2 Months Old!

Ruth is now officially 2 months old. We are celebrating by spending 10 days with my parents in Oregon. The downside is that Brad is still in dreary old Provo going to school...all alone. So to help him not miss us too much I'm going to try and blog every day with pictures to keep him up to date. Ruth is really loving time with her grandparents. Today we went and got a pack 'n play for her (and her new cousin) to use while at the grandparents' house. This pack 'n play has a mobile on it and she just loves it, loves it, loves it. However, the toys were this nasty gray/brown color so we're going to buy new stuffed animals to replace them with so she likes it even more. We were also running errands around Portland and I found this pelican painted on the side of a building...it reminded me of the old days as a "Fighting Pelican"...except we were not medieval King Arthur Pelicans.

Another exciting event has been the wind. Trees have been falling across roads, branches falling into drive ways and smashing porches, and blowing cars across bridges. The first night we spent here it really freaked me out. The trees behind the house were being blown around so much, the trunks of the trees were moving not just the branches. The wind was so noisy that it sounded like the ocean smashing against rocks. I woke up in the middle of the night so freaked out by the wind and trees that I moved Ruth and I downstairs to the couches so that if the trees were going to smash into the house at least I'd hear it and hopefully be able to get out of harms way. I came to my senses around 5 am and moved back upstairs to the warm, comfy bedroom. I made this video my first night, it's really dark but you can kind of see the branches of the tree moving around.