Outer Banks 2011

Ok, I know, I know. When it rains, it pours.  I finally had time to sit down and get all these pictures on the blog, which has resulted in 4 posts in one day.  

This year was a great one at the OBX.  Asher met all of his extended family on his mommy's side and got to spend lots of time on the beach.  

This look alike contest with Uncle John was not planned.

Resting with Grampy

Taking a dip in the Atlantic with cousin Cohen

Jumping and laughing with Nana

Showing off his train engineer's outfit

What a good Grampy!

He's almost as big as Ella!  haha.

Nam had fun with the nieces and nephews as always :)

More pool time

Daddy!

Uncle Aaron doing what he does best.  Besides grad work of course :)

Hanging with cousin Joshy

He seemed to like the water

This is a picture of one of Asher's first kisses...lol.  He is mesmerized! Future wife Breckyn??

Swimming at the Sound with Cohen

Sleeping at the Sound with Grampy. haha.

Everyone needs some good Nana-time!

5 months old!!

On August 29th, Asher turned 5 months old. He's getting so big so fast. We spent Labor Day weekend with family and Asher got to be held and played with by lots of family. Everyone's so great with him and he always has a great time laughing and practicing talking. :)

Loves his exersaucer. Thanks for opening us up to that whole new world Aunt Lauren!!

He makes lots of crazy faces not too.

5 months old!!

Getting ready for bed

Co Thuy giving my arms a break.  Thank you!!

Uncle Donnie explaining a thing or two to Asher, and Asher listened SO attentively.  It was hilarious. :)

Audrey and Sydney spent lots of time holding Asher during their visit from Houston.

He loved you guys!!!

Hook 'em

Ok, here's a better one that shows the hat. This post is for his daddy :) Hook 'em Horns!

Fly, Eagles, Fly :)

Asher was SO ready for the first Eagles game on Sunday...E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles!!!!!! For the win! You can't see it very well in this pic (I'll post a better one later), but his hat looks like a football. Thanks to Carrie Benkert at EllieOh's hats on etsy.com. It is adorable!!!

Was the summer so, so fun?!

Wow, this summer flew by and we had so much fun watching Asher totally grow by leaps and bounds.  He's rolling like a champ (all over the place), starting to think about getting up on all fours at times (yikes!), and just developing into more and more of his own personality. He's a real smiley guy :)

He got to do a lot of firsts this summer.  First plane trip, first beach trip (including first road trip), first Phillies game (including first away game, first subway/train ride, and first rain delay..haha), and first time meeting most of mommy's side of the family! And he was a trooper though it all :)

Family pic at Jockey's Ridge on the Outer Banks

Go Phillies!!!!  

Meeting Geema for the first time. I think it's safe to say they both had a good time together :)

Meeting Grammy for the first time!

  I'll post more pictures later of our escapades this summer with both sides of the family.  But for now, Asher is up from his nap and the rest of the pics on the external hard drive. Until later!!

Our huge, little blessing :)

Over the past couple of weeks, I feel like it's been coming to my mind again and again what a gift Asher is to Nam and me. And I mean "gift" in the truest sense of the word.  Really...what have either of us ever done to deserve this little life who has changed our lives so much for the better? So, I've found myself being very grateful to God for blessing us with this huge, undeserved blessing.

Asher and I have been reading books a lot lately.  He likes the pictures and I like the stories. haha. So we've been reading Barnyard Dance, Dr. Suess, The Little Engine That Could, Snow Day, etc.  Today I read to him from The Jesus Storybook Bible.  We read the story about Abraham and Sarah being given a son, Isaac (same as Asher's middle name). This part struck me "They named him Isaac, which means `son of laughter.' And  Sarah laughed. But this time it was a glorious, happy laugh. Her dream had come true. God would do as he had promised." Even though we have rough days, Asher and I, he also brings glorious, happy laughter way more often :)

Ok, enough talk...here are more pics:

Compare 3 week pic to 3 month pic.  What a chunka munca!!

Enjoying a family party with Cau Dung

Uncle Mickey!! They had a great time together :)

Uncle Donnie (aka The Fish...haha) will be the key person to teach Asher to swim :)

He loves giving Aunt Kimmy lots of smiles!!

Just discovered his toes this week...he's addicted already

More pics...

In his burnt orange Univ. of Texas gear

Visiting aunts and uncles is always a fun thing to do :)

Some more tummy time shots.  He is getting much better at holding his head up and looking from side to side.

SMILE! :)

curious/surprised

Fists are the favorite thing to chew