I made a scrapbook set to go side by side of when I got my highlights done in April. I just loved snuggling with Aizen while Daniel took these pictures. I can't wait to get them done again, just waiting on these ones to fade out.
I just got a call from the monument place that Ruby's footer stone is done. They are ahead in production by a month. It wasn't supposed to be delivered til July 18th, and it was delivered last week on the 18th.
We will be going up to Muskoka in mid July and I can't wait to see it and take pictures of it. It's strange but I'm excited to see it, even though it is for such a sad time in my life. We'll be burying Ruby's ashes in August and her footer stone is just a way to memorialize her life and just how much she means to us.
I'll post pictures next month when we are up there.
I've gotten back into my digital scrapbooking. I got a touch obsessed with crocheting chemo hats and getting the blog going for Ruby's Heavenly Treasures.
I opened up this folder of Amy Sumrall from Gotta Pixel and thought these pictures of Aizen and I were a good fit. I have some other summer pictures that I will have to scrapbook with this kit as well.
It's hard for me to believe that Aizen will be 1 next Saturday. Where has this year gone??
I thought I would post a few cute things about him. He is a very hard baby to get video of, as soon as he sees the camera, he stops and just tries to get it. So... he was giggling in the crib today and I put the camera by the monitor. Enjoy!!
We are SO excited. Maple Bear has made his way home and has he had some adventures!!! He's been to Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Thanks to our friends who made this a wonderful success of learning about different areas of the USA to her grade 1 classroom.
Here is Melody with Maple Bear.
I have a women's group that I attend for my therapy and this story was brought up a few weeks ago. The coordinators wrote it out for us and I wanted to share it with you. It is such a good illustration that we become who we are by what we spend our energy on.
Two Wolves
One evening an old Cherokee told his granson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all.
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.
The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?"
The old Cherokee simply relied, "The one you feed."
HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY MELODY DAWN!!!!!
It's hard to believe that my baby is really 7 years old today. I hope you have a great day sweetie. We gave a few presents early because we had to postpone her birthday party yesterday. We got her a littlest pet shop toy from Roo and a little game called mastermind.
Here are some pictures of our morning. Have fun scrapbooking mom.
Here is Melody when was just a day old in the Special Care Nursery, she was only 4 1/2 pounds.
Here are the pictures from this morning:
I love you so much my precious little girl. I can't wait to see how you grow this year and all the fun new adventures we will discover!!!
So, Daniel goes home from work tonight and Aizen is awake. He goes to get him and brings him down to me right away. And this is what we found..... Aizen had both his legs in one leg, and it looks like he is wearing a dress LOL So, of course I had to take video and I just couldn't stop laughing through the whole thing, he looked so funny.
Here is one of our favourite recipes that we like to make. A friend was asking me for the recipe so thought I would share it on my blog!!
CHEESE MUFFINS ~ Makes 12 muffins
2 cups whole wheat flour (we rarely use white flour in our house anymore)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup granulated sugar
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 cup marble cheese, grated (our fav but you can do whatever cheese you like best)
1 egg
1 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
Preheat oven to 400 F. Grease 12 muffin tins. (a great tip for this is to use a paper towel and get the butter on it and then wipe the tins, no mess for you to clean up later)
Sift together the flour, salt, sugar and baking powder. Stir in grated cheese.
Beat together egg, milk and oil for 1 minute. Stir liquid mixture into dry ingredients, only until combined. Batter should remain lumpy.
Fill prepared muffin cups 2/3 full. Bake on center shelf for 18 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown.
~~ you can also make these easily into Pizza Muffins..... just put half the mixture into the muffin tin cup, add in a bit of spaghetti sauce and a slice of pepperoni, if you like. Then top with the rest of the muffin mixture to cover it. SOOOOOOO good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Katelyn sweetie, this post is just for you. I saw your mommy left me a message that you wanted to see some pictures of your friend Melody, well here they are.
Melody was in a play where she had to be a "clown" fish at school. Doesn't she look silly? Do you like all the colours of her hair? What colours do you see? She got to wear a wig and can take the colourful hair on and off whenever she wants to, isn't that awesome?
In this picture Melody made a picture of her family. Remember the photo album we sent you with the stickers? These are the same kind of stickers and has all of our family members in it. Who's in your family? Maybe you can ask mommy to get you some crayons and a piece of paper and draw a picture of your family!!
Melody LOVES to go out into the backyard and dig up bugs!!!!! Do you like bugs? Here she is showing one of her bugs that she dug up.
We took Melody out to have some hot chocolate. Yummy!!!!! What is your favourite kind of drink? Do you like hot or cold drinks? Maybe you and mommy can go out on a date and have a special juice drink together?
I hope you enjoyed this post just for you sweetie!! Tell mommy that you love her and give her a big kiss. When you see daddy, give him big HUGS!!!
((((((hugs to you sweet Katelyn))))))
Denise =)
Aizen was being adorable last night, and yes we were watching Dr.Phil while I was videotaping him LOL
Thought I would put a post up of one of Aizen's favourite places to be. He is so happy and content in the pouch sling. So, here we are!!!
I just received the sketch of Ruby's footer stone in my email today. I love it and cannot wait for it to be done for her burial in August. It makes me sad that I have to do this but it looks so wonderful and very much like my little pumpkin.
