Ruby: Star of the week

Daniel sent me a link that taught me how to send you all my letters in PDF format, so I was ready to do that this week, but Nick suggested that I do it as a Blog, so you can all comment, and also so that it will archive everything.  Another reason is that, if desired, I can send it to Shutterfly at the end of the year and have it printed.  I thought these were all good reasons, so I decided to try it.  Caitlyn came up with the name of the blog, and though I'm sure she put very little thought into it, it worked for me.  Now for the letter:

Ruby is the star of the week this week as we all celebrated with her yesterday on her blessing day.  She was beautiful in her ruffly blessing dress, complete with a bonnet and a delicate little bracelet.

However, by the time we got Matt in the pictures, Ruby was done posing.

Orianthi could have been another star of the week because she spent Friday and Saturday with her grandparents at Flaming Gorge, but she loses star status because she will only give us minimal attention :)  Not really, she was still a star--very cute and sweet, and we all had a really good time.  I'm going to put a few pictures here of the weekend and I want you to especially note the condition of the water that Caitlyn and Nick were able to wakeboard on.

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(The above are taken at the overlook of our favorite hike)

So, it's probably obvious that I'm going backwards.  I started on Sunday with Ruby's blessing day, and then went to the weekend at Flaming Gorge, and now for some comments and pics from earlier in the week.

Max and his parents got to have Fun with the Jacksons at Legoland in Florida

We also had a visit from Crista on Tuesday to practice our violin duet that we played in her ward yesterday.  Adrienne and the boys, and Jieun and the girls stopped in and we got a picture of the babies.

Yuna really wanted to be in the picture, so of course we obliged, but then we got one of the two babies together.

and Grandpa got a minute with Ruby, too.

All in all, a great and busy week.