school busses and choo-choos

Miriam and Matt invited us to go to the carnival by the Provo Towne Center last Saturday and Ruby thought her dreams had come true!!! She absolutely LOVES school busses and every time we pass one while driving in the car she says "Mommy, ride school bus" over and over. So the thought of DRIVING a school bus was almost too much excitement for a two year old to handle!!
Ruby and Savannah driving the car. I was almost as exciting as the bus!
Jake and Matt took Savannah and Ruby on this little roller coaster and they surprisingly both loved it . . . it's a good thing because it cost $12.00 for the four of them to ride it for a couple of minutes . . . oh well, the looks on the girls' faces was worth more than $12. After they got off, Ruby kept saying choo-choo over and over, and I finally figured out that she thought the roller coaster was a choo-choo and wanted to ride it again.

A few days ago Ruby found her winter hat out of a drawer in her room, and discovered a new love of it. For a couple of days, I would find her in random places with it on. The funniest was when she wouldn't leave the house without it, and I'm sure the neighbors were laughing when they saw her come out of the house in her shorts, short sleeves and her winter hat. Kids are the BEST!

This is how little Jake enjoyed the tulip festival . . . covered up in his stroller chillin' with a toy!


I love these action shots of Ruby!!

Last Friday, the 18th we went to the tulip festival at Thanksgiving Point. Here are a few pictures from it. You would probably think there would be a few pictures of tulips here, but here are a couple of the reasons why there aren't.

#1 The grassy hill was a much bigger hit for Ruby than walking around looking at flowers.

#2 The flowers were hardly in bloom yet . . . maybe we'll have to try again at the end of the festival.

Even though there weren't a ton of flowers though, we had a blast. I love watching Ruby giggle and have so much fun. It's one thing that makes being a mom so much fun!!!

New Room

Isn't he HANDSOME!?!
My birthday was a couple of weeks ago, and we were originally planning on going to Salt Lake to eat at our favorite sushi joint, and have a day out, but I decided if Jake was taking the day off (he doesn't get too many of those) I wanted him to work on our room. Anyone who knows me well, knows that I am the queen of procrastination (NOT something to be proud of) and I work better under pressure. So we decided about a week before we were having new bedroom furniture delivered that we should put up some faux paneling, or maybe I should say we decided that Jake should put up some faux paneling. Anyway, poor Jake, I worked him hard ALL weekend to get it finished in time. Literally, he really DID have to BEG me to go to bed at
1:30 am instead of doing one more coat of paint. Anyway, I hated the lime green paint color when we first put it on, and was convinced that I was going to pay someone to come and repaint it, but after we got our bedding and I saw how good it looked together, I love it!! So, thank you honey for the new room, it looks awesome, and I thought it was a great birthday present! I love you lots and lots!!!

zoo time

They were all worn out after a day at the zoo!

Ruby and her cousin Bri
Little Jake and Livvy sitting in an egg
Meet Ruby the turtle


A couple of weeks ago we went to the zoo with my sister Tonya and her kids, and my sister in law Heidi and her kids. Ruby's favorite thing by far at the zoo was the playground. . . maybe we should just stick to the park. . . it's a lot cheaper! We'll try again and maybe the animals will be a bigger hit.

Our little guy

I can't get over how fast babies grow up!! My baby Jake is already six months old! Yikes!!!!!! It seemed like just yesterday that we were bringing him home from the hospital. He is such a good baby and I'm thinking that Heavenly Father just blessed me with an extra good baby because I have a two year old to try to keep out of trouble too. Jacob finally rolled over for the first time on March 31st, and he is now all over the place! He started eating rice cereal a couple of weeks ago and obviously from the picture he loves it! He can already tell when I am getting it ready and gets so excited. I have to tell you what a funny little guy he is. He loves to jump up and down on my lap and last Sunday, I had him with me during singing time in Primary. Every time the music would start to play and the kids would start to sing, he would go absolutely crazy jumping on my lap and giggling. Then the music would stop and he would calm down, only to start again when the music started. All the kids around me were laughing...maybe I shouldn't take him to Primary anymore he is such a distraction...but it was pretty cute.

shoeson, hair pretties, and talking on the phone

I've decided I'm really bad at the whole blogging thing, but I think I will get better as time goes on. I always forget to take my camera when we go do fun things and I kind of figure no one wants to look unless there are pictures to look at. But since this might be my best attempt at keeping a journal, I figure I better keep trying.
So, as Ruby gets older and older and talks more and more, it's funny to me all the things she says. She is constantly cracking me up! She loves to talk on the phone and it makes me realize what I must say a lot on the phone, because she will get my phone and hold it to her ear with her shoulder and just ramble on and on. A few examples that I've heard her say recently are "sooo.......... uh-huh....... anyway, see ya yater (later)..." I must run my words together too, because Ruby thinks a lot of things have a lot longer names than they really do. For example, shoes are shoeson (because I always ask her to put her shoes on), bibs are bibons, pants are pantson, diapers are diaperchange (when she needs a new diaper, she always asks for a new diaperchange), etc. It's funny the things we don't think about because we have spoken english since we can remember.
As for Ruby's hair pretties, anyone looking at this blog can tell that my daughter has some pretty out of control hair. It is incredibly curly and she always asks for "hair pitties" (pretties) but within a few minutes she has usually pulled them out. I included a couple of pictures to see the before and after picture. I love all her curls, especially when her hair is done, but probably 90% of the time it looks like the afro in the top picture. She is such a sweetheart, afro or not!!