March, April, May

Sorry I stared this post on June 1 but I finished it today July 26. pretty sad.

May

Takoma and Mia are waiting for daddy to get home from work

April

My two baby girls

I needed to take a shower and Cameron said he would keep an eye on her.

Really

We were trying to get Mia in the tub but Takoma beat her to it

March

Lots and lots of pics to show but not a ton to tell. I do have a couple of exciting news to tell. At the end of April Cameron GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE WITH HIS BACHELORS DEGREE IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WITH A 3.6GPA. YAY!!!!!!! This last semester was by far more time consuming than the other semester(he was doing 16 credits) except when he was going to paramedic school. I cant tell you how happy I was when he finished his last paper. When he was going to school he would get home at 6 pm hang out with us till 8pm then he would have to go to his office and do homework till10 or11 pm. And that was almost every day of the week. Saturdays he would do homework at 8 till noon or one and some times he would have to do more that night when the kids were in bed. I'm so proud of him and for all his hard work and determination to get his schooling done. I love you so so so much honey and I am so grateful for all you do for us you are our everything. As for me I'm being a mom(teaching manners,cleaning,bathing the girls,changing diapers,feeding the girls ect. I just love it!)Takoma is growing and talking a lot more. She's say more words than before which is great because I was getting nervous that she was behind all the other kids her age but I think she just chooses not to say the words. She can understand you completely but for some reason she just doesn't want to respond that much. but like I said she is getting better at it. She is now sleeping in a twin bed which is awesome! Her and Mckinley have been sharing a room since Jan. and they are still doing good with each other. Sometimes Takoma will through things in Mckinley's crib like toys or shoes so Mckinley has something to play with but other than that they're doing great with each other. Mckinley is getting big she is seven and half months old Crazy! She is so cute and so so so smiley. When ever and who ever comes up to her she gives you the biggest smile and laugh it's so precious. She's rolling everywhere and loves sitting up. She also loves baby food. Mckinley loves it when Takoma or her cousins come and play with her. You can tell that she's excited because she'll start to kick her legs and moves her arms up and down.I love my girls so much and am so grateful to have them even though we do have our moments when mom wants to scream or pull her hair out. but I am very blessed to have such wonderful, beautiful and most of all healthy girls. I love you two so very much.

I will post June and July pics next week my girls are calling for me. Hope everyone has a wonderful week.

Mckinley' blessing

So I feel like I'm the worst parent ever because I'm not taking as much pic with Mckinley as I did when I had Takoma. I try to but it seems like I always have my hands full and don't have the second to go grab my camera and take pics of Mckinley when she's doing something so cute but I told myself today that I'm going to do better. So Mckinley was blessed in Feb and we had alot of fun having family and friends come and great food too. Thank you all who came and who brought food it was amazing. Yes this was forever ago like Feb. forever ago I really am going to try to do better.

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PICTURES

So I was holding Mckinley and Takoma came up to us and wanted to hold her! I couldn't resist I had to take a pic of this of course we needed daddy's help but it was so cute to see Takoma hold her baby sister. Takoma just loves her today she gave her like ten kisses on the head and cheeks way cute. I can't believe Mckinley will be 3 months on the 14th and Takoma will be 20 months on the 29th. My babies are going to fast!!!!

sleepy girl

This is the first time I let Takoma have ketchup with her tots and once she tried it she only wanted to eat the ketchup.Yuck!

I usually have Takoma wearing clothes but for some reason I just didn't want to put any on her. I guess I was just having a lazy moment. Anyways this is her chair and this is how she sits in it when she watches a movie.

Mckinley is 2 1/2 months

I love her leggings!!!

It Cameron's Birthday he turned 25!!! Happy Birthday babe I love you so much. I'm so blessed to have you as my husband and being the father of our girls.

Cameron wanted to try this mexican cake that they have a cafe rio I can't remember what it's called but I guess they fill this cake up with some sort of cream inside so the batter is really really moist. I thought it was a little to moist but Cameron liked it and that's what matters.

