HaPpY BiRtHdAy CaLeB

its hard to believe that it has been 8 years since we welcomed our little boy to his world. what a blessing it has been to have him in our home. HAPPY BIRHTDAY, CALEB !!!

a few things about my little boy :

• on one side of the family he is the only grandson, on the other he is one of 4



• he has "pretty" eyes for a boy. they are hazel nad seem to change often.



• he just recently realized he liked wearing his glasses. he is going on 2 years now.



• he is a goofball like his sister.



• he always has lots of energy



• he is a thoughtful kid, he actually gets worried if some one is upset.



• he is very smart.



• he is in the GT class at Pine Forest Elementary.



• this year there are 3 boyes in his class and 17 girls.



• he really likes to read. once he gets started its hard to get him away.



• he has good hand writing for a boy and he likes to take his time.



• he is very creative and always has ideas about his school projects.



• he speaks softly and one has to really pay attention when he talks.



• he likes roller coasters, and was excited last year to be able to ride most rides at fiesta texas.



• at his last doctors appointment he was perfectly square, 47 pounds and 47 inches tall.



• he likes 'zebra cakes'



• he would eat pancakes for breakfast everyday.



• like his grammy he likes to eat potato chips.

did ya'll really think a birthday would be complete without one?

HaPpY BiRtHdAy BAILEIGH !!!

happy, happy birthday baileigh dear.
happy days will come to you all year.
if i had one wish then it would be . . .
a happy, happy birthday to you from me.


ok ok ... i've been in primary too long. i know baileigh loves that song.

so my little girl is turning "5" today, and really wants to start kendergarten tomorrow... LOL

• baileigh is a hoot. she cracks me up.
• she comes up with the darnest things to say.
  
• she has a sweet southern accent and likes it when people point it out.
  
• she never meets a stranger and is eager to meet new friends.
• when she cleans out her toys box she always picks toys to bring to others.
• she likes picking out her own clothes and she would wear long pants and long sleeves year round if you let her.
• she likes to help around the house. especially if you are washing your car or cooking.
• she loves her brother most of the time. he is her best friend usually.
• she likes to watch movies and can tell you anything about it after watching it once.
• she is a lover of all animals. she want to a "one of those doctors, ya know the ones that take care of dogs"

we love our little 'raileigh buggles'. we are trully blessed to have her in our lives.

happy 5th birthday baileigh!!!

HaPpY BeLaTeD BiRtHdAy

so . . .happy belated birthday to that wonderful husband of mine.
this year he turned the BIG 38 so here are 38 wonderful things about my guy.

1. born: Arthur Ray Ruggles, Jr. but most people just call him ART

2. he is the oldest in his family with 2 younger sisters, angie and allison

3. he has the most beautiful blue eyes i have ever seen. some days they are so bright.
4. art has never acted his age, in fact when i met him i was really surprised that he was 9 years older than me. . . lol
5. art and i got married on june 19, 1997 in the dallas texas temple

6. art is a thoughtful guy
7. a great father, a trait i know he got from his dad

8. excellent traffic driver, i hate traffic and would rather drive myself. but if i had to pick someone to get me there it would be art.
9. he likes rollercoasters, he once stumped his big toe roding the ratteler with mackenzi at fiesta texas
10. he likes crawfish boils
11. likes hambugers at chris madrid's almost as much as me
12. he likes to sleep late on sunday mornings
13. passes along funny jokes
14. loves play with the kiddos
15. loves to wash his new truck in the front yard.
16. he's a giver
17. somehow, for whatever reason babies and small children love him.
18. it cracks me up to think that when he was in high school he wore a white tux to prom.
19. he served a mission for our church
20. while on his mission members often tried to feed him tunafish and macaroni and cheese (mixed together)
21. if you need directions . . .he's the one you call
22. he is an EMT- T
23. he is always polite to his grandmother
24. he likes to take rode trips
25. he often works two jobs to help the family
26. he likes helping his dad around the house
27. he doesn't usally like to borrow things, he has bad luck with other peoples stuff
28. not long after we got married and went to his 10 year high school reunion, last october we went to mine
29. when art was younger his hair was straight and very blonde, now it is curly and brown.
30. he recently lost over 70 pounds on the south beach diet

31. baileigh loves him because he loves her
32. caleb says he is very nice to them
33. he is the priesthood holder in our home.
34. we will be married for 10 years this june
35. he wants to do what is right for our family
36. he's like a big old teddy bear, you just want to hug him
37. he always tries to get to all of the school activities.
38. he lets me take time out for myself.


thank you art for all you do for us, i love you very much and i hope you had a very happy birthday !


jess :-P

some stuff you may not want to know. . .

ok . . so i got a survey on myspace awhile back and since its been so time . . . here you go.

