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Sorry, It's been a while.

2009-11-22T20:11:00.003-07:00

It's been a while since I last blogged. Let me fill you in on whats been going on. Marc and I got moved into a new place. It happens to be only a few blocks away from where we were. Drage and I spent halloween down in Utah with grandma and grandpa Nielsen. It was great fun! Drage is now crawling and can pull himself up onto everything. It won't be to long now before he is walking. He also has 4 teeth now. One on the top and three on the bottom. On December 1st we have to take him to the hospital to get tubes put in his ears. We will let you know how that goes. Other than that things have been going great and everybody is doing good.

Drage decided to be a monkey for Halloween.

We got done trick or treating and he was a tired boy.

I don't know if you can see them but there are his first 2 teeth.

There might be a soccer player in him after all.

This is whats going on.

2009-09-30T20:04:00.002-06:00

This is my son. In the past two weeks he has gotten two teeth, started army crawling all around the floor, he has started to realize how delicious chocolate is, and he has made the decision that learning how to stand up all by himself is the most important thing to learn next. I'm so excited that he is learning all these new things and growing up without any problems, but I really miss my little newborn baby. The only problem we are having right now is that Drage had a double ear infection while he was teething. This ended in his ear drum rupturing. We are worried because the reason Marc has hearing loss is because he had so many ear infections and so many doctors trying to figure out how to make them stop. I don't know if Drage will have this problem because it was just his first ear ache but we are going to be more careful. We will let you know how things go.

2009-09-18T21:01:00.004-06:00

So my son thinks he needs to grow up. As much as I keep telling him he needs to stay my baby he keeps learning new tricks. As you all have seen by now, he is sitting up all by himself. But he has decided that is not enough. He is now trying to pull himself up to a standing position. I told him he was only 6 months old and he could wait a couple months but he didn't want to listen. So here he is trying to stand up all by himself.

2009-09-13T18:46:00.002-06:00

Here are some fun pictures. I thought everybody might enjoy them. :)

Our day at the Temple!

2009-08-26T20:46:00.010-06:00

These are the pictures from our sealing on August 12th. It was a wonderful day. Thank you to everybody who was abe to make it. The day wouldn't have been the same without you.

2009-08-02T20:10:00.004-06:00

On July 25th we went down to Utah so I could get my endowments taken out at the Salt Lake Temple. It was wonderful. Not only did I get to go through the temple for the first time but most of my family was there with me. I also want to remind everybody about the sealing on August 12th. I hope you all can make it.

2009-07-20T22:18:00.002-06:00

On Sunday we blessed Drage Cameron Vipperman. It was a wonderful day. Marc had been so nervous all week about his first baby blessing but he did an amazing job. I am so proud of him. We had so much family there is was great. It was also mine and uncle Gails birthday so we had a cake for him and brownies for me. I have two pictures of Audrey and Gregory on the swing just for you Becky and Lyric. I thought you might like to have those. I hope everybody has as good a time as they did swinging on that swing. I'm so thankful for everybody who came and everybody who would have been there if they could. We appreciate the support. We love you all.

Marc, Ashlee, and Drage

2009-07-13T22:50:00.005-06:00

Its been a while since I posted so here is everthing thats been going on. Last sunday we went to the Vipperman Reunion. It was a lot of fun Drage spent a lot of time with a lot of different people he doesn't usually get to. On the 4th of July we went down to Utah and spent it with grandma and grandpa Nielsen. We went swimming and Drage got to play in the tunnel. It was so much fun. We also gave him his first rice cereal and he didn't seem to thrilled about it. He has been liking food better now though. Thats probably because dad likes to give him whatever even if he's not ready for it yet. It's ok he is doing good regardless. We went to the doctor and he now weighs 12 lbs 10 oz and is 25 1/2 inches long. He is getting so big and we are all doing good.

2009-06-26T20:19:00.005-06:00

Last weekend we went to bear lake for the Willard reunion.

Here is Drage sitting in the grass waiting to go.

We got there and he decided to try on dads hat...

Then he decided it was time to take a swim in the lake..

It was a little colder than he was expecting.

So it was time to go back to the motorhome and warm up.

Finally Gregory got there so he had somebody he could play with.

Then it was time to just chill by the water...

And play with his feet in the sand.

Then he was just hanging out in the motorhome...again.

