A visit from Papa and Mama 'Gaard!

opening a birthday gift

A fun puzzle

Going for a train ride at the train park in Phoenix

All aboard!

Time to start!

Check your engines!

One big train and one little engineer!

Our family with Grandpa and Uncle Brian

When you're tired, all you need is Grandma

Helping Grandma play a game

This game was soooo exciting!

I love special times with all my grandmas and grandpas

My turn!

Hooray!

Laptime with Grandma!

Laptime with Grandpa!

Enjoying a California Gravenstein apple

I like my apple



Watching my baby!



All grown up!

A Birthday Party!

Ruthanne's birthday cake for her three year old party!

We had a garden theme. Here is the rabbit cake made of carrot cake!

A flock of little chickie eggs to eat with the Mommie in the middle!

Everyone is seated and ready to eat!

Here is the birthday girl.

Her friend Acarith was siting right next to her.

Nathan was excited to sit in Ruthanne's big seat. He enjoyed all the food!

We played a matching game to find the bugs on the veggies!

Time to blow out the candles!

Enjoying his piece.

After everyone left, Bapa and Mama had gifts for her to open - her favorite was this
block puzzle. She plays with it every day.

Special Birthday Week!

Happy Birthday Ruthanne! On Wednesday, August 13th, she turned three years old!
She is eating a special orange coffeecake for breakfast with her favorite  - raisins!

The grocery store we go to gives free cakes for children under 12 on their birthday.
They made a nice cake and we shared it with our church family that Wednesday night after
church. Everyone enjoyed that.

Here is the birthday girl enjoying her cake and icecream!

Nathan enjoyed it too and made a mess!

Nathan received a gift too - a fun car to drive around the house!

Wow! A big chalk pencil! Thank you Bapa and Mama Bird! She is
also wearing the skirt from Aunt Pat! Thank you all!

Playing with her new picnic set.

Painting a picture!

Come sing a song with me!

A Day at the Park

Nathan loves going down the slide!

Climbin' up the mountain!

Our little climber!

Here I come!

That was fun!

Cheese!