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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
April 2010 Recap
Ruby's first ponytail - 4/1/2010
I adore this picture...I'm wearing her in the sling and she is enjoying the full-service treatment!
Papago Park-4/2/2010
My cute friend Jenny invited the kids and me to hang out with her and her family at Papago Park for an Easter Egg hunt and picnic. I'd never been, so it was lots of fun and the weather was awesome. Carter even found the "golden egg" with money in it! I didn't get a lot of pictures, but here are a few of the kids hanging out.
Hugo is one of Carter's favorite buddies.
Carter and Lacy had fun rolling eggs down the hill.
Carter and Lacy had fun rolling eggs down the hill.
Acacia came too. She's a fabulous babysitter and a sweetheart!
Bunny Day and General Conference - 4/3/2010
It was the tradition in my family growing up to celebrate "Bunny Day" on the Saturday before Easter every year. The Easter Bunny brings us treats on Saturday so that we can focus on Jesus and the resurrection on Easter Sunday.
Carter especially loved his Transformer's coloring book.
I think Ruby liked her stuffed bunny.
Shane made Carter's favorite: star-shaped "egg-in-a-holes" sprinkled with cheese.
It was LDS General Conference weekend the same weekend as Easter, so we enjoyed snuggling and hanging out together all weekend watching conference. Growing up, my siblings and I made "nests" of blankets and pillows from which we watched the conference each Spring and Fall. Shane tried to show Carter how to build a proper nest and CJ had fun with it...until it was time to clean up and put it all away of course.
We took a walk between sessions.
Brad's Mission Call! - 4/6/2010
If you read the blog regularly (or know us personally at all), you know we have a very close relationship with Shane's Uncle Joe and Aunt Claudia. They live just a few blocks away and have been so wonderful to us since we arrived in AZ four years ago. Carter and Ruby know them as Nana and Grandpa. Carter said Nana before Momma, I'm pretty sure.
Anyhow, Bradley (Joe and Claudia's son) received his LDS mission call to the Chile Santiago North mission. We are so excited for him! He will be a hard-working, wonderful missionary. I found out a few days after he got his call that his mission president will be Presidente May, who was in my stake in Valencia growing up, and then moved to UT around the time my parents did. Elder Hilton will be in great hands there with Presidente and Hermana May! Brad graduates from high school at the end of May and reports to the Missionary Training Center on June 16th. Brad's mission call was especially exciting for the family because Brad is the youngest child, only boy, and will be only one to serve a full-time mission (as a young adult anyway) of his siblings.
Here is Elder Hilton with his proud parents.
Fun side note: The map in the background was posted after Brad's papers were turned in and the wait for his call began. The colored markers were guesses from friends and family of where Brad's call would be to. Joe, Brad's dad, noticed nobody had guessed Chile just a couple of days before the call was opened and tagged it as his guess.Ruby is eight months old - 4/18/2010
Shane already posted a bunch of eight month pictures, but I wanted to include this one in the April recap to note that she was not only standing, but taking steps at eight months. I was not encouraging this. I absolutely blame her father...and I have witnesses.
Oh, but I do have to say she melts me. {swoon}Rocker, Parties, & Prom - 4/24/2010
Carter for some reason has a love for rock and roll. He often asks us to "rock" with him. We've scored some sweet band equipment from yard sales and a clearance sale and now we have three toy guitars and a toy microphone with karaoke machine. We jam a lot. Fast forward to cute Cambria's dress-up birthday party. We gave Carter all his dress-up options (Spiderman, pirate, etc.) and he chose rocker. Love these pictures Shane took before the party.
{Notice cliche "Mom" tattoo I drew on his right shoulder and scorpion tattoo dad gave him on his left forearm.}
Carter and Ruby went with Shane to a second friend's party that afternoon while I had the pleasure of taking pictures of Brad and his darling date, Allison, before their prom.
