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!

She climbed in the suit case and was just sitting their, this was of her climbing out.

I Love This One!

Her cousin Aiden was giving her a ride in his dump truck he was good for a minute then he dumped her out. It was pretty funny.

I was doing the dishes and I turned my back on her for one second when I turned around she was up on the door, she loves to climb on stuff.

I thought this was a cute picture of her, she is always smiling.

An Update on Our Life

Ashlyn just turned 9 months old! I can't believe how time flies she is very active and lots of fun. Matt and I don't know what our lives would be like without her, she has brought so much joy and happiness to our family. Ashlyn is now cruising around crawling on all fours now, she started to really crawl about a 2 weeks ago and she is getting really fast. She can get pretty much anywhere she wants, she will crawl behind her Dad's chair or under her saucer toy and get stuck then she gets really mad and starts to scream until we get her out. Ashlyn always has a smile on her face, people comment on how happy of a baby she is! She is also pulling herself up to things; couches, chairs, drawers, beds, pretty much anything she can hold onto to stand up. She knows how to curl her tongue and blow air and spit through it. It is so funny,......... well until I feed her cereal and she spits it at me, I don't find that too funny. : ) She also loves to rip paper apart, she rips it until it is really small then she sticks it in her mouth. She loves to put anything and everything she finds in her mouth I hate that, I 'm always pulling something out of her mouth. The other day I found a jack sticker in her mouth I'm sure that would have been pleasant to swallow and digest. : o She is starting to say Mamamama, she was only saying dadadadada for the longest time so I'm happy she is a least sounding like she is saying Mama. Ashlyn loves to play peekaboo she pulls the blanket over her face then pulls it off and we say "Peekaboo" She does it over and over, She is also starting to clap her hands when we sing Patty cake. It is so fun to watch her grow and learn. Ashlyn loves books she will sit and play with her books for hours, she loves to open and shut the pages ( she likes to eat them too), and she loves it when Mom and Dad read to her. We are having so much fun with her, her personality is really starting to show. She loves to dance with her Dad she will giggle and get a huge grin on her face when he picks her up and dances around it is so cute to see.
Matt has been busy with work, softball, little league baseball, scouts, and family. Not specifically in that order! :) He is playing on a softball team with my brother in St. George and they have been doing really well in the league they are in. It is the tournament this week so we will see how it ends up. We are going to play in an all night co-ed tournament this weekend I'm excited to play, but I'm not excited about staying up all night to play. It should be lots of fun though!
As far as I go, I just got done playing on a volleyball team with a bunch of friends from high school, we had a great time I'm kind of sad it's over. I am really excited about the warmer weather, it has been soooo nice here lately I wish it would stay like this and not get any hotter, but I know better. I'm excited to go swimming, camping, picnicing, hiking, the list goes on and on. I'm extremely excited because I missed out on some of that stuff last summer since I was humongous and pregnant! ; ) But now we have a sweet little baby to share those fun things with!!

Just Some Random Pics

Aren't babies so cute when they sleep?

I thought it was cute how she was waving to the camera.

I wanted to see how long her hair was....Pretty long for a 7 month old I think. ;)

Daddy's little cubs fan. She didn't want to take it off, she was holding it on her head. It was so funny.

Recent Pictures

Going for a walk with Mommy and Daddy

This was what I was talking about in the last post when she gets all the DVDs out.

She does this several times a day!!!

I couldn't get this picture to turn the right way but it was the best one of her cute little teeth.

I love her cute smile. She is cheesing it in this one.