The Hortin's

Moments of Ruby

2011-05-31T21:17:00.000-06:00

Ruby's best moments. May 2011

"I want to be like daddy when I grow up."

Ruby's first car.

Good Times with Nana

2011-05-01T23:07:00.000-06:00

My mom came to visit in April. It was so much fun. It is the first time my mom was able to spend so much time with Ruby. Ruby loved it. Now I often hear Ruby pretending to talk to Nana on her phone. Below are some of the adventures we had with her.

A little carousel riding at the mall.

Aquarium Fun
Looking at the fish.

Temple Square

2011-05-01T22:19:00.001-06:00

One of our favorite places to go in Salt Lake is Temple Square. There is plenty to see and eat. Just walking around temple square is amazing. I wish I could hire the grounds keepers to come and make a masterpiece on my future "grounds". We loved just walking around and enjoying all the beauty. We also loved ending each visit with an awesome cinnamon roll from the Nauvoo Cafe in the Joseph Smith Building. Ruby found a treasure at the Church history museum we went to as often as we could. There is a kids section that has so many toys, Ruby loves.

The next few pictures were taken at Jake and Magen's wedding, Matt's Brother.

A perfect picture of my angel Ruby.

Killing time between the wedding and the luncheon.

The Museum:

A sweet car.

A little culture dancing from mexico. Ruby was much better than I was.

Noah's Ark

Huge pillow building blocks.

Ruby's dream kitchen.

We love visiting Temple square and will miss it when we move.

Holidays

2011-05-01T21:06:00.002-06:00

March 17

I have never done much for St. Patricks day in the past. This year i tried making it exciting for Ruby. I think she enjoyed it. She at least enjoyed the candy. Ruby woke up to leprechaun tracks. They lead her to a pot of gold or what she thought was gold. I took some change from her piggy bank and put in a green pot with some chocolate goodies.

Finding her treasure. What a cheesey smile.

Enjoying the pot of gold. Hopefully I can accomplish the same cheesey smile next year.

April 24
The week before Easter Ruby was sick so we had to do our own private egg hunt. Ruby that it was the coolest thing ever.

What a cuttie.

Adventures with B. Bear

2011-03-13T14:59:00.005-06:00

I am making a book of Ruby and her best friend B. Bear.

Ruby does everything with B. Bear.

Here is a peak at the Book.

Who needs toys when you have the kitchen tupperwear.

They love trying on Dad's Shoes. They still have room to grow.

Ruby is great at taking B. Bear for a ride. It is hard work, but Ruby is prepared with her sippy cup in mouth.

A day never goes by without dancing time. B. Bear is a great partner.

B. Bear loves pretzels and Ruby is willing to share.

Sometimes B. Bear needs a change of cloths. Going a few days or weeks in the same cloths can get pretty stinky.

As long as they have each other naptime and bedtime are easy.

Nana's Noodles

2011-02-03T15:09:00.001-07:00

My fabulous mother decided she wanted a way to keep in touch with her grandkids, so she introduced us to Nana's Noodles. She sends fun educational activities to all of the kids. Then through phone calls, blogs and letters she talks to them about it. Below is the first of hopefully many of Nana's Noodles.

This is the Yummy meal we made with the homemade dragon in the back ground. We had egg rolls, orange chicken, and fried rice.

Ruby is making fireworks with glue and glitter. Two great crafts for a 17 month old. She loved it.

Enjoying the Yummy dinner. Along with crafts, Nana sent us chopsticks, Chinese calendar for our place mats, and fortune cookies.
Our Crafty Chinese lanterns.

Christmas in Denver and More

2011-01-02T21:46:00.004-07:00

We spent Christmas in Denver at my sister's. My parents and brother, Joseph, were there as well. We had so much fun. On Christmas Eve we went to a rec center with an amazing swimming pool. We also did the traditional eat Pasole, look at lights, and act out the nativity. Christmas morning was great, but I do miss being the kid and not the Santa.

Ruby really enjoyed all of her presents. We constantly had to force her to open a new present. She would have been happy with just one.

Joshua tested out the strength of all the presents.

Ruby and Dad checking out their stockings.

The nativity scene: the shepherds

the manger

No room in the inn.

Ruby even tried to help with dishes at Aunt Jerusha's

Enjoying time with Aunt Janny. Showing off the stockings.

Fun Pictures

2011-01-02T21:36:00.004-07:00

This is a pastry that is in the shape of a peach. Amazing. Well, at least I thought so when I saw it. It looks better than it tasted. I bought it from this resturant that had a wall of pastries. I got another pastry that turned out yummy.

Cute Ruby ready to cheer on BYU.

Ruby Enjoying her hat.

Turkey Dinner

2011-01-02T21:30:00.002-07:00

Isn't she pretty Yummy looking? I cooked my first Big Bird. We are still enoying it.

