Eating cereal for the first time...

Eating food for the first time last night

My recent projects

I started sewing a few months ago-- thought it would be fun and a good project to work on while Andrew is away at work...

A changing pad

A headband for my baby girl

A burp cloth

A wet wipe

 Hand and foot prints of Ruthanna...it will be made into a Christmas tree ornament when I tie some ribbon to it.

Her tutu skirt that I made her...it was her Christmas outfit.

Merry Christmas from us to you!

Here we are...Ruthanna and I.  We'll celebrate as a family of 3 when Andrew returns next month!

M.V. Sunshine State

I am aboard the product tanker, "Sunshine State" hauling refined oil to the actual sunshine state, "Florida".  We haul jet fuel, premium and regular gasoline, and aviation gasoline in our six cargo tanks. Each full load of this cargo is valued at nearly 39 million dollars. We load the product at the Chevron refinery in Pascagoula, MS.

The main engine is a Mann B&W and puts out about 12000 horsepower. Being it so new, not many breakdowns, just a lot of preventative maintenance and inspections.

This is the top of the engine, with me on the bottom left. It is over three stories high with decks at each level.

The engine control room still has the new smell even. All three of us engineer and the two oilers work from 6 to 6 so it is easier to do big projects.  At night the engine room is unmanned and one of us three engineers has the duty each night, so the alarms ring in the room of the engineer on duty.  But we very rarely get an alarm at night. 

Our monitoring system is very good and any problem is caught at an early stage.

Sunday night...

Baby Love

Bathtime at grandpa and grandma's house

 Saturday night-- ready to go to church the next day.  Ruthanna started to really love her baths. She smiles and laughs when we bathe her.

 Last week-- around the 20th, Ruthanna discovered her fingers and now loves to put her little hands in her mouth.  She also became interested in one of the dangle toys that hangs from her carseat.

 Cutie Pie..over 3 months old already!

3 months

My family....

Boo!

Ruthanna's first halloween- she was a peapod.  The costume just fit- her feet were to the end of it, so a month later, I don't think it would've worked!

 We took Ruthanna to the zoo boo in Watertown last Saturday...different businesses had booths set up that you could go get candy from. We got to look at the animals along the way.

Trick or treating last night.  We took Ruthanna to my parents house.  She had slept a few different times before we went, so she was happy!

 Family picture

Ruthanna when we got home- put the costume back on so we could take a few pictures and she came to life again!

CLOTH DIAPERS!

This week we started using cloth diapers with Ruthanna. We have an assortment of colors, but these were the first two that got used!

                                                                10-28-12

                                                                  10-29-12

Simple things...

Smiling in the mirror....

 Reading with daddy after church last night...

Lemmon visit....

At the end of September, we made a trip to Lemmon to visit Andrew's family. We stayed there for 9 days visiting and catching up with that side of the family. Ruthanna got to spend quality time with her Grandpa and Grandma Larson...it was fun!

Bath time for Ruthanna

                          

Cousin Blake and Ruthanna

                          

Cousin Madelyn and Ruthanna

                          

Ruthanna got a new snowsuit, so we tried that out one morning

Andrew and one of his big potatoes!

Me and my family

Grandpa and Grandma Larson with Ruthanna

                          

Great-grandma Larson with Ruthanna

4 generations

                  

 Andrew gave a presentation at church on his trip to Africa last winter.

 We shot targets with the gun

And, on the way home we stayed in a hotel, so Ruthanna had another chance to use a crib for sleeping.