Almost 2...

I really can't believe she is almost 2! Today marks a huge experience for her....her 1st professional haircut! For some reason I'm really sad about this. I know she is in major need but, come on it's cutting all her sweet baby hair off. It's hard for a mama. I'll post some pictures of the new "Ruby" later today. Hopefully I don't cry :(

backyard updates....

Here's some pictures from early spring to present....sorry not in order but you can get the idea.

When we finished our back patio...

Prepping for the back patio....
Right before we started all our hard work!...
Ok so there are some missing pics....it took a LOT of racking, tilling, shoveling to get our backyard "level". Casey, Eddie, Abe, Tony, and my dad all worked so hard to get our backyard ready to seed. Thanks guys...

All the seed is finally down!
Rolling the back corner....
Putting seed down...
GRASS... in less than 2 weeks

Our stepping stones that lead out to our new "dog area" :)...
Nice sprinkler set-up...thanks dad
You can see the back portion of our backyard is now Gus and Dax's area. I'm excited to have a nice backyard for Ruby and Finn to play in next spring!!!

We still have a lot to do....plant shrubs to hide fence, plant shrubs to hide neighbors house (I like my privacy), fire pit, play area, and build a pergola over our patio for shade :)

It's a great since of accomplishment to get some much needed work down on our outside portion of our house. Casey really has worked very hard and I'm loving the progress :)

hey...

So it's been awhile, sorry. I guess we've been busy/lazy. Here is a quick re-cap from the last month...

(side note...I can't believe my little girl is going to be 2 in just a few weeks )

Since we blogged last Casey and I celebrated our 4th anniversary. We had a great relaxing weekend. We ate a lot and slept in!!! This pic is really old I just found it I think it was my brothers college graduation celebration. We've been together for so long! Love you babe
This last month we also took our first family camping trip. I hadn't been camping since high school so I was pretty excited. We had a ton of fun and Ruby enjoyed getting dirty. I think the experience would have been slightly better had the campground had showers and flushing toilets. We really roughed it :) Here's a couple pics. I always forgot my camera when we went down fishing. Ruby really enjoyed fishing with Daddy

Sitting around chatting..
Best Friends for Life!!
Bath time...Ruby could have lived without that. She didn't like how cold it was.
Casey and Tony's catches.
Also Casey and his dad have been super busy working on our backyard. They've put up a fence to give our dogs a little dog run area, and they've prepared the yard to plant our grass seed on Sunday. I'm super excited to have a nice level yard for Ruby and Finn to play on next summer. I'll post pics of our growing grass :)

Pregnancy is going fine. I'm ready to meet the little man. I feel like everything keeps expanding, so I'm really ready to get back in shape. Dance is keeping me super busy, but I enjoy almost every moment of it.

Ruby is growing up. She is doing really well with potty training. It's just nap and bed time that seem to be the hardest for her. It's funny she can sing her ABC's, count to 20, identify almost every object she's ever been introduced to but, she can not seem to get her colors down. It's almost comical. When asked what color something is she usually says..."green, white, purple, red.." and then looks at you like "am I right?" So cute!