First Time at The Park!

So today was Ruby's first time at the park. She LOVED it! I see many visits in our future.

We pulled in and I was sending a quick email, my car was facing it and she just kept yelling "what's that?!?!!!". So we got out and off she went.

She found a little one year old girl she immediately wanted to love on and give kisses to. She's so sweet and lovey but I know how I'd feel if some random child came up to her and started kissing her.

Anyway, it was a blast. The car said it was 80 degrees but it felt like 90. It's so humid.

We have a full weekend planned so I'm trying to take it super easy tonight. I have been picking up the house getting ready for cleaning day. We plan on scrubbing this house tomorrow top to bottom, putting out my fall/Halloween decor and then we have dinner plans with our friends Laina and Travis. We are going to Rogers for my favorite, Bonefish. Laina and Trav have never had it.

Then Sunday we have my Dad's birthday breakfast planned. We're going to the Inman's after that to see them for a bit then dinner with Mom, Wayne and my grandpa. Please pray for Grandpa Rick. His surgery is Tuesday.

Have a good weekend!

Love,

Sarah

Thoughts...

Because I'm blogging now, not facebooking. I know I said I was deleting my fb but I can't right now. We have a competition at work starting soon for the most likes on our pumpkin, our whole office wins a spa day! So I have to keep it for a bit longer. And all you people who I've helped out have to help me now. :)

My thoughts, being a lady. I sometimes hate it. I know I'd never have had the pleasure of being pregnant and having that sweet girl but I hate what comes along with it. Sadness, anxiety, stress, UN-natural thoughts.

More thoughts, I have the worst headache known to man kind. I can hardly see straight.

I had a patient call today to tell us she had to move and to transfer her records. We started chatting about a mutual person we both know. She said "yeah she seems happy if you believe everything you see on Facebook". Ha! So I'm not the ONLY ONE who sees all these people pretending to be happy?!? Am I the only person on earth who has the thoughts "I can't keep up, I can't get caught up, I'm tired, I'm grouchy!!!!! Why is my child non stop whining!"?!?!???

While I'm being super random, do you ever feel like you can't keep up with society? Why can't I be the girl who DOESN'T CARE?!? I mean I want to take care of myself and look and feel good but I'm sick of women making me feel like a sloppy lard butt.

Oh well. Thank goodness for this blog and thank you all for listening.

Have a good day.

Sarah

15 Months!

After this post I plan on creating a template to fill out for all her birthdays. It seems like it'd be easier than just randomly typing it.

So 15 MONTH! Holy cow! Why does that seem so much older than 14??? I told Jared last night if we got pregnant now ruby would be 2 when we had baby. Not gonna happen though. One mama can wish. Yes, I'm ready.

So gosh where to start. Such a big girl!

Things you love---jewelry is the first thing that comes to mind. Every time we are getting ready to go somewhere you go to my closet and stand where my necklaces are. You have to have your beads. And if I have a bracelet on it doesn't last long, you get it. Already you are starting it. Mama won't have anything of her own from here on out. Makeup. Not actual colors but the brushes. I always have to give you one or two of mine to "put ya make up on". I absolutely love it. This is why every girly girl mama needs a daughter. Books. You find one at least 3 times a day and come sit in my lap to read it to you. Right now your favorite is "brown bear brown bear". It has windows for you to open and you love it. I have to read it to you about 3 times in one sitting every time. The garage. You absolutely love playing in there. I know it's because there is so much for you to get in to. The big stereo is in there which you love turning on and up and down and dancing to the music. You love to dance. Bath time--Daddy turns on his Pandora radio on the dock and y'all just bathe away. He says the music calms you. It is a lot of George Strait and you do love it so much. Puffs--I don't give them to you but at Miss Kathy's you steal the other kids. It's pretty funny. One of your friends there mom only allows him to eat organic. Apparently you love his organic puffs which Kathy says taste like cardboard. They laugh at you stealing his puffs but I do not. I'd rather you just eat your graham crackers at snack time, or whatever she's feeding you. Shoes---you always have to have your shoes on. Then you love to take them off and on and act surprised when you do it. You have the funniest surprised face. Mowing---I'm pretty sure if you're home Daddy will never be able to mow again without you on there with him. You LOVE IT! Just like your cousin Tucker. Milk! Animals. Most of them run from you but you definitely got the animal lover gene from Grammie. Little kids, why we need another one. ;)

Things you don't like---first, diaper rash. Poor little baby you've been getting it pretty bad lately. And it makes you hysterical. I promise to not let it happen anymore. Spankens. Neither do I but it's something your dad and I strongly believe in. I spanked your little hand the other day and you just puckered that little lip and hugged me. By the end of it we were both crying. Hard. The shop vac. Your body starts shaking and you cling to me like a little monkey.

