We have a tradition of having a 'friend party' every-other year for birthdays. This year was a 'friend party' year. I was thinking that we wanted to have about 10 kids so I invited a few extra (because there's never a party that everyone shows up to) then last minute, Ruth decided to invite a couple of other neighbor kids. This brought our total up to 16 kids. And guess what! They ALL showed up! Since the weather was bad, we had to do it inside. It was a MAD HOUSE. But we had fun. If it weren't for Keli and my mom I would have drown in a sea of first-graders. Anyway, because of the chaos, I was lucky to get as many pictures as i did.
I don't know where the time has gone. 7 years is a long time but it feels like it was only yesterday that Ruth was just a baby. We love our girl. She is becoming such a wonderful young lady. Ruth has so many great qualities and talents that we love so much. Here is a list of seven things that are awesome about Ruth (I did 7 because that's how old she is... there are a lot more awesome things about her, but it would take all day to name them).
Ruth has a special way of understanding what people are feeling. She knows when someone is feeling sad and she always tries to cheer them up.
Ruth has become an excellent reader. She can read an entire 90-page chapter book in one day. Her dad and I are so proud of this fact.
Ruth is VERY friendly. It's not hard for her to make new friends.
Ruth is great at helping her brothers. If I ever need a hand with them, she doesn't hesitate to help.
Give Ruth a tree and she'll be up in it in no time. I think if we ever built her a tree house, she'd live in it. Climbing is not hard for her.
While Ruth really enjoys spending time outside getting dirty and playing hard, she also loves to get dressed up and look pretty.
Ruth is SO funny. Her sense of humor is great. Her giggle is very contagious too. We have a lot of fun times laughing with Ruth.
I like to get Easter clothes for the kids every year. I do this mostly because it's a good time to buy church clothes for them to wear for the rest of the year. I also do it because it's fun. The pictures didn't turn out so well... the sun was in their eyes and we were late for church and the boys were being hyper.
Easter really sneaked up on me this year. I was sick the beginning of the week and I was busy planning Ruth's birthday party at the end of the week and I completely forgot about easter until the night before (had to go shopping at about 11:30 that night). Luckily, I was able to pull it together in time and the kids had a lot of fun.
Ruth with her basket. She got a stuffed monkey and some lip gloss.
Ronan didn't care about his cool builder trucks. He loved his candy though!
Gareth loves to pose for pictures. Here he is with his basket.
Here he is posing again.
Peeps.....on a stick.
More peeps.....on a stick.
Ronan tried to have fun coloring eggs. But when his second egg broke after he squeezed it in his hand, he had had enough.
Ruth's masterpiece.
Our handiwork.
Out in the backyard for our easter egg hunt.
Keli was Gareths easter egg hunting partner.
If you enlargen and zoom in, you can see that this is Ruth climbing a tree to get an egg.
This is Ruth jumping down from the tree after retrieving the egg.
Grandpa Capel helping the little ones (Ronan and Ari) look for eggs.
