Miss Ruby

Ok I know I need to do a full post of the labor and details about her, but I just don't want to right now. Haha is that bad of me? No, because all I want to do is stare at my precious little lady. I'll get to the post eventually. So instead, I will shower you with pictures of Miss Ruby these last 6 days!

I lalaLOVE how she looked in this outfit!

And she's very proper! (did this all by herself)

This is pretty much how Albert and I spend our time...with our eyes locked on her.

Notice something about this picture? She's actually awake!

Daddy's finger tastes so good!!

This little lady has stolen my heart. Not to mention she has her daddy completely wrapped around her little finger! I love watching him with her...I am the luckiest girl in the world.

Ruby Mae Holmstrom

January 27, 2010

12:40 AM

8 pounds, 21 inches long

Tons of dark hair

PERFECT.

She's already changed so much!

I love this little girl more than I ever thought possible.

Full post to come. Right now I want to hang out with my baby.

Dear False Labor

....you suck.

You're like a cruel joke my body is playing on me, toying with my emotions and getting my hopes up. Two days now? Really? I think that until you're ready to turn into true labor and actually give me a baby, you can just stop.

That is all.

PS: Yes, I haven't posted in years. Yes, I have tons of posts to do. Yes, I have MORE than enough time to do them. I just don't want to right now.

December 17, 2009

Tomorrow, I graduate from ASU.

Can I have a quick minute to brag?

*I'm proud of myself.

*I'm 21, and graduating with my Bachelors Degree in Education.

*If you go straight to college out of high school and go full time every semester, that's normal. But so often college students switch majors/don't know what they want to do and it takes them longer. I was fortunate to know what I wanted to do since I was little, and just went after it.

*I also completed it in 3 and 1/2 years, instead of 4. I'm graduating a semester early.

*A few times I didn't want to do it anymore. I went through a rough patch in life and school definitely got put on the back burner on my list of priorities. My grades tanked, and it took A LOT of work to get them back up.

*I've learned a lot about myself through my years in college. I definitely don't have a lot of school spirit, and I don't bleed maroon and gold, but college in general has been good for me. It's helped me grow up.

*I love teaching. Maybe I won't teach right away, since I'm going the family route, but I know I do want to do it someday.

*As of tomorrow night at 9 pm, I will be a college graduate. The first in my family.

*I am proud of myself.

Please don't take this as conceited or snobbish or braggy. I think it's ok to be proud of yourself as long as you're not prideful. I'm just happy I'm at this point in my life. Share in my happiness :)

This past week, Mr. Holmstrom and I had the pleasure of having our pictorals taken by the fabulous Kate Lines. She was kind enough to quickly edit some of them and email them to me to display at my baby shower 2 days later.

Um hi. I am in love.

PS I almost fell off this branch into the Salt River below. Pre-pregnancy I wouldn't have been afraid at all to walk out and balance on that branch.

I'm a little more protective of my body these days.

I can't say it enough.

I love this man.

I love this baby.

I love that in a month and a half I'm going to be a mom.

Christmas Help

What do you guys get your husbands for Christmas? Do you go all out and spend lots of money and get them big things? Do you do something sentimental? I keep asking Albert and all he tells me is small things like movies. Maybe it's just me...but I want to get him something better than movies for our first Christmas. He's so hard! He will put like zero thought into it so I'm pretty much on my own....and I have zero idea what to get him. Any ideas?!?!?

Things That Are Making Me Happy Today

1. Waking up to my husband who said, "Good morning beautiful."

2. Bajio chicken salad at my parent's casa for dinner.

3. My new pajama pants. I LOVE wearing pajama pants in the winter. And my cute belly on top of them. Ya, I just said it was cute. Pregnancy is beautiful, and I love my belly.

4. Having a husband who does this: (I hate doing the dishes without a dishwasher. Like, I HHHAAATTTEEE it.)

5. Remembering this moment:

6. And this one:

7. Feeling my little one move all around inside me, all day long. Seriously, this little girl is an acrobat or something!

8. The fact that I'm due 3 months from today!

9. That Heavenly Father has a plan for us, and knows what's best for us, even when we don't. Like how he let us know it was time to start trying for a baby 3 WEEKS into being married. We thought it was crazy too. But, he had a plan for us...and today I'm happy we had the faith to follow it.

The Great Pumpkins

So tonight we carved pumpkins with my family. We've carved pumpkins every year as long as I can remember, it's definitely a family tradition. Mr. Holmstrom said they never really did it too much growing up, along with a lot of other things my family does, so I love bringing him into our family traditions. I also love carving pumpkins with him because it reminds me of this:

This was the night we met. Well, it was technically meeting for the second time, when I randomly invited him to my pumpkin carving party, and we totally hit it off. Started dating the very next day! And you all know the rest of the story. So pumpkin carving with him will always be special to me.

Back to tonight. We went to my parents house and carved pumpkins as a family, minus Amber and Erik, who were camping. My grandma/grandpa Neel and cousin Steven even joined us!

I love how albino I look compared to my hispanic husband.

I'm pretty sure Mr. Holmstrom's and my pumpkins blew everyone else's out of the water.

Can you tell we have baby on the brain???

His is an ultrasound picture and mine is a pregnant lady silhoutte. Creative right??

Oh...and for those of you with dirty minds, those are the babies LEGS. Get your minds out of the gutter!

Thank my sister Ashley for pointing that one out.