tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35346520316477663862024-09-20T15:37:55.205-06:00Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.comBlogger410125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-12666486025585230402018-02-01T14:03:00.000-07:002018-02-01T14:03:06.360-07:00

I am regularly updating our adoption blog these days, so hop over there and follow along as we share about our lives and hope to adopt again!

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-31158533392211755012015-06-08T17:25:00.002-06:002015-06-08T17:25:39.488-06:00

I realized when emailing with a friend this week that this blog has not been updated in over 5 months. I'll make is short and sweet. We had a great Christmas.  We went to the Lower Lights Christmas concert. I love their music and the feeling present at their concerts. You leave feeling like you have a bunch of new friends. We played some games with family, including a ridiculously

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-39652834662719200832014-12-04T12:49:00.000-07:002014-12-04T12:49:17.791-07:00

I'm excited about this shirt. It uses the beautiful bird that Cady Driver drew for us and a quote from my favorite author, Jane Austen. http://teespring.com/flightoffancy It's available in a couple different colors, long or short sleeve.  This effort is helping me keep up hope. The holidays are harder when there are no children to share it with.. Fortunately, we have some

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-40759802074179723852014-09-25T21:42:00.000-06:002014-09-25T21:46:56.790-06:00

Oh. My. Gosh. This quilt took so much effort. But it was so worth it. I got the idea from a sewing conference. Then I got the idea to do the same thing on a large scale.   I liked the concept of the color bleeding over and making the circles look complete. I just had to figure out the logistics on a large scale. So I put together a mock-up.  This is my paint version of the front

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-81799958543668069372014-08-31T19:35:00.000-06:002014-08-31T19:35:10.104-06:00

I have wanted to go for many years and finally this year they had a play I absolutely could not say no to. Sense and Sensibility. It was so well done. I'm so glad we went. Check out this video about it. The pin board on pinterest has a few stills from the play. It was so good and so well done that even Daniel enjoyed it. They stayed true to the story, did a very good job and presenting the

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-10565826230055324632014-08-03T19:33:00.001-06:002014-08-04T15:06:46.201-06:00

Adoption is expensive. People ask how they can help with our adoption. This is a way for you to help us and get something in return. Spread the word, let's sell some shirts and find us a baby!! http://teespring.com/insidejokesforadoption

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-18400234651579956692014-07-30T15:20:00.001-06:002014-07-30T15:20:58.368-06:00

We have all had bitterness in our lives at some point. Maybe it's held personally towards another person or circumstance, or maybe it was held towards us. Maybe it was a stew of bitterness at a general situation that then explodes with the final straw. Today at work I was the receipt of someone else's bitterness. This person blew up over a parking issue. This person was parking where they

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-3656976449167265002014-02-01T22:02:00.000-07:002014-02-01T22:02:56.229-07:00

Okay so up front this is Daniel hijacking Ashley's blog. While Ashley and I were living in China we had a lot of opportunities and a lot free time on our hands. Often that free time was taken up in reading. I expanded what I was reading a bit and was introduced to Robison Wells and his books. Since then I have stalked followed him on social media, mostly twitter, and seen a window into someone

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I will often have these thoughts that I want to expound upon and reason out in writing, and then I get busy. Today I found a few minutes and so I'm going to write some of those thoughts out. On Saturday Daniel and I spent the day in an adoption conference. We both enjoyed it and are still processing the information we gleaned from those sessions. And then yesterday my sister-in-law shared a

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-27574176192118905562013-10-18T20:26:00.001-06:002013-10-18T20:26:39.495-06:00

I saw these on Pinterest this week and thought they would be fun. So Daniel and I made them for dinner tonight. I think they turned out pretty well. The two below are Daniel's. He did better than I did.  They were yummy too. Halloween is so fun. I'm glad Daniel indulges me with little fun things like this. 

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-80138687457111379732013-09-27T15:25:00.001-06:002013-09-27T15:25:14.875-06:00

This week I made my first Jiaozi by myself. They turned out super yummy. 

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-20029461970005870972013-07-31T17:17:00.002-06:002013-07-31T17:17:44.708-06:00

My mom was fortunate enough to get 4 tickets to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Summer Evening of Music with Nathan Pacheco and Lindsey Stirling and as she is Guest Services Missionary (which means she attends all the Conference Center stuff as an usher) she let Daniel and I have 2 tickets, and my sister and her husband took the other 2.  We headed down to Salt Lake right after work and met my

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-62261998844516468552013-06-08T22:30:00.002-06:002013-06-08T22:30:45.566-06:00

After 2 springs and summers of no garden, and more specifically fresh tomatoes, we thought it was time take gardening seriously. So we did. I am so excited about my garden. We started with railroad ties and lots of dirt!  8 railroad ties. And Oh. My. Gosh they are heavy. We found out that some of them are made of oak. There was one that I swear weighed over 100 pounds. Bruised my arm

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-335116444008699472013-04-29T14:40:00.001-06:002013-04-29T14:40:24.960-06:00

