Ruby G.

Recent pictures of our Little Lady Fuller!

Taking a nap on Aunt Libby!


Smiling! She's so darn cute!




With Gramma Jan at the garage sale we had a couple weeks ago.

This picture is funny :-) Ruby was fussy and Jon flipped her over on her tummy to see if she would settle down and she rested her head on her fist in Jon's arm!

Our Texas Home (Part I)

I did not do a good job of getting before pictures of the home we have moved into... I really wish I would have gotten pictures before we filled the place with our stuff and started working on everything. Oh well...

We are living in a little one-bedroom house on Jon's parent's property. The first three weeks here have been spent separating our stuff into three categories.
1 - things we need to have on hand.
2 - things we want but don't need to have on hand and can go to storage.
3 - things we don't need and can go to Goodwill/the Dump.

Finally, this past Saturday we got all the boxes of storage and Goodwill stuff out of the house! It is so nice to have all that stuff gone :-)

Also, we have painted the Living Room, Kitchen, Bathroom and Bedroom. We pulled up the carpet in the Living Room. And the last project to complete is tiling the Bathroom, which Jon will hopefully complete this week!

Here are some pictures of the different stages we've gone through in the house already.

Stage 1 - Moved all of our stuff into our little house, but we were still staying inside the main house with Jon's parent's. Originally the walls in the Living Room were dark wood paneling which you can still kind of see behind the primer. Ronda came over and got the first round of primer done for us (which was really sweet of her!).

The Front Door and closet in the Living Room.

Living Room. You can see the carpet that we ended up pulling up.

Gas heater in the Living Room with the Kitchen sink in the background (which you can't really see, I think there is a garbage bag of stuff in it...).

The Kitchen.

The Bedroom.


The Bathroom.



Stage 2 - These are of the Bedroom and how it looked for a couple weeks while we were sorting through everything. The walls have been painted a light green. Each kiddo has a corner with our bed off to one side. Can you spot Piper in all the mess? :-)






Stage 3 - Jon is cooking in our painted Kitchen. The Living Room is also the same yellow color. Our stove is old! It's gas and we have to light it with a match. I am not quite sure how the oven works or if I will ever really try to use it... Maybe someday if I'm feeling brave! But, the stove works great :-)



Stage 4 - This how our Bedroom looks now! Much, much better! Eventually, I'd like to have curtains for the window and shelves for the wall, but that will come with time.






More pictures of the Outside of the house, Living Room, Kitchen and Bathroom to come!

Halloween with a Cowboy, Lady Bug, Lion and Napoleon Dynamite

On Halloween we took the kids up to Jon's parents church. Sawyer was a Cowboy, Ruby was a Lady Bug, Cousin Kellen was a Lion and Jon wore his Napoleon Dynamite gear.






When we got home, I wanted to get a picture of the kids together so I propped Ruby up in Sawyer's arms while he was sitting in the chair. I snapped a couple pictures and when I picked Ruby up Sawyer said "NO, I hold her". He said it over and over until I put Ruby back in his lap! Then he sat there holding her for about 10 minutes. He was just looking at her saying "Hi Ruby" and giving her kisses. It was the cutest thing ever!

Leaving Minnesota

So it's been 3 weeks since we moved to Texas and just today we got wireless internet hooked up!!! I can finally blog my pictures!!! :-)

Here are the pictures of all the family & friends gathered to say bye bye to Jon, Sawyer, Ruby and I.

My parents Dean & Lori, my brother Steven and his daughter Audrey.


Four Generations starting with my Grandma, known to my kiddo's as G.G. (Great Grandma)


Grandparents with the Grandkids (Me, Steven, ShayLynn, Micah & Sonja) & Great-Grandkids (Audrey, Sawyer & Ruby).

The WHOLE beautiful family :-)

My BFF Kristie!

The girls Emily, Jennie and Kristie

...There are the tears...

And, we're ready to go...

Jon drove the U-Haul with Sawyer as his passenger. Here I am with my passenger's.

Driving away...

And, at 1:14pm on October 24th, 2009 we drove into Texas!