Sunday, December 25, 2011

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is upon us!  We all got to sleep in this morning, which was lovely.  Asher is just so good to us.  After a nice pancakes and bacon breakfast, we embarked upon a day of doing, well, pretty much nothing.  Now thats what I call vacation!

Asher is pretty excited about the presents, and eagerly awaiting the arrival of Santa.


We got all ready for Christmas Eve service at church, and took the opportunity to take a few family pictures.





Asher was pretty excited about heading to Christmas Eve service.  He told me so himself in this little interview.


So I'll leave you now, and wish you a Merry Christmas from the Dobbs family.  Hope you dream of sugar drops and gum plums, that Santa leaves you the doohicky you wanted instead of coal, and that above all you remember the reason for the season:  Christ was born, and began a life that would ultimately end for the payment of our sins. 

Merry CHRISTmas to all, and to all a goodnight!!

#Eric

Friday, December 23, 2011

Elfing Awesome!

Well Christmas is already two days away and Grandma and Grandpa Dobbs arrived today to spend it with us. It was Grandpa's first time meeting Asher, and he is loving it of course.


Also, I went ahead and "Elfed" ourselves and made a fun little video.  Here's the link:
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/B5Y5cOfvXJ8msisSoi4E
It's only good until the 15th of January, so act now or forever hold your, um, eyes?

So merry Christmas eve eve from the Dobbs household.  We'll update more as we enjoy our time together.

#Eric

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

4 weeks!

Well you might think that someone with a baby due at the end of November might have thought to christmas shop early this year, but no.  Eric and I made a Walmart run late last night, are crossing our fingers and hoping the last of our online purchases arrive in time, and for better or worse I'm planning on braving Des Moines for a few last minute things on Thursday... yes, three days before christmas.  Thankfully Asher blessed me today by taking a three hour nap, so I was able to get most of the gifts wrapped, but suffice it to say I don't have a lot of time to write much here today.  I will leave you with this:  Asher does not have socks on because he just finished peeing all over them, putting the number of times mom's been peed on during a diaper change into the double digits.  I've got to get this figured out!  :)  Enjoy the pics! 



  I caught a little smile!  And boy, are we ready for the baby acne to go away!

And I couldn't pass up these from earlier this week! :)
 




#Meagan

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Smile

Well, as first time parents we're really on the lookout for Asher's milestones.  We've hit one, and here's the video to prove it!


Not sure whether they're self directed, if they're gas, or if he's just mimicking and excercising those particular muscles.  One thing I am sure about is that we love it!

#Eric

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Three Weeks!

Before I get to my post, if you haven't seen the awesome video Eric put together yet, scroll down and check it out! It's worth the viewing. :)  

In other news, Asher is 3 weeks old today!  My little baby has grown out of most of his newborn size clothes and is fitting into his 0-3 month clothes now, which means he finally fits into the cute little pastel blue outfit we brought him home from the hospital in.   I put him in it this morning for his 3 week photo shoot, but since I'm still trying to use up the last few newborn size diapers, which are borderline too small, he promptly leaked poop out onto his little outfit and then spit up down the front all within a few minutes of having it on.  Sooo, I wisened up and put him in a size one diaper and changed him into another adorable outfit, but let me tell you, I'm not sure I'm ready to see him in such big person colors yet.  The pastels still make him look like my tiny little baby, even though he's growing like crazy.  Oh well, he's only three weeks -  he still qualifies as my newborn no matter what he's wearing. :)




#Meagan

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Birth Story Video

Meagan already wrote a post about our birth story, but I've put together a video for it as well.  You'll get a bit of my side, plus it'll be a version for those who don't much care for reading :)  Worry  not, there isn't anything that will cause you to need to avert your eyes.  Enjoy!


#Eric

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

The Christmas Tree and Asher's two week photos

Well it took about a week and a lot of help, but I think we finally just about finished decorating the house for Christmas.  Eric and I both grew up with real trees and tons of fond memories of actually hunting for and cutting them down, but for the first time ever, because of Asher's arrival over Thanksgiving, we considered just putting up Eric's little artificial tree this year.   However, this is also the very first time we are hosting a family Christmas at our house (Eric's parents are coming here so we don't have to make the 10 hour drive to Rapid City with a one month old) and well, I just couldn't do the fake tree.   So... after feeding Asher, my mom was kind enough to babysit for an hour, while Eric and I trekked down to Menards and bought a real tree.  We stood in the parking lot laughing at ourselves (I was quite tickled) and praying we wouldn't see anyone we knew, as in good comedy movie fashion, we hoisted our 7 foot tree up on top of our Honda civic and repeatedly threw a ball of twine at each other over and through the car.  To my surprise, it made it home without shifting an inch... guess I should have had more faith in my husband, the engineer. 



We strung the lights and hung the ornaments (Asher already has three of his own!), and it turned out pretty well, I think!  Asher really enjoys looking at the lights and Eric and I are enjoying celebrating our first Christmas season with him!  Here are a few pics of decorating the tree and Asher's two week old picture from today.  I'm stealing an idea from a friend of mine, and we'll do our best to post a weekly picture of him!  (Thanks, Bethany and her awesome blog at http://www.sawdustandembryos.com/!)  Anyway, enjoy your own preparations for the Christmas season in both your home and your heart!  





And here's a couple selections from Asher's Two Week Photo Shoot...