Easter 2008

Just a few photo's of the busy Easter fun filled weekend with many friends and family!! We love you all who shared these good times with us!

***To see photo's enlarged just click the photo's. ***

Dustin's Birthday

On friday was Dustin's Big 29th birthday and we got to celabrate with a few friends and then came back to just hang out at our house! The best part was when he turned bright red while the gang at Macayos sand him his bithday song!

and here is his video...

29 years of fun facts about Dustin...not in any special order and if you have any questions feel free to have him share any of these stories with you!

1) Born March 21st 1979 @ 5:52pm, Glendale AZ. He was the 6th child born in his family.

2)Grandma Ashton gave him some underoo's and he thought that they were the coolest underwear out there! (superman and Batman)and she has fond memories of his bird legs!

3) 3yrs old he killed his pet bird sunshine by stepping on him... :(

4) kindergarden he peed his pants because he was two shy to ask to use the restroom!

5) He was a climber...his mother found him one day on the kitchen counter tops and cought him as he fell back...

6) He remebers painting stink bugs and lighting them on FIRE!

7) Being destructive at the old brown barn, breaking windows and glass bottles...

8) BAD TEMPER when it comes to losing any sports game in hight school. He is much better about this now!

9) He remembers Grandpa Ashton calling him to come over and grease the zerts on his bonniville. (Who knows what a zert is?? Not me?)

10) Mowing Grandparents yards for many years...

11) Laying in tanning beds in underoos' s at Grandma Bluemels laundrymat.

12) He Wresteled from 1st grade through 6th grade

13) He held the weight lifting record at his school of 205lbs while weighing less then 80 lbs. (squating)

14) Finished the 8th grade @ 78lbs.

15) In fourth grade he got his first pair of glasses

16) learned how to ride his first bike on a bananna seat bike.

17) Started coyote hunting at 9 years old.

18) killed two ducks with one shot @ over 800 yards away with a 22-250 gun.

19) kissed his first girl while playing kissing tag in first grade.

20) He was a average b and c student

21) His dad kept him and his brothers busy every sat. while growing up to keep them out of trouble.

22) at a young age he developed a great love for framing houses.

23) There were many times that Dustin could do things better than his father when it came to construction.

24) He played golf his freshman year and shot 149 on a par 72...( it was 60% water)

25) played basketball in high school

26) could dunk a girls basketball

27) raced his mom's mini van while in HS and got his first speeding ticket.

28) graduated in 1997 and served a mission in Hawaii

29) Today he has 4 kids, and a wife that he loves. He is weighing in at an all time high of 162lbs. whoo hoo!

Read Accross America Week...

Well here's how it goes...Mason came home from school on Monday with this reading asignment to read as much as he could to celabrate Dr. Seuss's birthday. He had no homework packet and was asked to just record all the books and how much he read. Well we started on monday night and read, read and read. We found that early in the morning while the kids got up at 6:00am to read for an hour while in bed worked the best. I would have to say that early in the morinng was hard but if we were going to win this contest that's what we had to do. Mason made a green egg's and ham project at school and he brought it home and was pretty proud of it! They were encouraged to wear things or dress up like Dr. Suess during the week. We found these socks in my drawer and he wore them to school one of the days. He had fun. We kept reading all week and we were getting up there in hours but stuck through it and had fun with it.

On Friday moring we added up his hours and he had got to 6hrs and 50 mins. He came home on Friday and was doing this dance saying I won, I won I won....I didn't put it together until we sat down and taked and he handed me this gift card for Barnes and Nobles. He told me that Mr Knorr had given it to him(The Principle). All in all he had a fun week and out of all the kindergarders in his school he read the most that week. He is pretty excited to go and get a new book, I think that after that week we had almost read each book we own twice. :) We sure are pround of you Mason...Way to Go!!

El Paso

So I guess that it has been a week or so sense I went to El paso, TX. I went to visit my good friend Adrienne Wilson. Her Husband and good friends opened a direct Buy. Have you heard of it? Well it was eye opening what they can offer! If you are in the market I would say look in to it! In short I guess you could say it was filled with late night driving, feeling like a third wheel, getting there at 3am and not being able to find her house, almost falling asleep at the wheel, shopping in down town Mexico and driving along the boarder and the border patrol checking us out! What can I say we got lots of looks a white girl and Adrienne looks part Mexican headed down town Mexico! I do feel I was a little over dressed! While shopping down town, first of all we came across this cowboy with hot pink boots. They had a pointed toe in them that I kid you not was 6 inches past the top of his foot. The hard part was not only did I forget my stroller, but carrying my sweet little Titan was hard work and boy did the little guy get heavy! We took turns holding him and he had fallen asleep after only 3 or 4 stores.

We only hot to shop about 1 block before we had to head home. We did come across this LARGE BUTT up on the top of a store I did find it to be entertaining so I snapped a photo. We were so close to the border that we saw the 2 hr wait that they all do daily to get into El paso. What a life, I find myself complaining about rush hour or if I get slowed down. But these people do it on a daily basis. But it was fun to get out of AZ and adventure a little. She made it out to be this horrible Town and it wasn't that bad!
We got her all ready for her trip to Mexico, swim suite shopping, and hour waxing and I just crossed my fingers that she was not going to pass out.:) We had gone before and I do fear every time we go together that she might hyper ventilate and I wont know what to do with her. She had to work Saturday but it was fun to get out and see the world from another point of view.


