Wow! It's been forever!

Okay, okay so any of you who might be reading this and hasn't actually given up on checking my blog must think I really suck at this whole blog thing and I must admit you're right! But here I am posting again to give a quick update on life. As you might guess I am finding it difficult to find time to myself for anything other than family. I love being a mom of two more than anything and time goes soooo quickly. What I am doing these days...being a mom, training for marathon number two, staying in Utah again and trying not to say no too often to my adventuresome, mischevious, loving 2 year old son Jackson. What Casey is doing...currently he is in Meadville, PA doing an anasthesia rotation, studying his tail off for boards, trying to sneak in exercise time, getting his applications ready for residency, figuring out what kind of doc he wants to be and of course missing his family. He was recently released as the clerk and is now in the young men's presidency. What Jackson is doing...playing baseball, golf, paddle ball, running around, talking up a storm, (stringing sentences together), traveling, teasing and loving his brother, sleeping in a big boy bed and being all out goofy and fun. What baby Grady is doing... at 4.5 months he rolls over in both directions, is creeping, (gets up on arms and legs and rocks back and forth or lunges forward), this kid will be crawling before you know it! He is razzing and blowing bubbles, smiling all the time, trying to learn to sleep through the night and of course traveling too. At his young age he has already flown to Utah and back, flown to New York City and then again to Utah. Baby Grady will be blessed in a few short weeks on August 10. Other than that we have being living life a day at a time. Unfotunately being out of town, I don't really have any pics to post as I don't have my own computer but I will try to post some more recent pictures soon. We have had a lot of fun small adventures recently and have some great pics. No promises but I will do my best! Take care and we hope all is well with you!

6 weeks postpartum!

So here we are…6 weeks postpartum. Today officially marks Grady's 6 week birthday! Wow time flies when you are a mother of two! Here is a little update on the last 6 weeks of our lives.

March 5^th, Grady is born! March 7^th, Jackson's birthday! March 8^th, J's birthday party. Mom and Jess visit this week and we have a fabulous time! Wish they were still here! Miss you tons already. Casey is off work and is adjusting to the "slow-life." Each day is a new adventure, to the zoo, to the park, anywhere. Grady has no chance of living a slow life. (Gotta keep J entertained). Life is grand!!! April 3^rd, Nana comes to Erie! April 4^th Road trip to New York. Off to see the Yankees!!! (and Jess). April 6^th Casey starts his Psych rotation. We had a fabulous time with Nana, Shopping, playing golf/baseball, going to the museum, going to the park, etc. April 10^th Ashley and Jackson get haircuts. (J's First!) April 13^th Nana leaves town. April 14^th I become solo mom! (okay it's not been bad as Casey helps in the am and comes home for lunch everyday.) Jackson is adjusting well and it hasn't been as hard as I thought.

I am loving being a mother of 2 amazing boys and feel very blessed. I am looking forward to running again and working on getting my old body back! I just ordered my double jogger yeah!

To all who are reading this, hello. It is so fun to see who is actually taking the time to read this and thanks for being patient. If you check it too ofter you may get frustrated as I am not a great blogger but… if you check it every couple of weeks hopefully you'll be pleasantly surprised. Take care!

Ashley

Jackson’s First Haircut

April 10^th, 2008 Jackson got his first haircut. I guess it was finally about time seeing how he gets called a girl about 90% of the time. His hair was below his shoulders! Unbelievable! Jackson was awesome during his haircut and he didn't even shed a tear. I am sure Casey and I had a lot more anxiety about the whole experience than he did! Michelle, (who cut his hair) was fabulous! Here are a few pics…hope you enjoy!

Announcing Baby Grady Alexander Aguirre

Grady Alexander was welcomed into the world on March 5th, 2008 at 3:48 p.m. He was 6lbs 13.8 lbs and 20.5 inches long. He was born on his due date! Baby Grady is an excellent baby. He hardly fusses and takes all of Jackson's bumps and noises in stride. We are sooooo lucky to have two amazing little boys!
Life this past few weeks has come in full force with Grady's birth, Jackson's birthday, a visit from Auntie Jess and Grandma Gayle, St. Patrick's Day and now Easter this Sunday.
Casey has been amazing and I don't know how I will ever do it without him. He has 2 more weeks of vacation and I know that Jackson as well as myself are going to have withdrawals! We are looking forward to a visit from Nana Karla and then in May Grandma Linny and Grandpa Scruffy.
What can I say? Life is GREAT!!!

Guess what... I am blogging again and it has been less than 2 weeks!

Hey All,
Hope all is well. Here are some new pics of what we have been doing the last few weeks. We have recently joined the Children's Museum and Jackson has a blast every time we go. We went to Chuck E Cheese for playgroup and are basically trying to live it up before the new babe joins our family. I am now 35 weeks tomorrow and go in for non stress tests and sonograms weekly from here on out. We are looking forward to the new addition especially since I am not sleeping much these days anyway. Casey now has less than 2 weeks left on this surgery rotation and will be a lot closer to home doing Internal medicine here in Erie when surgery is over. This will be nice since he won't have to drive 70 miles a day. For fun let's see how many of you think we should cut Jackson's hair on his birthday??? How many of you think the baby will come before or after the due date of March 5th. Name your date!