He was ready when it was time to go home. All in all it was a good vacation.

2009-06-17T21:22:00.002-06:00

Drage and I spent the weekend down in Utah with grandma. We had a great time we got to take some pictures with a few of his cousins. Only little Daniel is missing from this one. Drage is getting so big! Today he started kicking and playing with his toys. It is one of the most adorable things ever.

2009-06-11T21:58:00.002-06:00

I am doing better about getting on the blog and keeping people updated.

Marc has been playing on a softball team this year. They are doing

pretty good they have won all 3 games they have played. The problem though

is that Marc hasn't played in a few years so he is getting hurt trying to get his

body used to it again. The first game he played he rolled his ankle. The second

game he played he hurt his thigh because he got tripped. I think it's feeling

a little better but you really can't tell with him. He doesn't have a game this

next week so hopefully he will get feeling better. Drage is getting so big lately.

We have him sitting up in his little chair and he loves it. He has started making

fun noises and laughs all the time now. Dad has started giving him food

weather mom likes it or not. This weekend Drage and I are going to take a trip

to Utah to see grandma and grandpa. Marc has to stay home to help the

boyscouts with their fundraiser so it will give them some good quality time

with Drage. I just got a new camera so hopefully we will have some fun pictures.

2009-05-27T18:28:00.001-06:00

We have decided that we are going to bless Drage on July 19th. I hope this date works out for everybody. We took Drage to the doctor last week and things are going great. He is 11 lbs now and 23 1/4 long. The doctor said his heart and lungs sound great which is always good. The doctor did say that he had a slight case of Torticollis. Basically what that means his neck is a tighter on one side than the other so his head leans to one side more than the other. It's a very mild case if that's even what it is and you only notice it if you pay close attention. We are not worried about it. We have started doing some neck stretches to see if that helps. After we got through talking about all of that he had to get his shots. It almost made me cry to see him in pain, but he is okay like I knew he would be. This all happened last Tuesday then last Wednesday Marc and I got to do something we haven't done in a long time. We spent the evening at the temple doing baptisms for the the dead. It was wonderful, we are finally feeling like we are on the right track.

2009-05-20T18:21:00.000-06:00

Marc and I are finally going to bless our baby boy. We are thinking either in June or July and we would love to have as many people there as possible. This means that everybody needs to let me know if there is a week they can't come or a week they would prefer. You can either call me or Marc or mom and dad and we will let you know what day we end up deciding. Also Marc has been called to be the venture crew leader and was set apart on sunday. I was called to be the Activity Days assistant and will get set apart next sundy. We have a lot of fun things going on lately so I will try to keep you posted.

2009-05-16T12:05:00.000-06:00

It's saturday morning and it's finally getting nice outside. It's probably a good day to do

yardwork but everybody just wants to sit outside and enjoy the day.

Even Drage just wanted to be outside, I took him inside for a minute and he started to

fuss until he got to go back outside and sit with dad.

2009-05-03T23:19:00.000-06:00

We spent Easter at grandma and

grandpa Nielsens this year.

We colored eggs!

We took a picture of all the
grandkids together!

We went and played on the swing!

We looked at the dog!

And we went on an easter

egg hunt!

We had lots of fun. We have now moved up to Idaho

and are having lots of fun with grandma and

grandpa Vipperman. We have only been here

one day so everything is still all over the place. Hopefully

we will get everything put together this week.

Wish us luck.

2009-03-18T09:54:00.000-06:00

So we spent almost a week at grandma and grandpas and here are the picuters.

Unfortunately some of them are dark. I will try to get them lightened up for next time and repost them.

Of course Marc is naping.

Now he just has somebody to nap with.

Here is Drage smiling but you can't see it to well.

Here is another one of Drage smiling.

Hey Everybody

2009-03-16T18:54:00.000-06:00

Hey everybody! We finally gave in and started a blog. Right now is ther perfect time too because we have a new baby boy to show off to everybody. His name is Drage Cameron Vipperman. He was born February 27th and 10:00 pm, he weighed 7lbs and was 20.5 in. He has been around now for 2 weeks and 3days and it has been wonderful having him home. He is a great baby, he sleeps most the time and usually only cries when he is hungry. Both mom and dad have been home the whole time so we have both gotten to spend a lot of time with him.