Ashley Renshaw Kyle (September 15, 1982)

    

Ashley, 4 weeks old and 1,173 weeks later.

Ashley Renshaw Kyle was born on September 15, 1982, in Tucson, Arizona. Her parents are Amy Renshaw Kyle and Greg Kyle. Ashley shares this birthday with some great icons - Gannet published the first issue of USA Today on the very date she was born. And Jack Bailey, our great uncle and very popular tv game show host in the 50's, was born this day in 1907. (Note: more on Jack Bailey, later)

While Ashley was growing up, I would often call Amy and ask her to "tell me an 'Ashy' story".  Without fail, Amy would tell me something that Ashley had just said or done. So, for Ashley's birthday post, I called around and got another fix of "Ashy stories".

Ashley, 7 months.

Whenever I'm asked why I moved to Arizona, I always reply that "I moved right after my sister Amy had her first child, Ashley.  Since Amy and I had grown up in each other's pockets, I didn't want to miss her kids growing up."  The unplanned benefit was that I was able to watch all the cousins grow up.  Moving to Arizona was the best decision of my life for many reasons.  Thanks, Ash  - Lucia

Ashley, age 3. 

Ashley and I were on a grocery trip when she was 3 or 4 . When we were passing along the meat section, something caught her eye and she looked so surprised. She saw a logo on a package of chicken that was a rooster on top of a roof. She looked up at me completely amazed and said, "I didn't know chickens laid meat!!!!"  ---  Amy

  Ryan and Ashley, 2005

Ash and Kiff started a trend down in Tucson. When they went out and were taking pictures with their friends at the bar - or wherever- they would point at the camera. So, last New Years Eve Ash came up to Phoenix to go out with Shannon and me. That night, she started teaching this to us. Soon we were doing it all night in every picture. It is now the AZ trend, spreading like wildfire.

We now know this as the "family camera point". It has been seen as far as Greece. I'm quite sure it will be seen on someone's wedding day in the near future. But, it also created one of my FAVORITE pictures of Honey Bunny.

So Happy Birthday, Ash. Thanks for helping helping make one of the best pics of Honey happen... and happy wedding planning!  ---  Ryan

A current addiction, 2006 (the third year starts 9/22/06!)

My favorite thing to do with Ash these days is to analyze the tv show LOST.  It's about a plane that crashed on an island and it details the lives of the stranded passengers.  We are both obsessed with the show, and we talk about it every time we get together.  She and Shane have watched it together over the past 2 seasons, and now they've even got Amy hooked!  We have our own LOST cult!   --- Shannon

It seems like Ashley has always had a job – and a lot of the time, two jobs. She's been working at Bank of America since she was a senior in high school. She continued working there while going to college. She worked hard at college until last year, when she decided to take a break for a while and focus on her career at the bank.

Focus helps!  She was then promoted to head teller and was just promoted to the position of Personal Banker. She enjoys the work and opportunities at the bank and continually receives high reviews for her work.   She and Shane have recently bought a townhouse and will be moving into it at the end of the year.

And just in case some you don't know....

Ashley met her finance, Shane, 5 years ago at the bank where they were both working.  They are planning a wedding in January. We must make sure we get a photo of Ashley and Shane pointing at the camera with Honey between them...

Happy birthday, Ash

Comments

[Ally]

Isn't the word "cunnin'"??? (Ya know...cunning without the g?) We might have to get some verification from the woman herself. :-)

[ryan]

ohhh... ashley aren't you so cunnant!!! haha... there is a word from the past... Hey Loosh... blog idea... everyone's memory of honey saying cunnant (check spelling)..