Ice cream

Daddy and Aspen were eating ice cream for desert. Doug asked Aspen how she liked the treat. Aspen responded:
"Yummmmm...it NOT yuck"



-With Love-
Bridgette and Doug

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Hamilton Pumpkin Festival

We decided to go visit the Hamilton Pumpkin Festival since Doug works in Hamilton.


We had a great time + pumpkin beer= even better time for Doug. Next year I will be able to try the wine!!



Aspen had her first corndog, she loved it. Well, she loved the everything except the actual hotdog.


This kid loves any chance to pet or see real animals.


They almost have the same hair
:-)


Aspen informed multiple people the sound goats make and that they drink water.


Doug and I are trying to make the most of the last 2 months we have with only our princess. We had a great time and someone passed out 5 min into the ride home.


With Love-
Bridgette and Doug

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Big girl bed

We officially switched Aspen to her new room and big girl bed last night.


We had been hanging out in her new room lately to get her comfortable. Last night we finished attaching the furnature straps to the walls & decided it was time.
SHE DID GREAT!! She never ventured off the bed. She fussed a bit but within 15 min she was sound asleep.


This is such a big milestone for our beautiful little girl. While we are thrilled night #1 went great, it's bitter sweet. She is growing up so fast & we want to savor every minuite.


Fingers crossed that night two will go just as well.


With Love-
Bridgette and Doug

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The Purse

The past two days Aspen has not wanted to walk out the door without her purse.


Yesterday she had both her shades and her purse. Today, it was just the purse.


She is one determined little girl and I love watching her mimic what she sees.




With Love-
Bridgette and Doug

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A Toy for Daddy

Doug has dreamed of building a swing set for Aspen. The more we looked into the details, we decided to just rehab one. We were able to get our hands on a great set. Doug spent days reconstructing and fixing every part of that swing set.


All it needs now is another power wash and a new coat of stain.



Aspens new favorite thing to do is "fwing?!" (Swing)


She loves the tire "fwing" too.


But Nothing will compare to the steering wheel and the slide.





Eventually she will grow into the rest of this swing set.

In the end, I am not sure who has had more fun, Aspen or Doug.

With Love-
Bridgette and Doug

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Peek at Aspens new room

Aspens current room is the smallest of the 4 bedrooms. We made the decision to move aspen to a bigger room without nursery furnature.
Here is a sneak peek at her new room.





We still have a bunch of things that are not done yet. Everything from knobs on the furnature to picking out a desk chair still need done.


The 3 of us had a pizza party in her new room tonight to get her excited. She kindly pointed out "no boot noot" ( no book nook) in the new room. She did check out the dresser drawers and decide it looked like a good place to keep her bracelet.

She isn't thrilled with the room yet. We are hoping she will be a bit more excited when we are finished.




-With Love-
Bridgette and Doug

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Baby Ulrich #2 REVEAL

As most of you know, we are expecting a new baby in December. We are thrilled Aspen is going to be a big sister. We are now officially half way at 20 weeks. The baby's due date is December 16, 2013.

We had our 20 month ultrasound today and.....we are having a healthy...


BOY!!



We feel so lucky to have a beautiful healthy daughter and in December our son will make us a family of 4.


With Love-
Bridgette and Doug

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Bye bye ball pit

We always have half Aspens toys put up and half down. This way when we switch them, it's like she has all new toys.

Since Aspen is getting a large toy for Christmas, I decided to pack up the ball pit. We have taken the ball pit down multiple times and she never noticed. THIS TIME she did not appreciate me packing things up. :-)

-With Love-
Bridgette and Doug

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A package for Aspen

Aspen received a special package from the mail man today.  Great Uncle Wayne and Great Aunt D sent something just for her. Since they cant be here to see her open it, we decided to tell you how it went. 

Please excuse her outfit- she spilled water all over herself so her skirt was in the dryer :-)

                                                    Aspen wasted NO time tearing into it!! I couldn't even get the brown paper off for her.  She wanted to do this herself and she was determined not to let me help.

 

She decided that sitting on the box gave her a better angle to pull the paper off.  We got slightly distracted since sitting on things is soooo much fun right now.  She gets all excited when she sits on something new.  She claps and says "yay" "yay" over and over again.  If you don't congratulate her and clap she starts with the "Yay" again.

 

Once the paper was off (and she let me close enough to cut the tape), she was yanking stuff out.

 

 Ohhhhh paper is so much fun when you are 15 months old...

 

Keep going Aspen...

 

Wait a minute...whats this...

 

Its a frosty the snow man, we know who he is! 

 

Frosty even got some hugs and kisses. 

 

 

Frosty was then given to mommy to hold so she could continue exploring the box.

 

Aspen thinks its really funny to pick big things up and carry them.  She had a great time taking the gifts out of the box.  I LOVE to see that little smile and giggle.

 

As soon as the bow was gone, Aspen had a hole in the paper.

 

A ducky and water toys!!  She kept trying to pull the duck out of the paper.

 

more fun presents !!

 

Back to the Duck...she kept pointing and saying "that" "that" and waiting for me to say "Duck, ducks say quack quack"

 

Quack!

 

 Opening gifts was so much fun.

 

 

Thank you sooo much for the perfects gifts Great Uncle Wayne and Great Aunt D!! Tell Miss Molly thank you so much for my frosty too.  I miss you and i love you sooo much.  See you soon Love Aspen

Santa Visit

I took Aspen to see Santa today. Doug was bummed he couldn't be there with us. Since we have all been sick the past few weekends it wasn't possible.

Entertainment Junction has a whole winter wonderland complete with Reindeer, fake snow falling, a workshop and Mrs. Clause handing out cookies.

Santa was very nice and at first Aspen was more interested in her cookie than who was holding her. As soon as he said "what's your name honey?" She whipped her head around, took one look and started to cry.


When I came over and sat with her, she stopped crying and even offered Santa a bite of her cookie.


By the time we walked out the door, Santa got a little wave bye bye but no smiles from Aspen.

All in all I think is was a successful trip to visit the man with the beard :-)




-With Love-
Bridgette and Doug

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Busted

Look who was just busted climbing again... Notice the Cindy Lou who hair :-)





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With Love-
Bridgette and Doug

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Thank You Great Aunt Cindy & Bill

Aspens Great Aunt Cindy and Great Uncle Bill sent her an early Christmas gift!  She loves to play basketball so this gift was perfect for her.  Thank you Swanns!!


Whoops, someone is to short...

 

Not a problem for Aspen, she ran over and dumped out a toy crate.  She pulled it under the hoop and tried to stand up....

 

Since she couldn't climb up AND hold onto the ball at the same time, Daddy tried to help Aspen out.  He gave her a step ladder and watched her climb up. 



After a half hour of running after the ball, Mommy and Daddy figured out a perfect solution.  We call this "Chair Basketball" & she LOVES it.  She is good too, i am pretty confident she will be getting a full ride to college based on these skills.

 

 

Thanks for the GREAT Gift Swann Family.  We are going to miss you on Christmas but we will see you in January.  :-)