Since I have been out of school for the last week on potato harvest break, Ashlyn and I have had soooooo much fun together! I love being able to stay home with her and it definitely confirms my desire to be a stay at home mom after this year of teaching. We've kind of had a routine this week and one of the things we do after she wakes up from her naps is go feed the ducks at the nature park. Fun, right? Well, not the last few times! I don't know what it is but I think the ducks can smell fear! Ever since I was little I've had a fear for ducks. All the pictures of me feeding the ducks with my parents is either me crying or me on my dad's shoulders. So, with Ashlyn, I've tried to face my fears and this is what happens.............

Not exactly ideal! Haha, I think that the ducks are also VERY hungry right now because my mom hasn't been going down every day to feed them, and it's also getting close to winter. They don't normally act like this but this last week has been very interesting:) Ashlyn was scared too. 

Yay for the slide!

So Ashlyn has recently become very attached to her slide. My cousin Heidi was over one day when I was talking about buying Ashlyn a slide and she said that her old one was in her dad's basement so she brought it over! Totally awesome:) If you can't really tell, there is Oreo all over Ashlyn's face too, this is her favorite cookie:) Her dad has taught her well. 

Picture

So that picture is from Christmas but I decided that we needed to have a family picture up there so when we get our ones this fall, we'll put a new one up:) Still haven't found that danged camera cord:(

Danged that freakin camera cord!

So I was really excited because I thought that I found the camera cord to the computer but I went to plug it in and it was a cell phone charger that attaches to the computer:( Sad day. Anyways, hopefully I can find it cuz we've got some way cute pictures of Ashlyn to post. 

Just a couple new things have been happening, Jared and I both started teaching school a few weeks ago. He's teaching high school math and I'm teaching part-time Kindergarten. It's great, we're both really busy and I miss Ashlyn a ton, but it's really good for her to go play with other kids, and it's only for 5 hours a day. 

We didn't buy the house that we initially were going to, but we're looking at few more and we see potential! We're really excited to find the house that fits us, and also to stop living out of boxes! We've been living out of boxes for like a month and a half and I'm sick of it! haha. 

We also just found out that I'm prego again! We're so excited. Here's the story. I initially didn't get the Kindergarten job so Jared and I decided that it was time to move on with our family. I went off birth control, but 3 weeks later, the principal came and offered me the job and I took it, not thinking that I could have got pregnant because with Ashlyn it took us like 2 months. Then a couple weeks ago I was sitting in our lawn chair next to Jared. We were watching Ashlyn play and I couldn't believe how danged tired I was! I was also starving, but we had just eaten like an hour before. Then, it struck me, Holy crap I think I'm pregnant! So we went and bought 2 testers and they both turned out positive! Way exciting, but SO surprising. I went to the doctor a week ago and got an ultrasound done and he told me that I was 10 weeks along which made me 8 weeks along when I found out! haha, so now I'm 11 weeks pregnant and seriously, I look like I did when I was about 6 1/2 months along with Ashlyn, my belly is so big! I haven't gained any weight though so that makes me feel a little better about being so huge. I just can't believe it. And the doctor thinks that it's another little girl because the heart rate is so high! We're so happy/overwhelmed. I'm going to have the baby end of March which is right during the middle of the school year. I'm just not thinking about it right now:)

As for Ashlyn, I don't know how well she's going to do with another baby in the house. I went over to see my friend right before she moved to Missouri and she had a little 4 week old baby that she let me hold. Let's just say that Ashlyn was NOT very impressed. She started screaming and running around and tried to hit the baby! I'm a little nervous for her..........

I'm really sad that the summer weather is over too. I like fall because of the pretty leaves and colors but I get really sad just thinking about winter:(

The one that got away... thankfully!

So this is a picture of the house we didn't buy....

                                                   

Amanda will probably take it off of here once she realizes I've updated the post.  Which, if anyone is familiar with us, might take till the first of the year.  We were supposed to close on the house while we were on vacation, then come back and move right in.  In fact, Amanda and I had spent quite a bit of time and effort getting most of our house packed up before the trip so we could move out when we got home.  Needless to say we found out two days before closing that there are flooding problems with the neighbor and our crawl space.  

So we're in the hunt again....

Washington Trip

So we went up to Washington for a final summer vacation before we started teaching.  We didn't actually go to the Space Needle this time.

We rode up to my parents lake house in eastern Washington for some fishing, swimming, boating, and eating (we may not show it, but we Grimmers can put the food away - and we start them young).

             Ashlyn's eating a PB&J

What boating trip is a success unless there's some beautiful girl leaning over the bow with the wind whipping her hair yelling "I'm the King of the World!"

 

With a company such as Wyatt, Cody, Bodey (Samantha's BF), Andrew Ashmore (a friend of ours) and myself; and a giant water trampoline, somebody had to be the king of the mat!  It took just about everyone to toss Bodey into the water. 

From Lake Palmer we took the North Cascades Highway (Hwy 20) back over to Darrington.  On the way we stopped at the top of Rainy Pass to take a few pictures.

Just as we were coming of part of the pass and into Winthrop we stopped and said hello to some of the locals.

The Day Before we left we made a trip out to San Juan Island, which is part of the San Juan Islands in the Pudget Sount Area.  It was about an hours ferry out to Friday Harbor.  While there spotted many wild creatures:

While on the island we went out to Lime Kiln Point to see if there were any whales hanging out.  

And then we went out to Roche Harbor.

We had quite a bit of fun throwing a football around, playing with Ashlyn and taking pictures  every once in a while.

The worst part of the whole trip was getting stuck behind the slow poke ahead of us.

The dramatics and excitements!

Well Ashlyn is almost walking! We're so excited for her, but also a little nervous for her little head. She hasn't had too many falls yet so we're thinking that we're just awesome parents:) haha:)

Along with all of the excitements in life, there must be drama. Ashlyn happens to of taken my place with the drama since she's gotten older:) (Ok, maybe not completely taken over the drama, but mostly! haha). This happens to be an hour before her bed time so she was a little on the tired side and this is what our baby angel turns into........:)