Tea for Ruby!!

Well this is Ruby's unofficial 1st birthday!! I can not believe that my baby is 1....Where did the time go. Like all good parties there was a theme. Grandma Green found this book "Tea for Ruby"...which inspired the good times....

Ruby must have her own princess cake....

Thank you uncle Big Al for the awesome decorations...Ruby loves you so much!! Don't forget!

Ruby is a big fan of strawberries and grandma Green's fruit dip....

This is a classic Ruby look....somewhat of a diva already heaven help us...

Sisterly love...Ruby does really well with Emalee but for some reason goes on attack with Lily...as captured in this picture :)

Ruby loves her stuffed animals....she is constantly giving them kisses...the birthday spoils brought a pig pillow that oinks at her....she sleeps with it every night and loves it!!

Look out she is mobile!

What a day people....thank you for everyone that came and celebrated a great year of growing with us! Happy Birthday my baby....mama will always love you more than words!!

Not so Happy Halloween...

So this is Ruby's first Halloween...and me being the neurotic first time mom wanted it to be perfect. There was plans for the ward trunk-and-treating, hay rides, and actually going trick-or-treating....but alas my baby girl had another plan. Wednesday afternoon I received a call from the day care that my sweet angel had a fever and the rest was down hill. Ruby continued to be sick all weekend....limiting the ability to party down with the best of them. My parents totally stepped up to the plate and helped watch the cranky baby. After having a fever for multiple days she decided to break out in a blistery rash today. So Ruby, g-ma and I spent some time in urgent care today. What a crappy first Halloween! When we got home I put her down with her favorite stuffed animal...the DUCK. I swear I turned my back for moments and I heard a giggle...I turned to see that she was missing. I looked around the corner and saw my sweet baby making the best of a bad situation...

Happy Halloween everyone...hope you all had a safe and fun time!!

Pumpkin time!!

Well it is my favorite time of year!! I love the fall which leads to the holidays! This being Ruby's first Halloween we must start it out on the right foot with picking the perfect pumpkin. Clint and I ascribe to the "tough Love" parenting style...if you can't carry the pumpkin it's not coming with us :)

But I would have to say I think she did just right. A baby pumpkin for my baby bee. Stay tuned for shots on the new baby coming in the spring....when we debut the first head shot and name....

Good Bye Summer!!

Hello fall and with no sadness we saying good bye to you, summer...for at least now. Here are some highlights to my first summer. I had lots of fun with family. They were always stopping by adoring me...I can't blame them I am pretty cute! This is my uncle Big Al!! I love him!

So mommy has it in her mind that before the next baby comes I need to learn to feed myself...good luck with that one mommy...I am a princess and would like to be treated accordingly.

You have to love swim suit season at this age though! It is probably not going to be everyday of my life that I have roles and people comment that I am adorable.

Well it is officially football season around here...to stay on my daddy and papa's good side I am going to sport my support for BSU!! GO BRONCO'S!! Things have been changing around my home lately. Mommy wants to sleep all the time and daddy is so busy with school and work. But no worries peeps I am still running the home! Bed time is just a little later now :) I have not decided if I am excited about this new baby on the way...mommy tells me that the baby will love and adore me too...I guess if that is true I could handle to have him around....Well I have to run I need to go to sleep....love you all Ruby!!

My baby fish...

So my kiddo has more bathing suits than I think most 8 months have...so we decided to give one of them a test drive in the pool! Ruby loves lounging in her "fish-head-swimmer-thing"...very official name.

I love this next video because it is ALL RUBY!! Lounging with the thumb in the mouth just chillin!!

More pics to come...just to tired right now to care....

Sleeping baby...

Recently my sweet baby was very very did I mention very sick...It broke my heart. I must start off with saying that I am the luckiest mom in the world...She has slept through the night since about 6 weeks...a good solid 12 hours kind of sleeping through the night. So this week when she became very sick...she struggled to sleep which means daddy and I struggled to sleep! I have an awesome husband that would help me walk the halls with Baby Bee in hopes of soothing her. Finally after multiple trips to the doctor she has been feeling better and the twinkle in her eyes have returned!! Grandma Green came over last night to rock her to sleep...I went to check on her before going to bed. I found her feet crossed, proped up on her little TV in the corner with her arms above her head and the blanket pulled over her head...Although completely adorable a little concerning the possibility of suffocation...so i pulled her blanket down. I went in this morning to wake her to get ready for the day and this is the adorable sight I saw...I love the little-BIG ham hock which is her thigh...I snapped the pic...I then proceeded to get a dirty look from what moments before I thought was a sweet baby....she realized it was light out and pulled the blanket over her head! Heaven help when she is a teenager :)

Grandma time...

Grandma Green comes and plays on the floor with me and reads to me...Oh how I love my grandma green!

