Arrington Farm

Family Pictures

2010-09-10T16:24:00.000-07:00

We got family pictures with the Arrington side of the family done in July 2010. Asher was not being very cooperative. I will update with more summer fun soon.

Happy Family

Asher with his favorite Uncle Gator

Arrington Family 2010

Asher's New Pictures

2010-05-18T13:55:00.000-07:00

We took Asher to get his one year pictures finally. We had to wait a few weeks (which turned into a month) because I cut Asher's hair myself right before his birthday and it was not picture worthy! We let it grow out some and then got it done by Des - which I should have just done in the first place! :) Lesson learned....

I think that the pictures turned out so cute and really show his wild personality! We got them done at Target in Riverdale. He is definitely not a little baby any more and he lets me know that every day!

Asher at one:

1. Not quite walking but can take a couple of steps on his own. He mostly prefers to hold both of my hands (or anyone else's) and walk while steering me where ever he wants to go.

2. Loves to be outside. He plays in his sandbox on the back deck everyday.

3. Determined to do things his way and get what he wants.

4. Throws tantrums on the floor when things don't go his way. He lays on his belly and puts his head on his arms, looking down at the ground while crying pitifully. He will check and make sure I am watching and then continue.

5. Has a good vocabulary including Mama, Dada, Uh-Oh, Kitty, Dog, and Cracker.

6. Communicates that he wants to eat something he sees by smacking his lips - all the time! Anytime he sees anything that looks like it could be food or drink he smacks. If he doesn't get it see #4.

7. Loves his "B" which is a special blanket made by Nana. We actually have several of these in various sizes. When he can see more than one, like on laundry day, he has to have them all and will work until he has them all. If he can see a "B" but can't get it (like out of a laundry pile) see #4.

8. Is still a picky eater. He is pretty good a feeding himself things he wants with a fork or spoon and doesn't like any help. He definitely loves his sweets still and still hates baby food - not for a lack of trying.

9. Loves the dog and kitty at our house. The dog puts up with him climbing all over, poking and pulling. They are good buddies. The kitty mostly avoids him. He also likes to look at the chickens but doesn't want to touch them.

10. Thinks everything is designed to be pushed around. He loves to push his trucks and cars but also his music table and laundry baskets. When he gets stuck on a wall or carpet or if what he wants to push just won't move - cue #4. :)

11. Is a Daddy's boy through and through. He loves to rough house and just hang out with Daddy. He has Daddy (any admittedly Mommy) wrapped around his chubby little finger - see #4! :) He will give Daddy and Mommy both kisses when asked - all open mouthed and sloppy - and melts our hearts on a regular basis!

Happy Birthday Asher!

2010-04-05T22:59:00.001-07:00

We went to San Diego in February for some fun in the sun! This picture is Asher's favorite thing from the whole trip - a stick! Yep, that is right. After being there for 3 days (2 at Sea World and 1 at San Diego Zoo) Asher found a stick and was sold!

He did like the Sea Lions (just not as much as the stick), which are my favorite too!

We had a lot of fun.

He really liked all the animals that he was able to see. Here he is watching the whales and being so calm and still.

Here he is a wild monster. This is what he is most of the time!

He turned one on March 17. Happy First Birthday little guy!

Happy Boy

2010-03-03T20:13:00.001-08:00

Christmas and a happy crappy birthday.....and other things

2010-01-15T20:50:00.001-08:00

I took Asher swimming for the first time before Christmas. He loved it and is definitely a water baby! This is he wrinkly, little foot long before he was ready to get out (underwater by the way because my new camera can do that :). Have you ever seen such a cute little guy?

Just chilling in the kiddy pool. My mom and sisters came and it was a lot of fun.

We had a very merry Christmas.

Our little family on Christmas Eve.

Asher eating a candy cane Santa gave him.

Sitting on Santa's lap. Even though he isn't quite sure he didn't even cry!

Picking out the Christmas tree.

Then the merriness ended and we had a horrible new years. We went to St. George with friends to ride the dunes and shop. Asher started puking about 8 hours after we got there and didn't stop the rest of the trip (2 days). We did not sleep, went through all of our clean clothes way too fast and were generally miserable. Jonny ended up getting sick too. The misery continued even when we got home on the 3rd, which is my 29th birthday, with puking and pooping both! So Merry Christmas and a Happy Crappy Birthday too me.....

Doesn't he just LOOK sad?

Fun Things

2009-12-04T20:29:00.001-08:00

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!

2009-10-31T23:16:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-31T23:08:00.000-07:00

Asher was a chicken for Halloween

Asher Eating

2009-10-31T23:02:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-31T23:00:00.001-07:00

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

Summer at a glance

2009-10-31T21:57:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-06-26T19:43:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-01T21:31:00.000-07:00

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.....

2009-06-01T21:16:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-01T20:57:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-05-24T21:46:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-07T21:25:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-07T21:23:00.001-07:00

Blue Eyes and Smiles

2009-05-07T21:17:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-07T21:02:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-07T20:44:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-05-07T20:41:00.000-07:00

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.....

