You Capture-Color

This is my first ever You Capture. Every week is a different theme, this week is Color. I LOVE taking pictures and I especially love taking pictures of my babies...so that is what my pictures this week involve :) (Unfortuneately, all I have is a point and shoot camera, terrible lighting in my house, and a poor editing program, so what you see is what you get!!!) :)

Isaac brought this picture home from school yesterday. He loves the writing center and usually will make something there to bring home. It is a cherry tree because he knows how much I LOVE cherries! :)

I love our playroom. When Isaac was little and we were turning our living room into the playroom we knew we needed to do something because of the hardwood floors. Thankfully, for not a lot of money, we wer able to find the very colorful floormats for in there. Before nap yesterday, Grace brought me to the playroom to show me her hard work.

And finally... Ruth has ventured from boring old oatmeal cereal this week. She had her 1st taste of carrots and wasn't too impressed. She didn't spit them out..but she wasn't gobbling them up either. I'm excited to see how she takes to some of the other veggies and fruits in the coming days and weeks! :)

It's nice to see some color during this long stretch of white winter snow! To see more, head on over here!

Five Question Friday

1. What is better, growing old without money or dying young and wealthy?

This is an easy one. Definitely growing old without money. I love my hubby and little ones so much that I can't imagine a moment without them. I'd rather spend as many moments with them that I can then have anything money could buy. Besides, we do just fine now without a lot of money and I'm sure that in 50 or 60 years we will have learned a few more things about living frugally :)

2. Who takes out the garbage at your house?

This is easy too. Hubby takes out the garbage. Even if he is away it will wait until he comes home (he usually isn't gone for that long). I always make sure he dumps it before he goes and will resort to using another garbage in the house if I need too. I'm sure he is looking forward to the day when he can show Isaac how to do it and pass the chore on to him :)

3. Have you ever had the same dream many times?

I don't think I've ever had the same dream before, but one thing I've dreamed about quite a few time is my teeth falling out. They will literally disintergrate in my mouth and come falling out into my hands in these tiny pieces. I'm never in any pain, but it's very unnerving and I wake up making sure my teeth are all there because it feels so real!

4. Can you play a musical instrument?

The easy answer is NO. Though, I can play some easy songs on a piano (Heart and Soul, Mary had a Little Lamb, etc) and I was taught a few songs on the flute when I was in high school. But, besides that I can't play anything (well, maybe the tambourine!) :)

5. If you owned your own store, what would you sell?

Hmm...interesting question. I think I would have either a coffee shop or a scrapbooking store...well, a combonation of the two would work well. It would have a place that you could actually work on your book and enjoy your coffee at the same time! I think that way I'd always have a place to work on my own scrapbook, something I don't get to do nearly enough now!!!

If you want to see other answers to these questions head on over to Mama M and see all the other bloggers who have linked up this week!!!

Post #100 +10 :)

yeah...so I just realized that I passed my 100th post already so this is my celebratory "yay I have blogged 100 times!" blog post :) It took me almost 2 years, but I did it! I'm also doing much better this time around. Maybe I'll write 100 posts this year alone :) Thanks for sticking around and coming back to see what's going on here!

Ruth is on the move...

We took the above video last night before bed. She really is on the move now, dragging herself wherever she wants to go. This morning she ended up "crawling" into the guest room chasing after a beach ball. She's getting into trouble already. Time to get out the safety gates!

AND I just had to add this video now because she is just too cute moving and I know you (well, mostly my family) can't get enough of seeing her :) I took this one tonight. Ruth is obsessed with the wipes and "attacks" them whenever she gets close enough :)

My Boy...

So not to leave my baby boy out...here are a series of pictures I found the other night. They might not mean anything to you...but when I found them they made me smile and laugh. I am thankful I took them and so many in a row because it brought me right back to that moment...a moment I wouldn't have remembered otherwise. :)

My Girls...3 years apart...

This is a picture I took of Grace on August 28, 2006:

I just took this picture of Ruth on December 28, 2009:

It's fun finding pictures of my babies that are alike and seeing their differences and similiarities. Hopefully I'll stumble upon some more and put them up. :)

Ruth is 1/2 a year old!!!

Where does the time go? She is growing and changing so quickly. Ruth has started on rice cereal, which we found out she is allergic to and has now moved on to oatmeal. She LOVES to eat! She doesn't have very much, but she gobbles down what we make for her. :) She is also very mobile now. She isn't full out crawling, but she can get where she wants to and can do it pretty quickly. She was weighed about a week and a half ago and she is 17lb 10oz! She can sit by herself now for fairly long periods of time and is able to get to the floor without crashing. :) She also started saying ah-goo instead of just ahh. She still isn't the greatest sleeper, but is taking more consistent naps during the day. We just need to work on bedtime and the overnight! I know she will get there...just for now I am one exhausted momma! :) But it is all worth it...all too soon she will be all grown up like Isaac and Grace and I will miss my baby girl! :)