I just love watching her sleep I could watch her all day if I could.

Mckinley is going bald on top!!! How sad.

We just bought this sectional and it's super staticy

Takoma loved riding the pony I think that was my favorite part out of the whole circus experience. We left a little after the half time or whatever you call it. Takoma didn't like when the motorcycles came out and rode in that ball thing.

UPDATE

Well it's time for an update! You become very busy when you have 2 kids. I have been wanting to post about our family and put tonz of pics up everyday but something gets in the way so I decided that Sundays will be my blog day! Cameron will be home all day so I will be able to have time away from my two little sweet angels. I know today is Friday but my girls are both asleep which doesn't happen very often.
Cameron, my wonderful and amazing husband is loving his job @ flint. He is a safety manager which is perfect because he is getting his degree in emergency management. He has been working for them since November. He is GRADUATING IN APRIL, YES NEXT MONTH!!!!!! I'm so happy and so proud of him. He was thinking about graduating in the summer but he just wanted to get the whole school thing over with. So he is taking 17 credits this semester. I can't wait for him to be done with school then we can spend more time together as a family. I'm so proud of him and I love him very much. He is the perfect husband for me and my best friend and the perfect daddy for our girls! Thank you so much sweet heart for working so hard I love you very much!
Me: So this afternoon I had to go to urgent care because I was in the process of getting mastitis. Yuck I had that two weeks after I had Mckinley and it was not fun but I'm glad I recognized it before it got worse.LOL so that was the highlight of my afternoon. I'm trying to be the best mother I can be for my girls and the best wife for my husband. My goal for last year and this year is being a better cook. I did alright last year but this year I want to do really well and get out of my comfort zone. So far I've been doing good but I'll keep you posted on that. I'm going to see if I can start school in the summer and try do get my associate in a couple of years. I do about 95% of it on line so I'm pretty excited about that. We moved into a house in the middle of Jan. and we are loving it! We love how much more room we have and we love having a garage. Since it's a bigger place I have a hard time keeping up with my chores. Sometimes I feel like all i do is clean and then Takoma gets it all messy again but then she gives me this look and my heart just melts. I'm going to be working at the pool again this summer teaching the mommy and me class and I'm super excited for it. Takoma just loves the water we actually went to the pool on Thursday they have a toddler time from 10am-11:30am and they have that big water toy on and the lazy river. Takoma loved it she was going down the slides and dunking herself, blowing bubbles, and kicking her legs. All of you who have little kids should come it's alot of fun and it's never crowded. There was only ten people when we went and half of them left after 40 min.
Takoma: What a fun girl she has the funniest personality she knows how to make us laugh. But when she's mad you better watch out because she throws the biggest fits in the world. I've been putting her on time out alot lately. I don't know what her deal is but all of a sudden she will just start screaming and throw herself on the floor and start kicking the ground. I have to tell her if she doesn't stop then she will have to go on timeout. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. But beside that she is a great blessing in our family. She is being a wonderful sister and loves to tickle Mckinley. When Mckinley starts crying Takoma will say "uh oh baaby" and sometimes when Mckinley is to noisy Takoma will say shhhhhh to her and put her finger to her mouth. She has this doll that we bought her when Mckinley was born and she never really touched it till about a couple of weeks ago. She carries this doll everywhere she goes. she likes to feed it and she likes to burp her too. It's really cute to watch. I love her so much and I'm so grateful to have her in my life.
Mckinley: well Mckinly will be 3 months old on the 14th. It's gone by super fast but I'm kind of happy about that. Mckinley was kind of hard at the beginning. She always wanted to be held and she was always colicky but since Feb. she's been really good. She eats every four hours and she goes to bed around 8:30 or 9 and then she'll wake up about 5:30 or 6. I'm loving it! She loves to talk to you and smiles all the time. she'll watch Takoma play and if I need to do something and I can't hold Mckinley sometimes I'll put her on the couch and turn on Dora the Explorer and mute it but she'll just watch the bright colors and sometimes she talks to the TV too or I'll turn the fan on and she'll watch that. She has the sweetest little spirit and I just love watching her grow. Sometimes I'll sit and just stare at her for ever and not want to do anything else. I love her so much!
I'm so grateful for my family and so grateful for there health. I don't know how I became so lucky but I'm super grateful. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! I'll post pics up this Sunday!!!