January update...or something like that!

Okay, here it is January 17th and I am not doing so well on keeping this blog current but thanks to Alesha, I am on here again trying to be a better blogger! Thanks Alesh!!! We have now adjusted to being back in Erie and had a wonderful Christmas with our own little family. Casey is now doing his second surgery rotation, (his first was last month) and has enjoyed more than he thought he would. (Though his still says surgery isn't for him). We were lucky enough to have him home for the holidays as he was given the whole week of Christmas off as well as New Year's Eve and Day! Great gift eh? Now he has been traveling to a small town 35 miles from here called Meadville. Hours have been pretty good though and weather has cooperated so he has been coming home each night.
Other than that life is back to normal. Jackson continues to crack us up everyday and his vocabulary continues to grow. He is constantly asking to play with his friends and is really social though Nurery has been a little tough on him still. J has been potty training( at our house only) and is doing great with it. We just joined the YMCA and have been doing some swimming classes on Tuesdays with a lot of our friends here in Erie. It is great to live in a place where we are surrounded with good friends and everyone is in the same boat. (Mostly students).
The pregnancy is going well with less than 8 weeks to go. I go in for a Sonogram next week. I am measuring a bit small like I did with Jackson so they just want to make sure everything is normal. Other than sleepless nights there is nothing else to report in that area. We'll keep you posted though.
We are looking forward to a visit from Auntie Jess tomorrow evening! And as Jackson would say... "Where'd Grandma go?'' (He is always teasing her with this!)
I wanted to update some pics as well and have found that I have been lacking in that dept as well so here are a few pics from Christmas.

What a Trip!

Wow, What a trip! Utah was great and we are now home in Erie getting ready to celebrate the wonderful holiday we call Christmas! We feel so very blessed, especially after a long and wonderful trip. I am especially grateful that we made it home in one piece. If we thought the trip to Utah was trying read on for another amazingly trying trip home. It all begins Sunday morning with a bleak, winter weather storm approaching Cleveland due to hit just as we are scheduled to land! My darling in-laws walk us into the airport just to make sure we are actually going to take off and make it. Despite the dreary forecast they send us off... We get on the plane and almost immediately the passenger in front of us turns around and tells Jackson that he needs to be quiet as he is repeating the word hands in response to me telling him that I am going to clean his hands. Mind you he isn't even yelling or crying or what not, just being a typical 21 month old. I tell her to give him a break, and that he is only 21 months and in reply she tells me that he needs to be courteaous to those around him! We continue on our merry way and I am reading to Jackson and then we are watching the airplanes take of while we await our turn and yes Jackson is a bit excited and asking for more planes. Again the passenger in front of us turns around and tells Jackson to be quiet. At this point I get into it a bit with her and tell her that he isn't even 2 yrs old and that I can have him sit there and try to be still and quiet and then she can expect a tantrum or that we can go about what we are doing. I tell her that if she has a real problem, she can ask the stewardess to move her or that she can put some ear plugs in. She tells me that I am egging him on and that we need to be courteous of those around us. Mind you he isn't yelling or causing a raucous. He is being very well behaved for his age. Her expecations were absolutely ridiculous. Later on in the flight, the lady got what was coming to her, she ran into the overhead bins where the luggage is stored. The moral: never tell a pregnant lady and her son to be courteous of those around them when they are doing the best they can and in all actuality behaving very well! Anyhow on with the rest of the trip. As we are leaving the pilot tells is if we have to be rerouted, we will land in Pittsburg. (not a good sign). Eventually we are getting closer to our destination and things are looking bleak. We are being rerouted! Not to Pittsburg either! We are landing in Grand Rapids Michigan where we will await until the runways and weather get better! We sit in the plane for an hour while they decide what is going to happen with our flight and which terminal we will get to unload on and await our destination. Grand Rapids is an itty bitty airport and after many strolls up and down the hallway and trying to get Jackson to at least have a short nap, we find out that our future holds a 6 hour bus ride to Cleveland. Yep you read it correctly, they were bussing us to Cleveland! Me, 7 months pregnant with a 21 month old child and every other passenger on the plane. I plea not to have to go this way but upon further research there is simply no other way. The bus we were to ride became overfull and fortubnately for us we were able to ride in a small shutte bus with only 5 other passenger, all of whom thought more highly of Jackson than my previous nasty airplane passenger lady. Meanwhile Casey has made his journey in the snow and wind at 30 mph to Cleveland where we would end up for the evening. At long last, 1:30 in the morning we arrived at the Cleveland airport by bus! Jackson was a complete trooper and really delightful the entire trip! And the next morning we made our way to Erie. Home Sweet Home!