I guess I didn't post this last year.  I found it in my drafts.  Enjoy...

Eating ice cream at Great Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Aspynn loves animals, and I guess that includes garden snakes.

GGGGreat Grandpa John Hatches house in Taylor AZ.

My Little Fraggle with Grandma. I was usually sitting next to Mira on the other side....we now know what sardines feel like.

CAMP: First 2 weeks

Mira and Aspynn decided that they should get as dirty as they could on their first day here.  This is a picture of Mira covered in it.

Larry decided to go out on Lake Tahquitz with the girls.  They were pretty excited.

All was going well until both girls decided to be on one side of the canoe and it tipped over.

Some thought I was going to be hysterical but when I saw that the girls weren't screaming, I just decided to take pictures to document it.  Plus it gave them a chance to use their rescuing skills they get to learn up here.

Larry is in the capsized boat trying to bring it to shore.

The girls just said they were "wet".  And when I asked Aspynn if she was ok, she said:  "Yeah, I ok"

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Mommy and Aspynn. Aspynn is now the youngest to go on the High COPE course at 32 months!

Rappelling down from COPE (Mira)

Mira up on COPE

Tahquitz Reunion: Past and Present

Our beautiful view everyday going down to the cabin.

Climbing rocks is a favorite for the girls

Pinky coming for a visit. We sure miss her up here at camp.

Random bugs showing up in our cabin.  Believe me...this bug was big!

 

I just really liked this picture of my beautiful girls.  

Some fun over the last few months

Our Early Start friends.  Mira & Aspynn love going.

 

Making Christmas cookies at Gma Frosts.  Sugar and butter, anyone?  Do you even know how many pounds you used, Mom?

Great Great Gma Sewell.  I guess that makes her REALLY GREAT!

Gingerbread Temple at a Young Marrieds FHE (yea, we won)

Beautiful Aspynn

Christmas Fun

A cute pic of my brother's family:

Chris, Brooke, and Devi

A bit of light reading Mira?  (Jesus the Christ)

Doing the dishes and Sweeping.  (When will that ever happen again?)

Aspynn Turns One Year Old!!!!!

Cake attack!  Well, one finger did the trick for Aspynn.

We had a lot of fun at Aspynn's birthday party.  Cookie decorating, pin the nose on the pumpkin and the sand box were enjoyed by all the youngin's.  We still can't believe that she turned one today.

It sure is fun to see her walking.  Her smile and those bright blues shine up any room.  We LOVE you ASPYNN!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

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Mira decided that Aspynn needed to wipe her hands off from the cake, so she found a napkin and tried to clean her up....what a good sister!

More fun pictures from this summer.

Growing UP

Just a quick update on our little girls.

Mira is talking more and repeating a some of what we say. She cay say more of her alphabets and continues to sign them too. She is starting to sing some of the songs that we have sung to her. Like 'twinkle, twinkle little star', and e-i-e-i-o. We love that she is starting to 'share' with her sister and we think they will become best buds.

Aspynn is growing up so fast. She is now army crawling everywhere and can now get into things on the floor. She loves her sister and laughs when Mira is showing off. Aspynn has found her tongue and sticks it slightly out just because she can. It is way cute and I need to get a pic of it and post it. Aspynn loves food and is loving all the new flavors I am giving her (and her sister, thus the sharing, which sometimes isn't good. :)

Enjoy the pics:

Easter Pics and Mira's ABC's in Sign Language

This is Mira signing her ABC's at 22 months.  We think she does pretty well...what do you think?

EASTER

Mira

Aspynn

How come we are so bad at this?

Oh yeah,

Because our computer wanted to quit on us. We don't have our normal computer to play with, so we have a billion pics to download and all of the projects we want to do have been postponed. Hopefully in the near future we will get our tax return back which will buy us a new computer. THEN we will keep up (that means at least once a month) on posting to our blog.

To update:

Larry has started substituting for the San Bernardino School District and has enjoyed working everyday since he was able. To tattle on him...I think he is a facebook addict and you will always be able to find him on there when he has the least bit of time.

Kaylene WHOOHOOO is going to the BYU Women's Conference this week. Leaving Wed (29th), returning Sat (2nd). I am so excited! The hardest part is leaving my family for 4 days. Especially Aspynn who is a momma's girl. I feel for my friend Sarah who gets to hear her scream for the next 4 days. I have been trying to make it easier for everyone, but we shall see.

Mira is now sleeping on a toddler bed. (The crib without the front) The hard part is for mommy and daddy when she wakes up in the middle of the night and knows that she can come into our room. Mira is so smart. She almost knows all of her abc's in sign language and can recognize some of them on paper as well as say some of them.

Aspynn is showing more of her personality lately. She loves touching and tasting things. She is learning to scoot and is still learning the benefits of rolling over. Aspynn only wants mom when she is tired and has very good lungs. It is so much fun to see Mira put on a show for Aspynn and then see Aspynn laugh and smile. They sure love each other.

Our garden is doing great. The plants that are doing well are the corn, tomatoes, beans, spinach, swiss chard, and bell peppers. We will post a pic soon.

This is starting to sound like a Christmas letter so I will leave you with that and look for upcoming posts from our new computer. :)

Our BIG GIRL

Today we went over our friend Katie's house and while Mira played with her son Ryan, we weighed Aspynn on an infant scale. She weighed a whooopin' 15 pounds 3 1/2 ounces. She is only 19 weeks old. And you would not have guessed that nursing was sooo, what's the right word, excruciatingly awful at the beginning. I just hope that she appreciates all that I do for her when she gets older. We'll see.

It's that time again.

Well, as you may have noticed, we haven't added any new post on here for quite a while. Let's just say that things have been somewhat busy, not to mention the fact that the display on our computer has not been cooperating (it is worse than a stubborn toddler).
Here are some of the other things that have happened in the last few months:

Larry lost his job at Juvenile Hall and started the credential program at University of Redlands.
Kaylene started a little business.
Mira continues to grow like a weed and is increasing her vocabulary by leaps and bounds. She can sign the entire alphabet with help as well as identify a number of letters on her own. Mira also enjoys helping with the dishes and other things around the house more and more.
Aspynn is working hard to catch up to Mira in size. She continues to eat well and sleeps longer when we leave her in her bouncy chair than when we put her in the bassinet. She still hasn't rolled over, but is getting close.

Over the last few weeks, we have been planting a garden in the back yard. We put in a few tomato plants, some peppers, corn, zucchini, squash, cucumbers, beans, broccoli, spinach, swiss chard and carrots. Hopefully our harvest this year with a lot of different plants is similar to the harvest last year with only a few types. It's been a lot of fun to play in the dirt as a family.

Hopefully it doesn't take us quite as long to get back on here again.

A big sister moment

Mira was curious about Aspynn and Larry had the camera.

Aspynn Vera Frost

Aspynn Vera Frost joined our family at 9:48 a.m. on Friday, October 31, 2008 (yes, we know it's Halloween). She was 7 lbs. 14.5 oz, 19.5" (but isn't going to stay that small because she eats really well).

We went into the hospital at 11:30 p.m. Thursday night to be induced, but they decided to see if things would progress on their own. After receiving some pain medication, we both slept for a few hours and the contractions slowed. Kaylene recieved an epidural at about 7:30, they added pitocin to the I.V. after that, and Aspynn came a bit later.