Daddy Daughter Time

I was going through our pictures and noticed...we have a lot of really cute Dan/Ruby shots! Here they are in no particular order :)

One of them is faking....can you tell who?

See the picture below. We did a re-shot. Look how much Ruby has grown!

This may be my favorite picture of the two of them.

This is what I saw when I got home from work...it must have been a hard day!

I don't know who looks cuter...the hubbs or the babes :) Ruby is wanting to chew on everything. So on recommendation from a good friend I bought her Sophie :) The cutest giraffe around.

Lets go home! Packing up after visiting with Grandma Julie and Grandpa Wayne. Dan never gets her buckled up very quickly, he takes advantage and googles with her for a bit!

Ruby's Blessing Day

Ok, so this is out of order, but I thought it was about time to do a post about Ruby's blessing!

We were lucky enough to have some of Dan's family come out for Ruby's blessing. Dan blessed her on June 6th, on her 2 month birthday. The other priesthood holders in the circle were: Blaine (Dan's dad), Wayne (my dad), Jaime (Dan's brother), and friends Heath, Chad, Kelly, Vern (home teacher), Randy, and Bishop Drollinger.

Many family members and friends were there. We felt very lucky and loved. Dan's parents, brother Jamie and his wife Brooke, younger sister Alaina and her little girl Ariah, and grandmother, My mom, dad and grandma, Andy and April. We had great friends there as well!

The "photo shoot" afterwards tested everyone's patience, especially Dan's. My sister Brooke and my mom made Ruby's blessing dress. It is so pretty and was perfect or our little Ruby!

Grandma and Grandpa Ricks' lovin' on their newest grandbaby!

(She has since lost that status - Congrats Justin & Ashley!!)

It was such a great Sunday! Dan and I feel so blessed to have this little girl in our eternal family. She really has brought us so much joy! She is such a doll!

One thing I am bummed about is that we didn't get any pictures with my side of the family. Do you think it would be weird if we dressed Ruby back up in her dress and took more pictures?

I have no words :)

Caught in the Rain

We wanted to go on a walk with Ruby and the puppy to a reservoir where Brindi can swim. See below...Brindi LOVES to swim!

However, just after we got there...and got the baby all loaded up in the BOB and Brindi ready to go...and took 10 steps up the trail, a man told us that there was a baby black bear up the trail a little ways eating some fruit off a tree. So, uh, we decided that since we weren't up for out running momma bear so we went to Gold Camp Road.

It was a pretty clear sky when we started, but this is how the second half of the hike looked like. We ran the whole way down and THANKFULLY Ruby did not feel a drop of rain! I was so happy I decided to put my green rain coat in the BOB. We finagled that over her seat and she was as dry as a bone!

Welcome to my simple life :)

Babies are the best entertainment!

I thought perhaps we could capture a sweet moment between Mama and Ruby cuddling, as little baby fell asleep...

Wha....is that a CAMERA?!?

She did this a few times. She would relax and rest her head on my chest, Dan would whip out the camera and she would sit straight up again. I mean straight up and totally alert.

This is the picture Dan captured after the 3rd time Ruby pulled this little stunt, we were laughing so hard, that he couldn't keep the camera upright!

Hmmm, nice legs :)

Come on Ruby, cooperate please...

There we go :)

We love this little girl and are having so much fun with her! She rolled over for the first real time tonight. We will have to get video of that tomorrow!

Don't make fun on her huge pacifier, she likes it.

Playing Catch Up

Hello Everyone! I have been away for a little bit so here are pics of our babe. We L.O.V.E .her. Seriously. And we aren't the only ones :)

Brindi and Ruby. Ruby doesn't really care about Brindi...BUT Brindi cares about Ruby :)

I think in this picture she looks like my Dad...and I look like my Dad...so finally a picture where Ruby looks like me?!?

Dan gets mad when I put head bands on her...and Grandpa says it gives her a headache.

Ah well

She really does love the bath time!

I think little panda outfit is one of my favs! She looks so good in baby blue because of her eyes!

Her 4th of July outfit. I had to incorporate some red accents since I didn't buy her a special "4th of July" outfit.

So cute, but I don't have to tell you that! She has a little dimple on the side of her nose.

That might be a "Katie" look...what do you think?

So funny! I was dropping her off at Grandma's and it took me and my mom like 2 minutes to get her to smile :) She just kept looking at us like...Puhlease!

I bought these little baby legs (which are like my favorite things besides cloth diapers). I don't know why I thought they would actually fit her...they are so huge, but she likes them too so I let her wear them.

First really great smile caught on camera. I love this dress, she looks so cute in it. Notice the g diapers package in the background! Who wants to talk about cloth diapers???Anyone, Anyone?

Love the spikey hair and the double chin!

Why am I commenting on every picture?

That belly shirt used to be big on her! She is growing so fast!

Special Ty Post

My bro Ty came to town on the 22nd of May during his cross country training flight. Ty is currently in Del Rio Texas going to Pilot Training for the Air Force. It was so fun to see him! It was a whirl wind trip, he was there long enough to help Grandma move into her new house, eat at Chipotle (Ruby's first trip there), and go on a training flight. He was the last of my siblings to meet Ruby...now we just need Makamae and Keith to get over here :)