My sweet Dustin was at home taking care of our other 3 kids, having daddy time and was making me a surprise! I asked so many questions and i couldn't get it out of him. I even drilled little Chloe who always has so much to say over the phone. Well I was excited to get home to see what they had been up too! I came home to a new pantry with shelving under my stairway and a lifted Armada. He had this lift for over a year and a half and I have always talked him out of putting it on. It's not until I was gone for a short weekend I get a lot of surprises! What a great guy. I do feel that he likes the lift a little more then I do but I guess it does make it look better!
My great photo's come from the cute photographer Chloe! She was pretty proud of it too!

Tagged!

Ok Ok I know that i have not been on here for awhile so I'm getting back to my tagged girls! For Rosie...

10 years ago....I was in High school having the time of our lives! This year marks our 10 yrs renion! Go PHS!

5 things on my to due list today...
Make my kids a job chart
gym/ Workout
make homemade bread
Clean
Get over this cold and cough

What O would do if I were suddenly a Millionaire...
Travel the world with my kids and hubby!!

Three bad Habits...
stressing about stuff that's not worth stressing about
sleeping in
staying up too late!

Six places I have lived...
Pasco, WA
Provo, UT
Orem, UT
Springville, UT
El Mirage, AZ
Surprise, AZ

5 jobs I have had...
Dental assist.
BYU Apt. Manager
Assisted Living manager
Mother
Wife

5 things people don't know about me....
I would love to run a 1/2 marathon
I love to travel
Four kids in just under 5 years can make you crazy FAST!!
I am going to Hawaii for a girls week in April
I hate to deep clean but always feel better when I do. (Hint hint I would love a maid if Dustin is reading this)!!:0

Here is to my Adrienne Wilson...It did take me a few days xtra to get back to them both due to my crazy fast trip last weekend to El Paso TX! I did go and visit Adrieen and her sweet family. I took my little Titan and if only one thing good came from this weekend it would be that both Adrienne and Jared think that they need a another baby soon! Way to go baby Titan!! We had fun and it was so good to see there newly remolded home and the awesome things they did to it! WOW way to go guys!! I must say that i'm secrectly jealous of threr beautiful kitchen and all the cabinets in there home!

1. What is your Hubby's name?? Dustin Craig Ashton

2. How long have your been married?
Comming up on the best 8 years of my life! August 17,2000.

3. How long did you date? Well we met the end of may, engaged June 10th and married Aug. 17th. Hey when you know you know right??!!

4. How old is he? 28 and 29 this month and I'm right behind him @ 28 too!
We often think we are quit young to have 4 kids and done!

5. Who eats more? I would say he does, all of his Ice cream craves late at night and how he can polish off a box in two sitting...He is an ice cream MAN!

6. Who said I Love you First? He did...

7. Who is taller? He is 5'9"

8. Who sings better? We both suck but try hard to make each other sound good in church!

9. Who is smarter? When it comes to anything hands on, fixin it up, make it do it would be Dustin. But you ask him to do anything crafty it's all me. We actually love to design and build things together. I can pretty much say here is the photo and I need a few adjustments and he can whip it out in no time! We just call him our handy man!

10. Who temper is worse? I would say we both don't get mad very often but his does flare up when palying games and he doesn't win or while palying sports. :)

11. Who does the laundry? I do! I have tryed to have him put away if I fold but that doesn't seem to happen any more...Why not?

12. Who does the dishes? I wiould say that we both do lots of the kitchen stuff...like cooking and dishes!

13. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? right now he does b/c i seem to have to pee more often and the bathroom is closer to the left side.

14. Who pays the bills? Me

15. Who mows the lawn? Dust...though i had a few summer lawn mowing jobs while in High School.

16. Who cooks dinner? April! If I say i'm not cooking he thinks that having cereal is a great dinner for all.

17. Who drives when together? Dustin

18. who is more stubborn? Hmm...I woulds say ME! Any he always reminds me when one of our sweet children are in a tantrum that they get it from me but my dear mother reminds him that I have no mean bone in me!

19. Who is the first to admit they are wrong? It is hard for both of us but we always seem to talk through it and get through the problem. I love to ask, when he knows i'm right, who's idea was this??? He does admit it at times! He has learned Happy Wife Happy Life! :)

20. Who parents do we vistit most? I would say it's about even! Both of our parents seem to come and visit us more then we get out to UT over the holidays.

21. Who Proposed? It depends on who you ask?? My story...He had me try on this wedding ring and then didn't pop the q's for a few days...long story short i told him that i wanted to see my mom she was coming to Ut for the weekend and it would be nice if we were going to tell her what we were up too...His side of it would be I couln't handle it so she rushed me and made me ask her b/c her mom was coming to town. All in all we are happy to be married and knew that it was right and why wait...I do feel blessed to have married into such an amazing family!!

22. Who has more friends? April

23. Who has more siblings? Dustin-6
April-5
24. Who wears the pants in the family? I would say that I take that roll and cover it all very well. It's pretty good when he asks me what I want him to wear even on date night. I thinks that he really likes to look nice but still could use the advice of a women! He much rather not argue about little things so he is ok with me maiking lots of little family decitions. It's all good!

I'm Tagging Amy jo, Brooke, Bri, Ashlee B, and Rachel M. good Luck girls you can pick just one set of q's to answer but would love to hear it all! I can't wait!