Bless my mom for trying to give my child higher learning at 7 months...but alas she appears more content with what she can shove in her mouth....

Happy 4th of July....a little late!

I love...LOVE...love these kids! They make it all worth it at the end of the day. We went Utah to hang with Clint's family over the 4th! We had a great time. There was a carnival...where Grandma Colby spoiled all the girls!! I am discovering that is the main job besides loving but spoiling...

Ruby is attempting to steal Grandma Colby's diet coke. Clint said it was in her blood...I said no...why do I always have to be the bad guy?

Our poor Lily bug was such a trooper with her broken leg!! Clint pulled her along in the wagon. She did not complain once!

I can not believe how big Emalee is getting! She is an amazing big sister...She heads off to first grade in a few months...

WE had a great time in UTAH and love visiting with family down there...hopefully the trips won't be so far and few in between in the future!

Whats a girl to do...

Adorable hubby at church with the scouts....my perfect baby is sleeping....and there is a list of things this wife and mom should be doing. "SHOULD" being the the word that I have not mastered....there is laundry, toilets to be scrubbed, emails to be responded to, packing for our weekend road trip, and there is the garden that resembles a weed patch more than a garden...my hubby has to point out what is edible and what is a weed :) BUT alas I am not doing any of these things...What is occupying my time tonight is blog stalking....I am so impressed by the women I have surrounded my self with...What great examples they are to me....Just one pet peeve has been discovered through my stalking....Women who deliver babies while looking like they are on break from there Vogue photo shoot...REALLY GIRLS!! I look back on my pics of Ruby's big day and I wonder if anyone will notice that I look like I have been hitting the bottle for years while running 40 miles through the desert up hills both ways! My goal if I ever attempt child birth ever again is to be the Vogue model on a break. I am willing to take tips, suggestions on how to achieve such a feat. I have even considered tattooing the make up on so it is not running down my face as seen in some scary 1950 horror flick...Good times...this is what happens when a girl has to much time on her hands....Keep up the good work girls...although the bar appears to be set to high...there is always hope!

Cherry Festival

I love this pic!! Does anyone know how hard it is to get both my husband and baby to both look at the camera and to smile on top of that!!


My parents were great sports and came to the festival with us. Ruby loves them so much! I am 100% positive I know who she will run to when she wants something when she is older...it is the two saps sitting below that love and adore her so.....

Please notice the similar looks between baby and papa....there is no doubt she has "GREEN" in her!

Every year there is a Cherry Festival in a neighboring town. Last year we took the older girls and they loved it!! They had a blast. I on th eother hand was miserable from the heat, smell, and oh yeah being prego :) This year sadly the older girls missed out, hopefully they will be here next year. But we did get to introduce Ruby to the Festival. For the most part she loved it but was not a big fan of the loud noises. She did on the other hand loved my funnel cake :)

A diva is born...

Everyone tells me that the fun part of having a girl is playing dress up...and I must agree! I cam home for a quick lunch break from work and got lost in playing dress up I ended up taking about 35 min longer than allowed...opps! I think it was work it!

Splish Splash...Who is really taking the bath??

Well this baby of mine is going to be a water baby I think...She loves loves LOVES her bath time. The routine starts with her sitting on my lap as I fill her bath tub. She is patient...surprisingly enough. We then undress her in her room. She then starts to flail her arms when I pick up nu-do and walk her into the bathroom. As soon as we enter the bathroom she literally is trying to fly out of my arms. At this point I can handle the 20 lb of wiggles but I am concerned if this behavior continues :) All that needs to touch the water is one toe and we have lift off. She becomes a kicking star. She is too long for the tub now but I am not ready to say that my baby is growing up and can use the regular tub now...I know I am crazy but as all new mothers I feel like I have earned this right to be a little crazy...ANYWAYS....I then proceed to wash her hair and body. No sooner have I reached for the soap than I realize that crazy amount of kicking has caused me to be completely soaked...But how can I tell her NO when she is giggling and having the time of her life. My parents council me that this will bight me in the bum later in life this thought that I can't tell her NO because she is being cute...Oh well, for now I will enjoy this stage.

PS...I have to have 2 wash cloths available now...one for me to use and one for her to eat...when does the stage end when they put everything in there mouth???

Ruby's Room...

I know this is a long time coming but I wanted to show off Ruby's Nursery. She absolutely loves her room. She really kind of refuses to sleep anywhere else. Grandma Green calls Ruby "her 5 min wonder" because she rarely sleeps longer than that if she is not in her room. The room would not look as awesome as it does with out the help of Grandma Green and Uncle Big Al...they painted basically my entire house when I was about 8 months pregnant and was so sick....Thank you to you both! Ruby and I love the paint jobs!!

Ruby has already shown and interest in her books....meaning I will read them to her and she will giggle at me and occasionally attempt a snack by eating the corner of the page :)