8 hours!!!

Ok, so I don't know how or why my kids are good sleepers, except for the fact that they inherited it from me, but it makes me so HAPPY! Haha, this last week, Marley has slept 8 hours for 3 nights! Granted, it was like every other night, but still! It was totally awesome. Just thought I would share that:)

Marley and Ashlyn are getting super big, Marley has started smiling a lot and it is so cute. She is also healthy and strong. She's as big as most babies that are a month older than her! So we know that she is getting PLENTY to eat:) When we went to the doctor on Thursday for immunizations and well-child checkups, she told us that Ashlyn is in the 87 percentile for height and 47th percentile for weight. In other words, she's really, really tall for her age. She gets it from Jared's dad, who is like 6'4". Marley is in the 45th percentile for both height and weight. I know that I don't have any pictures on this post, but I thought that I would at least write about what happened.

Funny Moments with Ashlyn:

• Ashlyn is running and talking and sassing and all the good stuff:) Some of the words that she has started saying are hilarious! Like the other day, Ashlyn was super tired and was standing at our front screen door crying, and Marley was crying in our bedroom because I was changing her diaper. Of course there are a ton of people walking by and staring at our house thinking that our children are being abused because Ashlyn is trying to scream, "Daddy! Daddy!" but she doesn't pronounce the second "d" in the word, so it comes out as "Die! Die" Haha, I was laughing so hard. It was really really funny. Another thing she has started doing is yelling at our dog, Captain Underpants. When he starts barking, she'll say, "Doggy! Doggy! Woof, woof. Quiet!" all in order like that. We've come to discover that she doesn't really like animals when they're not in a cage. It's rather entertaining to watch sometimes:)
• One time we went out to Walmart and I decided to let her down to run around. She would sometimes yell at me to "Come on! Come on!" Down an aisle that I didn't need to go so I would just tell her to come with me. Well, one particular time, she started yelling that again, and I didn't turn around to look, I just said "Ashlyn, it's time for us to go, come on." But she kept yelling "Mom! Mom! Mom" So I turned around, and of course there are tons of people walking down the big aisle, to find her shorts down around her ankles (because they were huge around the waist) and her hand down the back of her diaper! Haha, I'm sure that was another time when everyone thought, "Wow, that lady really needs to take care of her kid."

Anyways, I will get some pictures on here hopefully later on today but don't be angry if they're not, they'll be up sometime:)

Marley's first month

Alright, I know that it's been awhile, but all those with 2 kids understand. All those with 1 kid probably understand also:).

So life has been really, really, REALLY busy in our Grimmer home. Marley was born, then it was my birthday, then it was our 3 year Anniversary, then it was Marley's baby blessing, then it was Jared's Birthday. Haha, I know, I've missed a lot of updating, but talking to one of my friends (Haley Hargrave) gave me new incentive to blog. I don't write in my journal anymore cuz I don't have time so I'm going to treat my blog like my journal (well hopefully a little bit better because I have wrote in my journal for like a year:)) and hopefully update every Sunday, or at least once a week. We'll see how it goes.

So things have been going really well, Marley is adjusting to being in our home and Ashlyn's screaming:) She does have colic though, which is challenging at some times, but mostly just sad. I feel so bad for her little belly and acid reflex. She's healthy though and for the most part very happy. She hates the weather just as much as Ashlyn and me. Actually, I don't think that anyone could hate the weather as much as me, I hate the snow. And wind. And cold. Haha, but I'm trying to stay optimistic:) We're getting excited for Jared to get out of school because first of all, it will be warm. Second of all, we can all be together! Summer is my favorite time of year! I love it! Well here are some pictures from recently, Marley's already getting so big and Ashlyn is the best big sister ever. I love these girls:)

Jared's mom (Mimi) came to stay with us a couple days after we had Marley. My mom had to leave to go to Washington with my dad so it was nice to have Laura here to help acclimate to being a mommy of two. Ashlyn loved having her here too.

Just a really cute picture of Marley:)

Ashlyn absolutely ADORES Marley, it is soooo cute!

When we dropped Mimi off at the airport in Idaho Falls, we decided to take a trip to the museum. They had a wolf and dog display that was pretty neat but Ashlyn just really wanted to play in the kids discovery room that they had. It was really cute to watch her play, especially when a little girl started playing house with her. She even got to dress up like Daniel Boone.

Aunt Jordan and Uncle Andrew came down to see Ashlyn and Marley while they were on a trip to Utah to see Jordan's family. It was really fun to have them come and stay with us! Ashlyn really took a liking to Aunty Jordan's shoes:) We went and fed the ducks, which Jordan liked a lot because the ducks would chase her everywhere. Haha, it was very entertaining:)



EASTER SUNDAY

Easter Sunday was a lot of fun because Ashlyn could actually look for the eggs this year and help dye them. It was so fun and I loved putting the baskets together. She also got to wear her bunny ears which she hated so Jared and I ended up wearing them most of the time. Ashlyn and Marley both "opened" their baskets:) and of course Ashlyn downed as much candy as possible before we had my family over to dye the eggs and listen to General Conference. Ashlyn kept throwing the eggs in the cups though so they were cracking and then she would proceed to peel them so they ended up looking really nasty. Then we had Easter dinner with my family and talked about the Atonement. It was a really great Easter Sabbath.

This was Marley's first time going to feed the ducks. As you can see, she was very thrilled.

So Jared took Ashlyn to the dump, which is like 20 minutes away from our house. From this picture, you can see that he forgot the diaper bag and had to improvise with his shirt when she pooped:) HAHA.

Ashlyn has recently discovered my heels...and that she can walk in them.

Marley"s first day to church. She and Ashlyn were both wearing their adorable Easter dresses from Mimi. Jared wanted to be Eastery too so he put Ashlyn's flowers in his hair:)

This is where it started....


Alright, we know that we"re nerds and that I look like a crazy person:)

Marley"s blessing day! She looked so danged cute, even though she was crying:)

The birthday cake that I made for Jared's birthday. I was pretty proud cuz I even did the writing!

Marley and her cousin Jaylin. She weighs the same as him even though he is 3 weeks older:) She's growing big!