Wednesday, November 14, 2012

OUR RUBY RED TURNS 3!!

Our Ruby turned 3 y.o. on Aug. 19th and we celebrated with just us 4 at the lake.
As usual Ruby was up at the crack of dawn so her & I ran to the local lake cafe and picked up some birthday caramel rolls for everyone.  When we walked in, there were about 10 older gentlemen sitting, drinking coffee and eating caramel rolls and they asked what we were doing up so early.  I told them is was Ruby's birthday and all of a sudden all of them started singing Happy Birthday to Ruby....so sweet!
Blowing out her bday caramel roll....
The Hawley girls
This is what we usally see and then 2 minutes later........
This!  It never fails....gotta love her :)
Posing with mommy
Birthday treat at the local Minnesota Ice Cream Shop
This was a frequent position for Rubes this summer on the boat.  She did go wakeboarding with daddy & cried the entire time but was very proud after the fact.  She went tubing with mommy and we fell off....never got on again :)
Look at GRANDMA PAM!!!  She even went slolam skiing!!!  The girls were very proud and were a bit shocked I think :)
Amelia rockin it with daddy!!  Chris had an exhausting summer....anytime there were kids under age 9 this is what he did!
This ski trainer is a breeze.....
time for real skis next summer.  She was turning around and without hands by the end of the summer....getting a little cocky!
Amelia got to bring her little friend Pasha to the lake for a weekend....they loved it.  Lots of giggling, arguing with Ruby and jumping off the boat :)
How cute!
Our cabin was really close to Itasca State Park so we had to make a trip to the headwaters so we could say we walked across the Mississippi :) 
Love
Amelia & daddy did this at least 10 times.....
My girls.


We had a great opportunity to rent a cabin near Park Rapids, MN for the entire summer.  Every weekend was full with friends, all of our family made the trip at one point and once in a while just us four.  Lots of trips to Zorbaz, ice cream shops, skiing, wakeboarding (mommy can even go in and out of the wake) (daddy still doing flips) and the favorite was probably parking the boat in the middle and jumping off while listening to music :)  WE HAD A BLAST

2 comments:

Our family said...

Great posts! I love that you're back :) Miss the girls and you. Love you, Ang

Kassie said...

ditto...very happy that you're back.

what a fun summer for you guys...lots of memories made :)