Ruby's first cooking

So this year on St. Patrick's day, I decided to make a big St. Patty's dinner, and I have to say, it was actually pretty good. Ruby helped make the Irish Soda Bread, which was a lot of fun. She poured ingredients in, stirred, and best of all got really messy! We may have ended up with a few of the ingredients being mostly outside of the bowl instead of inside, but it was well worth the fun. Here's a picture of the finished product, and the little cook.

Ruby's TWO

So I guess I'm about a month and a half behind, but I still can't believe our baby girl is two years old already!! She's pretty cute, if you ask me. She absolutely LOVES kitty's so this is the birthday cake I came up with.....Hello Kitty. Needless to say she loved it! All day long she kept saying kitty cake, kitty cake, kitty cake. So at the young age of two years old, some of Ruby's favorite things are: kitty's, her blankie, bubbles, cheese, anything with sugar in it, reading story books, singing songs, sitting on the potty, slides, and running, running, and more running. One of MY favorite things to see Ruby do is when she gets up in the morning and hears little Jake talking in his bed she will go in and climb up his crib to say good morning. To see the smiles on both hers and little Jake's faces is priceless!! Anyway, even though it's a month and a half late, Happy Birthday Ruby! I am so greatful for you in my life and I love you!!!

Jaker's and his first helicopter ride

So, we went to Hawaii in January and I'm just barely figuring out this whole blogging thing, but I had to post this picture of little Jacob and his first helicopter ride. He seemed to like it, in fact he actually slept through most of it. I'm sorry you have to watch a video to see how stinkin' cute he looked in his little life vest and ear phones, but big Jake thought it would be a great idea to only pack one camera (the video one) instead of the still camera as well in order to save space on our trip to Hawaii, and I haven't figured out how to take still photos off our video camera yet. Anyway, now I'm just rambling. Anyway, we got to take a wonderful trip to Maui in January and see and do all sorts of fun things. We were worried we would miss out on a lot by taking a three month old baby with us, but he was an absolute ANGEL the whole trip. He just slept and would wake up and coo to anyone who would talk to him, then he would sleep some more. We got to go whale watching, take a helicopter tour around Maui, go to a Luau, spend time with really fun friends, I got an AWESOME massage, Jake did a little cliff jumping, etc. etc. and we just relaxed and enjoyed. It was a much needed break from the real world!!! Also, much thanks to Miriam and Matt for watching our little Ruby while we were gone!!!

Our Little Dipper

Ruby has a new obsession.......dipping.........EVERYTHING! It started in January shortly before her 2nd birthday and it really doesn't matter what it is. Don't get me wrong, she would gladly dip everything in Ranch if I would let her, but since I won't she likes to dip in anything. A couple of her favorites are toast in oatmeal and toast/crackers/pretty much anything in water. Sounds yummy doesn't it!