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Hold on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen!  :)

Helping Uncle Marc and Aunt Stephanie Move!

This past weekend, we helped Marc and Stephanie move into their new apartment.  Their new church family was so nice, and several of the men came out to help.  It made the moving *in* process much quicker than the moving *out* process.  (According to Aunt Stephanie)  Of course, by "we", I mean Mike.  The only way I helped was to keep Ruby out of the way.  By the end of the day, Ruby hadn't had but a 45 min. nap.  At 4:30 p.m., she was becoming fairly cranky (kankee, in her own words.)  So, at that time, I "helped" by taking the whiney baby out onto their beautiful patio and getting her to sleep.  Here are a couple of pictures from the day.  Please excuse the boxes and the slight grunginess of us...it was a hot and humid day, and we were moving, duh!  :)

The Living Room

The Kitchen

The Beautiful View

The Happy Couple

Sleepy Mommy and Ruby

Pretty, Pretty Princess

On Monday, I decided to paint my finger and toe nails.  I'm not sure why...I just needed a little pick me up.  Well, Ruby wanted to be "preeyee", too.  She kept pointing to my hands and feet saying, "Preeyee!".  Then she would sign "More" and "Please."  So, I sat her down in my lap and painted two coats of pretty pink on all twenty of her nails.  She never moved.  She even sat still long enough for the paint to dry.  I was dumbfounded, truly.  Here are pictures of the event.  (Including some tantrum pictures in sympathy for Miss Renay!!  This particular tantrum was caused because I would not let her see the "baby" on the camera screen.  She wanted to see the baby, and I wanted to take more pictures of the baby.  Both things couldn't happen at the same time...)

Pretty Fingers

Pretty Toes

Such a girl!  (Notice the cell phone in her hand with the polish and nail file behind her. LOL!)

"Baaabeeeee!   Baaaaaabeeeee!  Waaahhhhh!   Waaaaahhhhh!"

It's Summer Time...time for a bathing suit!

For Ruby, that is.  :)  Well, I have a new bathing suit, as well.  However, you will not be seeing pictures of me in my bathing suit on this website.  To see my new swimsuit, you will have to visit Tropicanoe Cove with me or something like that.  Daddy picked out Ruby's bathing suit several, several months ago.  We were going to go to the pool party for ROCKS at the beginning of the ROCKS season.  Thankfully, we were thinking ahead, and we bought the swimsuit in a size that we thought Ruby would fit into in the summer.  It's a good thing that we didn't go to the pool party back then, because this suit would NEVER have even come close to fitting her six months ago.  Hee hee hee...

I will admit that I wasn't a fan of this suit on the hanger.  However, I left the decision up to Daddy.  He thought that the blue would bring out Ruby's eyes.  Now that I've seen her in the suit, I have to say that Daddy did a wonderful job!  :)  I love this swimsuit!  So cute for my little girl's first suit.

Here is the barrage of pictures from this evening:

Guess what we found in our yard...

Beautiful, adorable, cutie-pie little baby bunnies!  Mike was mowing on Sunday afternoon, and he noticed that a mound in the yard seemed to be alive.  It was moving and squirming, even though he could only see grass.  He was out again this evening, weeding some of our "flower beds"  (more accurately known as weed beds.)  He noticed that a little head popped out of the mound.  He thought it was a chipmunk, so he came in and asked me to google chipmunk baby facts.

I asked him to take me out to see it, and this is what we found:

FIVE little itty bitty baby bunnies!

They were SO incredibly adorable and active!  (I didn't touch any of them, don't worry.  We just observed them.) 

Some of them were adventurous and ventured all the way out to the sidewalk or over to our porch.  (The "form" (that's what their nest is called) was located in the middle of the yard.)

As long as we were out there, they were interested in us.  They kept following me and hopping over to my feet.

We went inside to give them time to settle down and go back into the form.  I googled what to do with a nest of baby rabbits.  It seems these bunnies are close to the age where they'll be branching out on their own.  The information I found said to help the bunnies back into the form, add grass clippings, and leave the bunnies alone.  I checked on them a half hour later, and I had to help two of them back into the form.  I added some grass clippings, and checked on them again in another half an hour.  None of the clippings had been disturbed, so I'm pretty sure all the baby bunnies are snuggled back into their form.  :)  Anyway, it was really fun to watch them for a little while.  I wish Ruby had been awake to see the baby bunnies.

I hope you all enjoyed this random, entirely too long, and photo-laden post!  Love you all!