Halloween

2010-11-02T20:57:00.000-06:00

We had Matt's brother Tom and his family, Gwen and Isabelle, over for carving pumpkins. They turned out great and we had fun.

Gwen and Isabell

Matt and Ruby. She was not to excited about the pumpkin guts.

Halloween

Ruby was Olivia (the storybook character) and I was a Q-Tip.

"This is Olivia"

Brooklyn, Ruby's friend, the lady bug.

Yellowstone National Park

2010-10-17T15:04:00.005-06:00

Matt recently accepted an offer with a new medical equipment company. He started at the begining of October. Before he left the old companywe took advantage of vacation time, so we decided to take a trip up to Yellowstone National Park. We loved it. It was a great time to go because it was not crowded and the weather was nice (sweaters at night and shorts and T-shirt during the day). Ruby especially enjoyed the water and rocks (big and little).

Ruby was pretty excited about all of these rocks.

I love pictures like this. There something about an old brick bridge surrounded by nature.

Watching Old Faithful.

Ruby's favorite water spot. We let her take her shoes off and walk around. She loved it.

Geysers in the back.

We so lots of wildlife. The Bison were the most common. We also saw elk, deer, fox, and a bear. We did not get a picture of the bear, but it was exciting.

There were lots of bison across the river.

Dinosaur Museum

2010-10-17T14:37:00.005-06:00

We recently went to the dinosaur museum when some friends and my dad. The kids seemed to all enjoy it. Ruby's favorite parts seemed to be the areas she could climb on. We had a lot of fun with Liz and Joe and there two kids, Alyssa and Brooklyn, and my dad. Having my dad there reminded me why I grew up thinking museums were boring. He likes reading EVERYTHING. I lost him a couple of times because he was so far behind us. I love ya Dad.

Liz and Kelsey

There is a flying dinosaur right above Brayden and Ruby. I think Ruby enjoyed people watching more then the dinosaurs.

This was the most popular spot for kids. There is nothing like playing in water and sand.

The water dinosaurs. This is similar to a sea tortoise.

Dinosaur foot compared to Ruby's.

Brooklyn and Ruby. These two spend a lot of time together. They are a year and a day apart.

Ruby's 1st Birthday

2010-10-02T22:17:00.005-06:00

Ruby had a great Birthday! She got a lot of books from her parents, Nana and Papa and Aunt Janny. She loves them. She also got some cloths and toys. Ruby was great at opening everything up. She also had a lot of visitors. My parents, Joe, Jerusha, Steven and there boys came down. the really came down for a BYU football game but they all arrived on her birthday. i will post pictures of the game later.

Aunt Janny with all the amazing books she got Ruby. She was a little excited about this truck.

the best present from Mom and Dad was the BYU football hat. I know, it's pink but it was the only hat Ruby would tolerant on her head.

Openening Cookie monster. She loves him. He is a great friend for long trips.

The Birthday Cake! I know my "Y" is back words or upside down but deal with it. Ruby looks pretty excited.

Happy Birthday Ruby!!! It has been a great first year. She is so much fun and is growing up so fast. Our little buddy.

Ruby struggled with eating the cake. She was a little confused. She is never this calm with her own food.

Hiking Timpanogos

2010-10-02T22:04:00.003-06:00

The hike to timpanogos was fun but long. We hiked with some friends before they moved off to Cal. They view at the top was awesome, but this is the third time I have hiked it and it seems to get longer and longer. It was worth it and we did have fun with Todd and Haley.
At the restuarant at the top. At least that is what people tell you.

Haley expressing how we all felt.

Awesome view.

Grigg Family Reunion

2010-10-02T21:28:00.005-06:00

The Grigg family reunion was at my parents this year. It was one week with 27 people in a small house. We loved it. There was a lot to do and the best part was there were enough kids to keep them all busy so the adults got to have some fun as well. Here are some pictures of my crazy family. We played a lot of volleyball. We were all sore by the end of the week.

Lots of games.

Pizza contest. Yummy!!!

A little around the world Ping Pong.

Fireworks

Talent

More Talent.

Andersen (my brother) and his family

And More Talent.
Jerusha (my sister) and her family.

Hiking

Camping babies

Camping

Outside Movies

Great Mexican Food! I miss you.

Last but not leat, awards. That's my girl. Matt and I got first in the Grigg Olympics.

Harmons Best Dam Bike Ride

2010-07-02T16:03:00.000-06:00

Our trip to Logan Utah was great. We went up Friday night, looked around the sweet campus. I love red brick and most of their buildings were all red brick. I think I get that from my mom. Mom you would have loved the campus. After that we had the traditional night before the race dinner at Olive Garden. This is a tradition for the Steve Hortin Family and those that are with them. Yum!!! Ruby loved the bread sticks. After dinner we took ruby for her first swimming experience (besides the bathtub). She liked it about a 10th of the time. it was freezing. We picked a bad pool to swim in for her frist. We did manage to get some pictures of her smiling.

