Ruby's Pictures

My friend Nicole took Ruby's 1 year old pictures yesterday. Leilani and I had our girls pictures taken together and unfortunetly, even though they both know Nicole, the girls cried throughout the session. All I wanted was one smile and I got at least two! If you want to see more Nicole posted some of them on her photography blog, http://nicolebulkleyphotography.blogspot.com/.

Ruby is notorious for not smiling for photographers even though she will cheese it up for me. I wasted 2 hrs at Kiddie Kandid last year and got one smile. I tried JC Penneys in January and no matter what the photographers did Ruby would not smile.

Nicole found some cute old buildings in Parowan that I would have never thought to use it as a backdrop but once we were there it was such a great place to take pictures. One part of the building had this lime green door that made Ruby's blue eyes sparkle. In the back of the building there were these old windows with trees growing through them, so cute. Unfortuntely I didn't get Porter's picture taken and now I know how cute Ruby's pictures turned out so I am bummed, oh well maybe another day!

Bathtub Time Again!

These pictures just make me smile so I thought I would post them. Ruby loves bathtime, or anytime she can be in or touching water. She gets so excited she will try to climb in the tub on her own if I am not fast enough. In the first picture you can she is standing on her tippy toes trying her hardest to climb in.
This last week she has had the worst diaper rash I have ever seen and I thought putting her in the bath would really hurt with such a raw bum but she didn't care, she loved it. It was the happiest she has been since she got sick. Lately I have been working in the backyard a lot and sometimes I need to keep her occupied and all I have to do is turn on the hose.
Last month we went swimming and Ruby loved it but she was such a pain because she was fighting to get out of my arms. I even let her go under a couple of times and it only took a minute and she was fighting me again. Ruby is going to love Mommy/Daddy and me swimming that starts next week.