Happy 9 Month's Ruth!

My baby girl is already 9 months old - Wow! Time has sure flown by. We've been in Wichita, drove to SC, visited FL, Washington state, Las Vegas, back to SC, then back to Wichita, and now we're getting ready to move to our new house in Wichita. She is such an easy going, sweet, and even tempered little girl. It is so awesome to watch her watching Rachel and just loving everything she does and wanting to be just like big sister. She babbles like crazy, can crawl like a speed demon, is pulling up, and even standing unassisted for a few seconds. She is eating solids really well and takes great naps and sleeps through the night. I couldn't ask for a better baby, she really is perfect.

At the doctor today she weighed 16 pounds and 11 ounces, making her in the 15th percentile. A much bigger improvement from when she was 6 months old. She was 28 1/2 inches, making her in the 79th percentile for height and her head was at the 50th percentile.

 

Here are some pictures we took at Easter with her all decked out in her frilly outfit. Enjoy!

She smiles all the time, but for some reason this was really the only smile I could catch on camera.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone! He has risen!

What a wonderful day we were able to spend together. The weather was sunny and warm, so we got to spend alot of time outside enjoying it.

Here are Rachel and Ruth checking out their baskets from the Easter bunny.

Here's Rachel and her balloon.

Ruth and her bathtime book.

We had to hurry and get ourselves and the girls dressed for church, because we were trying to make the 8am service. Here's Ruth all decked out playing with the Easter grass.

We got Rachel and Ruth these chairs from Wal-Mart and they loved them.

Rachel checking out her bunny glasses and getting ready to hunt some Easter eggs in our yard.

Hunting for Easter eggs.

Good pose.

Ruth watching Rachel very intently while she hunts for the eggs.

Rachel showing Ruth an egg.

Ruth checking out the egg.

 

There were alot of good photos of the girls, way too many to post. I'll post a few of Ruth later this week after she goes to the doctor for her 9 month check up.

Easter - 384th Egg Hunt

Our squadron hosts a egg hunt for the kids every year. Rachel really enjoyed it this year. She went to town collected the eggs. We had to tell her to back off a little so some of the smaller kids could get a chance.

Here she's posing with her haul of eggs.

Collecting some more

She's so busy its hard to ever get a shot of her looking at the camera. But here's her and Isaiah.

Ruth posing with Rachel's basket. We had to do this fast because Rachel was afraid Ruth was going to steal all her eggs and candy.

Ruth touched an egg, so Rachel was telling her to get her hands off.

"Family photo"

Amanda's 30th Birthday

Ugh, well, I hit the big 3-0. I wasn't looking forward to leaving my 20's, but did want to celebrate. Isaiah and the kids got me some great gifts, some picture frames, and Isaiah booked us a cruise in May for 5 days to the carribbean. I can't wait!

My fantastic cake that Isaiah did the writing on.

Me and girls posing before I go out with friends.

Yay! What a great, wonderful group of beautiful and fanstastic ladies that took time out of their super busy lives to come and celebrate with me. Thank you so much for making my night special!

Yum! My birthday dessert! We all shared several rounds and there was still food left.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

I hosted a party for our squadron playgroup with a St. Patrick's Day theme. Here are some pictures from the party and then of the girls actually on St. Patrick's Day.

Rachel eating her snack

One of the crafts we made

Happy St. Patty's Day - I can never get a good one of both. This one Ruth has a fantastic smile, but Rachel's not looking.

This one is pretty good, but Ruth has her fingers in her mouth.

 

More Snow Fun

We've had our share of snow fun this year. Here are some pictures from the snow storm where we took Rachel sledding and built a snowman.

A Woo playing in the snow.

Awesome hill on base where we took Rachel sledding for the first time.

Rachel and I sledding, check out her eyes closed!

Rachel and I posing for a pic at the top of the hill.

My snowman

Rachel's snowman - Ha!

 The igloo Isaiah built. He stole my snowman balls and so I decorated his igloo.

Me in the igloo

Little Miss chillin' in the snow.

 

Aftermath of the snow storm

Well early this morning we had a really cool phenomenon - Thunder snow. It was dumping snow and lightening and thundering out. We got close to 12 inches!

Here's the backyard

Front yard, Isaiah's truck is in the driveway

Oh no, where's a Woo to go potty?

Daddy had to shovel him some place to go.

Rachel standing in the snow. It's up to her knees

Isaiah playing in the snow with his 4x4 drive. The truck is alot of fun in the snow

Here's me taking a break from shoveling snow

Rachel posing next to the igloo.