Asher's First Part...

We finally tamed his crazy hair for these pictures. Grandpa Crane & Pope eat your heart out!

Asher's Two Favorite things:

His dad and eating.

One funny thing is that we were at church in Relief Society and Asher was being so good. Then one of his friends was given a bottle by his Mom. Not just any bottle, the same kind that Asher LOVES to eat/drain from at home. Asher started yelling and frantically trying to get their attention , especially because his friend really wasn't even interested in the bottle, oh, but Asher sure was!

Another funny thing is that during the final prayer at church Asher was just done, we probably would have packed up, but we were almost done... He was just so wiggly and I was squinting my eyes to look at him and smiling. Then he leaned closer to my face and gave me a huge smile while squinting his eyes too.

Insomia Relief?

dear sleep,
please come back to me and let me enjoy you at night. tossing & turning & gazing at the ceiling is so boring.

dear new clean & crisp sheets,maybe you will help me sleep better? i'm counting on you...

dear Garden State Soundtrack, when I can't sleep at night I run through your songs in my head. Especially this lovely tune by Remy Zero.

A few pictures

My friend Danielle, who sadly just moved from Chicago, took some pictures of us at the Osaka Gardens near our house that I didn't even know existed! In order to not have to upload any pictures, yes lazy I know, here is the link to a few of them. Also, she will be in San Diego, so anyone nearby should definitely contact her. Thanks Danielle!

http://www.redpearlphotography.com/rpp/RPP_Blog/Entries/2009/7/2_The_Popes.html#

P.S. In order for the lighting to be good for the pictures, we had them taken near Asher's bedtime which means a few less smiles from the bug. :)

Our Little Eater...

How does a baby go from looking like this....

to this...

or this...

because he LOVES, LOVES, LOVES to do this...

Just in case you were wondering....

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/getback-goonies.html

P.S. my favorite was always chunk.

Tulsa Update

Well dears, we have been in our new semi-permanent home for three weeks now (amanda, the title to this entry is for you. tulsa. we live in tulsa).
All of us (Mark, Grant and I) have been really busy since we've been here. Although they have been hard at work getting their business started and I have been pounding the pavement looking for a job, we have still found time to do some fun stuff out here in the Midwest.

1) Grant, Mark, and I drove up to Kansas City to see The Killers with Grant's brother Barry and some of they guys that are selling up there. It was one of the best shows I've ever been to! It was at an outside venue and the weather was perfect. Their whole show was amazing, and picking my favorite of their songs that they performed is impossible, but this one was so great!

(The top picture is of The Killers, and the bottom one is of Grant and I at The Killers)

2) Grant and I ate at The Bourbon Street Cafe in downtown Tulsa (turns out Tulsa is AWESOME) where a live jazz band serenaded us with "I've Just Seen a Face" by The Beatles (not a very bluesy song, but I loved it!) while we ate the cheapest thing on the menu. Burgers. They were still nine dollars each, but heeeeey it was worth it.


3) Grant and I saw the sounds last night at a little tiny cafe called the Marquee in downtown Tulsa. It was way fun, and we were so close to the stage. We even saw a fight break out. Right next to us. Crazy. Their best song is definitely Painted By Numbers. And true to this video Maja Ivarsson was insane. Kicking and punching and flaring her nostrils.

Also, one more picture for the road. Here's the Midwest Pest boys on their first day!
The middle guy is their technician Dallas. He was one of Mark's high school buddies, and we're working on getting him baptized!


p.s. I know we don't have kids to blog about or post picture of yet, but I hope you guys still like it :)