2009-04-11T05:09:00.001-07:00

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

2009-03-26T20:27:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-26T20:13:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-25T17:51:00.000-07:00

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~

New Toy

2009-01-12T10:00:00.001-08:00

We got a new toy for the baby (or the big boy since the baby won't be able to enjoy the present for 10 months or so). Is is a Polaris Ranger Razor which is a side-by-side. Basically a really fast go cart. We are going to sell my YFZ 450 (any takers) and I will now ride this because you can buckle a car seat in the passenger seat. Pretty fun and I know the baby will love it when he is actually big enough! In the mean time, we will really enjoy it. We took a four day vacation, over New Years and my birthday, to St. George where we road Sand Hollow and the Coral Pink Sand Dunes. It was a lot of fun and I even got to drive the Razor a little bit when the boys were not having their turns on the new toy!

This is me in the new toy with Gator (brother-in-law) in the passenger seat and Sean on the four wheeler (friend). Both of these boys are single if anyone is interested! :)

This is Jonny breaking in the new toy!

This is Jonny and I at Sand Hollow on new years day. You can't really tell from the picture but we are standing on a rock cliff. These dunes were like a mix of Moab and sand dunes. The sand dunes down there are a great red/orange color which was a lot of fun down there but now everything, including my washing machine, is now filled with it! I guess it is a change from the normal sand I deal with.

What baby?????

2008-12-18T10:41:00.001-08:00

This post is for movie buffs like us! These are some of our favorite movie lines of all time. Ten points for each one you know the movie for! (Sorry - points are imaginary and we don't really keep score but just feel good about your self!:)) I will put the movies at the bottom for all of you that don't know but would like to!

1. "What baby?!?!" (Frequently used around our house lately)

2. "And why is the carpet all wet, Todd?" "I don't know, Margo!"

3. "Get up you stoner dog!"

4. "Buddy cut it down in the park!"

Here are the answers but don't cheat!

1. Two Weeks Notice

2. National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

3. Without a Paddle

4. Elf

New addition to the farm

2008-12-18T10:31:00.001-08:00

We are expecting to be hatching out a new addition to the farm in early April 2009. We are excited and nervous at the same time.....7.5 years of thinking and waiting will do that to people.

This is Jonny with the sign I made to tell him the news.

Bruce is so excited he can hardly contain himself. He would be happier if he understood how many treats he will be able to steal from the unsuspecting victim....

Merry Christmas

2008-12-18T10:25:00.001-08:00

Officially official

2008-12-18T10:16:00.000-08:00

Okay - I know that I am a bad blogger! I admit it! Stop pestering me. It is just that I don't have that much to blog about. I started a new job at Davis Family Physicians in Layton this month - so far so good! If you need a doctors visit come and see me! 773-7232 :) Because lets be honest, Nurse Practitioners are better than most doctors I know. Starting next month I will also be working at American Laser Centers in Bountiful. Changes. Changes. Anyone who knows me knows I don't do well with changes. Oh well, they are inevitable I guess.

Graduation

2008-09-26T09:21:00.001-07:00

Finally, Here are some graduation pictures. I am so happy to be done with school. Jonny and my family were huge supports while in school. Jonny dealt with me day in and out with the homework, sleepless nights, and complaining. He helped me study for tests a lot too. My mom made me breakfast on most mornings (even though I don't live with her) so that I would have a full tummy to learn on! Egg sandwiches every morning of a test, too, for good protein! All of them listened to me complain about my teachers and the hoops that I had to jump through and gave me a shoulder to cry on! What a great family! I definitely could not have done it without them! THANK YOU!

Update

2008-09-16T09:38:00.000-07:00

This month has some how been busy even though I am done with school and Jonathan is not in school this semester - weird! We went camping for 5 days over Labor Day to Jonny's favorite place - St. Anthony Sand Dunes in Idaho. I don't mind the camping for a number of reasons:

1. There is no laundry that I can do while we are there.

2. There is no cleaning that can be done while we are there.

3. I can take as many naps as I want in a day - guilt free.

4. I can read and sew guilt free all day.

5. (Maybe this should have been number one) - I get to spend quality time with my husband without other distractions!

Bruce got his surgery at the beginning of the month (right after our camping trip
) and is doing very well. Jonny and I have been busy working for Notting Hill (his company) and our regular jobs as well. I have been babysitting Jamie's kids on Thursday which is so fun but exhausting! I will post more pictures when I get better at it!

but here are pictures of Jonny being crazy on his four wheeler and me and Bruce being calm in our new house this February

How I spent my summer

2008-08-05T17:34:00.000-07:00

To see how I spent my summer, look at my sister's blogs (Vickers and Taylors)! I love to spend time with their kids and I am the favorite aunt!

Welcome to the Farm

2008-08-05T16:47:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the Arrington Farm! The chickens, Martha and Rose, have started laying eggs on a regular basis. The Saint Bernard Bruce is getting huge! We just found out he has to have surgery on his shoulder because he grew too fast - Great! Amos, the kitty, is huge from eating dog food. He is a great hit with the nieces and nephews, much to his dismay!

As far as the people go, I graduate next week with my Master's degree and can't wait to move on with my life. Jonny still has over a year left to get his Bachelor’s degree and is so jealous he is turning green!