Little Baby David

This is the newest addition to the Ashby Family. (Congrats Nichole and Gerald) It has been a long time since we have had a little baby around. In fact the last baby that hung out at our family gatherings is now graduated from High School (Tyler). We are so excited to have little baby David join our family. He is a super cute little guy. He was born June 11th, 8 lbs and 1 oz. He has very long fingers and toes. Oh, and LOTS of hair. Hooray for cute babies!

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One year ago today on 06.08.08 Cruz asked me to marry him, and I said YES! Here is the story...

I'd finally felt that marrying Cruz was the right thing, after much thinking, talking and praying. We picked out a ring together, and he even bought it when I was there. But I told him that I wanted him to "ask" me. It was Saturday when we did all of this... 

We had some unexpected things come up, and had to change plans for the evening. So, he didn't really have time to do or plan anything for Saturday to "ask" me. 

My thoughts were was that he was going to wait a few days, I was thinking Tuesday or Wednesday. On Sunday I had my usual busy RS President stuff going on, so I was pretty busy until after church, which I called him to see what he was planning on for dinner. He said to come on over, he had a lot of homework to do before Monday...

I ended up at his house, we planned to go to a park for him to work on his homework, and I could read. It was getting kinda dark so we went to the park in Vineyard, but there wasn't much light to do homework. This totally fooled me, I was kind of wondering if he was going to "ask" me, but then we changed locations. (?)  So we decided to go up to Timp. park at the mouth of the Canyon. This was a park that Cruz and I had spent a lot of time with friends and such. I went home quick to change my clothes to something warmer, and off we went.

I was totally focused on GOOD LIGHTING for his homework. :) I pointed out a few places, that looked like a good spot. He said "lets keep looking," little did I know that he had asked his friends to set up a table. 

He finally spotted the table, and took me over there. By this time it was sun-set or after. The table was all set up with little candles...

We talked for a while, and of course when I saw the table I knew what was coming. He said something that made me start to cry. He then said do you want a tissue. I said sure. He pulled a crinkled up tissue, and as I unfolded it the ring fell onto the table. He then asked me if I would marry him. I  of course said "YES!"

It's been a fantastic year. Cruz, I thought I loved you the most I could then... and now I realize that, I really love you more and  MORE each day.

-chris

St. Patty's Day 2009 cookie fun

We had some friends over for a little St. Patrick's Day fun!

Everyone was such a good sport to wear green and we had fun making cookies... and decorating them.

Shamrocks, butterflies, and flowers etc... all delicious cookies, and some tasty green drinks.

Cheers to St. Patrick's Day!

Cruz actually hates green... so I have to say I was impressed when he was willing to get a festive shamrock t-shirt for St. Patrick's Day. Love it when people will be festive.

February Highlights

We had so much fun in February! These are some of the highlights.

• Valentines Day: Cruz did an amazing job at surprising me. He was very thoughtful and romantic. We had a very festive breakfast, heart shaped toast, pancakes, hot chocolate (Cruz's favorite), eggs, etc. With all that festive-ness we decided that we were truly made for each other... we both had a fun time with it. We enjoyed a movie, and then that night we made sushi at home. Best valentine's day ever!
• Antelope Island: Since Cruz hasn't lived in UT for very long, we went to see some of the sights with my Mom and Dad. We ended up going to Heber, then made our way to Antelope island.
  
• Tyler's Birthday/Game Night: we celebrated Ty's birthday a little late, but had lots of fun playing games with the family.
• Hiking the snowy trail to Stewart Falls: Cruz and I got a little spring fever, so we decided to go up the canyon. We were surprised at how much snow was still up in the canyon. We made the most of it, found a place to eat our Olive Garden leftovers, then hiked to the falls. We had a blast. We made it all the way to the falls, the trail got pretty narrow at some points, it was an adventure.

Well as you can see February for us was a BLAST. We also celebrated being married for 6 months. WOW, time goes fast. It's been a fantastic adventure so far.

World Wide Ward Cookbook

It's here! So, at work this is my latest BIG project. It was kinda a crazy project, but it turned out well. This is the Worldwide Ward Cookbook. It hit the shelves a few weeks earlier then planned, so check it out at your local Seagull Book or Desert Book Store. It has recipes gathered from members across the world. It was fun to see that the author had got a recipe from a member that I knew in Japan... it really is a small world.

Happy COOKING!

Hello blog world

Hi. Today on my lunch break I was looking at my cousins blog... and I thought, I should make a blog. So here I am at 10 o' clock making a blog. I am hoping that I can figiure it all out. :) Can I do custom designs... if not that will be so sad. (Honestly, that is one of the reasons I wanted a blog.) So any tips that you may have would be great.