Yep, once again Melody LOVES bugs. She was so happy on Saturday to be out in our backyard picking bugs out of the garden. She found a couple ants that were hurt and made an ant hospital which you can see in the video, it was windy out there, but you can here her talking about the ants and stuff.
We had a meeting yesterday to order Ruby's footstone. It was such a bittersweet thing to do. It will look exactly the way that I want it to but I never thought I would have to order something for someone so tiny and small.
When we get the proof of what it is to look like when designed, I will post a picture of it but right now it's like this. It's a cherry marble that is very pretty.
Smith
Ruby Grace Irene
"Our Little Sunshine"
Apr. 16, 2005 - Feb. 12, 2007
(then then is a little precious moments girl in the left bottom corner with a little bunny with her and beside that it will say "Playing In God's Garden")
Eventually we order our headstone, where Daniel, myself and Ruby will all be on there, but that is not something that I forsee needing to do anytime soon. I don't think I can take any more losses for a long time to be honest.
It's so hard to think that I will be burying my little girl's ashes this August. There is some finality to her death process for me but I still just want my little girl with me. I cannot wait to go home to see her when my time here is done. I love you precious Roo Roo!!!!
This is the yarn that I used when I was finishing off my family crocheted blanket, so I finished up the balls of yarn I had and made these gorgeous rainbow hats!!!!
Head on over to Shereen's Blog to see what the other mum's are doing.
I'll continue to make hats in Roo's memory this month, my goal is one or two a day .... I got 7 done this week. We will be going to Sick Kids at the beginning of May and I can't wait to hand these over to Darcy!!!
Usually I get a Precious Moments figurine for special days with Ruby, but this time I got a very special tattoo. So, that was how we started our day.
Here are some pictures of our little celebration at Second Cup, Aizen kept trying to eat the chair LOL
I've been having fun taking random videos of the kids. I wish I had a camera that I could have done this with when Ruby was still alive, but I have a few of her. So... enjoy...
This is a very special tattoo for me. Ruby was held in a very deep place in my heart. A place I guard very heavily and when she died, that place felt like it was being ripped from me. It is not a place that will ever truly mend b/c she is not with me. I will forever ache to hold her, kiss her, and just see her.
This is her handprint from when we were waiting on organ donation and I just love what Adam did with it. When she would fall asleep on me there were so many times when she would place her hand right where the tattoo is. If I close my eyes and really think about it, there are times when I can almost feel her little hand on me.
She is forever in my heart and I will guard her spot and never let anything come in, tarnish, destroy or anything to happen to it. It is filled with memories of her, my love for her, what my dreams and hopes for her would have been and what legacy I am creating for others to remember her by.
She was and is my special Roo Roo. She was such a great little kid!! I miss you sweetness.
Today would have been Ruby's 3rd bithday so I wrote her a poem.
Happy Birthday Ruby!!!
Today you're turning three.
It's still a special day for us,
In my arms I wish you could be.
I look up in the sky,
Bright blue and cloud free.
What are you doing today?
I wish I could see.
Do they have birthday parties in Heaven?
Do you get to eat a cake?
Do you open birthday presents
That your friends make?
I wish that you were with us,
To blow out candles on your birthday cupcake.
Getting caught sneaking bits of icing
That you helped mommy bake.
Every year that passes by,
And you are not here to watch grow.
We will always celebrate your special day,
Making it last all day by taking things slow.
Please have a great day today,
In whatever you decide to do.
Every year we will celebrate,
And blow out your candles for you!
And here is the scrapbook page I made to go into my memory album. 
I LOVE YOU ROO AND HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY!!!!!
Love Mommy!!!!
It's Sew Crafty Friday again and I wanted to share some more of the hats I have made this week. Complete with a picture of my toe.....
Next Wednesday would have been Ruby's 3rd birthday and this month I have dedicated myself to making hats in her honour. I have started a mini charity called Ruby's Heavenly Treasures, so that parents can come and see the inspiration behind the hats.
A little later when it starts getting more stuff on it, I'll link to the blog I have started for RHT.
Hope you all are having a great day!!
This video took forever to get done. I would go to see him and he would be standing, went to get the camera and he'd be on his butt!!
So, here is he with some enticing to get him to stand in the crib.
I took this video of Aizen a few days ago and he's just so stinking cute, so thought I would post this for you Shauna!!!!!
And yes mom, I will make you a cd later on of videos that I take of the kids, so stop dialing the numbers of my phone and (said in a silly voice) back away from the phone!!!! =P =P =P
Head on over to Shereen's Blog to see what the other mama's are doing for Sew Crafty Friday.
I worked on some crocheted hats for Sick Kids Hospital. I got 8 done this week!!!
I decided to do something special for myself and got some pretty red highlights.
Well, they turned out REALLY red and I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!
So, here is the before and after pictures from today.
We had Hummy (our red betta) for a little while now and I wanted to get another one. So, I moved all my Precious Moments over to another place and we got this gorgeous betta.
His name is Rainy (short for rainbow)... he has mostly white body, with pretty greens, blues and a touch of red.
If you want to see how I've housed them, watch the video. =)
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