Partial Post :)

So I'm posting part of my post now and part later, mostly because I'm afraid my little brothers are going to kill me, so "Here's the freaking post, gosh!" Haha, gotta love Napolean Dynamite:) Ashlyn and Marley are growing so big! Marley is about 15 pounds and she's almost 5 months. So crazy! Ashlyn just loves her to death and is getting more and more sassy every day, I don't know what I'm going to do with her:) I guess just love her more and more. Her vocabulary is getting very extensive and we've discovered that Pop-pop (Jared's dad) will give her anything she wants. While we were at Lake Palmer this last week, Ashlyn would go up to him with big-ol' eyes and say, "Pop-pop, more. More cookies please! Pop-pop, more please:)" How can you resist that! So cute! Jared is getting ready to start teaching in a couple weeks and I'm getting ready to go on my cruise! So excited! I'm so excited to see my mom too! She's coming up to help Jared with the girls while I'm gone, can't wait! Love you mom, dad, Coco, Wyatt, and Sammy:)

Swimming at Lake Goodwin

Ashlyn and Gunnar butts, gotta love it:)

Ashlyn loves watermelon! Just like her mommy

Marley loves to be swaddled! I have no idea how we're going to break her of it! She looks like such an angel.

Picnic in the backyard!

"Where's Daddy's head? There it is, peekaboo!"

The best part of living in Jared's parents house..... the master bathroom with the huge jetted tub and ginormous walk-in closet!

Washington

Well the last couple of weeks have been absolutely insane, but good. We successfully moved up to Washington where we are living at Jared's parents' house. They live in Hawaii right now so we've got a big house to ourselves in a week. His sister, Renae, and her family are living here right now too and it's been so much fun. They have a little boy named Gunnar who is 3, and Paloma who is 7 months. Ashlyn and Gunnar fight like cats and dogs, but they love each other so much. Anytime Ashlyn is away from Gunnar, she always says, "Goiyner, Goiyner." It's so cute. Here are some pictures of us all, I know that I need to be better about taking pictures of Marley, poor girl, she's not going to have nearly as many as Ashlyn! I feel so bad!

Ashlyn and Gunnar playing at the park

Outside blowing bubbles

Emptying the toy box

Kangaroo Petting Zoo

Ashlyn was really freaked out when we first got there and would not let me put her down, but she eventually warmed up to them and even fed some of them! This place is about 20 minutes from where we live, which is hilarious to me because this is like, Seattle, Washington. Who would of thought there would be a kangaroo petting zoo! Marley only stayed in the stroller for about 20 minutes before she insisted that I pick her up and carry her in the Ergo the rest of they way, in which she fell asleep within 10 minutes:) They had other animals there, including llama's, donkeys, turtles, chickens, ostrich's, wallaby's, and peacocks. P.S. Did you know that peacocks can fly?!?!?! I had NO idea! It was really crazy to see one fly up 20 feet to a tree branch. Kangaroo petting zoo=lots of fun!

Ashlyn, Gunnar, and Fallon (cousin, 2.5) playing at the park.

Darrington Rodeo

Renae and I took the kids to the Darrington Rodeo/Carnival. It was a lot of fun. Ashlyn and Gunnar both got their arms painted, Ashlyn got a fish and Gunnar got a gecko. They loved all the animals and people riding them. I wish that Jared would have been there though because I totally wanted her to do the sheep ride! She would have screamed the whole time but it would have been worth the video:) Instead, when Jared came later, we made her ride a huge slide, which she was excited about at the bottom, but by the time she got to the top was freaking out.

Flying a kite in the backyard

Gunnar, being a year older, has realized after about a week of being with Ashlyn that he can tease her and make her cry while it's still fun for him. Before, they would both be screaming and crying and screaming "MINE!" at each other, but he's got the system just about down. It's really kind of funny though because Ashlyn is SOOOOOOOO dramatic about the whole thing, even though Gunnar hasn't hardly done anything to her. She is mean to him though, don't worry about this girl. She can put out a punch pretty good. The other day, they were fighting so Ashlyn slapped Gunnar in the face. I went over to her and got down at face level with her while she was crying to tell her to not hit, and she slapped me in the face! It took all my energy to not spank her right there! She got a very long time-out for it though. It didn't hurt me, just startled me. I had to try hard to not laugh too!

Standing behind the couch watching Kung-fu Panda

Finally pics of the babe! Marley is now 3 months old! I can't believe it. She is getting so strong and sweet. She has started voicing her opinion about things too, by squawking and cooing really loud to get my attention. She is so adorable.

Sunday

Quick story about Sunday. Church is about 30 minutes away from where we live. We got all ready and got to church by 8:53 am. I took Ashlyn straight into the bathroom to wipe her runny nose, and she threw up all over herself, me, and the bathroom sink. So I go into the chapel, tell Jared, walk back out to car with Jared, Ashlyn, and Marley, and drive home (Jared stayed and caught a ride home with Renae and Chris). But what to my dismay, on the way home, yep, you guessed it, Ashlyn threw up again! All over the car seat, the floor, and herself. I pulled over to wipe her off a little but she was already striped down to her diaper so there wasn't much I could do. We got home, a painful 30 minutes later, and I threw her in the bath tub while I striped the car seat down. After that, I went to get a screaming Marley out of her car seat (I still have throw up all over me) and Marley has had a blow-out in her carseat! Like, REALLY?!?!? All before 9:30 in the morning. Haha, I couldn't stop laughing because it was really hilarious. After I bathed Marley and got both car seat covers in the wash, we sat down and watched "Finding Nemo" while I took a cat nap, I was tired! We're pretty sure she was just car sick though because she's been fine since. Moral of the story, if you live 30 minutes away from anything, take an extra change of clothes for every member of the family:)

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!