55 things about ME

1. my full name is : jessica lynn (peck) ruggles
2. i have 2 sisters. janell and jaclyn
3. one brother : jason
4. i have 3 nephews and 5 neices
5. i have been married for almost 10 years. (june 19, 1997)
6. my birthday is july 30, 1978
7. i am the oldest child in my family.
8. i married the oldest child in the family.
9. i graduated from vidor high school.
10. i was the first girl tuba player at vidor high school.
11. i played the flute, baritone and tuba.
12. i can read music.
13. i have a piano in my living room that is a catch all.
14. i would love to have someone come to my house and organize it.
15. i have a hard time finishing projects before i start another one.
16. i have good intentions, but find it hard to follow through.
17. when i was a freshmen in high school i had a crush on a senior.
18. when i was a senior in high school a freshmen had a crush on me.
19. i went on my first date when i was 16 with david ochoa. we watched the pelicon brief, ate big macs and toilet papered a house. good times!!
20. i didn't kiss a boy until my senior year.
21. i took my best friend, jessika, to prom our junior year.
22. i went to homecoming once with a guy. it was my dad sophmore year.
23. i was a band nerd and had some of my greatest high school memories on band trips.
24. it was in high school that i stopped wearing white socks and to this day i only wear colored ones.
25. i have always liked my hair.
26. i like to watch chick flicks over and over.
27. i have recently been turned on to reading.
28. i never read a book from cover to cover in school. ( cliff notes)
29. i have always been called a goofball.
30. i like to have fun with friends.
31. i love my job.
32. i love the people i work with.
33. i love being a mommy.
34. i love my husband, art.
35 i rarely use capital letters when typing.
36. i took walking for fitness for my PE credit at lamar.
37. i would love to go back to school one day and get my RN.
38. i try to get to target at least once a week, usually more. i can spend a hour in there and not buy a thing.
39. i have a favorite color, GREEN. yes, i am obsessed with it. i find myself buying things in all shades and usually mix them when dressing. i have gone so far a to get GREEN cell phone.
40. i love to chat in the internet .. . .lol i got bored one night and found a web sight that had a chat room and i went in. so now going on 2 years i have been talking to the same person. we even called each other while we were evacuated from hurricane rita.... HEY MARSHA
41. i love watching reruns of 'the nanny'.
42. i have a myspace account.
43. i have my ears pierce three times in each ear. (i only wear one pair now.)
44. i got my gallbladder taken out in 2003 and now my belly button looks like a question mark.
45. i'm not the most gracefull person. i once tried to step overthe hose at the gas station and fell.
46. i broke my foot my sophmore year jumping on a bed.
47. i wore braces for 3 1/2 years and stopped wearing my retainer. now i could use them again.
48. i'm left-handed and have a big bump on my middle finger which makes my finger nail goofy.
49. i've been to london, england.
50. would love a trip to new york.
51. i've worn glasses since the 3rd grade.
52. i would like to have plastic surgery one day, just to put stuff back where it used to be.
53. i never took home eco. in school so i haad to teah myself to use the sewing machine and i like it.
54. i like to cook, especially deserts.
55. i would love to build a house one day just the way i want it.



ok there are a few things. .

jess :-P

GoOd MaIL

yesterday i got something in the mail that was quite pleasant. my sister-in-law thought of me and sent me a little package in the mail.

she may never know how special it made me feel. it wasn't my birthday or any other holiday. it was just because. it was nice to get someting other than a bill or junk mail. thank you so much angie for thinking of me. it really means alot.
jess :-P

mine's BiGgEr than yours . . . .

ok . . its true i have fallen behind. i seem to get sidetracked and won't sit down long enough at the computer to BLOG. to say that i have been busy, sick or just plain lazy would just about sum up why i have posted in a while.
so where do you begin when it has been so long. i guess i should go back to that chickie weekend...
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the date: Dec. 8 - 10
the place: frisco, tx
the peeps: 2 blondes, 1 redhead and a grammy
the crime: shopping til we drop


this year was the first anuall chickie weekend. art's mom decided that the girls of the family were in titled to a girls weekend. so as are first place, we decided on frisco, tx. there are nice malls, at least 4 targets and 2 walmarts in the area. not to mention a HUGH IKEA.
we all decided to fly there. we had to get up very early but by 10:00 am we were all there and ready fo some serious shopping. when we did get there we got a big surprise. the weather was a bit cooler that we had planned. the temp in the rental car said 29 but it sure felt colder than that. the wind was bitter and we had to bundle up each time we got out of the car. it was quite different from the weather that usually at home.
we did manage to hit a few stores before our 3:00 check-in time at the hotel. i think on that first day we were finished shoppind by 4:30 and planning our dinner. we opted for a small lunch so we were getting pretty hungry. a friend from work suggested we try a mexican chain, uncle juleos. after making the block we found it and were pleased with the food. we all left very full.
early saturday morning we started out, making it to ikea shortly after they opened. now we didn't have to go far for that cause it was nearly in the parking lot of our hotel . . . .LOL it is much bigger than the one in houston. we walked through and spent nearly 2 hours, but there was just too much to look at. after we left we had to pick another place. i'm not really sure where we actually went next but i do think it is funny that we traveled so far to make a few stops at the local targets and walmarts. i guess it is true what they say about, sticking to what you know.
after a shop til you drop day we stuffed ourselves again on mexican food (again) and made a few mad dashes to target and walmart again.
i had a good time ladies. i'm looking forward to our next trip.

