Making cookies!

Well, this has been my first whole week being a stay at home mom! I have to say, it's had its highs and lows for sure, but it has overall been absolutely wonderful staying home with little Ashlyn. We've been really busy and I think that she's been going through a growth spurt, but nonetheless, we were able to make cookies! Thursday morning we didn't have anything planned before Jared got home for lunch so we stayed in our PJ's, watched Nemo, and then made some delightful cookies:) It was so fun, she helped me pour all the ingredients into the bowl and mix them with the hand mixer. She loved it. Here are some really fun pictures:)

You can already tell she is her mama's girl! Love, love, LOVE cookie dough! Ashlyn was so excited that she started eating it even before the flour was mixed in completely:)

Ashlyn mixing all by herself.

After the dough was all mixed and she was helping me put them on the cookie sheet, this is what I caught her doing.....haha, good thing they're just baby germs:)

Alas, a perfect batch of cookies! This wasn't all of them, but can I just tell you, I have the HARDEST time making cookies! Seriously, just ask Jared. They are not my strongest cooking skill and so to get a whole batch that looks like these, I was ecstatic!!! They're usually really flat and burned.....

Ashlyn and I after eating some of the cookies.

Ashlyn helping to clean up afterwards.

She had on the cutest outfit today and I made her a really cute bow to match, couldn't resist taking a picture.

Besides making cookies, we've:

Fed the ducks

Got my hair cut

Dyed my hair

Cut more hair off

Gone walking

Read books

Lounged in our PJ's

Watched a movie in the mornings
Gone to a doctors appointment

Went over to Halmoni and Grandpa's

Gone to a basketball game

Helped Jared with school work (haha, not really)

Folded laundry

Done the dishes

Cleaned the house

Attempted to shovel the driveway, then decided against it

Played with all of Ashlyn's toys

Played the piano

Colored

Played with playdough

Gone to a play-group

Made a valentine craft (still in the process)

Laughed a lot

Eaten a lot

Slept a lot

Hmmmmm.................I'm sure that I've left some things out, not really that exciting for everyone else to read, but we've had a blast!

FOR THE LADIES!

Haha, remember this ladies? Ok, so this was last year because I wasn't prego but our computer randomly flashes pictures in the background and this one popped up and I couldn't stop laughing for like 10 minutes! And I didn't post about it either:)

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.