The Thatcher Three!!!

Reading.

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Holland is really Verbal!

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I teach Holland to say the coolest things.

Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch

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So we went to the corn maze and the pumpkin patch last weekend with Holland. I think she had a lot of fun, although she slept the entire time we were in the maze.

I had a stupid smudge on my camera lens so all the pictures are a little blurry.

shes walking!

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Birthday!

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Its been a month since Holland turned one, and I am just getting around to posting pictures!! Enjoy!

Too little time to write anything....

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Enjoy the pics.

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We recently bought Holland a cute little spring dress!!! She also went for her first bike ride the other day. And the last picture is just too funny not to share

Teeth!

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Check out those teeth!! Both of her bottom teeth finally came through a couple weeks ago.

New pics!

2010-01-19T10:02:00.000-08:00

We have been busy lately! With ski season in full effect we spend most of our free time outside. We wanted to put up a few new pics of Holland. Enjoy!

Ski Season is back!!!

2009-11-27T17:15:00.000-08:00

We had our first day of cross country skiing today!! It was a blast!! There was about 6 inches of snow, and the snow was fast and easy to ski. We can't wait to be able to share the outdoors with Holland.

Five Month Pictures

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I've been wanting to get some professional pictures of Holland for some time now, but just finally got around to it. She was so happy during the shoot, and the photographers loved her. Enjoy!

Halloween!

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Rick and I dressed up as Jack and Sally from The Nightmare before Christmas this Halloween. I made the Sally dress a couple year ago, and the Jack costume was purchased from a costume shop. I think we make a great Jack and sally!

Hollands new skills!

2009-10-29T00:47:00.000-07:00

Holland is really starting to get her act together. Everyday she is learning something new, its amazing. She is starting to eat solid foods. Her first time eating created quite a mess!!!!

Autumn is here!

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Autumn is here! Our favorite time of year has arrived and we love sharing everything with our daughter. Check out the pumpkin on our patio, it is home grown!

4 months old!

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Holland is now 4 months old! She is laughing, using her hands, rolling over, and trying so hard to sit up by herself! Enjoy the new pics!

Football Time!

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The time has come for Boise State Football! Holland is ready for it in her adorable onesie that Cody bought her.

2 months old!

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Garden Update

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Here are our tomatoes, squash, zucchini, cucumber, and sunflowers.
These are our pumpkins and watermelons shown here.

Our garden is awesome. It is by far the best garden yet. We have over 20 pepper plants!!

6 weeks!

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Holland is now six weeks old! She is getting more adorable everyday. She is getting stronger and stronger as well. She can now hold up her head and look around, and loves pushing her feet and legs off of flat surfaces. She is also starting to smile, which is the best of all!!!

Finally some pictures of Baby Holland.

2009-07-11T15:56:00.000-07:00

Our lives have been a crazy whirlwind since Holland arrived, so we haven't put pictures up yet, but we finally have a moment. We are so happy to finally have her here! We love her so much! Here are a few pictures of her.

Don't forget about the garden!

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The garden is great! We recently pulled all the spring plants to give room to our summer plants. We have 26 pepper plants, 19 tomato plants. 4 squash plants, 2 cucumber plants, 3 pumpkin plants, 3 watermelon plants, and a bunch of green bean plants and sunflowers that we still need to thin. Here are a couple pics to give you and idea of what we have.
I almost forgot! We also bought Rick a bike. He loves it and we have had tons of fun riding around the last few weeks.

Still no Baby!

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Ashley is past her " due date" by three days. We are not worried though. Ashley has to almost 42 weeks ( June 23rd) before they will induce, and Holland will more than likely come on her own before then.

We have been staying busy while we wait. One of the most exciting events was that we purchased a new car! We wanted something nice for Holland and also something to take skiing and camping. We are both super excited!

A much needed update!

2009-05-21T21:37:00.000-07:00

It has been a month since we have posted on here! Time is just flying by. We have been very busy with gardening and putting final touches on the nursery, we haven't had a whole lot of time to post.

We have harvested a ton of spinach, and lettuce from the garden, and all of our seedlings for the summer garden are ready to go into the ground. We also planted a strawberry planter and our flower planters for the front patio.

The nursery is finally complete. We have received so much help from friends and family and are so very thankful! One new favorite items are these super cool blocks made by Candace. Thank you! Nothing beats a homemade gift, we love them!

Ashley is now at 37 weeks and according to all the literature is officially "full term". Meaning that Holland can come at any time. We are both so very excited to meet her. The posts may be far in between these next few weeks as Hollands arrival comes closer, but once she is here we will have her adorable face posted everywhere!!!

The First Harvest.

2009-04-23T18:00:00.001-07:00

We were finally able to harvest some veggies from our spring garden!!! YAY! WE had tons of spinach growing so we thinned the plants, and when we thinned the plants we also saved the baby spinach leaves to eat!!!