You are thriving like crazy. You are about 22 lbs. Not sure how long you are. You are in 18 month clothes and size 4 shoe. I bet it won't be long before you are in all of those 24 month-2T clothes we were given.

You say SO MUCH! Since you've been actually saying words since you were 6 months old it is not surprising to me but it surprises a lot of others. Your words---yuck, that, ball (even though it sounds like bowww), boot, mama, daddy, Tucky, no, tanks (thanks), hot, hat, what, at, Bubba (you point at his picture and kiss him--hurts my heart), where, shoes, doggy, kitty, woof woof, meow, again, Sarah (yes me) it, and much more. Sentences---where's mama, dad, sarah at? And that's all I've been able to understand so far.

I personally think you're the smartest baby alive. I teach you something and you have it down. I bought a toilet for you so we can start training. I'm hoping it's an easy process. You brighten my day no matter what. I need you to be with me 24/7. I even almost snuck you in bed with us. Daddy thinks its a bad habit to start even though he wants you with us just as much. I also don't think you would sleep very good.

I love you more than anything baby girl. Keep smiling and keep shining sweetie. You can do and be anything you want!

Love,
Mommy

Randoms

Well it has been too long since I've blogged. I seem to always find something "more important" to look at when I come to blog then get sidetracked.

I plan on taking a long break from Facebook. I don't think there's anything wrong with it but there is to me when I spend as much time on there as I do. I also let others opinions get to me too much. It's just easier to delete it and take a break from it than trying to delete everyone I don't want to see. So what I'm doing is collecting contact information from the important ones (my family) and giving myself a month off. For my sanity. I know that sounds crazy but I think more of you than not will understand.

Ruby is very well. We've had a few very big weekends and I will post pictures below. A couple of weekends ago we went to the Gentry Safari with Jake, Lindsey and Nikki. It was SO FUN. We timed it perfectly. We got there about an hour and a half before lunch. We did the petting part and walk through first. There were monkey's you could get in the cage with to pet and play with. Lindsey was the only one brave enough to do it. Those monkey's were crazy! They jumped all over her, pulled her hair, and one of them reached through the fence and took Nikki's sunglasses ran to the back of he cage and cracked them in HALF!!!! The keeper lady felt so bad. When she went to get them from the monkey the poor little thing got her feelings Hurt and started crying. Hilarious. We also went on camel rides. Fun fun. After the walk through we had a picnic. We all brought some yummy food that we shared. I forgot to mention the weather was amazing! Nik and Lins even mentioned being "cold". After our picnic we did the drive through part. I forgot how long it was. The kids had so much fun. I love getting Jake and Ruby together. He is so special to us and I just wish Ruby and I could spend more time with him. And Lindsey of course.

Last weekend was good too. Ruby and I went to alma to spend some time with the family. I had lunch with Mom, Wayne, Briana and Tucker. We then went to see Grandpa Rick. He's doing better and finally got clearance for his surgery! Please keep him in your prayers. After that we went up to the Inman's then dinner with my dad and Linda. It was a big day.

Jared, Rubes and I just took it easy on Sunday. We had lunch, went to the mall and napped.

Ruby is doing so well. She's talking so much. Asking questions like "what's that?", "where's dad/mama at?". She's saying a lot more words but I'll save that for her 15 month old blog. 15 months can you believe it?!?

This weekend is Jake's birthday party. He is 2!!!! I'm excited to see everyone and let Ruby play with the kiddos.

More randomness... I am not working out right now. I don't know what my deal is but I can see it becoming a problem with winter right around the corner. I really don't need my winter coat just to have to work it off this spring. :)

Let's see... I can't think of anything else. The holidays and winter is coming and this mama is stoked!!!

I hope you all are doing better than ever!

Love,

Sarah

**14 Months Old**

We simply can not believe it. We were just talking about it this morning and can't believe Ruby is so old!

She's saying a lot more words here lately. Ball, hat, hot, baby, ruuuuby, bye bye, mama, daddy, do it (her way of saying "do it again"), and much more. She is asking questions I just can't understand them. I know she says "where is daddy at?" with her hands up along with it. Tonight Jared asked if she wanted some strawberry apple sauce and went to give her a bite and she shook her head and said "no I don't want that". It's amazing to me how very smart she is. She says "hot" at just the right time. She knows what she wants when she wants it. My mom has said "she's very opinionated" since she was born and it's so true.

She loves to eat! Her favorite is still just lunch meat, green beans, and milk. Here lately she loves cookies. It's hard to keep them in the house because Jared and I are so weak when it comes to sweets but we're just going to have to learn self control. She enjoys them too much for me to deprive her of them because of our bad habits. :) She is still taking a bottle before bed. I used the last of her formula this week so it's whole milk in the bottle now. We go through a gallon a week and that's when she's at Kathy's during the day. I love that she loves milk.

