Working Hard

Asa randomly decides some days that he's supposed to go to work. Lately they have been having him help. Normally he helps vacuum the cars out, but by the looks of things, today he got to help put the oil in! And in his slight OCD-ness he doesn't want his hands dirty! So funny. Cody sent this to me from his phone, so it's not the best quality, but it's still funny. I sure love those guys!

Coen, Coen, Coen

Yea I know, I'm over a week late on posting Coen's birthday and other random shots.  But better late than never is the way I see it.  

In this picture Coen found this bow and loved it.  He's so silly!

Getting ready to be a jumping boy here.
Here we are on his birthday.  We opened presents first, well I should say ASA opened presents first.  He just couldn't stand it, he had to be right in there opening the presents.  I couldn't get him out of the way long enough for Coen to do anything with it.  I will admit it was frustrating to me.  
Oh yes, the cake.  Well this is the 2nd cake.  I had great visions of a spider man cake and it all was going fine until the actual baking of the cake was to happen.  I don't know what happened with the cake mix, but it totally did not work. And becuase I was rushed for time, I was trying to make it work and it all just got worse.  MeeMah came to the rescue and picked up a cake for us at Albertsons.  Coen didn't care one single bit about the cake though. Luckily.  I'll have to practice for Asa's! 
He was excited to sit next to his cake and couldn't wait to dig in!  He even chimed in on singing happy bday to himself.  It was so cute.
He loved the elmo and big bird cars that were on the cake.
Here he is playing with one of the toys he got. 
I was trying really hard to get a picture of him with his loot, but he wouldn't have it.  This is the best I could get.  
He got a rug for cars, a coat, an outfit, cars for the rug, spider man scooter (that is being returned because it's a pile of turd), his baby blanket, toy motorcycle, book, and a puzzle.

Asa Asa Asa

Asa has had this thing for a while with doing his own hair.  I thought this hair do was HILARIOUS so I had to take pictures.  He's such a ham sometimes and was totally "working" the camera.   He told me the other day after fixing his hair that he was "Freaking cute" oh yea you are buddy!

I think he's showing us all how he achieved the look he was after.  

Asa kept talking about Gymnastics everytime he'd go to soccer.  So I decided to let him try it out for September.  This was his first day.  He is one of two boys out of 15 total. I'm not letting him know it's a big deal of being outnumbered.  He hasn't even noticed. He was pretty attentive and followed directions really well.  I think he likes it okay, but it's really "proper" gymnastics with holding the arms up and all.  I think he mainly wants to do flips and stuff.  I"m not sure we'll sign up again for next month.



I got a wild hair and decided I'd move the boys together in Asa's bedroom.  I picked up a couple of twin mattresses and set them up.  Coen so far LOVES his new bed in Asa's room, and Asa not so much.  He lasts in his new bed till about midnight-1am-ish.  I've been hyping up this new bed thing for a couple of weeks, and am making them quilts and he's acted all excited until it came down to actually SLEEPING in the new bed. Here is a picture of him enjoying his new bed just after I set it up. It's not even clean at all yet.

Asa has been telling us for several weeks now that he's growing his hair like Grandpa Tom (my dad with a pony tail).  And today out of blue he said he wanted to cut his hair.  So we went to Kookie Kutters in Lehi and he got to pick his "ride" while got his hair cut.  They  had several different ride on toys and he picked the motorcycle

And here's the after.  He looks darling with his hair cut though.
I finished the quilt tops today and I was trying to take a picture of the finished tops and Asa was posing for me.  So I thought I'd add these pictures for Asa's tribute.  He looks like a whole different boy to me with his hair cut!

A Zoo-rific Birthday

Daron & Angie came up weekend before last (wow I need to be more current with my pictures) and we decided to hit the zoo! To be honest it was LAME. Unless you are a monkey enthusiast. The boys thought it was okay though. So I guess that's all that matters. I snapped this picture on the way into the zoo. I can't believe I got them both looking directly into the sun!

Asa being intrigued about the Elephant he was looking at
The big gorilla
Us waiting outside of a little cafe
the cute baby giraffe. I would have liked to of pet it and hugged it.
The boys wanted to ride the carousal. Coen wasn't scared, surprisingly
Of course we have to measure against a gorilla. Coen couldn't be bothered
Looking at the gorilla. I would have expected the gorilla to be bigger.
I had to get measured. Asa loved it and wanted to do it again....obviously
Monday was my birthday....As you know...and this is a picture of me singing happy birthday to myself.
we didn't have 28 candles, so Cody just started putting candles up.
Tammy was so thoughtful and got me an icecream cake. She knows that I don't really care for traditional cake It was SOOO yummy!!!! Thanks Tammy!
Coen liked it too
Cody was being helpful in the cake cutting and serving process. It doesn't happen very often, so made sure to get a picture of it! JK. Cody is very helpful in other ways...just not in cake cutting and serving.
Eating my yummy-licious ice cream cake! MMMMMMMMM I loved it...And I loved it the next day and day after just as much.