Birthday Miracles!

First, want to thank my dear friend Alexis. She passed away from melanoma late summer last year. Before she died, she gave me a bracelet that says EXPECT MIRACLES.  Thank you Alexis for having more faith and hope than I did and for all that you were and are to us.
The other day Ruby was talking about her and said "I bet she can hear us". I think we ended up singing a song to her :)

And now to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUBY! It's so good we don't know the details of what lay ahead. Had we known when I was pregnant with Ruby that things would be up and down with her health but eventually we'd find a medication that would work, I wouldn't be who I am, think how and what I think, struggled how I've struggled, depended, relied, had faith like I've had the last 5 years.
And the next five years?  No one knows, so lets make goals and plans, but not worry and always be ok with plan B, or C.  Today we get to celebrate another day, another year we've had to be together.

Ruby got to take the snack to preschool on Wednesday, she chose corn nuts (so her fathers daughter). Her breakfast request is 'breakfast sandwiches'..."just with sausage and lettuce"
The one gift she has asked for is a globe...which she already opened this morning from Mark and I.
Ruby loves to play uno, matching game, swim, more swimming, ride her bike, be around people, play, more playing, paint rocks, put tiny things in tiny containers, and be with her sisters.

Love you Miss Ruby, to outer space and back!

Thank you Leanne, who volunteers 

through Icing Smiles, to bake for Ruby! 

Ruby requested "a bird and little nest" and she got it!