Ashley's GOLDEN birthday!!! 10 years!

I remember everyday i was pregnant with you...I found out about 5 weeks along...senior in high school...what a surprise! About 7-8 weeks along i was puking my guts out....feeling like i was going to die!!! I tried diff drugs but nothing seemed to work..boo! I remember the first time i felt you kick i was 14 weeks along a little flutter, i remember the feeling in my heart that you gave me....i just loved you! Dr Weary was your Doctor oh how i loved him...you were concieved in Arizona but i moved you to Colorado Springs..Gram and Pop wanted you close by! Daddy and I made a bet on what sex you were gonna be! I so knew you were a girl and he so was hoping for a boy! So we bet a months worth of back massages and at 18weeks and 3 days it was confirmed that you were a GIRL!!!! I think I screemed a lil loud as the nurse jumped! hehe Oh all the girly stuff i had in mind for you...I now look at pictures and the maternity clothes were a bit ugly ha ha but baby Gap and Gymboree were mine and Grams favorite shops for you! I was pretty much sick thru my whole pregancy and about 28 weeks along you were thinking you wanted to meet me! What????

Yep! You landed me in the hospital for a whole week! I was 80% effaced and 2 cm dialated! Say what?? SO yes we were a bit worried! The Doc gave me a sterroid shot for your lungs and i grew hair on my chest! ha jk. but somehow you decided to stay in....accually you decided that when my due date came on Dec 6th you werent ready....i was sopose to be on bed rest but that only lasted a couple weeks! Im a bit ADD ha! So the doc induced me !! well accually i kinda went into labor on the 9th but he submitted me and you were born on the 10th at 2:46pm after 3 hours of pushing! Thanks for that!! I never saw such a more beautiful baby!!! Myheart sank when i saw you! you were 8pounds 4ounces! i still dont know how you came out but you did! by the help of a vacume! you had double chins, theighs, and the cutest lil fat cheeks ever!!! you were pissed and surely let everyone know! Thank you for making my life so blessed by being you!!! your so smart and loveable and caring and you just love me to peices as i love every lil inch of you!!! Plz stop growing up!!! YOu will never know how much joy you have brought to my life Ashley Noelle! I love you!!!

Love Mommy!!!!

xoxo

Holiday pictures....

My awesome wedding photographer graciously took our Holiday pictures for us and i love all of them...heres a peak!

I think we were all kinda squishing him (hehe)

Chads all about the "funny pic" so i had to play along..

Yes were cute!

We wish everyone a great holiday season with lots of family time ,cookies and milk for Santa, shopping (finding deals) yummy food...baking for friends and most of all remembering God's love above all...Merry X-mas friends!

Holidays in the air....

Ash, Antonia and bradley


ASh and Cheri

Happy Holidays everyone...... Man i cant believe its been 2 months since i have posted recently....we been a bit busy....and i've been lazy sorry.. I can smell the Holiday air already and i love it..about half way done with Xmas shopping for the kids, as Chad and I and Dr Kevin Leman (my new favorite christian author) have decided that its no good for kids to get a lot of Christmas presents! Lots of gifts =spoiled bratty children...and we have enough adults around that grew up and are still that way..We are teaching our children to be appreciative of what they have...and learn to give to others less fortunate...because isn't that what Christmas is all about anyways?? A great book I'm reading is Having a better kid by Friday again by Dr Kevin Leman...No i don't have "Bad" kids i have great ones that always need tuning...every child does..they need to know their limits..and I'm loving the instructions that Leman gives....it works! Anyways...I hope everyone enjoys the Holiday season that families come together and kids are to be loved and cherished.....cookies to be made and songs to be sung....and snow to be played in ...Let it snow....I'm craving me some snow...(until i get there ha ha )...Here's a few of our holiday pictures for starters...

DO the HOEDOWN......

Pop-it, lock it

Poka-dot it

country fixin,

hip hop hip

Put your arms in the sky,

move side to side,

Jump to the left,

stick it ,

and Slide...

Do the Hoedown!

Ive come to the decision that I'm sick n tired of being tired.

Having NO energy seeing that 2 extra pounds, craving late night choc covered

bannana frozen icecream bars (hehe) that its time to "put my arms in the sky" and PoP IT!

So last night was my first Hoedown on the Treadmil that we have had for about 4 months .... Im

proud of myself 30 min i walked and ran watching "our wedding video" laughing at myself.