Our adoption profile is live and active and available for the choosing. View it here. Our blog, that we are posting to weekly, is here. Pass along cards to come this summer. (Daniel is very busy at work right now and we don't want to overwhelm ourselves.) Please feel free to link one or both. One thing that I end up telling to just about everyone we talk to about adoption, is that we don't

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-5088676330833786772013-04-24T10:21:00.001-06:002013-04-24T10:21:27.508-06:00

*I wrote this post 2 weeks ago and failed to add pictures. So I'm just going to post it.  Last night I asked Daniel if he could find out the future (conditions: you can choose what to find out, future is fixed) if he would choose to do so. He said yes. I think I would also. But I don't know for sure. I guess the answer doesn't really matter, as that's not something in our control anyway.

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-55325073264939649362013-03-30T16:58:00.000-06:002013-03-30T16:58:00.370-06:00

As in my previous post, these thoughts come from working for an attorney who does some public defender work in our court system. I've been questioned, and used to question it myself, how someone could defend the guy who really did it. Defend their sin? No. Defend their rights? Yes.  It's not about saying they didn't do it or that they don't deserve to be punished. It's about making sure

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-53653479398472619072013-03-28T16:50:00.000-06:002013-03-28T16:50:55.267-06:00

Recently at work I've paid a bit more attention to some of the things that come across my desk. I don't like to read specifics. I like plausible deniability. But I often know what the general case is: criminal, abuse, divorce, immigration, bankruptcy, etc. One of the attorneys is a public defender and sees all kinds of things. Some of our clients are the victims and some are the accused

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-77536295993590115622013-02-08T11:54:00.002-07:002013-02-08T11:54:42.402-07:00

Don't do it. Tomorrow Daniel comes home after spending the last 4 weeks in China. It has been hard. The longer it's gone on, the harder it has gotten. Thank goodness for family and friends. I've had meals at each parents as well as my grandparents a couple of times. I've had friends help entertain me. Last Saturday I went with some good friends to go shopping, do a session in the Oquirrh Mountain

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-17071066082314501442013-01-31T11:54:00.003-07:002013-01-31T11:54:51.774-07:00

Many of you know, and if you don't, now you will, that Daniel and I can only grow our family through adoption. We had to put our profile on hold while we were in China. It was hard to put that on hold, as it was something I wanted quite badly, but we knew it was right. We were able to have an amazing experience that would not have been possible with a small child. But now we're home. And it's

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-24119155566055163482013-01-06T00:00:00.000-07:002013-01-28T12:55:20.843-07:00

I love to go down to Temple Square and feel the cold and see the lights and the nativities. This year  was no exception. Unfortunately  not all our friends could join us, but we had fun with our good friends the Sniders. They have three ADORABLE kids that I just love to death. I got to babysit them earlier in the week and we had a good time. Because it was only 7 of us, we all

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-14438639762806105272013-01-04T00:00:00.000-07:002013-01-04T00:00:00.422-07:00

Every year, for 49 years now, my Budge family has played Christmas Bingo. It is quite the party now. It started with my grandma and grandpa and their children at the time, three of them. This year we had 41 people and we were missing 7 from the family! Crazy. We're growing like mad. This year went really well and everyone had a great time. We had to split into two shifts for dinner. So much yummy

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-81098664563960286862013-01-01T19:11:00.003-07:002013-01-01T19:11:46.348-07:00

Of course we had to go one last time. This post will mostly be pictures. But I have to tell you about a ride called the Grizzly Gulch Runaway Mine Cars. It was. AWESOME. It was like Thunder Mountain in California. But at one part, when you think you are headed over a mountain, it drops you back. But you still think you're going to go back up and continue. But no. you go backwards

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-90915807640245809192012-12-30T16:03:00.000-07:002012-12-30T16:03:18.070-07:00

Are people actually reading this? If no one is paying attention to this I'm going to put my efforts elsewhere. Please let me know one way or another that you (whoever you are) are following and interested. I just never get any comments and I wonder if I'm just taking up space on the internet.

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-32826231223407637132012-12-25T00:00:00.000-07:002012-12-25T00:00:06.723-07:00

Something I have enjoyed recently has been the telling of the Good King Wenceslas story, as told by Jane Seymour and sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. I have never heard the story. It warmed my heart. Have you heard the story? Have you actually read the words of the song? It is an amazing story that gave me good bumps. A king who wants to make sure while whole kingdom feels the warmth and

Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02432590399527281412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534652031647766386.post-88872693540924972852012-12-23T00:00:00.000-07:002012-12-23T00:00:05.622-07:00

After that we headed to the the central area and went up the Mid-level escalators. It is a path of escalators that goes for 800 meters, about 2,600 feet. It was very unique. Some were steep, like steps, others were shallow steps and others were more like conveyor belts. It was very interesting. Instead of taking a taxi down we walked down and saw some fun things. We walked a cool path and

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