One more project basically finished!

Well it's sort of hard to see in the pictures but we do have the majority of the landscaping done! We want to get a few more shrubs/flowers planted yet this fall or maybe next spring but it's as good as done for now :) As a side note it was only 90+ degrees and humid (one of the only days like that during the whole summer!) when Damien shoveled in all of the rock...bad planning on our part!!

1st Colby Cheese Days!

Ashlyn attended her first Colby Cheese Days this past weekend! We watched softball games, ran in the 5k Chariots of Cheese race, ate cheese of course, watched the parade, and even played the pick a duck game at the carnival! So it was an eventful weekend enjoyed by all :)

A giggling walker (well sort of)

Ashlyn loves trying to walk behind her new toy. Although she does forget to actually take steps once in a while and therefore almost falls flat on her face. Good thing daddy stays near by to help out. She must think it's just hilarious trying to walk because she just giggles as you will see! :)

Pool Time

The 4th of July weekend ended up warming up and so we were able to go swimming for the 1st time in Grandma's pool up North. Ashlyn seemed to enjoy the pool but didn't really like it when we turned the water on and a fountain came shooting out of the turtles head! We had a nice long weekend in Phillips and daddy got to enjoy catching some fish up there for once. We even cooked some up to eat one night.

just some pics from last week

I just thought baby girl looked cute one morning last week and decided to take a few pictures! She is looking so much older lately... We were at my cousins wedding over last weekend in Minoqua. It was an outdoor wedding and the weather was beautiful!! Ashlyn didn't want to keep her shades on though :)

Latest Project in Progress...

Well here is our latest home improvement project or should I say Damien's! I was trying to help him out but realized I'm really not very good at laying brick pavers for some reason so Damien has been hard at work for a couple weeks extending our retaining wall and getting the area around our entire house ready for rock and shrubs. Over the weekend, however, I found my niche and realized I was pretty good at laying the landscaping plastic down. So I've made my contribution - I think! Now if only we could get our grass to grow decent!!

And he's probably going to kill me for posting the picture below! :)

10 Months Old

10 months old and still a sweetheart! Ashlyn hasn't been up to a whole lot lately, but we have had to start using the baby gate just this week finally. She really gets around with her butt scooting thing still but she does find it a bit quicker to do her army crawl. She goes all over the house that way. She has gotten her 2nd tooth now which made for some middle of the night wakings for about 2 weeks. The last 3 nights though we have been back to more normal sleeping and she hasn't been waking up until 5 or 6 am (still too early for mom but she's an early riser!!). No interest in really walking yet, but that's alright, we're not too interested in chasing yet either :)

We got a little messy during this supper!

Ashlyn LOVES taking a bath!! She is amazed when I turn the faucet on and she has to always turn around and put her hand under the running water. We can't wait until it gets warmer outside so she can go in the pool we got for her. She should love it this summer!