Happy Birthday Shepherd!

Today is the day, two years ago, that we had an impatient little boy join our family. I will never forget the grace and provision God showed us that day. With all of the unexpected medical emergencies, we welcomed a healthy baby boy, three weeks early, on my mom’s birthday!  Two years later, Shepherds personality has grown immensely and he already has a strong interest in skateboarding, music, and dancing. The moment you turn the stereo on, he comes running out of the room and starts dancing. Then usually yells “louder, louder mommy!” 

A few other phrases he says often are:

“dat cool mommy? Dat cool? ( usually after he jumps off something or does a trick)

“Skateboarding!” (pretends that all his toys are skateboarding)

“I sorry Ruby” (this is said quite often in one day!)

“cer-ro-rol mommy? Bowl? Spoon? With milk mommy?” ( every morning J)

 Happy birthday baby boy! We love you!

 

 

Looking forward to what this year will bring!

A birthday for Ruby

4 years ago, we were lucky enough to welcome Ruby Jeanne into our family. She has grown into a very independent, artistic, and smart little girl. A few months ago I let her pick a movie out on Netflix to watch. She chose a documentary on giant colossal squid! From then on, she has been in love with squid and always wants to hear stories of colossal squid being captured. So it was only appropriate to have a squid party!
        We made a squid piñata, and Jeremy even piped a squid on her cake! It was pretty impressive considering he had never done it before :-) And since it was my 26th birthday the same day as the party, we included little bits of things for the adults like a big pitcher of Jeremy's refreshing take on a whiskey ginger, mini roasted vegetable galettes, mini fruit galettes, and a giant cookie made by my mom, which brought back a lot old memories!
         Sunday my sister in-law gave me the gift of watching the kids ALL DAY, while Jeremy and I went out. We ate a delicious lunch at The Sexton and I also went and got a tattoo for my gift from Jeremy. Overall it was an amazing weekend with family and friends and I look forward to celebrating another birthday with my Ruby!

The day of her official birthday...getting ready to open the present from mommy and daddy!

She got a scooter and purple helmet!

Like the big pile of trees we cut down recently in the yard, pretty huh? (j/k)

two arrows, a ruby at the end for Ruby, and the other in the shape of a shepherds staff for Sheppy.

Mail for Ruby

Ruby recently celebrated her birthday...it still is hard to believe that she is three now! Just last week she got two special gifts in the mail, one from Jeremy's older sister, and one from my older sister. It was great to see her face as she opened the packages. She got a beautiful handmade doll quilt and pillow from her Aunt Molly. You can check out all of her other amazing quilts here. She raced upstairs to get her Brave doll, Merida, and tucked her in with the blanket and pillow. It was pretty darn cute. Her present from her Aunt Maria was a cute vintage dress, and a book made from elephant poop, which she found pretty fascinating since it didn't smell like poop...good thing too!