first time on dirt bike, by the way. Where was Asher while all of this action was going on? In the trailer taking a nap while my brother-in-law, Gator, was babysitting him. This was the first time I had left the trailer the entire weekend, by the way, and I was only out for about 20 minutes before breaking my leg. After a long trip in the Nephi emergency room we found out that my leg was broken (which I did not see coming - I thought I just sprained my knee or tore some cartilage) and I will need surgery to fix it we decided to come home early. This seemed like the best course of action because I can not walk and therefore can not be left alone with Asher and I am in a considerable amount of pain. So now we wait for the specialist to get off their holiday weekend and decide what to do with me. In the mean time, Jonny is being an excellent husband/nurse/full-time caregiver to Asher. For all you medical friends out there, I have a tibial spine fracture and a comminuted proximal posterior tibial head fracture with a depressed lateral tibial plateau. This just means the big bone in my lower leg is broken into a bunch of pieces right at the top if it by my knee.

HA HA HA from the heavens.

Mann macht and Gott lacht

This is a yiddish expression that means "Man makes plans and Gods laughs".

I read this in a book today and I decided it is the theme of our lives right now. Every day I plan what I am going to do and most often it gets blown out of the water by Asher! Yes, I did get to read today - one and a half pages of a novel that I have been working on since before Asher was born. Pre-Asher (from here on out referred to as PA) I was reading at least one book a week in celebration of being done with school and being able to read for fun again! PA I could get ready in the morning all in one process, without breaking to comfort crying and to feed a hungry baby. The old process took about 45 minutes. I have been practicing and have fine tuned getting us ready to two hours - and this is not "prom" ready this is "I think I got mascara on both of my eyes today and probably have on a matching pair of shoes" ready. PA I could leave the house in under a half an our because I didn't have to make five trips back in for things that I might need for him and things I forgot because I still have "pregnancy brain". PA I have never spent so many nights sleeping (or not sleeping) in a lazy-boy recliner or woke up covered with someone else's poop. I can't really remember what I did with all of my spare time or two arms PA but I am sure it involved a lot more sleep! I would never what my PA life back but it sure was different!

HA HA HA from the heavens!

On a larger scale, we thought that we timed having Asher well. We waited a really long time for everything to be "perfect". Perfection never happened so we thought we would settle for "really good". Now really good has gone down the drain with the economy. It looks like Jonny will be laid off at the end of this month when the company he is working for goes under. It will be a good chance for him to make a go of Notting Hill (his company) full time but is definitely not what we were "planning". Asher and I are excited to be able to see him more! I know that everything happens for a reason even if we do not know that reason at this moment and everything will work out eventually but.....

HA HA HA from the heavens!

Easter 2009

Blue Eyes and Smiles

Little Asher has beautiful blue eyes that we are so excited about. This is the picture that you can see his blue eyes the best. He has also started smiling which is so dang cute! His first real smile was for Daddy! Of course we haven't been able to get a picture of a smile but we are working on it!

California

For those of you who don't read my sisters' blogs, we all went out to California because Grandma Jensen fell and broke her hip. (If you read Amanda's and Jamie's blogs, you already know this because I am the last to post about it!) My Grandma lives in the same little town where my mom grew up on the coast in northern California. It really is northern (as opposed to central like San Fransisco) just a few hours from Oregon. The drive was long (18 hours) but the kids were really good and it was worth it when we got there. We did all of the things that we did as children when we would spend weeks every summer up there. That includes visiting the statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, the seashell store, the beach, and walking in the Redwood forest. I wish that Asher would be able to remember it because I don't know if we will ever make it out there again. Jonny (and all of the other husbands) were unable to make it so it was just a girl trip which was fun but we sure missed the boys.

Paul Bunyan's giant shoe!

At the beach.

Sequoia redwoods.

Jaycee, Nana, Me and Asher

Camping Trip

We took Asher for his first camping trip a few weeks ago (April 17-19). Asher and I stayed in the trailer most of the time but we still had a lot of fun.

Correction!

Jonny wanted me to file a correction to the last post. Well - not so much a correction as an amendment. One night (shortly after the last post) Jonny got up with Asher and took care of him while I slept for five hours straight. Then I woke up and had no idea that Asher had even been up at all. I guess it happens to both of us! :) What a good Daddy he is! Asher and I are lucky to have him around.

Exhaustion sets in.....

It is 5:oo in the morning and I am sitting up holding my sweet baby who doesn't want to sleep right now. This is possibly because he slept most of the day with me holding him and now laying in his bassinet doesn't sound like any fun. He is usually a good sleeper at night but wants to be held when ever he is awake during the day - or night! So to pass the time I decided to post some of his sweet pictures. Daddy is completely exhausted from us waking him up accidentally during the night - he doesn't even know the most of it! He actually tells people Asher sleeps through the night sometimes! This is because he does not always wake up when we do. Pretty funny!

First Bath

Asher had his first bath on 03/24/2009, which Nana gave him. He stretched out in the sink and really enjoyed the whole thing!

New Addition Has Arrived

Asher Jorgan Scott Arrington was born on 03/17/2009. He weighed 5 lbs 14 oz and is 18 inches long. He is perfect from his head to his toes and is basically a miniature Jonny. We went to a routine doctor's check up on 03/16/2009 and ended up not being able to go home because my blood pressure was too high and some of my lab values were abnormal. We went to the hospital for monitoring and ended up having to induce labor that night. He was born the next afternoon, a few weeks earlier than expected but without any problems for him.

Moab

We went to Moab March 11-14 for Spring Break. For those of you who are counting, yes I was 36 weeks (9 months) pregnant while we there. Of course I had doctor approval to be there. We had a lot of fun and rode over 200 miles on the trails of Moab. The scenery there is amazing and we had a lot of fun. Here are some pictures.

Gator, Luke, Clay and Jonny at Gemini Bridges

Amber and Sara in the Razor

Jonny, Sara, Amber and Clay and La Sal Arch.

The trip was uneventful for the baby but there was a surprise when we got home! I will post this surprise next time I get a chance~