Gashlaria: Our Puppet Band

Recently we've combined the forces of our band and puppet troupe to create a totally awesome Puppet Rock Band. We've had one show so far altogether at the American Fork Library and we even made it in the Daily Herald. Here's the article:


Freddy as Dorf

Childrens' Book Week was kicked off on Monday as puppeteers entertained a crowd of children and parents in the Keith Christeson Theater at the Pleasant Grove Library. Approximately 60 people watched as the entertaining group Gashlaria performed storytelling and then a musical puppet show. Gashlaria, comprised of Steve Gashler, Teresa Gashler, Freddy Desposorio, Curtis Wiederhold and Heather Peavler, is a former band from Provo who decided to incorporate music and puppets together. "We've invented the first rock band-puppet show that we know of," said Steve Gashler. The show, titled "Pythagorea and the Gnome," included a funny story, several different characters, including a villainous lawn gnome, and music.


We'll keep you posted on our upcoming shows, but for now check out our awesome website: http://www.gashlaria.com . It's still under construction, so keep checking and we'll keep updating.

Baby's Gender

We had our ultrasound on cinco de mayo. Our ultrasound session was so awesome! The lady performing it was very descriptive as to the happenings of our baby. She showed me that the little random twitching I have felt is indeed baby kicking.


After making sure baby looked ok, we looked for the gender. It looks pretty positive that it's going to be a lassie, a dudette, a girl :D



She is due for Sept. 17th, so today marks the 4 month countdown!

Happy birthday dear Stephen!

Teresa threw me a very dramatic and psychedelic birthday party; it seemed my just reward, after hosting many similar parties for others but having never really been the recipient. It began when Nefi Ledezma came to my door and bade me come with him. I did. He brought me to a white van, from which Nazis appeared and jumped me, throwing a blanket over my head and stuffing me in the back of the van with them. Their German was really bad and quite funny. They sounded strangely similar to Jon Fairbanks, Adam Stallard, Josh Peavler and Eric Gashler.

They dumped me on a lawn, then disappeared. When I removed the blanket, I saw that I was standing in front of the house of Peavler. I went in and was met by a Heather Peavler. She was dressed very eccentrically, and I noticed that she was but one of a large gathering of very eccentrically dressed people, quietly socializing amid a dark room with mysterious music in the background. None of them appeared to see or hear me except for Heather. She asked me a riddle, which I took a few hints to guess, and then she told me to go to the man in the rainbow stocking. When I approached the man in the rainbow stocking, only then did he acknowledge my existence, and he likewise presented me with a puzzle. This pattern continued, as I went from strange person to stranger person, all of whom strangely resembled my friends.Some of the challenges were: riddles, logic puzzles, a mathematical problem, mind-reading, yodelling, name-that-drawing, catching food in my mouth, defeating a karate man, stacking cups, a painful callisthenic and wrangling my body around a broom.
My friend Monte Emerson, in Washington, regretted that he couldn't make it, so he arranged to have a hand puppet fill in for him:One of the strange people especially caught my eye. She was a clown, and the most beautiful clown I'd ever seen. I was anxious to face her challenge, which turned out to be a yodelling contest, as only then would she see and hear me. I found out later that she was my wife. FYI, of course I smoked her in yodelling, I being the former yodelling champion of Timpview High.

The most difficult challenge of all was a game we played outside in which I had to tag every person and then run back to my side of the field without being tackled, all the while saying the word syphilis without taking a single breath. It was hard. Thanks, Teresa, it was a blast, and I felt truly loved. Oh, I forgot to mention the best part of the evening. My birthday cake was Tres Leches.

Annual Marriage Report

We have been married for well over a year, and it's time for our annual report. The following statistics are the results of an intensely scientific analysis of our marriage and the effects thereof. First, a graph that represents our post-marriage sociality:
Second, a physical analysis. Here is a picture of Steve before marriage:

Steve after a year of marriage:

Mysteriously, his back has also indented about ten inches:

Steve's nose before marriage:

Steve's nose after marriage:

Oh yeah, and Teresa's also looking a bit bigger:

Conclusion: marriage does weird stuff to you.

Happy Birthday Joshua!

Joshua Adam Peavler is now a stunning dude of 17. It's hard to believe that all my siblings are getting so old.

He's definitely a good looking chap.

We gave him the game Ticket to Ride. We'll all have a lot of fun with that. We're the kind of family when playing games together gets really loud and competitive.


Here's a look at the rest of my family: