Life as usual...well ok maybe not! :)

Well September seems to be bringing many changes for our household! Justin started a new shift (graveyards 4 nights a week) and I'm settling into my new work schedule of being back full time again (for the first time really in 1 1/2 years) . Oh yeah, lets not forget the major change....Ashlynne is WALKING! I would officially say she is a walker, she mostly chooses that as her mode of transportation now and she acts as if its no big deal, been doing this all along mom!! Of course with any new walker comes a new multitude of bumps and bruises and she wasted no time last night tripping and falling into a side table and bumping her noggin! :( Justin reminded me that its bound to happen and with a quick redirection she decided the world wasn't going to end after all!

At the end of August Justin and I celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary and its amazing how 2 years can seem like forever but also fly by all at the same time! Nothing like celebrating your 2 year anniversary and then having your first childs first birthday one day shy of a month later! Lets just say we have a plan and it doesn't include another one...just yet;)

Last weekend Ashlynne and I stayed back and Justin took an extended weekend trip to southern Idaho to climb Mt. Borah with his Uncle and some cousins. I think it ended up being a little bit more of a daunting task then he originally imagined but he did it and we couldn't be prouder of him! I'm sure he could write a much more interesting blog about the trip and climb then I could trying to do it for him so maybe I'll persuede him to work on that ;)

Other then that life is great, we're staying busy as always and its been so fun to watch Ashlynne grow and develope, especially over the last month, she's become so much more toddler like lately and less like a baby...which it's been a blessing to begin to get more sleep again, but at the same time very sad to realize just how fast they grow up! We hope everyone else is doing well!




Justin with "some more" to go!

The White gang at the top (Justin, Christian, Ben, John and Eli)

-Beth (Justin and Ashlynne)

First blog :)

Ok well I (Beth) have decided that we need to do this to help everyone keep up to date with us. I will teach Justin in due time so look forward to some future posts coming from him! I can't believe that it is August already! Where has the time gone?! To think that just a year ago I was sweltering in the Eastern Washington sun, being horribly, misserably 8 months pregnant! All the while being so eager to meet the littlest White growing in my belly! Well a year has come and gone and here we are, proud parents of the most stinking cute monkey on the planet (she really is a monkey, does everything with her feet!) So here will be the intro update:

Justin- Is still working away doing an excellent job of supporting us, especially in a job that not many people could handle doing. He just bid for his fall schedule and will be switching from working swing shift to graveyards. That will be a hard adjustment I think for all of us to make but it's somewhat necessary, and we'll actually end up seeing each other more that way...I say it is necessary because...

Beth- I have decided after 10 months of staying home with Ashlynne (and 2 months of modified bed rest before she was born) that I would like to go back to working full time. So between my m-f 9-5 type shift, and Justin working graveyards we won't need anymore daycare then we already use right now for Ashlynne. Which is great! It's been a hard decision to make, but I feel in my heart this is right, and I know we could use the extra money around the house (being new homeowners and all in Jan 09) I should be starting to full time schedule in the next 2 weeks I believe. Its the same job and dept I've been doing for 2 days a week part time since before Ashlynne was born so thank goodness no change there!!

Ashlynne- She is already 10 months old! I can hardly believe how fast the time goes. In less than 2 months we will be celebrating her first birthday! (Which of course I have already started planning!:)) She has been crawling for about 3 months now and as of the last 2 weeks or so she'll walk between people and starts to take more steps on her own...it will just be a matter of time before she takes off! She has 8 teeth (has had them since 8 months) and we think 9-12 are on their way in as well. The poor thing has been teething since 3 months, I feel for her! Our joke is that she'll be eating a steak for her first birthday if she keeps it up!

Here are some pictures I took of her today over at Grandma and Grandpa Gehret's house