Oh, Thank Heaven!: workman family

ruby's got a knack for sleeping in only on days when she needs to wake up early. it's kind of ridiculous. we are never on time for 9am church.

anyway, friday we were supposed to watch sandra (ruby's cousin) while her big brother, alastor, got "thorns" at the doctors. thorns = 5-year-old-shots.

it was 9:30 and ruby was sound asleep. but as soon as sandra came in to say 'good morning ruby!' she was up and ready to play. as you can see, ruby is in her jammies, hair uncombed and i think she has a soggy diaper. she refused breakfast. she (finally) had a playmate around and was going to play! the girls got a long pretty well until they both wanted to play with the same dollie.

i snapped these photos really quickly just because these girls were being so sweet playing with the blocks together. it will be so fun to see them grow up and become even better cousin-friends!

I really really wanted to throw Ruby a First Birthday Party.

But, we were out of town, and then we were home for a couple of days, and then we were out of town again. By this time, it was about 10 days after Ruby's birthday. Our window for a party was closing quickly! I literally planned the party on the drive back from Las Vegas (that was a Friday and the party was on Sunday evening).

Not too shabby for a quickly thrown-together party! Happy Birthday Ruby Girl! Your party was really fun.

We had an Ice Cream Social with all the treats and toppings. It's a really good thing that Dan's Aunt Susan has a party rental business or I really couldn't have pulled this off. Having chairs for people to sit in makes such a difference!

We got Ruby a cupcake from The Sweet Tooth Fairy (Strawberry Shortcake with a Chocolate-Covered Strawberry on Top). I've gotta say, this girl isn't crazy about getting frosting and stuff all over her face. She was quite dainty with the cupcake - not the typical cake smash. I think my brother, Ethan, ended up eating a lot of the cupcake because she didn't really care. I should have gotten her a Chocolate Cupcake.

Thank you to everyone that came at such short notice! Ruby is so lucky to have such good friends and family. Happy Birthday Roo!

Ruby's non-messy cake smash.

before.

after.

christina, ruby, brad and great grandma and grandpa alleman - brad and christina gave roo a dump truck toy because she loves cars so much. it was really perfect. g&g alleman gave her a $10 bill! her first money ever. now she's got something in her piggy bank!