No, she's not ours, although she's so cute I wish she were.
My sister Adrienne had her little girl two weeks early.
Introducing ...
So my little lady turned TWO yesterday! Unbelievable. It feels like I was just posting about her first birthday and now here we are. Here's a little recap of my sweet little girl's journey in this world so far:
38 weeks and 6 day old fetus, just hours before her grand entrance
1 day old, basically the cutest thing you've ever seen
6 months old, still the cutest thing you've ever seen
1 year old, definitely the cutest thing you've ever seen (even without hair, thank you very much)
And today (still cute even though she's finally got some hair but refuses to let me do anything with it)
Here's the rundown of the big day:
Pigging out on a birthday doughnut (she's so much like me it's scary)
Trying to shake off the birthday nap/coma (not to mention the wicked case of bedhead)
Employing her big guns to really get into the meat of that present!
Obviously, the exertion was well worth it in the end
My humble efforts 
Blow, Ruby, blow!!
There are so many things I love about my girl. She is so funny and quirky, and she knows it. There is a big side to her though that is G-R-O-U-C-H-Y and we're not afraid to admit it. She is my little grouchy girl but for whatever reason, perhaps it's because she's mine (just a hunch), it makes her that much more endearing to me.
We love our little Ruby Jane and can't imagine our life without her!
Yes, for one more day anyway. Here's what went down in Montana:
Proudly displaying our freshly-carved, super traditional jack-o-lanterns (Henry insisted on wearing his costume during the festive activity)
At the ward trunk-or-treat
Ruby's super scary Halloween face
Ruby's first real trick-or-treating door of all time (for being a shy lady, she sure wasn't shy about trying to bust into people's houses once they opened the door)
We had unseasonably warm temps this year so we couldn't bring ourselves to stop trick-or-treating because it felt so great to be outside. Being people who don't enjoy dressing up, this is definitely one of those times where Scott and I had such a great time simply because our kids were unbelievably excited about the whole process. We had a great Halloween!
Yesterday was Henry's Halloween party at preschool. Of course as the only boy in the group, I knew his costume would probably be different than all the little girls.
Turns out, it was pretty different. It did, however, fill a role that all those little princesses were missing ...
Well, it's only happened like once or twice before and I guess there's a slight possibility of it happening again sometime in the next millennia but I was WRONG and Scott was RIGHT ....