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Dec 13 BYU vs LAMAR


thats right... byu came to beaumont to play lamar. we toook the kids and joined the other byu fans and packed the house with navy blue. . . . .ok so it wasn't a packed house. but there sure were a lot of us 'mormons' there. ther was even a local celebrity there, tracy bird . . .lol

byu did give lamar a run for their money and there was even overtime, although lamar won in the end. the kids had a fun time.

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dec. 15 - williamson 3rd ward christmas party aka: LDS airlines

this year the activities commity went all out. i must say
it was quite the production.
it had a christmas around the world feel.


when we arrived at the church we waited in a 'lobby' and then had to check in and get 'passports'. we were given seat numbers and had to walk through security. then we boarded our 'plane'. ( it was actually the hall way with poster board on the walls, primary chairs, and rope lights.) the flight attendants took us to ours seats and then we were giving out safety guidelines and introduces to the pilot. the flight attendants passed out pretzels and the 'flight' was so smooth we were there in no time at all....lol. after exiting the plane we made our way around the church building stopping at different countries collecting stamps for our passports.

it was interesting learning about different christmas tradions. after making our way around the world, we returned to the usa. we shared a potluck dinner and enjoyed some good 'ol entertainment. we had a good time.

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dec. 21 - caleb's christmas party at school

this day art anda i were both off and able to enjoy caleb's christmas party. the room moms picked the theme - an ol' english christmas. therefore the treats were somewhat tradtional. there served the kids scones and 'hot tea' (which was actually waszel).

caleb's teacher made little ' crackers ' for the kids. inside was a treat and toy and a hat for them to wear. the kids traded gifts. they were 'secret santa' gift and if was fun to find out who had who. caleb's gift was from his friend garrison. they have really bonded since they were the only 2 boys in class last year.
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dec. 24 ~ 25

of course these couple of days are a complete blurr. mostly mixed together. we did the christmas thing at my parents house on christmas eve around 3 in the afternoon. we exchanged gifts and talked while snacking.

then it was off to the o'quinn's. we have been married for almost 10 years and have not missed a christmas eve yet. there is always lots of goodies to make you sick and good food. sheila cooks most of it and then begs us to take some home. we share stories from the year and exchange a few more gifts. once we have stuffed ourselves we head home. get the kiddos in bed and try to get to bed ourseves so santa can come.

christmas morning is always fun. santa has yet to dissapoint our kids. they always seem to get what they ask for. we really enjoyed it.

after gifts and breakfast we're off again. we eat at my and art's parent's houses and by the time we get home the we can't eat anymore and the house and car are trashed. . . LOL
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dec. 29 just a little operation

at about 12:30 on this day, art called me on my cell phone. i was getting to my car to leave work early to head over to grammy and poppy's. he told me not to leave he was one his way with caleb. caleb had been playing with a 'jewel' nad put it in his mouth. forgeting it was there he then took a drink. of course he swollowed it and art was gring him in. i just happend to be working with dr. hicks that day so i called back in to see if he was still there, and he was. he sadi he would take a look at caleb and decide what needed to be done.
i met caleb and art in the ER and brought caleb up to surgery to dr. hicks. he decided it would be best if we went down to radiology and have an XRAY to see if it was still there. poor caleb was in alot of pain. we spitting in a cup and white knuckling the chairs in admitting. after sitting in admitting for over 2 hours i finally had to say something. "we are checking your insurance ma'am" "i WORK here". i was pissed. then of course they were nice and got us over to xray. there we found out it was still there . the radiologist called dr. hicks who was still waiting and then it was up to surgery. dr. hicks put a scope down and pulled it out. caleb did great. wasn't scared at all and as soon as we returned he wanted to know if he could still go to grammy's house for presents.

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dec. 31 NEW YEARS EVE

this year was quite uneventful. i had to work. i only work one holiday a year and this was mine and 3 days at that. we stayed home and art took the kids outside for a few fireworks. we enjoyed chips and dip, pigs in a blanket, and cookies. bed time was before 10:00. . . pretty sad huh.
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so prtty much i have fallen behind and hope to get better with the new year . . .LOL
well see what i can do.

jess :-P