I had so much fun with them. Thanks you two!Lastly, I spent most of April working furiously in every spare moment to prepare for the opening of my etsy shop, Ruby Jane Boutique, and Boutique in the Barn (which was May 1st). The boutique was a lot of fun and although the shop only has one listing so far, it will have many more items listed soon!
Thanks for all your support everyone!
Monday, January 18, 2010
mini home makeover
We always have our eye on wish list items -- things we want to get for the house but know we can wait on until we can get a better deal. We frequently check Craig's List and other sources for these items. A couple of the things we have been watching out for went on sale this week and we finally got to splurge a little. No buyer's remorse here in the least!
First of all, our living room rag rug was one of our favorite purchases ever...three years ago when we bought this place. At this point, it's seen much better times. There is no question we used it up and wore it out, on both sides in fact. If you've seen it recently, you know the rug pad is showing through in spots and the colorful fabric is deeply muted by three years of heavy, daily traffic. For about the last year, we have been looking to replace it, but could never find something we liked as well for an affordable enough price. Several months ago, I found a very similar rug from the same source we purchased the first rug -- Crate & Barrel Outlet. We watched and waited as the price came down lower and lower. Finally, after Christmas, it went over 60% off and we pounced. Happy day! We love it even more in real life than in the pictures online! I sort of wish we would have bought one for our master bedroom now too but, alas, they sold out the day after we ordered ours.
IKEA had a big huge sale after Christms and over New Years weekend. We happened to be in Utah a year or two ago when the MALM collection went on sale during the holiday season, so we couldn't purchase what we wanted since we weren't at home. We've been watching them ever since and they went on sale finally! We purchased two of these dressers (in black) for our bedroom that also double as bedside tables for us. For the first time (after 8.5 years of marriage), I feel like a grown-up person with my own real-life dresser!
We also had been keeping an eye out for a new headboard. We had even toyed with the idea of making our own upholstered one, but weren't sure when or how that was actually going to get done with a million other projects on deck. When we this on clearance in IKEA, my heart jumped and I fell in love!
Last, but certainly not least, we decided on new bedding. We picked out our first bed in a bag set from K-Mart as newlyweds. I still adore everything about it except it's age. It's deep, warm, red/sage/gold, paisley yumminess was exactly my style. Just like with the living room rug, I wasn't sure I'd ever find something I loved as much. However, just like the living room rug, it began to get ridiculously worn. We can see the mattress pad through the sheets. And so it's time, and this is what we have decided upon.
And so a mini home makeover is in the works. Pictures to come when it's all put together!
First of all, our living room rag rug was one of our favorite purchases ever...three years ago when we bought this place. At this point, it's seen much better times. There is no question we used it up and wore it out, on both sides in fact. If you've seen it recently, you know the rug pad is showing through in spots and the colorful fabric is deeply muted by three years of heavy, daily traffic. For about the last year, we have been looking to replace it, but could never find something we liked as well for an affordable enough price. Several months ago, I found a very similar rug from the same source we purchased the first rug -- Crate & Barrel Outlet. We watched and waited as the price came down lower and lower. Finally, after Christmas, it went over 60% off and we pounced. Happy day! We love it even more in real life than in the pictures online! I sort of wish we would have bought one for our master bedroom now too but, alas, they sold out the day after we ordered ours.
IKEA had a big huge sale after Christms and over New Years weekend. We happened to be in Utah a year or two ago when the MALM collection went on sale during the holiday season, so we couldn't purchase what we wanted since we weren't at home. We've been watching them ever since and they went on sale finally! We purchased two of these dressers (in black) for our bedroom that also double as bedside tables for us. For the first time (after 8.5 years of marriage), I feel like a grown-up person with my own real-life dresser!
We also had been keeping an eye out for a new headboard. We had even toyed with the idea of making our own upholstered one, but weren't sure when or how that was actually going to get done with a million other projects on deck. When we this on clearance in IKEA, my heart jumped and I fell in love!