This morn i did 20 tummy crunches ---OMG that was wicked....

and..I'm fixing to do 20 more right now and 20 more after dinner before the

Treadmill again tonight..... leg lounges are next im sure my first

few days i wont be able to sit on the crapper very well but

this girl is gonna be getting some sleep

at night! Gonna have s0me MAAAAAD energy and gonna be dancing to the HOEDOWN!

Wish me Luck!!!

Its all about a "GOOD TIME"

Although we told the boys( Bradley and Blake) not to get there shoes wet.....look at a few more pictures and see what happened...

Ashley and brookie

Half body in riding the log! So much for not getting their shoes wet

Dont you just love what God has Created it is pretty awesome!


The Smith Family + Ashley

Cousins are the BEST

Grandma , Allison, Ashley and I

Bradley and I on the boat. Dont you love the Sunset??

My Mom , Me and Ashley at the Grand Canyon 09'

what a view!!!!!

At the last minute thursday afternoon my dad called and asked if we wanted to go to Utah for the weekend to see my grandma (whos not doing so well these days)...Um "yes, we would love to go" SO i have packed 3 pairs of clothes each and Fri mon 4am we were off on our way.....here is the fun we had as well as the memories we shared......

Uncle Aaron Surfing behind the boat! what a stud.... and bradley tried as well

Boating was deff a blast although the water was a little cold for me to get into it....We also had the fun of staying at Aaron and Jenny's sat night and man "DOGS" can do tricks...who would have Thunk it???? Im so on the search to find me a cocka-poo...a light brown one too please, and i would love a girl so she can have puppies and i wanna name her Bentleigh...ill post pictures when i find her....moving on we also got to stay at Aaron and Jennys Zion National Park resort house...and hike in ZIon as well.....lots of fun filled days and we all had such a blast....Being with my Grandma was so nice too as were not sure how much longer she will be here...We love you grandma..xoxo
Here comes "lucy"

Love me some Habbits..

As i was at the market today roaming around picking up the things i needed i realized I am a bit picky in my selections......I only

• drink smart water and my kids love disani
• Simply Apple Juice it must be
• deli turkey plz
• love me some M&M's for a treat
• Shamrock 2%
• organic bananna choc covered frozen treats
• Starbucks coffee (sometimes)

Than it dawned on me that i have daily habbits too

• Gotta be at church 30 min before it starts so we can have donuts and sit and chat with the kids
• kids in bed every night @8ish
• wednesday date night
• fb addiction daily
• no dirty dishes in my sink plz
• love me some wipe out
• Fresh and Easy,Fry's & Trader Joes
• new dinner recipes

are a few of my OCD's, if i had some sort of a memory i could tell you more but for now this is all.....xoxo

Love me some Smiles

Oh my goodness hes handsome

she can make me some money some day

giggles

LOve me some baby Bear!

She loves her some smiles in the mirror



Theres nothing more that makes my Heart melt than capturing the 'sprit' of Gods gifts......I love taking pictures ha and i always have .these are just a few of the ones i got of the kids while practicing my skills......Antonia is such a doll face i just love following her around getting every lil grin she gives me....oh and ash is such my lil model...im sure you knowticed that ...and bradley were working on him hes so serious and military like when we tell him to smile...gotta jiggle him up to make it more natural ha! thought you might like to take a peek at what i captured!

love me some Keith Urban

Me and Melissa before the concert

Hes so good on that Guitar

The Concert was so much fun!!! Keith is such a great Guitar player and singer song Artist!! Hes such a sweet person and truly loves his fans as we love him

God has New Changes in me......

Ive been convicted and after drifting away from Church and all the good it brings. A friend has been bragging about how awesome her church is.....so i told my self i have Saturdays to sleep in God needs me to come to his house on Sunday and give a little back since he has blessed me in so many ways.....I grew up going to Church every sunday and i want that for my kids as well.....When i told the kids about my plan for trying a new church they gave me the look like are you serious! SO i told them were gonna have fun and its all about trying new things, and hey "you might just like it"......SO we tried Cornerstone of Chandler.....and the Kids Zone was awesome looking...Kids went to worship and i carried on into the main center.......the greeter sat me in the front row (maybe she new it was gonna be a great concert and ive always wanted front row seating ) ha ha.....The music was great! I love how you can get so involved in the music and feel the love of Jesus in the room....i thought to myself "it feels so good to be home" the message was great as well and for the first time i didnt get bored in church....I know this is the beginning of some New Changes in Me! Cuz i do need a lil help being:

• More understanding to others
• less judgemental =(
• not getting upset when things dont go MY WAY ha
• love more
• pray more
• know that not everythings gonnabe perfect
• Talk more about how awesome Jesus is to others

I know Jesus has special plans for me, that its all a learning process and that its a fun ride in between.....Thank you Trudy for the invite! After church wheni picked up the kids from their classes i asked them how it was and they both said" Mom can we please come back next week! It was so fun!!! We even made friends" All I can say is GOD IS GOOD! The Pastor asked us "what is means to be a christian??? He said being a christian isnt about coming to church every sunday....being a christian means telling others about GOD! wow i love that!

