{"id":411,"date":"2009-02-10T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wamber.com\/2009\/02\/10\/a-year-ago\/"},"modified":"2012-02-14T23:40:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:40:59","slug":"a-year-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wamber.com\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"A Year Ago&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>>I gave birth to our second child, Ruthie Edith Hayford at 8:36 pm.&nbsp; It&#8217;s been an amazing year and filled with fun, sleepless nights and wonder to have watched her grow.&nbsp; Anyway, we had her party Saturday, mostly for conveinence.&nbsp; Here are the pictures!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEb6fWL4OI\/AAAAAAAAARs\/lbeNt8bOSjY\/s1600-h\/ruthiebday01.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEb6fWL4OI\/AAAAAAAAARs\/lbeNt8bOSjY\/s320\/ruthiebday01.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Here is the banner I made using my Cricut machine.&nbsp; It was supposed to say &#8220;Happy Birthday Ruthie&#8221; but I left one of the i&#8217;s at home, so we had to improvise by carefully cutting a hyphen out of one of the Ts and putting &#8220;B-day&#8221; instead which was fine.&nbsp; I was just gonna leave it as &#8220;Happy Brthday Ruthie&#8221; but it was too noticable.&nbsp; Jeff is the genius behind the hypen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEcuZ8FfTI\/AAAAAAAAAR0\/_v8PVXfwQcU\/s1600-h\/ruthiebday02.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEcuZ8FfTI\/AAAAAAAAAR0\/_v8PVXfwQcU\/s320\/ruthiebday02.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s her cupcake shaped birthday cake and extra cupcakes.&nbsp; I created her birthday invitations (again with the cricut machine) and put a cupcake on them, so I wanted to crossover the theme into her cake.&nbsp; Just letting you knwo the pan is created by Wilton and while it&#8217;s cute and adorable, it&#8217;s a pain in the butt to work with.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t use it if you have less than 20 minutes to pop out of the pan and frost it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEdX81PIhI\/AAAAAAAAASM\/gU-NxWNv0Ow\/s1600-h\/ruthiebday03.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEdX81PIhI\/AAAAAAAAASM\/gU-NxWNv0Ow\/s200\/ruthiebday03.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEdTf9dTFI\/AAAAAAAAAR8\/dR_-2zl-fAE\/s1600-h\/ruthiebday07.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEdTf9dTFI\/AAAAAAAAAR8\/dR_-2zl-fAE\/s200\/ruthiebday07.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEdVtfqQoI\/AAAAAAAAASE\/dEc5cWg5Ri0\/s1600-h\/ruthiebday04.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEdVtfqQoI\/AAAAAAAAASE\/dEc5cWg5Ri0\/s200\/ruthiebday04.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEddclaxZI\/AAAAAAAAASU\/CztOWgvHCe0\/s1600-h\/ruthiebday05.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEddclaxZI\/AAAAAAAAASU\/CztOWgvHCe0\/s200\/ruthiebday05.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEdjl4DKAI\/AAAAAAAAASc\/Cx9uNNpOGL8\/s1600-h\/ruthiebday06.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEdjl4DKAI\/AAAAAAAAASc\/Cx9uNNpOGL8\/s200\/ruthiebday06.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a bunch of pictures of the present opening portion of the party.&nbsp; The gun was given to us by our friends Cooper and Ngaire.&nbsp; Cooper explains, &#8220;Every kid should have a toy gun.&#8221;.. I guess that opinion comes with the occupation of being a police officer.&nbsp; These aren&#8217;t all of the presents she got, but just a few of them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEeEKIEZnI\/AAAAAAAAASk\/xWlErcA0DiI\/s1600-h\/ruthiebday08.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEeEKIEZnI\/AAAAAAAAASk\/xWlErcA0DiI\/s320\/ruthiebday08.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the singing portion of the party.&nbsp; Jeff was not standing at a good angle, but you can still tell she&#8217;s kind of thinking &#8220;WHAT is going on here?!?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEePUZlxQI\/AAAAAAAAASs\/kL5yjhmU_cc\/s1600-h\/ruthiebday09.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEePUZlxQI\/AAAAAAAAASs\/kL5yjhmU_cc\/s200\/ruthiebday09.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEfnXQz-6I\/AAAAAAAAAS0\/mIJ5y2fPRGc\/s1600-h\/ruthiebday10.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEfnXQz-6I\/AAAAAAAAAS0\/mIJ5y2fPRGc\/s200\/ruthiebday10.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEfp9WoV_I\/AAAAAAAAAS8\/_4znmlT1D6A\/s1600-h\/ruthiebday11.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEfp9WoV_I\/AAAAAAAAAS8\/_4znmlT1D6A\/s200\/ruthiebday11.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEfsCJlx-I\/AAAAAAAAATE\/IccfBnq8aAg\/s1600-h\/ruthiebday12.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEfsCJlx-I\/AAAAAAAAATE\/IccfBnq8aAg\/s200\/ruthiebday12.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEfwXQOEiI\/AAAAAAAAATM\/oN0uTO2b-Ho\/s1600-h\/ruthiebday13.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_76OUC9HBV_k\/SZEfwXQOEiI\/AAAAAAAAATM\/oN0uTO2b-Ho\/s200\/ruthiebday13.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And here&#8217;s some pictures of her enjoying a cupcake!&nbsp; The Colonial Sanders goatee was just too cute!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>I gave birth to our second child, Ruthie Edith Hayford at 8:36 pm.&nbsp; It&#8217;s been an amazing year and filled with fun, sleepless nights and wonder to have watched her grow.&nbsp; Anyway, we had her party Saturday, mostly for conveinence.&nbsp; Here are the pictures! Here is the banner I made using my Cricut machine.&nbsp; It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"http:\/\/wamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}