Pumpkin Heads...

We carved pumpkins today. And I know some of you who are reading this blog will completely understand this post's title, but others of you might wonder. : ) The Ruby family (my family) has a long standing tradition of holding a carved pumpkin in front of the carver's face for a photo. It ends up looking like you have a "pumpkin head".
Ella worked hard on trying to carve her own pumpkin, but ended up with some help from Dad. Jack was excited, but not quite able to plan and carve his pumpkin, so I asked him what shape he wanted eyes, nose and mouth to be. Jace carved one for Linc of course. Now to roast the pumpkin seeds....

Lincoln's Dedication

This past weekend, we dedicated Lincoln. Our parents and Aaron, Meghan and Will were all here to be a part of it. Geoff Moore was even at our church on Sunday, so it was a very special service that Linc was dedicated in! :) Pastor Scott did accidentally call Lincoln, Jackson, but he corrected himself and he said a very nice prayer for him. It was a nice day; we had a nice Sunday dinner together after church at our house, and we had the chance to visit a little.

Isn't he so sweet?

A Busy Saturday

The first Saturday in October, Uncle Aaron and soon to be, Aunt Meghan were here visiting. We all went to Safety Day at our local Home Depot - Jace's work. Jack and Ella were able to check out a rescue helicopter and fire engine. Jack also climbed all through our friend, Deputy Olson's police car. They also made wooden fire engines and got their third Home Depot aprons.

After going to Home Depot, we headed to Clare to attend a good-bye get together for Great Grandma and Grandpa Ruby before they headed to Florida for the winter. We had a nice time visiting with family. Ella was able to ride on one of cousin Chad's horses with his daughter, Kristin. Jack, I found out later, was feeding the horses and the dog summer sausage. I am sure he gave them a stomach ache; I saw him come and get probably a dozen pieces of sausage. I should have known he couldn't have been eating all those! I think Great-Grandma and Grandpa had a fun visit. I know we all did.



What a crew!

Lincoln is Six Months Old.

Lincoln was six months old this week on Wednesday. We took the kids to a local park to take some good pictures of the three of them and of Lincoln especially. They turned out cute...

How time flies!

Ella is a Kindergartener!

Ella started school this week. She couldn't wait to go! Even though she was slightly nervous, she did great and had a wonderful first day. She has a nice, brand new teacher and only sixteen students in her class. They read the book The Kissing Hand. Tomorrow she will start riding the bus. She is looking forward to that.

Labor Day Weekend

Over Labor Day Weekend, Jason had two days in a row off, so we took advantage of having a Saturday as a family to spend time blueberry picking (I remembered my camera) and seeing a minor league baseball game in Midland. The Loons even won.

Summing Up Summer

So, I have discovered how to correctly make blog posts and I am changing the few post I'd made into one post on summer. Now it will work when people want to comment!

So here are the pictures from our fourth of July trip to Manistee, Michigan. We had beautiful beach weather and built Snoopy with Grandpa Ruby.


We also visited with the Moores and the Weis' in early August in South Haven. It was fun to see how Hannah and Madeline had grown! Jack and Ella loved playing in the hot tub and the pool at the cottage Chuck had rented.

It was a good but much too short summer! We had lots of fun.