Thanksgiving 08

We spent our Thanksgiving with Brian's family this year. We had a nice time watching Ruby walking everywhere, taking walks with the dogs, playing some games and of course eating turkey.

Ruby with her Grandpa before our walk to the creek

Ruby and her Daddy walking to the creek...taking a moment for a picture

Brian and his brother John with the dogs (Abby and Luna)

Ruby...possibly a future in the medical field?

Old Friends

During our stay in California we got to have dinner with my old friend from college Shari and her husband and son. It was so wonderful seeing the Kirkpatrick's and having the kids and the husbands meet for the first time.

The Kirkpatrick's

The Laffin's

Me and Shari with Ruby and Hunter who were both getting pretty tired

Happy Thanksgiving

We are currently in Western Kentucky celebrating Thanksgiving with Brian's parents. Here are, however, more pictures from California. These were taken at San Clemente Beach...wish we were there now.

Ruby with Grandma and Grandpa

Ruby with her Grandpa next to the train tracks

Happy Birthday!

 

Happy 5th Birthday to our neice Lauren!

Ducks

Ruby and her Great Grandpa feeding the ducks and geese in his backyard.

While we were in California Ruby saw a lot of ducks, geese, and other birds. This was exciting for her because she got to say her new favorite word all the time "quack quack." Here is a video of her in her Great Grandpa's backyard saying quack quack to the geese and ducks.

From nov 2

California again...

Since I still don't have a computer (if you would like to buy me one as an early Christmas present go ahead) I have to continuing using pictures that I get from my friend Sharon. Here are a few random ones for today:


John and Sharon in front of the beautiful mountains that we woke up to everyday in L.A. County. Do you think John looks like Brian?


Ruby in Hollywood eating Spaghetti and sauce for the first time. Isn't she glamorous?


Ruby's Great Uncle Rick got a kick out of giving Ruby some black icing from her Great Aunt Mary's birthday cake. Oh, the things we do to kids...

My Old Kentucky Home

We are back home from our wonderful vacation to California. We got home on Sunday and have been trying to get back into the swing of the things for the past few days. Ruby has done well transitioning back to Eastern time from Pacific. We had such a great time and have tons of pictures to go through. We still don't have a working computer at home (this is Brian's work computer that I am using now) so that limits the amount of blogging I can do.

Ruby has started walking a lot since we got home and learned lots of new skills while we were in California. She gives kisses (from a distance), says "please" in sign language a lot now, says "quack quack" all the time, and has two big front teeth sticking out.

We haven't put our pictures on a computer yet but here are a few that Sharon (my brother in law's girlfriend) took of us at the San Diego Zoo and Ruby on the beach.