ASHLYN'S 1ST BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!

We were camping in the Beaver Mountains for Ashlyn's birthday. It was my family reunion. She loved the mountains and playing in the dirt, even though I didn't let her play in it much. : ) We just decided to lay a blanket out and let her have her party right there with all of her cousins. She wasn't real interested at first but once she realized what it was about she got pretty excited. She loved ripping the paper off of her presents. I think she liked that more than the gift itself. (but isn't that always the case!!) She got some clothes, a play cell phone, a walking/ riding toy, and some books. She also got a soft pink blanket and a little laptop computer thing that plays music from Grandma and Grandpa Albrecht. She got some really cute clothes from Uncle Blair and Aunt Vanessa. She was pretty spoiled I think.
My mom and I made her little rocking horse cake. It turned out better than I thought, I was pretty proud of it! ;) She wasn't quite sure what she was supposed to do with it, so I helped her get a handful and she started eating. She got a few handfuls on her own, but mostly she picked up the smaller crumb pieces and ate those. She was having a blast though, if you can't tell by the pictures. She would eat one handful and then the other, then she would pick little crumbs up and eat them, then she would lick her fingers and go back for more. I think she had a good time!
Ashlyn is walking now and tearing my house apart as fast as she can. She loves to dance, talk on the phone, read books, eat, swim, and sing songs. She is very very busy and hard to keep up with. I still can't believe she is 1 already, I can't believe how fast time goes by. It seems like yesterday when we brought her home from the hospital, so tiny and precious. She has brought so much joy, love, and happiness in our home. I can't remember what it was like before her. We love her so much and are so grateful for such a wonderful daughter!!!!!!

She kept lifting her leg up like this we couldn't figure out why. It was so funny!!

She loved her cake!

Matt was giving her a ride in the bike, she absolutely loved it.

At the parade in Minersville with Aunt Natalie.

Showing us how big she is.

This was in Hurricane at the Parade with cousin Bailee.

Getting ready to race, (crawl race). She didn't go anywhere at first then daddy threw his phone out for a bribe and away she went.

Ashlyn eating the candy she picked up at the Minersville parade, of course we didn't let her eat it but I let her pretend.

Ashlyn and Grandma Bonnie. Ashlyn Loves her Grandma

Ashlyn picking up candy they threw, after that she started picking up rocks and eating them. I guess she didn't understand the difference. : )

Our little family!

Fourth of July Fun!

We were able to celebrate the 4th of July in Minersville and Hurricane. Minersville celebrated theirs on Saturday and Hurricane celebrated theirs on Monday, so it worked out for us to be with both families this year. We had so much fun both places. We enjoyed double the parades, dinners, festivities, and best of all fireworks!!! Matt played in the annual fourth of July softball game. They won by a long ways. He had a blast and I had fun watching him play.

Summertime

Ashlyn will be eleven months next week, she is a handful. I am chasing her around all day, she loves to get into her lotion drawer and eat the lotion. She is walking along furniture and climbing on anything she can, she is getting brave and starting to let go of the furniture to stand up. I don't think I'm ready for her to walk yet! She loves to blow kisses, and she is really good at it. The other day she was looking at a picture of Jesus I had on the walk so I picked her up and pointed to him and said "Jesus Loves You" right when I said that she blew him 2 kisses it was so cute. When she wakes up in the morning she will blow us a kiss. She loves to say hi, she will say hi to her dad when he gets home from work, and she says hi to herself in the mirror. She is starting to throw fits when she doesn't get what she wants or I take something away from her. She is quite the jabber box as well.
We went to Kolob to camp with Matt's family. We had a great time, Aslyn loved it. She liked being outside all the time and with all of her cousins. We also went to a rodeo last weekend, we went with mine and Matt's parents. We had a fun time, although it got kind of long.
Matt is taking a summer class. He will be going back to school full time in the fall. He is staying extremely busy with his class, work, softball, scouts, and family. He is such a hard worker and I appreciate all he does for Ashlyn and I . We got to celebrated his first father's day, he is such a good dad. He loves Ashlyn so much and he takes such good care of her. She loves him she gives him big hugs when he gets home from work. I'm so blessed to have a husband that loves kids and who wants to be the best father ever. Which he is!