Thursday, April 2, 2009

ruby turns one!

so the big day was quite a hit! our first 'first'
birthday party. we had planned on having some
thing small....just close family and friends but it
turned into qutie the extravaganza in our backyard.
since we had just closed the restaurant we had plenty
of new yard furnishings and plenty of company to
share in the festivities. i always say the more the
merrier. i do love entertaining and seeing that people
are enjoying themsleves. i guess that was the joy of
palatte for me.

So for sure the best part of the night was the big
birthday song and her clapping in excitement that
everyone was singing to her. lets just say she definitely
likes the attention and really is quite different that I
ever was as a kid.

the cake was a rediculous tiffany blue color and
filled with blackberries....her biggest food obsession.



just look at that happy lady!



YEAHHHH!!!
thank you to all who could come and
many many thanks for the lovely gifts!
we are loving all the new books to read!




Friday, February 27, 2009

gardening

some pics of our recent gardening additions its one of our favorite hangouts!













long drives turn to silliness

so a month or so ago Emily and I decided to take a spontaneous trip to ca for a couple days. it was Ruby's first long car trip, and I thought why not give it a try, we can stop as much as we want, and we did. Bathroom stops, nursing stops, more bathroom stops, and just needed fresh air and stretching stops, oh and of course gas and coffee for sure. Here are some funny pics of the kids in the car deciding to imitate thumbsucking (Ruby's favorite passtime)...which quickly turned into really silly toe sucking as well. Finn was an expert...he must have the tastiest toes.









be-lated haloween 'Bono' Ruby




profile

so i guess i have a thing for her profile. just can not ever quite capture its cuteness and delicious nature in a photograph. its so yummy!
i especially love the hair clipped back....even though she shakes her head no pretty rapidly as i try to sneak in a hair clip. doesnt she know how cute it is? clearly little girls just dont get hair. messy is her favorite do.













happy reading time

i just loved catching these two one night getting snuggly to 'pajama time'...Ed's favorite bedtime rap with his little girl:)