School time already?

This last week we found out a school we really want Ruark to go to started taking applications, so we signed him up for 2014. It made me sad even filling out the paperwork, I can't imagine that day will ever come but I know how fast the past 5 years have flown by and I'm sure life's only going to become more hectic from here on out.

Nursery is going great on Sundays. Ruark loves all his friends at church. He runs as fast as he can to his nursery class and patiently waits at the table with his hands folded anxious for everyone else to arrive (kind of like this picture). I can only imagine how much he will love school. I'm going to be a big boob about him leaving, I already am, but I am so excited to see where this boy will go in his life! In his baby blessing he was told the name he was given will be known throughout the world, I always wonder what this means, but the older he gets the more I understand. I feel so lucky everyday to be his mom!

Buddies

The other night our friends came over and Ruark and his little buddy Memphis serenaded us with a few songs on our piano, they had so much fun! They had a great time wearing themselves out. I can't believe how much Ruark is looking like a little boy, I still can't get over this thought in my head "where did my baby go?".

Chase

So I posted the night Chase got into the motorcycle accident, I haven't said much since then. Well he's doing great, healing very quickly and things couldn't be going better. Luckily for us he wasn't out of work for too long, but I thought you might like to see the damage! It could have been so much worse. This picture was taken a few days after the accident between bandages.

Crafts

Let's face it, we all knew I was dying for a girl when I got pregnant with Ruark. Don't get me wrong I LOVE Ruark, but I was not in love with the idea of having a boy and giving up all those beautiful ruffles and bows. I took a girls outfit to the hospital just in case and kept receipts for boy items so it would make returns easy. Then I had Ruark and fell in love, and I have loved every moment...

However I am still holding out hope the next baby will be a girl. I have bought lots of girls outfits and have planned out most of the nursery and home changes when the time comes. I am praying that we are able to get pregnant with a healthy beautiful baby the next few months and I always add a little "if it can be a girl too, that would be great" in my nightly prayers...I don't care if it's right that I ask, I just do.

I am starting to prepare myself that I very well may have a boy next which would mean it will be at least another 3 years before we get another chance to try again. So I have decided to put away all the little girl crafts and focus on all the boy stuff I have lying around, for now. This is a very new decision so we will see if it lasts.

Last year for Ruark's birthday I bought fabric for blankets, I make blankets every winter. Last year I bought enough fabric for 3 baby blankets, I finished one but the other two were stuffed in the closet to await when I had more free time...

Last week at conference I finally had a chance to pull out the blankets and get to work. I finished one of them, and plan to finish the next one (It's a big project) by this weekend. I am so excited to finally have things being accomplished. Ruark LOVES his new blanket, I kept finding him carrying it around with him while it was still stuck with pins. He cuddled with it on my lap while I did the binding, and tonight he's happy as can be that it's finally done.

Horseback Ride

So most of you know, I'm dying to get pregnant! So I am in a mode where I am trying to do all the things I can't do once a baby is on it's way. This includes riding roller coaster, working ridiculously long hours, horseback riding, and eating ice cream for dinner.

It has been over 6 YEARS since I took a horse ride with my family. Mainly because Chase is usually gone, and I'm so busy we haven't had a chance to go. So Chase and I sent Ruark over to my mom's house for the day and took a trip with my dad and step mom up into Harriman Park. The leaves were just turning and luckily for us the elk were bugleing. Chase had too much fun bugleing back and forth.

Me and my daddy

We found a beautiful spring to rest at on our way

Luckily for us we were able to sneak right up on them and watch a whole heard from just a few feet away. In all my years of riding into Harriman Park I don't think I've ever been so close. This however has woken a sleeping giant in my husband. He now LOVES his cowboy hat, and is dying to get into hunter's safety so he can go hunting with my family next year. I love his enthusiasm. I'll admit I was a little nervous for him, he hadn't had a lot of experience riding and I really didn't want him to be made fun of for the next few years as my family tends to do. However, he suprised us all when he looked like a regular cowboy running up and down the valley and was as comfortable as I was in a saddle.

After 6 years I still find myself amazed by his enthusiasm for life and find myself falling even more in love with him. I am so thankful for this beautiful world we live in and I am so thankful for my wonderful family and frieds for all the blessing they bring into our lives.

As for Ruark he of course had a wonderful time with his "andma" and spent the day playing with his cousins playing games and ended the night watching movies and eating root bear floats. He was not ready to come home but after a whole day away from him I couldn't hold and kiss him enough when I got him back in my arms.