This weekend

We headed downtown this past Sunday for some fun and dinner.

Ruby saw some ducks across the river and loved them.  She is always very interested in animals.

Photo op at the cool tree downtown...

Water was cold, but getting our feet in the water was fun.

Ruby loves to ride on her rocking horse.  This belonged to my Dad when he was a boy and so has been giving rides to many little kids over the years.  Ruby is glad to be the owner of it today.  Notice the princess shoes she is wearing.  She loves to clomp around the house in these or my heeled shoes and she does really well in them.  You can find her in shoes most anytime while inside.  But when she goes outside to play she immediately takes OFF her shoes.  Go figure. 

recent trip to Indiana

The girls and I traveled back to Indiana and stayed for 9 fun filled days.  We are always so taken care of and comfortable and love spending time with family.  Stella and Ruby had such an AWESOME time!  The days go by so quickly though and it seems there is never enough time to get all the plans I have formulated in my head accomplished. With that said we did have time to....

Ride the 3 wheeler with Uncle Chris

Swing A LOT!

Camp out in the backyard

Swing some more

Run a lemonade stand

Wear Grandma out on the playset.  Ruby went up this ladder and down the slide on the other side at least 100 times while we were visiting.  It was definitely her favorite!

Meet friends out for lunch at Casa's.

(The other two blondies in this photo are my very best friend's two youngest daughters. Their mom and I have been friends for 25 years.)

Have and easter egg hunt

and enjoy the spoils!

We also really enjoyed having a 4th birthday party for Stella with family.  We hung out at the mall one morning and enjoyed the carousel there.  Though Ruby did not want to ride up on one of the horses; she felt much better sitting on Andie's lap in one of the benches.  We also went to see The Hunger Games.  Loved it. 

We had a great time and as always the girls were fantastic travellers in the car!



singing in church

Stella was invited to sing with her classmates at church one morning last month.  We were very excited to go and I made sure I got FRONT row seats!!!