Saturday, January 5, 2008

Kudos to a Super Aunt!


Aunt Ashley juggling all three girls who were desperately vying for her attention....and she loves it!

Aunt Ashley...they just light up when you say her name!

Reasons to like Aunt Ashley:

a) it started out when they were young- Ashley used to put vanilla in Anna's baby cereal. She thought there was no possible way it could be good without vanilla!

b) She reads to them for a never ending amount of time. This includes reading and re-reading Dr. Seuss, Pat the Bunny, and more.

c) She is the one who started "The Big Tickle". Now Anna frequently asks for a "BIG tickle".

d) They frequently have dance parties in the living room to the Newsboys.

e) She lets them play with her cell phone. Often you will find her ringer turned off, the phone lost, or various other functions activated or unactivated due to this generosity.

f) She is a super great aunt and spends LOTS of time playing and taking good care of her nieces!

Reasons to like Sister Ashley...

a) She makes weekly visits so Ryan and I can go out on a date. How very generous of her! Ashley works full time and goes to school full time but still takes the time to come over. We are always completely amazed by her sacrifice and generosity in spending her free time with our girls so we can have a break for a little while.

b) She still provides boundaries with the girls...even more so then her parents sometimes! She even makes them eat the stems to their brocolli!

c) She helps out from the biggest things all the way down to the littlest things. She spent several hours hanging and rehanging fabric squares on our walls that kept falling. The solution finally ended up including foam, tacks, superglue, fishing wire, and loads and loads of duct tape! Fabric squares are shown in the background of the above photo :) Now she is currently working on refinishing an old window to hang up in our bedroom! Something tells me were going to need a few more rolls of duct tape.

d) She is empathatic, takes action to help others, is passionate, creative, and oh-so-generous!

THANKS AUNT ASHLEY! Love, Anna, Naomi, and Abigail

THANKS SISTER ASHLEY! Love, Ryan and Dana

2 comments:

Taylor said...

she gots tallent

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