We miss you!

I am really missing having my mom here. I miss having her come over in the mornings to help me get Luke off to school. I miss her dinners. I miss her taking Ava to the park. I miss our wasting time together talking all day.:) She is the best. Oh yeah and Papa John came out too. ;) Love and miss you both. XOXOX

A Special Day

We blessed our sweet little Ruth on October 16th, it was such a pretty fall day. Her blessing from Jeremy was beautiful. We were lucky to have most of our family there with us.

I made her little dress, Grandma Barker got her the pretty light pink flower for her hair and Aunt Elizabeth crocheted her beautiful blanket. I thought she looked like a little angel.

Grandma Patsy got her these beautiful flowers and we made stew and pumpkin "bussert".

Thanks everyone for coming and enjoying the day with us.

happy birthday to our little ava in the middle

One day Ava came home from joy school singing a song from a game she had played. It went like this, "Froggy in the meedle (middle) can't get scaped (escape)". That song just kind of stuck only it changed to, "Ava in the meedle can't get scaped". Now that the new baby is here Ava really is stuck in the middle and she loves it that way. She loves being the big sister. Let her hold the baby, make her a warm chocolate milk in the mornings and throw in some dance classes and life is pretty darn good for this little girl. She really does love life and it shows on her bright happy little face. Happy Birthday to our 5 year old-big sister-Ava in the meedle. We love you!

a pretty fall evening

Just Wasting Time

My little photographer Ava took this picture, I just love it. It's one of those pictures I know I will look back at and want to crawl right back into. I forgot just how fun it is to cuddle a new baby. I could waste a lot of time just doing this. A LOT OF TIME.

It's a Girl!!!

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My little helper.

Jeremy with his girls.

I have to say that the excitement of not knowing if it was going to be a boy or a girl made having a baby just that much more..well, exciting! It was so much fun to finally know! She was born on September 22nd. We named her Ruth Jaime, after my Grandma and Jeremy's little sister who passed away. She weighed in at a chunky little 8lbs. 3oz. We just love her to pieces!!!

And that's why we have kids.

Last week was the last week I actually got up early to eat breakfast and talk with Jeremy before work. This week I am just plain lazy. Most mornings I honestly don't even remember hearing him leave. I now wake up to Ava right in my face, "Mom wake up I need a chocolate milk!" I usually tell her I'll get her one if she scratches my back first. I know...what mom makes their kids scratch their back? Me. She's a good little back scratcher so I take advantage of it. Her foot messages are really nice too. No, I don't make her. The last couple days she has just gone and found lotion and rubbed my feet. How sweet is that! I think she likes trying to get rid of the giant cracks in my heels. She asked me if it's because I'm getting old that I have cracks on my feet. Oh and she asked me why my legs are fat.:( Isn't she just so sweet and honest.
Yesterday I tried to wake Luke up to come eat breakfast. (I'm afraid he is going to be one of those teenagers that you have to throw water on to wake them up in the morning.) While I was finishing putting on some make-up I overheard Ava say to Luke, "Luke wake up and get dressed okay. Get dressed and I will scratch your back."
I blame my Dad. He taught us that the reason you have kids is so they will give you back scratches and make you brownies. Ava and I have been making a lot of brownies as of late...maybe that's why my legs are so fat. I think Dad was right, back scratches and brownies, great reasons to have kids!