Last Day at Work and Bread Dough Monster....

Well Friday was my last day at the bank! It is weird, I keep thinking I have to go to work on Monday. It was a fun day though, we had a huge pot luck at the bank and I pigged out! We had pizza, brownies, cookies, all the good stuff that I haven't been eating lately since I am trying to loose a few lb's:) They gave me a sweet card that everyone signed! Rocky and Ashlyn came to visit and hang out with me for the last hour of work! I am now officially an at home MOM!!!! :-)

Some of my friends and I decided to go to this discount bulk food store the other day. They had these frozen bags of bread dough that are already rolled into long skinny loaves, like what they get at Subway. There was about 12 or 14 loafs in the bag for three bucks so Angela and I decided we would each get one. Neither of us knew what to do with them but we would figure it out right! Well when I got home I forgot mine in my car so four hours later I remember "oh crap, there is frozen bread dough in my car!" So I go get it and it is not frozen anymore but still cold so I figured I would throw it in the frig and deal with it the next day! Keep in mind I know nothing about bread. So the next day when I got home from work I opened my frig and there was a big monsterous blob of bread dough taking over my frig!!! I actually jumped when I opened the frig, it scared me! I wish I would have taken a picture of it, it had broken through the bag and was growing up the side of our water filter! I have never made bread in my entire life so I called my mom, "what do I do with this huge blob of dough that is no longer in perfect little loafs and is way too much for two people to eat?" So now it is crash coarse bread baking time for me! I am really winging it and hoping some of my bread turns out! I better be good at making bread after this! LOL

Now you all know my secret that I am not a cook! I know, poor Rocky:) HA HA

I wish I would have taken pictures of these events. It is so much more fun with pictures:)

Funny Ashlyn Videos

We finally figured out how to put videos on our blog! Ashlyn is really starting to develop a personality! This first video was taken about a month ago:)

Last night we fed Ashlyn solids for the first time! I think she likes her rice cereal! She didn't know what to think at first but by the end she really started to get the hang of it!

Well I did it!

I quit my job! Last Thursday I put in my notice and it was announced this morning in our meeting! My last day is May 9th!! I have been with Compass Bank for 6 years so it was weird putting in my notice. I will be sad to leave (I know that sounds weird) but I am so excited to stay home with Ashlyn. This is the best thing for our family! Our plan has always been for me to stay home with our kids so now I will be home with this little girl!

Then on Saturday, Rocky got upgraded at his job!! Which was expecially exciting for me since I had just quit my job two days before!:) But I am so happy for Rocky, he really wanted this promotion! He broke the company record for shortest time between getting hired and the highest promotion available. He did it in under 5 months and the old record was 8! I think he is more excited about breaking the record than the actual promotion:)

Ashlyn's 4 month checkup!

Ashlyn is growing way too fast! She weighs 16lbs 1oz and is 26 inches long. She is in the 86th percentile for weight, 93rd percentile for height and 36 percentile for head size, she has a little head:) She moved up the charts compared to her last checkup. I was hearbroken when the nurse told me how much she weighed, I had her weigh Ashlyn again just to make sure. I don't know why it hit me so hard but I was kinda sad all day. I guess I didn't anticipate her being 16 lbs, it sounds so big I couldn't hardly believe it.

We take a picture of her every month with this care bear to show how much she has grown, I got the idea from Angela Barba. These two pics are at birth and four months.

Here are some pics of her at four months old!


My favorite is when she is just waking up, she is so cute.


She loves her feet lately


My sleeping angel!

Rocky is a Pilot Again!!

I took Ashlyn out to Goodyear Airport to visit Rocky at work. Rocky trains airline pilots for a European flight school based in Goodyear, AZ. It has been so great having Rocky flying again. He was definitely missing flying and the company he works for is a really good company!


This is a Piper Warrior. This is the single engine plane that he trains in, we didn't get a picture of the multi engine plane.


Ashlyn staring at all the gages!


Rocky is determined that our kids will love to fly!



These next few pics are in the flight simulator. It is crazy how real it feels in there.




This is kind of a weird picture. I am standing in the back of the simulator and there is a huge 190 degree wrap around screen that is 14 feet tall, very huge! Whenever the screen shows you are turning it really makes you feel like you are turning even though the simulator doesn't move. I almost fell over when I was standing in the back! Then when I was sitting next to Rocky I kept asking him if he was sure the sim wasn't moving. It is such a crazy feeling.



This is us with all eight of Rocky's students at P.F Changs! I wish I had a better picture since you can't really see Frederik but for those of you who are counting, there are eight students in the pic! They are all so fun to hang out with! We will miss them when they go back to Europe!