Too much fun

Christmas this year was so much fun. We were sad that we didn't get to see any of Jared's family, but it was great to be with mine. Here are some pictures from Christmas and some pictures from today, big update!

My little sister, Sammy, and her boyfriend, Bodey, went up to Washington for Christmas this year so these pictures are from the Sunday before Christmas. We exchanged our gifts and had a nice breakfast.

Here is Ashlyn carrying around her puppy-in-a-purse that Sammy got for her, totally Legally Blonde! haha.

Vanna White, I know:)

The school that I teach at had a Christmas program in which all the teachers sang the song "Grown up Christmas List" to all the kids. It was really cute.

Jared got to open his big present early because he was putting shelves up in the garage and he was trying to saw the shelf with a hand saw! It was painful for me to watch, so I was merciful and gave him his electric round saw (I think that's what it's called).

Christmas morning with Ashlyn was such a blast! I was so excited for her to open up all of her presents (even though I knew what most of them were:). Our house quickly became a disaster after she opened all of our presents up. She got a baby doll to help prepare her for this next one, along with a baby stroller and a diaper bag for it. Then she got a farm set and lots of clothes! Jared made me a beautiful decoration for Ashlyn's and Marley's room that says "Mother" on it. Of course I started crying! Did you have to ask? :)

Ashlyn feeding her new baby doll:)

Our dog captain, begging to come in the house.......don't even think about it!

We decided to go sledding with my family early afternoon on Christmas and it was so fun! Of course, I only went down a couple of times because my belly is so huge it was really uncomfortable:) This is my mom with Ashlyn. I think my mom is one of the most beautiful ladies in the whole world.

Here's my dad with his mad bomber hat on:)

Wyatt and Jared trying to look cool.

Cody with Ashlyn.

This is what became of Ashlyn after Jared let her go down by herself:) She was sitting up to start with......

This was Ashlyn's first sledding trip and it was so fun!

After sledding, everyone came over to our house to see what Ashlyn got for Christmas. Of course, Ashlyn's favorite thing was my 12 new pairs of socks which she insisted on putting on. They look more like leg warmers on her:).

New Year's Even, Ashlyn and me watching Elmo, waiting to go to Jared's cousin's house for dinner.

New Year's Day, we went sledding again and this time it really took it out of Ashlyn, she fell asleep in about 2 minutes on the way home!

I love these pictures because Ashlyn is laying on Jared in the one and then in the other, she's sitting on his face. Haha, they were watching family videos and Ashlyn loves watching herself, it's so funny.

Ashlyn has recently taken up coloring, and for Christmas from her daycare, she got this HUGE coloring book with crayons. The crayons don't always end up on the paper though, I was doing laundry for like 5 minutes and turned around to find that Ashlyn had colored all over the tile in our kitchen, on the refrigerator, and was pursuing a wall in the back room! I couldn't be mad at her though because she just looked so cute! And she didn't know any better so I've just been making sure to keep close tabs on the crayons.

Ashlyn playing in her toy box.

So today, I was straightening up the front of our house for a few minutes and I came to our back room where Ashlyn had been playing. She loves these scrap booking foam letters that I have so she scattered them all over the room and was throwing them everywhere. I found a basket later that had some of these in there. I dumped them out and discovered that they were all # 8's! I went to the back room and started looking on the floor to find any more but she had found all of the # 8's and put them in this green basket! I couldn't believe it! She's too smart for her own good:)

The last 2 months in the Grimmer Home......

There had better be a lot of love coming after this blog update because it has taken me forever! Haha, I understand why I don't update my blog very often, it's because it is a pain in the butt! I'm really retarded at ordering the pictures so it just took me an hour to manually do it and don't even get me started on rotating!:) But I love all of you so I did it!

This is Jared's idea of feeding the ducks...... haha:)

Alright, this picture was taken probably a month ago and my belly is a lot bigger now! I know, I look sexy vacuuming right? haha.

These are some pictures of our new house! Not very good ones, the kitchen is haneous and I can't wait to redo it but it works for now! The pink one is obviously Ashlyn's room. Ashlyn is putting her hand print into our first laid cement pad for our dogs! The one of her on the couch is when she is watching elmo, don't mess with Ashlyn when she's watching elmo on Saturday mornings......

These are some Halloween pictures. Ashlyn and I dressed up as butterfly's and went to Boo at the Zoo with Jared and my family. So fun!

All these pictures were taken in Hawaii when we went there a little over a week ago for Thanksgiving. It was awesome! Jared's parents live out there on the beach so we spent a whole lot of time in the water and Ashlyn loved that she didn't have to wear hardly any clothes! Coming back to -10* was a bit of a shock for all of us:) The picture of the cereal is Lucky Charms, after Ashlyn has eaten every marshmallow out of them and is asking for more.

Home for the Holidays.....Hawaii was really nice but it was great to come back to our own home and decorate for Christmas. We painted our front room and got our hand-picked and cut down Christmas tree with our stockings up so that was so fun!

Oh the joys of the season......

So this first picture was Jared taking a picture of me while I was getting ready for the second one, he told me to suck my butt in! How dare he:)

So I really hate pictures at this point! I'm gaining weight in different places than I did with Ashlyn and I feel really fat ok! Haha, pregnancy is going really great though and we're so excited to have another girl. We've already decided on a name for her which is Marley May Grimmer. Lot's of "m"s but we love it. I told Jared that he's not allowed to call her that until after she's out of my belly though because it really freaks me out when my belly's name is Marley. haha.

Alright, show me the love.......:)jk, love you all.

If only he knew....:)

Quick update: Jared is currently dancing and singing at the top of his lungs to Backstreet Boys......"I want it that way!" Haha, I'll try to get some pics.

Ashlyn + Giant Inflatables = Lots of fun

Last week, Jared and I had some time to hang out with each other and Ashlyn because we were on potato harvest (I love Idaho:). Thursday we didn't have any plans so we decided to try out the new inflatables at The Rex/AFEC. It was so much fun! Ashlyn loved jumping around on them and for $2.50 for an hour, it was totally worth it to watch her have that much fun. Her favorite part was the slides. I don't know what they put on that plastic but it must be Armor-all because seriously, they flew down them! Jared took her on most of them because jumping around while being prego just really isn't that fun:). I know that I don't have any pictures of the belly yet, they're coming!:)

After the inflatables, we were walking out and Ashlyn saw a car with Kermit the Frog in it so we decided to let her ride in it and it was so cute, it was her first time really on a ride so she had lots of fun.

This is Ashlyn ready for bed after a fun, fun, fun day with Mommy and Daddy. We loved hanging out with her and I can't wait until I can do it more.

We got a dog!

So here's the story. We went out to Wal-Mart, minding our own business, when all of a sudden we see all these kids gathered around this box. We didn't pay much attention when we were walking in, but on the way out, we decided to look and discovered that these people were giving away dogs! Jared was like, "Should we get one?" and I was like, "Sure!" So we got one, later realizing that this whole time that we haven't had a dog, I've been the "voice of reason," because Jared has asked me many a times whether or not we should get a dog and I have said no. So we bought him some food and got him a collar so he's officially ours. Well, when something is yours, you have to name it something very special. So we thought and thought and finally decided to name our new dog after Jared's favorite book.................

CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So we now have a dog named captain underpants:) Haha, right now he is staying at my parents house but we made an offer on a house last week and we're hoping to move in soon. We'll keep you updated.

Ashlyn doesn't really like Captain Underpants because he's bigger than her. 

Jared was really excited to get a dog, but he's realizing that it's going to take a lot of time and a lot of money. 

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.