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Activity Day | service project and park day

Posted by kiwi on March 22, 2011

Every other week I have the privilege of hanging out with this great group of girls. Activity Days give the girls the opportunities to interact with each other and have wholesome fun by participating in physical, creative, cultural, and service activities.

Last Wednesday, we spent the afternoon in front of a local grocery store and gave away homemade cookies and collected donations for the American Red Cross for Japan’s disaster relief. The girls were very excited that they were able to help those in Japan. We were amazed at how eager people were to contribute and they also enjoyed the delicious cookies we were giving away. 

After 2 hours we called it a day and headed over to the San Luis Obispo American Red Cross. The staff was impressed with the girls willingness to serve especially on such a cold and rainy day. After counting the donations we were all surprised that we were able to collection $400 in such a short period of time. Thank you to the girls for bringing your youthful enthusiasm, the mom’s for helping to bake cookies, and our supportive local chapter of the Red Cross.

A few weeks ago we went to the park to just play. Alina came along and had a blast playing with the older girls. Here’s a little slideshow of some picture I took capturing the girls having fun.

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Alina and Kaila | SLO Train Station

Posted by kiwi on March 21, 2011

Our new goal is to take the girls out every couple of months for a photo shoot. They had a blast going to the SLO train station and running around. This is the future location of the San Luis Obispo train museum, they have old tracks, a railcar, and they are restoring the original platform and turning the station it into a museum.


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Time flies when you’re having fun

Posted by kiwi on March 19, 2011

We have been enjoying the first quarter of the year so much that blogging has been put on the back burner. It’s amazing how quickly the months have flown by. I can’t believe it’s almost Spring. I love this time of year, when the days are longer and the weather is warmer and the flowers start blooming.

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Merry Christmas from the Ashbys

Posted by kiwi on December 24, 2010

We hope you have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!

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Happy Halloween

Posted by kiwi on November 1, 2010

The girls always enjoy dressing up for Halloween. I think they have more fun wearing their costumes all week long before Halloween. Every time I turned around they were wearing a different costume. They both had two costumes this year. Two princess costumes and two animal costumes. When they got too hot in their animal costumes they would switch to princesses and so on. We had a fun time at our church’s trunk-or-treat and participating in the Munchkins March during farmer’s market.

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Avila Valley Barn | Pumpkin Picking

Posted by kiwi on October 30, 2010

It wouldn’t be Fall without a trip to Avila Valley Barn. We love going each October to see the animals, take a hayride, and pick out pumpkins. And of course, during it all we have to take lots of pictures.

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Kaila Time

Posted by kiwi on October 13, 2010

Enjoying Kaila time while Alina’s off at preschool.

 

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Cal Poly Learning Lab {Preschool}

Posted by kiwi on October 12, 2010

Last week Alina start preschool at Cal Poly. She wasn’t able to make it to the first day of school because she was getting over a cold and on the second day it was pouring rain, so finally on the third day we were able to take some pictures. Alina is loving school. From the moment she got there, she was having an amazing time. She loves her preschool buddy, each quarter she will be paired with a Cal Poly student. We’re so glad that Alina will be able to enjoy Cal Poly just like Trevor and I did. The Cal Poly “learn by doing” motto extends to the Learning Lab preschool. It’s so funny that we live so close to campus, but we have only been over to campus a handful of times since we graduated. Each day when we take Alina to school, Kaila gets ready and acts like she’s off to school too. Kaila’s adjusting to having her sister at school and we’re enjoying being able to spend some one-on-one time together.

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