Well it is official--Ashlyn is getting her wish somewhat! All along she has been asking for three babies. Fortunately, three is not in our future, but two are!! We had our first ultrasound this week and were shocked and amazed that we are receiving double the blessings! We just pray now that everything goes well and that we have two healthy and happy babies in the end. Ten weeks almost down, just 28 more to go! (Sorry for the picture, I did not know how to turn it.)

Alan and I have been promising Ashlyn all summer that we would take her camping and fishing. Realizing that we have about three weeks left of summer we decided we better keep our end of the deal. We decided Thursday night to leave Friday afternoon. We first stopped at Smith and Morehouse and soon realized that reservations were required several days in advance. So we drove to Rockport. The same was true. So we back tracked again and went up the Mirror Lake highway and camped at Yellow Pine in the Unitas. Ashlyn had a blast. She was so excited to sleep in a tent and roast marshmallows--even though she does not like to eat them. She was a little worried about bears (only because the camp ranger had stopped to give us bear safety tips) so she devised a plan that involved her gathering rocks to throw at a bear should one dare to enter our camp. The next morning we got up and went fishing. Thankfully, three-year-old attention spans are not very long and after catching three fish and touching them all she was finished. We all went home feeling pleased with our family adventure and excited to do it again. Note that Baby Angie was on this camping trip as well. We could not convince her to leave her at home. There is nothing like sharing a sleeping bag with Ashlyn and Angie.

Ashlyn's passions

I want to take a minute and describe my beautiful little Ashlyn Kate! She has a couple of passions in life. They include but are not limited too: playing with her dolls Baby Angie and Dollie, making signs, and playing tea party. She is completely attached to her dolls right now. Angie had a mishap last week and ended up having a very long sleep over at cousin Kaci's. Every day Ashlyn would tell me how sad she was and that she had lost her smile because she did not have Baby Angie. Watching Ashlyn make signs is hilarious. According to Ashlyn the signs always say something like, "no boys can come or no moms or dads at tea party." Ashlyn thinks tea parties are only of girls and she needs to post a sign somewhere by the party so that everyone knows. Ashlyn has the amazing talent of making a tea party out of anything and there is usually at least two parties going on in different places in the house every day. If you are a girl come on over--she loves "customers" at her tea parties.