Ashlyn turned 1 and Ayla turned 5!

My girls both had birthdays a few months back!

Here is Ashlyn at 11 months, trying to play the saxophone!

Here she is again at 11 months!

She started getting into everything!

She loves baby dolls! She walks around with dolls all the time. She will pat it's back and give them kisses! It is the cutest thing!

Ashlyn is very lovable she loves to give you hugs and especially kisses! I love it! We all love it!

Here she is on her first birthday, in March!

This was taken in the car while on our trip to Las Cruses.

When she turned 1 she weighed 21 lbs and 6 oz. She was 31.3 inches long!

She has grown more since then but I have not weighed her or measured her yet.

She eats regular food now, which is great because we can feed her whatever we are eating and she can feed herself!

She says words like, Momma, Dada, Ayla, ouch, ouhee, bye bye and "What's that?"

She grunts and shakes her head yes! She even shakes her head no when she doesn't want something or doesn't like something.

She can way bye, bye!

She is starting to point! She will point and say, "Deah!"

She really understands a lot. We can ask her to get something and she will get it!

She will go to her highchair, reach up at it and cry when she is hungry.

She has attitude and has started throwing fits! :(

She loves to cuddle!

She is such a sweet addition to our family! We love her!

Now onto Ayla...

Ayla turned 5 in February!

I took the picture above while she was still asleep. I love it! She is so beautiful!

She has really learned her alphabet and loves to write letters.

She has gotten good at numbers too! She will surprise me sometimes when she counts things. She sometimes does math with it. She will say, "Now I only have 2" or " If I have one more it would be 3."

She also knows her colors, shapes and how to write her name. I think she is ready for kindergarten  which she starts this fall. I am the one not ready for it! LOL!!

She still loves painting and all kinds of art!

She has gotten really good at the cutting things out and gluing them!

This castle is my favorite thing she has cut out so far! She did it for me! I love it!

She is becoming my girly girl! She loves to put accessories on!

And does her hair a lot!

She loves to dress up! I think the Rapunzel costume is her favorite because of the long hair!

Ayla has also become more independent! She will get herself food. She even knows how to make a PBJ! She cleans her room sometimes without being asked. She brushes her teeth and gets ready for bed on her own. She also likes to dress herself.  I am so proud of her!

Ayla is also a great addition to our family! We love her a lot as well!

We are so blessed with our 2 girls!

What happened in February!

 Lane turned 16!!!

They had a party at his house!

 (My brother, Robert's house)

 Marion, Dad and Ayla!

 Uncle Ernie was there!

 Me and Ayla!

 Marion and me!

Ashlyn and Marion!

 Robert and Carolyn lighting the candles!

Lane's cake!

Happy Girl!

Of course Ayla was happy to be around their animals!

Our Valentine's Day!

 This is all our Valentine's from each other!

The Oreos were mine!!!!!

 Ashlyn wore the dress Grandma Perry bought her!

 Kurt and Ayla had fun pushing Ashlyn, back and forth on the train, in the kitchen. I think Ashlyn had fun too!

 Valentine's hug!

 Ayla wearing her antannas!

 Ayla did her craft she got!

I am so glad my girls love each other!

 Ayla trying to hold Ashlyn's hand!

 Cheese!

We had a great Valentine's day! 

We got to spend the day together and get all our favorite goodies!

It Poured Again!

I have been dealing with more death in my family. You can read about my post about the 2 other deaths I have been dealing with here.

On Mother's Day, I was pulled out of Primary to some very bad news. My Uncle Ernie had been found by my mother, passed out in a chair. She called 911 and they had her give him chest compression. He had a pulse when they took him to the hospital. I rushed to the hospital to be with my family. I met them in the waiting room and they told us he was alive. What they didn't tell us until we went back to see him, was he had a brain hemorrhage and that he would not live. He was in a coma and on life support. We let family come up to say their goodbyes and then we pulled his life support around midnight. I was there up until a half an hour before he passed. We didn't know how long it would be and I needed to get home to feed my baby. Then I was going to go back. But shortly after, I had gotten home. I got the phone call from my sister that it was close and there was no way, I would make it back in time. I had my Dad with me because he was so exhausted. We thought he could get a little shut eye and then go back when it was closer. It actually worked out for the best. I don't think it would have been good for my Dad to see his final breath. We all thought he was going to pass at one moment during the day and we were all losing it. It was a lot to bare. 

Just so you know, my Uncle Ernie, lived with my parents my whole life, so I grew up with him in the home. He always spent time with us kids and loved to take us with him to pay his bills. He always would buy us treats. He was part of our immediate family, not just an uncle. He was on every family vacation growing up all the way until 2007, which was his last vacation because of his health. That vacation was to Disneyland! 

I am so glad I was able to take him to Disneyland! He had never been! 

He has been at every family get together. He has always been there for Saturday morning breakfast with my family. He is all over this blog! I truly love and miss my Uncle Ernie. I know this has been the hardest on my Dad. He has had him with him almost all his life. Ernie is only 2 years younger than my Dad. My heart has been very heavy with all these deaths. 

We had the viewing and funeral all in one day at Peel Funeral Home in Magna.

The flowers in the picture above say, "Brother."

The ones on the casket say, "Ernest."

And this one says, "Uncle."

Some of my cousins, Justin, Buddy and Mike.

Lane and my Mom.

My cousin Albert (in the background) his wife. Trina, my cousin, Sandy and my aunt, Alice.

My aunt, Denise, my sister, Marion and my brother, Robert.

My uncle, Ruel.

My cousin, Burt put this Harley inside the casket with him. Which made us all smile because that was Ernie's favorite thing, motorcycles. 

Ernie was deathly afraid of heights and water but when he got on a motorcycle it was like he had no fear. I remember as a kid watching him rid his bike down the street super fast than pop a wheely on it and ride that wheely for a good distance. Ernie always owned a bike. 

One time Ernie bought us kids a bike, a little 70. My siblings and I would ride that bike up and down the drive way and all over the yard. It is one of my favorite memories as a kid and it came from uncle, Ernie! 

Here is Ayla with Grandma.

We had simple service in the chapel there and showed a slide show of him. I will have to put it on my blog.

Then we went to the cemetery.

The pallbearers.

My Dad putting his boutonniere on the casket.

Albert putting his.

My uncle, Denny did the dedication of the grave. You can see him standing at the head of the casket wearing the leather jacket.

Everything was really nice.

And of course we let everyone take a rose. Here is Ayla with her's.

Ayla and Ashlyn.

I thought his casket was beautiful.

Me with uncle, Ernie.

We then went and had a luncheon at my aunt, Alice's church put on by the Relief Society of her ward.

Then we went up to see that they had buried him.

We had him buried at the Magna Cemetery up on the hill. It has been nice to have him there. We go there all the time. We are the grave's caretaker. They don't have caretakers up there and you can decorate the grave however you want. We have been up there many times since he has past. He even already has his headstone, I will show that soon sometime on the blog. It has a motorcycle carved into it!!!

Another reason we love having him there is that we have a lot of memories of spending time up on cemetery hill. We tube there in the winter. We rode dirt bikes there in the summer. Ernie would take us kids up there and let us drive his car. He was and is a great uncle. He always spend time with you. He may not of ever married or had children but we were his kids.

We love and miss you Ernie!!!

I think one of the hardest times is going to be for me is when I celebrate my birthday. We had our birthdays close together so we celebrated them together.

I have so much to catch up on my blog and I hope I can do it. It just has been hard for me to blog but I hope I can get back into the swing of things. I might not be able to read others blogs for a while until I get caught up. Just know that I love you.