Birthdays, Birthdays, Birthdays

The month of September is full of Birthdays on both the Ringger & Clark sides! This post is in honor of some of our family members who celebrated a birthday this past month. We have the best family and are so thankful for their influence on our precious Hannah, who is already 5 months old (included is her 5 month pic with Maya).



I celebrated my 28th birthday on the 27th. Yes, I got a Snuggie for my birthday. It is awesome :) And a pic of my sweet baby with me on my birthday! She is the best gift ever.

My nephew Jed also celebrated his 1ST birthday on the 25th. Here he is on his new John Deere tractor! The next picture is of him eating his cake!











































My sister Amy celebrated her 32nd birthday on the 2nd! She is the mom of Jed :)







Hannah's cousin Emery celebrated her 2nd birthday on the 14th! She is riding Jed's new horse and being a big cousin by helping Hannah put the paci in her mouth!





























My sister in law Tiffany celebrated her birthday on the 22nd. She is having a baby in March...yay!


Uncle Steve and Aunt Bonnie also celebrated birthdays in September...the 6th and 14th.





Last but not least, sweet little Lilly was born on the 2nd to Ryan and Kristin.







My Grandma Ringger (who was pictured in the previous post) had a birthday. Also, my cousins Ben, Erin and Tyler also celebrated a birthday. I hope I'm not missing anyone :) We love you all!

Weddings

The past couple of months we have been to 2 weddings...my cousin's in Chicago (above) and my friend Jeanne's in Kentucky (below)! Jeanne and Julie are twins, and are my best friends from college. They were both in my wedding, and I had the privilege of being in both of theirs! They actually got Hannah the dress she is wearing in the above pictures for my cousin's wedding. They had her initials monogrammed on the front of the dress...so sweet. The cutesy hat is from Nate's mom Leslie! The outfit worked perfectly :) Hannah is with my Ringger Grandparents in the picture above. Hannah was just talking away with Grandpa! For Jeanne's wedding, my mom came down to help with Hannah since Nate had football and wasn't able to come. It was so much fun. We didn't get a good picture of Hannah in her actual dress she wore to the wedding, but you can kind of see it in the last picture. I think she looks adorable :)

Play Time!

Hannah is having so much fun these days. She loves to play and is smiling and giggling a lot, except when she is in the church nursery!! Ahh! The last couple of times we have taken her there, we have gotten paged because she is screaming crying and they can't get her to settle down. Hopefully this stage passes soon! The picture above is how we found Hannah the other morning...just chilling with her legs up on the bumper. It was too cute. Below is her sucking on her big toe. This is one of her favorite things to do.

Smiling with her doll...

Chewing on her keys...

Beautiful smile while playing in her jumpy toy. What a joy she is!

Overdue 4 month pictures

Since Hannah is almost 5 months old, I thought I should probably get her 4 month pictures with Maya on here! Hannah just start noticing Maya for the first time the last week or so. She actually is noticing a lot and wants to touch and grab for it ALL! I just love seeing her look at Maya and attempt to pet her. Thankfully, Maya just lets her do it without any problems. Another thing Hannah is trying to grab is her toes!! She just discovered them as well.
We are also finding that our little Hannah is very particular on certain things, like how she goes to sleep. She is sleeping great, usually at least 9 hours a night and takes great naps during

the day, but she likes to be bounced and wants her little blankie or doll up by her face when she is falling asleep. It is pretty cute. Below you will see her with her doll and her bouncing with the Clark grandparents on the big ball! Oh what we do for our baby!

A new cousin and a few new pics

Hannah has a new cousin!! Lillian Noelle was born September 2...the third granddaughter on the Clark side, born to Ryan and Kristin. I am sure Hannah and her will have so much fun growing up together! As you can see in the picture above, Hannah looks like a giant up to Lilly! In the picture on top and also below, Hannah is enjoying two of her favorite things...chewing on things and jumping in her new bouncy play gym!

What a cutie, huh! We had a little scare last week. When we were at Hannah's checkup, the doctor heard a heart murmur. As a result, we had to get her a chest x-ray and EKG! Thankfully, the tests came back NORMAL, so her heart is strong and healthy. We were very relieved. Now we just pray it goes away as she grows up! We also took her to the church nursery for the first time last Sunday as she was becoming quite a distraction for us, especially with her squealing! She did great, but of course now she has a cold! AHH! I guess she was bound to get exposed to those germs at some time! Otherwise, we are doing great! How can you not smile when you see her little face :)

dresses, dedication, and a new trick

We have had a great couple of weeks with Hannah. She is now 4 months old and really growing up. Nate and I keep saying to each other that she just seems so big to us and so much older all of a sudden. She is now squealing, giggling, pushing up on her legs when you are holding her, rolling over, grabbing onto things, shaking rattles like crazy, and hugging her doll close to her face when she takes her naps. I could go on and on...I just love this girl! One of my best friends from college got married recently, so we had to have a fashion show to decide on the dress she was going to wear! I am still waiting on the pictures from the wedding from my mom's camera, so for now you get pictures of all the choices. Stay tuned for the actual wedding pics! One of the most important things we have done recently is have Hannah dedicated at our church. We had her dedicated on Aug. 16, which is exactly a year from the day we took that first pregnancy test and found out she would be making us a family of 3! Our family came to support us which we really appreciated. Hannah did great the whole day, but was wiped out by the end. Pictures are below! Also, Nate and I recently invested in a camcorder because Hannah was just doing too many cute things that we didn't want to forget about!!! One is of her rolling over, which she is doing a lot of these days! The video below is of her doing her new trick!Dress #1

Dress #2

Dress #3

Dress #4

Nate and I's parents with us on Hannah's dedication day!

Hannah sleeping on Nate after her dedication!

The dedication!

Sweet Hannah

Hannah with Great Grandpa Ringger at his 80th Birthday party!!! He is such a remarkable man! Love you Grandpa!

Nate holding Hannah in her "throne" position, as we like to call it. For some reason she loves to be held and moved around like this when she is fussy. It is really one of the only ways to hold her to calm her down at times. Strange but cute.

Smiling on her playmat!

Mommy and baby time! We just have so much fun :)

One of Hannah's favorite things to do...blow bubbles!