She loves to take things apart and put them back together. She concentrates very hard when she's working on things.

She's so hyper in the mornings and it's so cute to me. I love how much she loves life. It's so enlightening. I could be having the worst day and she smile at me and it's better. And I'm not lying about that.

She has 12 teeth. The 4 upper, lower and all her first molars. Danys (my friend from work) told me the letter for them but I already forgot. I know there's another one coming through but I haven't had a chance to really look.

She no longer loves having her teeth brushed. It's a fight every night and will soon be every morning. I have to start brushing in the mornings too!

She's biting. :( It's official. The other day I got to Kathy's and talked to her and Bentley's mom for 10 minutes. As they were leaving Kathy pointed out to me the horrible bite mark on his arm. She said she didn't see or hear anything so she figured he was fine but it looked awful. Ruby is the only other one with a full set of teeth so we know it was her. I of course felt horrible. Bentley's mom told me not to worry about it and she's sure he provoked it but as I told her, it is unacceptable. Then she bit me tonight. Right on the shoulder. It hurt bad too. I don't know what to do. I never imagined myself having such a hard time with the discipline area but I am. And Jared simply does not want any part of it. I guess I'll just pray about it and hope I figure out how to handle things.

She is one healthy, happy and beautiful baby girl. We love her more than we ever imagined possible. We laugh about things she does and probably talk about her every night after she goes to bed for 30 minutes or more. Ruby Sloane, thank you for being the most amazing thing to ever happen to us. Love you baby!

Ruby Lovin'

This weather is amazing. I laid in the pool today for a couple hours and the water was cold. I loved it. I can not wait for winter. Not fall, WINTER! Hopefully it's colder than last year.

Ruby and I played outside forever. She played in the sand the other night so Jared took her to the side of the house where the faucet is to rinse off before coming in the house. Every since then that's right where she goes. Wants to play in that water. So I had Jared hook up this little fire hydrant my dad got her to the hose. She loved it but got a little cold. So much fun, don't let her facial expressions fool you.

I told you all this to explain the pictures because I haven't the slightest clue how to caption pictures one by one.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Love,

Sarah

P.S. The "Welcome" dogs is her new favorite thing. We went to the Dollar General and she saw it and carried it in the cart the entire time. When I gave it to the cashier she started crying so I bought it for her. It was only $3.50 so what the heck She pets them and kisses them and loves on them. I named them Blackie, Brownie and Goldie. Haha! So funny.

Lil' of this, lil' of that...

Nothing specific tonight. Things are as good as always.

Last weekend was great. I went to an all girls swim party Friday night while Jared and Ruby had a little daddy/daughter time. We all had fun. I really enjoyed catching up with my girlfriends that I NEVER get to see.

Saturday we went to the Inman's for Tucker's 6th birthday party. Angie made steaks and they were delicious! Briana got his cake from Sweet Boutique in VB. It was by far the best cake from a bakery I've ever had. His theme this year was duck commander. He absolutely loves Si from Duck Dynasty. His cake turned out great. We just got him money. He is such an old soul that we don't feel like children's toys phase him. He also got a safe, a tent, a new Underarmour shirt and a duck call (the one Si makes of course). Sweet boy.

Sunday my sister and her girls came up to Fayetteville to do some back to school shopping. Tax free weekend + 3 girls to shop for = exhausting. It was so fun though. We started out at Daisy Exchange where we all found a couple items. If you haven't been there you really should go! It's a resale store but they also have some super cute brand new things, cami's, jewelry and much more. I love it! Then we hit up the mall. Ruby didn't make a peep all day. She didn't nap either. It was crazy. I can't say enough how much she loves being in public. It's hilarious to me. The girls all got some super cute clothes and shoes. I love shopping even when it's not for me so it was a great day!

Ruby is doing as good as ever. I found another molar. So that makes 12 teeth for the girl. The top right one is still trying to get through. She has some big ol' chompers that's for sure. This morning she was just saying "mama mama mama" over and over again. Of course I was repeating it with her because I can't get enough of it. She also roars like a bear now too. She has been barking and "meowing" and now she's a bear too. She's just getting too big too fast.

Well we have nothing planned this weekend so I've decided to make our "date night" this weekend. We are actually gonna have a "date day" and go do a little shopping for daddy. He needs some new clothes.

We've taken off the past month and a half from working out. We started back last night and I am so sore! I decided to try the 30 day shred strictly for one month. It's only 20 minutes a day but it feels like 2 hours. I know it works so I'm going to try to stick with it. Wish me luck!

Hope you all have a great rest of your week and weekend!

Love,
Sarah