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The month we celebrate Punkie Bear.  For three years he’s been bringing us joy.  We really are so blessed to have you in our family, Beck.

List of our favorites about you:  Your bootie shakes; The fact that it was a big deal for you to start using “windy hands” in the bathrooms; When you call shovels, “shugels”; When you say “puz” for because and “hum” for him.  Daddy and I like to ask you questions that we already know the answer to just to hear you say the word, “puz” for because; How awesome you are at playing Mario on Wii.  I mean, seriously, you’re remarkably great for a little 3 year old!;  How you ask us all the time, “will you hoche me” when you want us to hold you; how you mimic everything your brother does; your sweet, sensitive heart that does not like disappointing Mommy and Daddy; how much you love chocolate milk and cheese sticks; how polite you are…so many things that make you perfect.

We love you, Beck.  Even though you insisted on wearing your Thomas the Train mask for your pictures, we love you :).  Happy 3rd Birthday, Sweet Boy!

We had a fun day of celebrating you!  We had a little party with some of your neighborhood friends, and got to spend the day together with Grandma and Grandpa Olimb at the Train Park.  You are one special boy with a lot of people who love you!

There is one thing that’s a bit of a challenge with you, and that’s getting you to smile for pictures.  We’re getting used to you not looking at the camera, or covering your face with your hands, or just shouting “no” and running away, ha!  We definitely have to bribe you and get a little creative to catch your sweet smile :).  You couldn’t help but smile from ear to ear on your birthday train ride!

Here’s the booty shake, and what I get when I ask for a picture, ha!  Thank you, Asher :).

Asher had an awesome year with soccer!  He scored 12 goals this season!  At the end of the year party his coach handed him a very generic trophy, but said she was giving it to him for all his fancy footwork :).  The assistant coach of his team called Asher “an animal” on the field.  He truly loves the sport.  He plays soccer every day twice a day at school.  All of the kids wrote little notes to each other, and with the exception of a few, most of the kids made a comment about how great he is at soccer.  This is so cute, because in little kids minds, I’m sure they’re thinking that they never see him on the playground because he’s always playing soccer with the big kids…therefore, he must be good.  It’s cute.  But, he really is great, and he works super hard at it!  So proud of him!

He totally deeked the kid here, which I think is pretty amazing :).

Happened to catch a goal on film :).

So happy to be back out on the field.  I love this montage.  It’s so classic Asher.

Asher had some very special guests come and cheer him on for a game!

Goal, baby!

Just because.

We got an extraordinary amount of rain that the boys enjoyed riding scooters and playing in.

Punkie and I rode bikes up the rode to meet Asher and Daddy coming home from soccer practice.  Jeremy and I switched partners for the ride home :).

Beck graduated to his new, big boy, Sunday School classroom.  He loooooooves going to his Sunday School class!  We’re so blessed to be able to let him be a part of the ministry.

Park date with this cutie, who let me steal a kiss while we were swinging :).  He’s also still working on his thumbs up :).

Asher has been wanting to go to Feed My Starving Children for awhile, because Jeremy and I have gone and we’ve told him about the ministry.  So we coordinated a time we could go with friends and their children as well.  We will definitely be bringing him back.  Asher absolutely loved it, and he was so focused and on a mission to pack as many boxes as we could.  It was such a great time!  Total bonus that we got to share the experience with Grandma and Grandpa Olimb too :).

Family bike ride up to a pizza restauranut.  We couldn’t find Beck’s helmet, so we had to borrow one from a neighbor :).

Asher put together his first science board for school.  It was so cute how excited he was about making it cool, and how much time he spent on it.  They studied about the pilgrims this quarter in school.  The job Asher said he would have liked to have on the Mayflower is a carpenter.

The boys got to go and check out Top Golf.

Those iphone people were genius allowing you to flip the camera, because I can actually get a few pics of Beck’s little face…even if it’s a duck face :).

Out for a morning run :).

Daddy works all day, and then comes home to this.  The boys are so blessed.

Every clinic Asher does his PFT’s test.  They test how much air volume can be moved in and out of the lungs, and how fast the air can be moved in and out.  This picture makes me teary.  I love his determination.  He was exhaling so hard and fast and long that Jeremy and I were saying, “ok, buddy, good job, you can breathe now.”  He’s so strong.

The boys and I took a trip to ride their scooters across the Pedestrian Bridge at Tempe Town Lake.  They were so distracted with all the water and fun that they couldn’t coordinate their smiles :).

I love this.  Beck whipped his shirt off in 2 seconds.  Asher turned around and busted out laughing when he saw his little brother shirtless, lol!

Such a fun big brother.