LOve always~

xoxo

Were Now Officially "Okies"

My beautiful Ashley


Logan, bradley and Ash at OK zoo

Chad and I

Ash and bradley

Bradley and cousin mc kinley

What a great time we had in Oklahoma for the 4th of July.....after 2 long days of driving and 17hours laters we made it .......Chad's dads family lives there and it was so nice to meet them. I really would concider moving there as it is so rual and beautiful but the humidity makes my hair hate me so i cant.....haha the kids basicly swam and ran free the whole week.....we came home tan...We took kids to the Oklahoma Zoo which was so fun and im not really a Zoo person but that one was fun. Fire works are LEGAL there so chad was like a kid in the candy store when we went to buy them.....wall to wall fireworks........it was fun for me too i admit.... Casino's are huge entertainment in OK so we tried winning a Million dollars but we had no success maybe next time ha ha...family BBq's everynight and staying up till 10:30 or later because it doesnt get dark there untill about that time thru off my sced but what the heck were on vacation..doing our own fire work show was super great fun and you can only admagine how much fun the guys were having...we bribed bradley and tommy to pick all the trash up the next morning for some free fireworks.....ha it worked....i was ready to come home as i get homesick easily but i will always remember the fun we had and the memories we made......

some entertainment for you....done out of lots of boredness...

chad will kill me when he finds this...ha ha there is also a slide show at the bottom of my bloggy of more pictures...enjoy!

enough said......

Cheers .........Sarah

Birthday excitment of the BIG "29"

The Tradition for Birthday's Is a Pf Changs night.....

Megan, Melissa, Kate Me and Amanda..

Yeah Im Crazy in da head...

Megan, Me, Kate and Amanda

Megan and I

Tradition is PF Changs for the Birthday Dinner.........thought you might like to see the fun we had...

Over the Hump.......

If you been reading my blog latly ya'll know that there has been a change in life stlye for the Towe-kelliher clan....

Starting with Chad's job......the first week was rough for me lil bit of tears flo'd and some anxiety from the boogie man ( i sware i only hear noses when chads gone at night), kids having to use quiet voices during the day now....(thats been tough), feeling like I never get to see my husband on the nights he works cuz
the whole next day he is sleeping and than once he wakes up hes gone again......
But.....things are adjusting well and its beginning to feel normal again...
kinda...

I do enjoy him being home at night with me now when hes off ....before he worked all nights and would never get to have dinner together as a Family or watch a movie unless it was after 11pm and i get sleepy by than.....

It does feel great to see a sweet note left for me when the days i dont get to see him much telling me "he loves me and misses me"

Vacation time is soon as we will be driving to Oklahama in July and i will be able to "mug" on him all week.....

life is great and i have so much to be thankful for.....sometimes it just takes some adjustment for me than than I'm A okay.......
I'm just sayin......

The Pooter

Somehow Chad stumbles accross a Youtube.com video of the pooter (check it out sometime) and i found him crackin up, the next thing i know "The Pooter " comes in the mail.....now if you know chad and I , you know its all about laughing, messing around , and acting retarded.....so of course we gotsta try it out!

First Stop: Super Target at the 202 and Germaine Rd ( Now the instructions say "practice makes perfect" ha........Diaper section...no no babies yet ...a friend tho...chad attemps too Pooter as he has been practicing all thru out the store and a couple feet away from us a lady and her 3 kids are shopping ..he Poots and its LOUD and it totally sounds like a real fart, (im trying very hard not to look at her or laugh although its very hard and i just wanted to know if she heard

i know you do too...

Yep! she heard and than out came a "OMG" from lady...and i just burst out laughing so did chad as we hurried away down another isle...after that we got a few more looks and laughs but not to bad for Pooters first try....

April 4th began our dreams......

Wedding night ....Look how sweet my baby is......

See my shoes........cute

Got me a Harley........

pretty archway..love it

Two became One.....

My Topper is kissing a Frog..

pretty table flowers

A walk it out..

Kisses for the bride

Amanda and I looking all sexyness...love ya

Yeah we are cute...n stuff

Love this shot

The sunset was amazing..

Gotta love the sea-ster! More pictures up on my FB

Check them out and take a peek