Knock knock.

Who's there?

It's me!

"Me" who?

Me, Ashley!! 

 ...  ...

You know.  Me...?  I (used to) write on this blog? ... no?

*Sigh. Anyway. 

Well hi.  First of all, let's ignore the fact that it is August 3 and this is my first blog post for 2015.

Ignored. Check.

You know how a lot can happen in a year? Well, it can. A lot can also happen in just eight months. And I have the pictures to prove it.

However, instead of boring you by putting 8 months worth of pictures into one super lengthy blog post (because LBH - no one wants to look at 8 months worth of my pictures all at once except for me, and because it is utterly impossible for me to pick just a few pictures for those 8 months), I will split my super lengthy blog post into two somewhat average-length blog posts.

Starting with where we left off.  Because that makes sense.

DECEMBER

We visited Santa Claus at Casey's work.

(Santa sure looked (and smelled) a whole lot like Casey.)

We spent Christmas week up in Pocatello with Casey's family.

My mom came up with us, too- and it was really nice to have her there.

We played for hours in the freshly-fallen snow.

And some of us ate said freshly-fallen snow. (Not the yellow kind.)

Kennedy loved playing with her best furry friend.

The feeling was completely mutual.

To get in the Christmas spirit, the kids acted out the nativity scene.

It was hilarious. And they were way too adorable for words.

The whole Price/Harding clan! (Photo cred: my mom.)

JANUARY

Happy 2015!

I went on a girls' trip to sunny San Diego with these lovely ladies.

And went on a spooky ghost tour. 

No ghost sightings. Boo. (See what I did there? Hahaha)

We skied a bunch. When it actually snowed. (grumble)

FEBRUARY

Kennedy was the "student of the week." For a week.

Casey caught a rogue chicken in our front yard.

MARCH

(This month was crazy.)

Kennedy was Elvis at school.

"Thankyouverymuch." 

Then she was a cowgirl in a play called "Lightning Larry."

AND we went to Salt Lake Comic-con for an

afternoon to witness the craziness. There was definitely craziness.

She was so excited to see THE REAL Draco Malfoy.

Oh- also, we bought a new house. Well actually, an old house. 

So, we moved. (This is before paint and carpet)

This house needed (still needs) a lot of work.

Starting with wallpaper removal. (My two besties worked

like crazy to help me in the process. And wine. Wine helped, too.)

Then it needed paint. And carpet.

We lived like this for the entire month of March. 

And this. It wasn't awesome. (We also lived 

in my grandma's basement for a few weeks 

so we didn't get high from paint fumes.)

I was so happy for March to go away.

But we all know that March showers bring April vacations. ... or something like that.

Things that happened

Oh, hi there. Here are some things that have happened recently.

Halloween happened.

Kennedy was a U of U zombie cheerleader:

I was a zebra and Casey was a devil ghost guy:

Maddie was Queen of the leaf piles on our lawn:

 And I made Oreo pumpkin treats. Yum.

The Ute game happened.

The Ashleyes posed for a picture.

The 4 of us posed for another picture.

We paid tribute to the Veterans by "oooh"-ing and "aaahh"-ing at the flag and balloons.

This super amazing gorgeous sunset happened. (It kind of makes up for the fact that we lost the game.)

My birthday happened. 

We went out to dinner with a whole bunch of my friends. Whom I love dearly.

Hello friends!

Hello, sexy fiancé!

Kennedy's school picture happened.

And I almost died because she looks like she's 15.

Flowers happened.

My amazing man bought me these lovely flowers. *SNIFFFFFF* Yum.

My garden happened.

Fresh lavender. From my garden. *SNIFFFFFF* Yum, again.

Some wedding planning happened.

We found our wedding location! And here is a sneak peak...

And finally - 

Our dog learning to play "Fetch" happened.

And she wanted to play it. Over, and over. And over.

Really badly.

And I have a hard time saying "no" to that face. So I obliged. 

Belated.

So... remember how it was Kennedy's birthday a while ago? Well since she's still young enough where getting older is a GOOD thing, we had a party for her. And I decided that I should probably blog about it.

Although it was nowhere near as extravagant as last year's princess party, it was still a party. A Spongebob party.

First, we made puppets. Because making inanimate objects talk is awesome.

And they posed for the camera.

We played "Pin the Pants on Spongebob." Because we can't have him walking around in his tighty whities. SO inappropriate for a kid's birthday party.

And what is a birthday party without presents? I'll tell you. A lame one. Luckily ours was far from lame.

And what is a party without cake? I'll tell you. Not as fattening.

Please try to ignore the tacky brown light switch and 70's countertop and backsplash.

Ya know how last year's cake took a bazillion hours? This one only took about 5. So luckily I didn't feel like a piece of my soul was being sliced apart when we cut into the cake.

After the fabulous guests left, our nephew Kaden stayed over for the night. He was a good sport and put Kennedy's make-up on her.


Happy belated birthday post, my love. And thanks to all who came to the party!

Loved.

So I'm another year older. Technically, I'm only another DAY older, but whatever. Thank you all for the birthday wishes, cards, and especially to my amazingly fabulous mom for her sweet birthday tribute. (This is sounding an awful lot like an acceptance speech. "I'd like to thank the little people...")

(No, this wasn't my cake. I just saw a picture of this online and it made me laugh.)

Anyway, it was a good day. My friends at work took me out to lunch and Ashlee and the babies made the trip to come see me so we could go get a Judge brownie.

What? You've never heard of a Judge brownie? ...

Ok. They are only the most delectable chocolate creations that you will ever put in your mouth, and they will immediately awaken your gustatory senses. No lie. But I warn you- once you eat one, you can never go back to being satisfied with a mere brownie-mix brownie. The only place you can satisfy this craving is at the Judge Cafe downtown. And yes, I frequent there enough that the cashier knows me by name.

(I was hesitant to put this picture up because these look almost disgusting compared to my sinfully delicious obsession.)

And when I got home from work, Justin took me out to dinner and a movie. It was nice to have a fun birthday date :)

Thanks again for the comments and phone calls! They made me feel oh so loved.

(Although I think the brownie is what made my birthday so spectacular.)