They were very small, but we put them in some grilled cheese sandwiches and they were delicious!!! The remaining spinach is now flourishing since we thinned the plants.
Our seedlings for our summer garden are now spending some time outside when the weather is nice. They are looking huge!!!!!! We can't wait to get them in the ground!!!!

More pics.

2009-04-10T19:14:00.000-07:00

I was struggling to add the other pics that I have of the nursery to my last blog, so I just wanted to put them up here. They are the burp cloths and also the diaper stacker.

Roxy Rocks!!!!

2009-04-10T18:53:00.000-07:00

The Nursery is almost complete!!!! It has been a ton of work and Roxy has worked so hard to make the nursery look wonderful. She has been absolutely amazing and she has done so much to help us!!! Thank you Roxy!!!! We wanted to share all of the amazing creations of Roxy with everyone!!! She made Ashley the cutest gift, which included, a quilt, a receiving blanket, burp cloths, and a rattle and two pacifiers all tied with a huge ribbon and bow. It was beautiful!!!!

The quilt is by far one of our favorites!! It is adorable!!!!!

We are also so impressed with the burp cloths that Roxy made. She hand crocheted all of the edging for the cloths. Way to go Roxy!!!! You Rock!!! Thanks you once again for all of you help!!!

Plants and other stuff.

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The seedlings are doing awesome!!!! The best by far are the peppers, which are pictured below. They have about 5 more weeks under the lights and then they will be transplanted outside.

Our spring garden is also coming to life. Pictured below is the spinach, but we also have the snow peas, lettuce, and arugula seedlings growing. We can't wait to have fresh baby spinach!!!

We also spent an evening building the dresser for Hollands nursery. It arrived to us via ups in about 50 pieces with 150 various screws and bolts, but after just a couple hours, viola! We had an adorable dresser!!!!! The nursery is close to being finished. Just a few final touches and then we will ready! We will post a picture of the entire nursery once it is finished, which will probably be in just a couple more weeks.

Everything Is Growing!!!!

2009-03-23T18:40:00.000-07:00

We finally planted our spring garden. We planted snow peas, spinach, lettuce, arugula, radishes, carrots, and broccoli!!! We can't wait to start harvesting. Once the spring garden is done around may/ june then all our summer seedlings will be big enough to go in the ground!! YAY!!!

Ashley is now at 28 weeks!!! About 4 weeks have passed since the last pic so we thought we would let you all see how HUGE Ashley and Holland are getting. Holland is about 15 inches long and weighs about 3 pounds, what a big baby!!! Ashley is now the proud owner of maternity clothes, it's hilarious. Aside from the happenings around the house the EVO is FINALLY in the shop! YES!!!

Preparations for Summer Ambitions

2009-03-18T20:53:00.000-07:00

We've bought some more stuff for Holland. Only 12 more weeks until the big day!

A quilt by Roxy!

The rumors are true! We are growing drugs! Actually it's seedlings of tomatos and watermelons and peppers and brocolli. It's been a week exactly since they were planted and....

we have golden nugget, grape, roma, and siletz tomatos showing here. Behind the left most tomato seedlings are the brocolli seedlings.

That's the watermelon. They won't last long there, in fact, they will be needing a larger home soon. Since it's starting to get nice out and the lurking danger of frost is abating, we will be planting the Spring garden items in the next day or two. We have lettuce, spinach, brocolli, arugala, asparagus, radishes, snow peas, and carrots planned to go into soil soon.

Just a Quick Update

2009-03-04T16:32:00.000-08:00

We have been hard at work getting ready for Hollands arrival. We recently purchased one of our favorite items, a bedding set for the cradle!!!! We both love it!!!! We've also picked up some clothing here and there and we registered at Babys R Us.

Even though March has now officially arrived we are still skiing. Bogus Basin just received 6 new inches yesterday!!! They needed the new snow, it was melting fast. This is a pic of the mountains before the new snowfall. you can see how low it was. We are also hard at work to get the EVO fixed. The clutch recently went out and it has been a major expense to get it repaired. But soon enough Rick will be out at Auto Cross again.

Lots of new Life at the Thatcher House!

2009-02-21T15:10:00.000-08:00

Everything is "springy" and coming to life around us!!! The plants and trees in our yard are already showing signs of life!! We are so excited about the upcoming season for gardening, landscaping, and beers on our awesome patio. The thought of spring also means that Holland is on her way!

With Holland on her way we are working on the nursery. Roxy is contributing to the effort by helping us sew Boise State bedding and decorations!! Go Broncos!!!!

Right now Holland is about 24 weeks old, and about a foot long. You can tell how big she is by the belly pic! Even with Spring and Holland on the way, we haven't forgotten the joys of winter. There hasn't been quite as much snow as we would have liked, but we still break out the cross country gear almost every weekend!!!!

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Welcome. This is our blog. We thought we would be completely narcissistic and write about ourselves on the internet. Hope you all enjoy.

First Blog!!

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This is just a test.....