The house project has begun!

We have finally started on the house! By "we" I really mean CK but you get the idea. Our good friend Lorri is watching Reese and Asher so CK can start playing (I mean working) with his new backhoe.

This is the current state of our new house (site)
Andrew demonstrating the wonderful view
Our new "addition"

Here you can see the tough time the trees have had around Helena. The dead ones are a result of the pine beetles that have killed 2.5 million acres of forest in Montana.
Val and Reese looking on while CK and Andrew get some work done
So we've started! We have no idea when we'll be done but it feels good to be moving in the right direction.

Asher 4 mths; Reese 19.5 mths

CK took the kids in for their checkups/immunizations today and here are their current stats:

Asher

Height: 27" (94th percentile)

Weight: 18 lbs 12 ounces (94th percentile)

Reese

Height: 33.5" (84th percentile)

Weight: 26 lbs 10 ounces (74th percentile)

National Champions!

This shot almost ruined my night...

But instead...a late birthday gift
I will be smiling all week...really, all summer...a proud and happy alum I am. Wow, what a game.

This counts as business casual, doesn't it?

Some days it's nice to be the boss :)

Let's go DUKE!!!

More videos of the kids

Reese is learning her ABCs and both kids are "talking" more and more to each other

Asher can roll over!

Asher has been close to rolling over for about 2 weeks now and finally made it all the way over yesterday. I was able to capture it on video:

I looked back and it looks like Asher beat Reese to this milestone by about 5 weeks. Already trying to catch up to his big sister...

Please more bears!

Last summer, Jane got Reese a video for her birthday. The visual is a bunch of bears (with some eagles, moose and squirrels thrown in for good measure) walking around and sleeping in nature while some folksy songs about bears play in the background. As far as kid videos go, it's actually pretty entertaining and the folk songs aren't even that annoying after the millionth time (and, believe me, we would know). Anyway we found the video recently and starting playing it for Reese and have created a bit of a monster. Every day the first thing we hear when she wakes up: "Please see bear" or "Please sing bear" (hard to tell which but the effect is the same). This is Reese watching the bear video last week:And we've included a video of how she (politely) asks about 20 times a day to watch the bear video:

You'll also notice in many of the other videos we've posted lately of Asher that you can either hear the bear video playing or Reese asking "Please see bear" in the background.

March pictures...in April

Some recent pictures of the kids...sorry it's taken me so long to get them on here. We're kinda busy around here, you know?

Asher in his Jumperoo

...and a special guest