Last, but certainly not least, we decided on new bedding. We picked out our first bed in a bag set from K-Mart as newlyweds. I still adore everything about it except it's age. It's deep, warm, red/sage/gold, paisley yumminess was exactly my style. Just like with the living room rug, I wasn't sure I'd ever find something I loved as much. However, just like the living room rug, it began to get ridiculously worn. We can see the mattress pad through the sheets. And so it's time, and this is what we have decided upon.And so a mini home makeover is in the works. Pictures to come when it's all put together!
Sunday, December 06, 2009
My Tricycle
Or, "my tri-ci-cycle," as Carter likes to call it. This trike was a total score that Megan's mom found at a garage sale in Utah. She sent it down with Eliza, our niece, when she came to meet Ruby (thanks guys!).
It took him a few tries to get the hang of it, but now he really cruises. He loves riding it around the sidewalk loop in front of our house
It took him a few tries to get the hang of it, but now he really cruises. He loves riding it around the sidewalk loop in front of our house
(Yes, those are two different shoes he has on, but we thought the fact that they were on the right feet is progress!)
Thursday, November 19, 2009
WE MADE IT INTO THE FINALS!!!
Don't tell me you can honestly look at this face and not go vote for her! ;)
Thank you!
Because of our dear friends and family, we managed to make it into the top nine of the Ohdeedoh Small Kids, Big Color 2009 competition. Please help Ruby Jane stay in the top three by clicking on the link above and voting for us in the semifinals within the next 24 hours!
Here is one of our entry pictures.
If you are having trouble voting, see the instructions in the next post. To see the original entry click here.
Thank you!Because of our dear friends and family, we managed to make it into the top nine of the Ohdeedoh Small Kids, Big Color 2009 competition. Please help Ruby Jane stay in the top three by clicking on the link above and voting for us in the semifinals within the next 24 hours!
Here is one of our entry pictures.
If you are having trouble voting, see the instructions in the next post. To see the original entry click here.How to Vote for Ruby
The voting process has been a little problematic and it's not very clear how to go about placing a vote once you get to the site, so I put together some instructions to make it easy for everyone.
Scroll down a bit and you'll see the voting buttons in the form of a poll:
Click on the "Register" link.
If you voted before in the semifinals, you can skip this registration step.
(I wish you didn't have to register, but it's the only way they have to control the voting).
Choose a username. Enter your email address and choose a password.
The email signup boxes are unselected by default so you won't get any email solicitations.
Check the Terms & Policies box and click "Sign Up"
(If the registration box doesn't come up, you may need to disable your pop-up blocker).
A confirmation message will show up. You can close this window.
Check your email for a message like this:
Click on the first link in the email to verify your account.
Now go back to the ohdeedoh website.
Scroll past all the comments to the very bottom of the page to log in to your account.
Once you are logged in, go back up to the top section of the page with the voting buttons.
Pick Ruby's Room (if you like it), and click on "answer survey".
The button in this picture is greyed out because we've already voted.
Yours shouldn't be at this point. (If it is still greyed out after logging in, try using a different web browser, or a different computer. For some people (me included) this has been a problem if they voted in the first round. The site seems to think you've already voted in the finals.)
Thanks everyone! It's a tight race. Yours could be the swing vote!
Friday, November 13, 2009
It's gonna be a close call!
We are beyond grateful to those of you who took a minute to vote for us over the last two days. It's a pretty close call, but I think we at least have a chance of making the finals at the end of the week. The top nine vote getters (excluding any international entries) will advance to the finals. From there, the top three vote getters will win the contest prizes. Please stay tuned and we'll let you know as soon as the 24-hour final voting period opens -- as long as no more a than a couple of entries pass us up between now and then and we actually get to be in the finals!
In the meantime, I believe we have some daily adoption month posts to make up for...
Please check out new posts coming below (dated chronologically in the order they should have been posted).
Sunday, September 13, 2009
I Needa Fix This Chair
Carter helped... er um... didn't completely hinder Dad in replacing the AC fan in the car this week. Not surprisingly, he later found all kinds of things in the house in desperate need of repair. It's sure nice to have a son that knows his way around a tool box to keep things in tip-top shape!
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