Ruthie the Daredevil!

Ruthie is skinning the cat with Daddy...



and here's Ruthie finally getting braver on her slide at home...

At Youth Camp this year Ruthie got to hang out at the beach with her pals Isaac, his sister Havilah, and her friend Matthew who is visiting from California one his 3 year birthday, and Kira was there to push them on the swing.
They had a lot of fun together!

Happy Birthday Grandpa!

Today grandpa gets even older...



Happy Birthday Grandpa we love you lots you are an excellent Daddy and Grandpa too! xoxo

Fun with the Cuz's

Cousins Jacob and Brennen came to stay with Grandma and Grandpa for a few days. They came out for Pinehurst days and played with Ruthie. They weren't super into the car show but the kids had fun playing with each other.
A couple days later we met at Triple Play with them. That was a lot of fun. The boys went down the slides a lot they were not afraid. Ruthie was too little but would not have gone anyway. But I did convince her to come down the little ones a few times. And she enjoyed the pool that made waves. Lizzie ate some of her first cheeseburger, she loves food, and she liked dipping her feet in the water too.

I got mom to go down the tube and she liked it. She got dad to go down with her and he liked it too, but when they came out mom went down and dad kept going over the top of her. Here is a shot of the action, kinda blurry but still funny.

Then the boys got to go on Go Karts with Uncle Matt and Grandpa. Ruthie was still too short, next time Ruthie.


Uncle Matt looks a little messed up is he okay to drive?

I think the big boys had more fun than the little boys on these.

Too Many Pets.

Well we have had one dog Tucker since we moved in around christmas, he has been a handful but is getting through with the puppy stage and is turning out to be ok. We thought maybe he would be even better if he had a friend so we are on trial run with our friends dog they wanted to get rid of named Minnie. She is going back tomorrow, after chewing up several toys, jumping the fence and chewing things in the neighbors garage and barking all day when we leave. One morning I woke up to Ruthie crying and I ran in to see what was the matter and there was stuffing all over her room, they had torn up a pillow she had, and she just kept saying "why did they do this?" Ruthie will be sad but not too much because she was willing to trade both dogs in to get a kitty the other day. She did end up getting one...sort of. While the dogs were gone getting wood with Matt a cat came to our yard and Ruthie became instant friends with it.
She named it Leafsberry, or Leasbear?!? She tried to bring it in the house and as you can see it actually let her hold it and carry it some.
It is the best kind of pet to have because it comes to visit and play and then goes to someone elses house for someone else to be responsible for it.
I haven't seen it in a while, the dogs chased it off when they got home. I thought Ruthie would be upset but she laughed really hard.

Getting Stronger

• Ruthie at breakfast eating an egg says, "Mmm....thas' so good. And it's healthy. It makes me strong as a fish!"

• She just went poop, and says, "I will show Daddy my poop." When I told her he was not here and she needs to flush it she said, "it looks like a little squishy panda." Whose daughter is she anyway?

• She wanted to watch the exercise movie, she hates having her picture taken so I had to sneak and get a few shots of her exercising to Core Secrets:

Lizzie's having a lot of fun, she is a happy baby, and getting pretty good at sitting up

And Ruthie had a lot of fun riding neighbor Laurie's horse Ally last weekend

Happy Birthday Gramma Rose a' Rita

Oh how fun to have two grandmas that are twins, it makes for confused grandkids. But it is cool that Ruthie is not shy with Grandma Rita at all. Happy Birthday Mom, we love you, and Rita too.