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