CATCHING UP!!!!

Okay so I'm finally caught up!!! Oh and I forgot to mention that we are moving into a house next week. oops.LOL but we are still living here in Vernal YAY. So Mckinley is now 6 weeks well will be on Tuesday but anyways things are starting to calm down and I'm less stress. Gosh it really is hard going from having one child to two but I love it. Mckinley is a very cuddly baby where as Takoma wasn't so much and Takoma was sleeping through the whole night by three weeks and Mckinley is still waking up once every night.Bummer. Hopefully that will change in the next couple of weeks. So I know I'm way late about this but our Christmas was good except that we had to take Takoma to the hospital since basin clinic was closed. She was going nuts Christmas afternoon like banging her head against the walls and hitting her hands on her head so Cameron took her in and i guess she was in the process of having an ear infection. Yuck. and then two days later Cameron had to take me to that building next to basin clinic(can't remember the name) and I had mastitis. But other than that we had a great holiday. Takoma will be 18 months on the 29th! I can't believe it she is growing up to fast for me but she is such a great big sister. She loves giving Mckinley the bink when she's crying and has to be the first one there if she starts crying. She is going to be so protective over Mckinley it makes me excited to see what the future holds for the both of them. This was taken today. Kinley just chilling out.

Takoma got her first hair cut a couple of weeks ago and it was long over due. Thanks mom!!

My handsome sweetheart

My parents came out the week after Christmas to see the baby and they brought Takoma her xmas present which was a toddler rocking chair and she loves it. She reads her books and watches movies in her chair. Thanks Mom and Dad!!!

Christmas morning

Mckinley one week old

Our family Christmas present

Everyday Takoma looks forward to getting a bath. I can't wait to put her in swim lessons again this summer.

Mckinley 3 days. You totally forget how small and light they are when you have an older child.

Well hope you all are doing really well have a good week and weekend.

Mckinley Raegen Ruppe!!!

So yes we did finally have our beautiful baby girl but I've just been way to busy to post about her. I have a few min. to spare so I'll give it a go. Mckinley Raegen Ruppe came to us on December 14, 2010 (2 days late) on Tuesday at 9:25 p.m. Weighing at 7lbs 8oz and 19 1/2 in. just like Takoma she was born with dark hair. YaY. My delivery was amazing! I decided to get the epi when I got to an 8 and an hour to an hour and a half later I started pushing and I only had to push 3 times!!! One hard and the other two were little pushes. Weird. It was seriously a 3min. delivery and it was so easy. Having Mckinley out is the best thing in the world. I love not being pregnant anymore and I don't miss one thing about being pregnant. It is very difficult having two babies 16 1/2 months apart but I know it will pay off when Mckinley is 6-9 months and starts playing with Takoma. Takoma loves Mckinley so much she gives her kisses all the time and tries to pick her up and feed her the bink when she's crying. If Mckinley starts crying Takoma is the first one to get to her. It's super cute! I love my two little girls and I know they will be the best of friends. I'm so grateful that Mckinley is healthy and there were no complication during my delivery. Well Mckinley is calling to be fed so that's all I have time for but I will try to keep everyone updated. I have more pics to put up that are more recent but that will have to wait for tomorrow or Saturday. Hope everything is going well for everyone. it's time to push!

she's here! Our beautiful girl is finally here!


Takoma is very excited to see her baby sis

Takoma loves grabing dad's pop.

Cameron's mom and baby kinley

Brisa and Hyrum and baby Kinley

So precious