Brunch with the Ladies

Ruby and I had brunch with Aunt Lindsay, Aunt Allie, and Aunt Andrea (Ruby's Godmothers) at Breadwinner's in Uptown. We had a great day with the girls. They are some of the very best girlfriends I could ever ask for, and Ruby is so blessed to have such wonderful, beautiful, and strong role-models! I love you, ladies!!!

Here's Ruby with her Beautiful Godmothers.

"You have a baby....in a bar!" (they open up the Quarter Bar for overflow brunch seating). Ruby got hungry too!

One Whole Month!!

Happy One-Month Birthday, Sweetpea!


Here's the Birthday Girl with mommy.

Birthday Kisses

Isn't she getting SO big!!!

No more pictures, please!

Having fun playing and listening to music.

Sleeping beauty - napping in mommy's bed.

Ruby co-hosts her first party!

Ruby and I co-hosted an Engagement Shower for our friends Ethan & Ashley. It was an all-out Fiesta, complete with fajitas, margaritas, and lots of friends!

We had a great time and it was so fun to get to see everyone! Congratulations Ethan & Ashley! We can't wait until the big day!

Here we are with the beautiful bride-to-be.

Ruby's First Bath and First Walk

Ruby's First Bath (her umbillical cord fell off on January 7th). We'll get the hang of this eventually!

We also took the first walk through our neighborhood! It was a beautiful day, but a little chilly, so Ruby was bundled up. Her pediatrician recommended getting her outside during the morning to get some light sun exposure in order to help regulate her sleep cycle. It seems to be helping a little bit so far! Here are a few pictures of Ruby and Mimi on our walk.

Ruby's 2-Week Doctor's Visit

Last week we took Ruby to her 2-week Pediatrician appointment. Her Doctor, Dr. Yaeger, said that she is perfect!


Ruby weighed in at 8.0 pounds (almost a full pound of weight gain!) and she had grown 1.25 inches since her 2-day visit! She's a growing girl!


Here are a few pictures. I'm not too sure that she likes Dr. Yaeger - she cries louder at these visits than she does any other time. She also had to have another PKU test where they prick her heel to collect blood for testing. We were both crying during this one, but we lived through it. I'm sure it was much more traumatic on me than it was on her!

Happy New Year!

Hi everyone! Happy New Year! I'm really looking forward to this new year. As my mom has said - 2008 wasn't great, but 2009 will be just fine! I'm so excited about all of the fun adventures that Ruby and I will have together this year.

I wanted to share a few pictures with you from Ruby's newborn photo session. My friend Jonnye Bower is an AMAZING photographer (the link to her blog is over on the right side of this page). She did a newborn photo session for Ruby, and the pictures turned out beautifully.

It was also Ruby's very first play-date - Jonnye's little girl, Alina, was born 50 minutes before Ruby was!! We had to document the big occasion in pictures too. I think that they had fun (although they both slept through most of it).

Jonnye - thank you so very much, from the bottom of my heart. You are so amazingly talented and I'm honored to have you as a friend!

Ruby's First Christmas!

Just a few days late, but here are some adorable pictures from Ruby's first Christmas. She had a fun day, starting with her first sponge bath (which she actually loved). We celebrated with my parents and my Granny who was visiting from New Mexico. It was a great day, and I couldn't have asked for a better Christmas gift than a happy, healthy, beautiful baby girl.

Ruby comes home

Here are a few pictures from Christmas Eve - we got to bring Ruby home that day! I loved her little outfit, although it was a bit big on her still. She was great in the car - she was awake for a bit, then quickly dozed off. I've never been more paranoid during a car ride though - Damian, sorry for flipping out when you "changed lanes in an intersection". :)

We came home to a surprise too - Ruby's Aunt Lindsay, Uncle Paul, and Aunt Ashley had put up my Christmas tree and decorated it for baby Ruby's First Christmas. It was such a sweet and thoughtful gesture - I can't believe how blessed that I am to have such amazing friends.

I know I'm a bit behind with my posts - I'll catch up when Ruby's napping though. We have some cute ones from Christmas!!!

Happy Birthday Ruby!

Ruby Catherine is finally here! She was born yesterday at 3:14 p.m., weighing in at 7 pounds 3 ounces and was 19.25 inches long. She and I are doing great and are getting to know each other, although I'm getting a good dose of sleep deprivation already! I'm probably a little biased, but I think that she's the most amazingly beautiful little girl in the world. She's passed all of her milestones with flying colors and all of the nurses up at the hospital just love her. She's really quiet (knock on wood) and is content just snuggling up in our arms and sleeping. Here are a few pictures from yesterday and today. Thanks for everyone's well wishes. We hope that you have a blessed Christmas - I know that I got the best Christmas present ever.

I'm going to be a mommy tomorrow!

I really can't believe that it's here already! I'm going to be leaving in a few short hours to head to Dallas Presbyterian Hospital and I'll get to meet Ruby Catherine Shaver sometime tomorrow!! Hopefully I'll be hearing from Labor & Delivery in a short while and they'll tell me to head that direction. I'll keep the blog updated if anything changes though. My next post should be one with pictures of my beautiful baby girl though!!

Keep us in your prayers tonight and tomorrow. I keep telling myself that countless other women have actually lived through this whole childbirth process, so I probably have a fighting chance. I'm really nervous though! Wish me luck!!!