Luckily I think she was enjoying the cold water at this moment.

The next morning Matt drove me over to meet the other bikers. We started at 7:15 am. It was perfect weather. The country up by Logan is gorgeous. i loved the ride. There were times that I can only see one person in front of me and one person behind me. I loved it. i did pretty good for my first Century. There were a couple of funny stories from it as well. At about 69 miles my speedametor was reading 100 miles. I was feeling pretty good but was a little confused why i felt we were not even close to the finishline. I asked another biker how many mile we had gone and when they told me 69 miles i about crapped my pants. I still had 31 miles to go. I did make it to the end within 5 1/2 hours, but 1/2 mile or less to the finish line i managed to blow out my tire. Luckily there was a great biker who stopped and helped me fix it. I learned that road Biker are some of the nicest people.

Steve, Ozzi, Kathleen, Dennis, and Me

Ruby got to hang out with Matt and his Cousin Amanda the whole day. I think she enjoyed it.

Me crossing the finsh line. Woohoo!!!

I love biking. It is my new favorite exercise.

Half Marathon

2010-06-27T09:57:00.000-06:00

Here are some more pictures of the half marathon I ran with my dad. It was a rainy day, but it felt great.

My June Excitement

2010-06-25T10:14:00.005-06:00

Today Matt, Ruby, and I are headed up to Logan for the weekend. The Harmons Best Dam Bike Ride is tomorrow morning. My goal is to ride 100 miles. I think I can do it. I have been riding in the mornings with Janny, Matt's sister. It has been so much easier on my knees. We are staying at a hotel tonight with a swimming pool so Ruby will get to swim for her first time. I am excited. It will be a nice little vacation before our big one in Socorro in a week. Anyway wish me luck.

Two weeks ago my dad came up to run a half marathon with me. It was a lot of fun. We both finished. I ran a 1:58. I did not beat my record, but this is the first time I ran the whole time. Below is a picture of Ruby and I after the finish. She is enjoying the taste of my medal. (No, I did not win, but I am special because they gave me a participant medal. How sweet.) Hopefully I can get my mom to send me the picture of my dad and I and us finishing the race. I will post them later. As you can tell Ruby is still in her PJs. The race started at 5:30 in the morning. It was cold at the top of the canyon. It even rained on us a couple of times during the race.

Summer Hike #2

2010-06-16T16:48:00.008-06:00

We love going on hikes and walks with Ruby. Below is a hike we took with Tom's family, Matt's brother. It was fun. We went up just before the sunset. There was a lake and little waterfall at the top.

Gwen, Tom, Isabelle, Tiff, Matt, and Ruby

Cuz Isabelle hiking in style

Ruby and Matt

Other Pictures:

Playing with EVERYTHING in the kitchen. In fact I have to watch her close because her favorite place is under the sink with all that fun stuff.

She really is walking more than this too. This was taken on May 29th. She is walking like a pro now.

First Steps at 8 Months

2010-05-22T16:41:00.000-06:00

Ruby is a walking champ. She took her first steps on May 22, 2010.
She was 8 1/2 months old. On the same day she also took quite a lot of belly flops, face plants, and bum flops. That's my girl.

April Fun

2010-04-12T16:20:00.000-06:00

Joe came to visit on his way home from BYU-Idaho. While Matt was at work we went to Wheeler Farm to check out some farm animals. Ruby enjoyed hanging out with her Uncle Joe and chasing roosters, but she really liked tasting the fence. YUMMY!

Sorry there are a lot of pictures.

Go Cougars

2010-04-10T16:10:00.000-06:00

In April we were able to start taking Ruby out. She was completely cleared by the doctor. One of the first things we exposed her to was of coarse BYU football. They were having their spring game/ practice. There were some injured line men so they did not have the usual blue and white game, but we still got to see the QBs.

Ruby seemed to Really enjoy the stairs.

The Tent

2010-04-07T11:59:00.003-06:00

Ruby discovered a new favorite game. She loves this tent. It took me crawling through it a couple of times before she actually realized it could be fun. Ones she crawled through she thought it was pretty exciting. I have to admit I really do have a blast with Ruby.The movie shows how quick she got with storming through the tent.

Energy

2010-04-06T22:18:00.002-06:00

Ruby is climbing over everything. She loves climbing on the coach and chair. It keeps her busy and keeps us busy too. We have to keep the house spotless. Enjoy the videos.

For Fun

2010-04-06T22:12:00.001-06:00

Hanging with dad.

Spring time is slowly coming.