Martin Luther King Day-2nd Annual HIke

We started a tradition last year to go hiking on Martin Luther King Day. Last year we hiked a really short mountain. So this year we picked a little higher mountain and we recruited our neighbors and family, The Wilcocks! It was a great time and just right for the girls to hike and not get tired. Here's Aubrey, Cousin Emma, and Savannah.

Sweet Aubrey

The family at the top. Baby Malin was sound asleep in the car, so we rolled down the windows and let him sleep while we hiked to the top. Don't worry, he didn't even wake up until we were 50 feet from the car.

Aubrey at the top.

Savannah did it!! The kids had a fun time playing in the desert after our hike.

Ready to go home......

Ashlyn Lewis 12/27/08

Words cannot describe.....

My Six Words

My wonderful cousin Candace posted about describing life in just 6 words. I thought and thought about what 6 words described my life. Here's what I came up with:

I Compose Life With My Thoughts.

These words came from this really uplifting quote:

" I compose my life with my thoughts. Just as a musician composes a symphony with notes. My daily life will unfold as a composition of what I believe about myself. I will make it beautiful!"

"More Dirt"

Aburey and Malin helped us dig holes to put in these free stepping stones we found out in the desert. Aubrey did it in style.

Baby Malin was slave labor in his pajamas. We put the dirt in his dump truck and he would push to a place where we wanted him to dump it. WE heard "More Dirt" all day.

Aubrey's photo shoot.

Aubrey loves to take pics with my camera.....Savannah took this one and Aubrey took the rest. She did pretty good!

When the men go hunting...we go to Thatcher!

Malin went on an over night hunt with some friends from our ward....so I took my first trip with all 4 kids to Thatcher. It was a great relaxing time. We played outside in the leaves, saw the chickens,played in the canal, watcher Leisel and Jillian cheer at Bball game, and made bows!!

I got a haircut by my new sister inlaw, Chelsea!! Yeah! I love it!!

It's January and we are having fun!!

We have a chocolate bandit on our hands....and it's not mom. It's.........

MALIN!!!!!!

Savannah and Aubrey went to a Tinkerbell party for Cara Mia Nolan and her AMAZING mom made these adorable tutu's and wings. They had a great time to say the least.

Baby Ashlyn is a chunker.

Baby Malin is a ham and a half. This is how daddy gets the boy to sleep. Gotta love it.

New Years Eve and Day 2009

New Years Day we met with the Lewis family in Tempe for family pictures. I got some snapshots with my camera but Aunt Duraye got some great shots professionally. Then we all stayed at the church in Tempe for the New Years festivities. IT was so fun! And my first time playing B-Ball since the baby was born. It was a great feeling to not have a baby in the tummy. This picture is a tradition...every November.

A fun candid shot of Aunt Duraye showing some pics on her camera. Jacob, Gpa Lewis, and Janae

G & G with all the grandkids......fun!

Uncle Seth entertained the girls so they wouldn't roll in the grass and get their dresses dirty while we were waiting to get ourpictures. He told them they couldn't smile.....

All the mommies with nursing babies......Carolyn was the only one not nursing.....instead she's prego.

All the grandsons...... couldn't get them all to sit still. Imagine that!!

Mom and Ashlyn

Dad and Ashlyn

G & G Lewis. Handsome couple

Our kiddos.

Our family

All the Lewis Women