Ashlyn's 5

Ashlyn had preschool today and was so excited to take chocolate cupcakes with pink sprinkles to her class.  When school was over I showed up with purple flowers for my Ashlyn and if you know Ashlyn at all you know the mouth open hands shaking so excited look that she gave me when she saw them;) Melts my heart every time!  Ashlyn I hope that this year is full of fun and exciting times for you with Kindergarten coming your way...I hope you continue to love to dance because I love to watch you dance;)  You amaze me every day with how much you know and you are so sweet to everyone and everyone LOVES you because of that!

My big girl Ashlyn is turning 5 today.  I LOVE this girl to pieces.  She is my sweet girlie who loves to please everyone right now.  She is such a big helper with Nate and she helps Mady out all the time...she is the 2nd mama in our house.  She has definitely turned my tom boy world upside down...she is 100 % girl.  She loves everything pink and purple and sparling.
Here are some pictures of my sweet girl throughout the last few years.

Ashlyn's most recent picture taken by a friend

Ashlyn loves having a sister to play dolls and house with...so fun!

Ashlyn LOVES to take naps just like her daddy;)  Just not at the time we would like her to take naps...like say 5 pm

Ashlyn has always been a climber...She would go the highest always

Ashlyn was so looking forward to having another baby in the house

Ashlyn ALWAYS loves to help mommy bake and I love the help;)

This was at her december recital...this shy little girl gets on stage and totally transforms into a very fun energetic dancer...LOVE IT!

Our kittie cat on halloween

Ashlyn helping feed baby Ezra (her cousin)

At her dance competition last year

First day of preschool

4th birthday party

This is Ashlyn to a T;)

Daddy's girl all the way

for her third birthday she wanted to go to the hannah montana movie and get her nails did;)

At sea world

Happy 3rd Birthday Ashlyn

Sweet Ashlyn at like 2 1/2

It is so fun to celebrate Ashlyn's big day...everything is so EXCITING!!!!!   and what did the big girl ask for for her big birthday dinner????   Salmon and baked potatoes;)  Sounds good to me, and isn't that what every 5 yr old wants for diner? We love you so much Ashlyn

Ashlyn's 5th Birthday Party

What a fun day...I LOVE that I have little girlies that love to have fun girlie parties.  Ashlyn follows in Zach's footsteps by asking for very particular things as far as the cake goes.  This year she wanted a Hannah Montana party.  She wanted a two tier cake, one that was chocolate and one that was rainbow cake.  It turned out ok...not my favorite cake I've done, but it will do!  Ashlyn loved being in the kitchen watching me make the cake and decorate it.
We have been celebrating her birthday all week.  Sunday we took little cupcakes to her primary class at church, then monday we took cupcakes to her dance class, today cake for the party and I still need to frost the cupcakes that she wants to take to preschool tomorrow.
Ashlyn is such a fun little girl who loves the most random little things.  SOCKS from the dollar bin at target is like hitting the jackpot for Ashlyn.  My mom knows this and always pulls through with some really cool socks for her, this year her favorites....SMURFS!
Wil and I decided it was time to get our sweet girlie a big girl bike!!!  She was so excited;)
Here are some pictures from the party today.

Ashlyn 5

Hannah Montana cake

Our fireplace all decked out in hannah montana posters

Lots of little kiddos jumping on the trampoline

Ashlyn's cousin Hannah drawing what she thinks hannah montana looks like...Ashlyn judged and picked the two best drawings.

Elle's drawing of Hannah Montana;)

Alexa's drawing of Hannah Montana

Lexi's Hannah Montana drawing

Kloey's Hannah Montana drawing was one of the winners

Then we came in and did a freeze dance listening to hannah montana songs

Ashlyn is so funny at freeze dance she doesn't get wild at all because she knows she won't be able to stop

This is the big sister of one of the girls we invited and she held nate the whole party...even got him to sleep at the end...I wish I had a kid old enough to do that...lol

Ashlyn blowing out the candles

Party favor bags...before the pinata busted and the kids filled them with candy...the pinata was really cute high heel shoe that was pink and purple, I guess my camera didn't take a good picture of it, oh well.  It was only hit a couple of times, and it busted open!

Ashlyn's friend Lana bought her this princess book with paint stuff, she loved it!

Clothes, her friend Kloey, Alexa, Kellen, and Azure gave her these...her face says it alL!

She was all pumped about the hannah montana bag and the cute hair bows that were on the bag;)

grandma Blackwell knows what she likes, she got her the littlest pet shop toy, some clothes, and some cute socks, and a puzzle

I just love how EVERYONW is right in her face while she is opening this...

Ashlyn so excited to see what we got her

That is one happy girl who is going to be 5 tomorrow...WE LOVE YOU ASHLYN!;)

Easter Weekend

This Easter we stayed home and we didn't have any family in town...it was nice to just do our own thing!;)  We didn't have baseball or dance on saturday so we ended up taking the kiddos to see Diary of a Whimpy Kid at the dollar theater when daddy got off work.  Then we dyed easter eggs and got cleaned up and ready for bed!!! Our kids were so excited so they woke us at 5:45 to tell us the easter bunny had been to our house.;)  We went downstairs and looked in easter baskets and did an easter egg hunt in the backyard.  It was a really fun time.  Then we had bunny pancakes for breakfast and got cleaned up and ready for church.  It was a great day!!!!  Then we made a big Easter dinner and just relaxed the rest of the day!  Life is good;)

Nate is teething and so not happy

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All dressed up in our easter outfits;)

My girlies

Poor Zach was so good holding a very fussy Nate