Derailed

Hello All! I'm embarassed to see my last post was in FEBRUARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And this post doesn't even have a picture to go with it. Sorry. I didn't realize how I was just managing to get it all done, including a blog, until my mom passed away this spring. That event has me dropping the ball on the blog (and probably other parts of my life that my all too kind family is helping me with). I'm not as in touch with my feelings as others so it takes me a good 2 hours to figure out on a morning when I'm exhausted or feeling HIGHLY irritable that I'm actually SAD. As I said from the beginning, this blog is as much for me as for anyone else as this is my only form of "journaling" and keeping a chronicle of my family so I am motivated to get back into the swing of things and none too soon as I'm happy to say baby number three is on the way-like 10 weeks away!! YIKES. So maybe I can muster up some enthusiasm and get caught back up on the past 7 months before the next wave of insanity hits?????? I've got so much I could write about and even more to be thankful for; just getting this post on has me feeling a little more like I'm back on the blogging track. Hopefully yours, Ruby

"Hide" and Seek!

Wright's "SUPER DUPER" hiding spot!!!!


Wright LOVES playing Hide and Seek. Like most 2 year olds; however, he is NOT good at it, which is hilarious!!!! His cousins will tell you that he has very little understanding on how to be inconspicuous and he almost always gives other people's hiding spots away to the seeker by trying to stick his head into the hider's spot and talk to them. As you can tell from this picture, the seeker has to be very creative in ignoring the hider some times. I actually stepped over him to "look" for him in the closet. But what made this one so funny, was how quiet and still he was!!!!! Other times he does find much better spots like in the closet behind clothes, etc. If you talk aloud to yourself when walking around trying to find him and say "is Wright behind the dresser?" you can hear his voice from his hiding spot saying "no". :) Love this guy!!!!!!!!!!

More to come soon on blizzards and birthdays!!

Winter Wonderland

We've been experiencing a very "WINTERY" winter so far with several significant snowfalls and chilly weather. I think the local school district's have used 4 snow days so far and let out early another day! We've been trying to get some outside time on the tolerable temperature days. We have a pretty good sledding hill on the back side of the pond dam, but I have no pictures from those adventures.

As you'll see in the pictures below, we're always decked out in full winter weather gear (and sometimes I even put the right clothes on the right people!), we've had some cool scenery to look at, we've built the perfect snowman, we've been "tubing" and we've gone on a "red-neck" sleigh ride.

Hope your winter has been packed with fun!! Okay Spring-we're ready for you now:)

Trying to get out of the house-trying to get Journey rounded up as I'm putting Wright's coat on. He stands on the chair and lets me get it on and ZIPPED UP and then I look down and realize I've just put Journey's coat on him-giggle!!

We had a good snowfall before Wright got his snow boots so he could totally appreciate them when he did get them!! The fact they are Thomas the Train and blue sealed the deal. Wright LOVES his "boo choo choo" boots and stomping around in the snow!!

Freezing fog at night = BEAUTIFUL scenery the next morning!

The perfect snowman!

Who said inner tubes were for summer??

Our red-neck sleigh ride. (It's an old flat bottom boat)

Merry Christmas and Happy 2011!

Hello,

Thought I better get this post in before the big birthday rush in February!! We had a wonderful Christmas holiday complete with several inches of snowfall on Christmas EVE:) It was a whirlwind 2 weeks of parties that wore the kids (and US) out by the time school started back up again. Journey and Wright both made out like bandits. Journey was excited to get some Littlest Pet Shop toys and Zhu Zhu hamsters along with a stuffed weiner dog (and MORE!) Wright got lots of tractors (green) and some new pj's and the big hit of a new wooden train track set. Journey and Wright both play with the train set quite a bit and Journey says Dad makes the "coolest" tracks. These pictures include a couple from Rothwell Park's "Christmas in the Park" Light Display. We drove and walked through this wonderful display of Christmas light decorations 6 or 7 times. Both of the kids enjoyed it greatly with lots of "oohs and aahs". At the little donation booth, the ladies working saw how excited the kids were and reminded us to enjoy the kids at this age as it goes by so fast-maybe this blog will help me remember!!!! Wishing you all the best in 2011!!!!!!!!!!

Wright's "Nanny"

Wright and Journey have LOTS of cousins and they get to play with them very frequently. Ever since Wright was born, he has had special attention from his cousin, Lilly. Lilly is my sister Renee's youngest. She is a first grader and she and Wright connected immediately! She seeks him out and takes him to play and he calls for her often as we drive up to my mom and dad's house knowing she might be there to play. (Journey had to get used to the idea that Lilly wanted to play with Wright instead of her-WHAT?!!) For almost a year, Lilly has been like a third little caregiver for Wright at family gatherings. If Wright wasn't with Jeff or me, he was with Lilly. So it is not lost on me, that Wright calls Lilly, "Nanee". She has definitely been our little nanny for Wright and he LOVES HER DEARLY-as do we!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!