Luke's 4 !!!!

First off I can not believe that Luke is 4 years old. Sorry it has taken me a while to post his birthday pics, his party was actually on the 8th. We had a great time at the "jumpy house", that is what Luke calls it. He was so excited to have all of his friends their to celebrate his birthday. Thank you again for everyone for his gifts and coming to his party. Luke is still talking about the party. He had a soccer ball cake. Jack surprised us by climbing and jumping with everyone, in the past it has not been one of his favorite things to do.

Chick-fil- A

Sunday, we went to Chick-fil-A's Christmas Open House at their corporate office. They had a live Nativity scene, Santa, the cow santa, refreshments, they make balloons for the kids, that our kids turned into swords. Luke was so excited about the cow santa and this was the second time he willingly went up to him. I was excited b/c we got our family Christmas picture made and saw Santa all at one time.

In the Christmas Spirit

This weekend we got into the Christmas spirit and did some of our family traditions. Saturday night, our family did the candy cane hunt and then the golf cart procession to City Hall to see the lighting of the Christmas tree, it was very cold. Even all bundled up we waited for the tree to be lit and then decided to leave and go to our friends for warm cider and cookies. The boys had a good time but Matt and I missed the Christmas show at the Amphitheater this year.

A visit from Santa!!!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, I know we did. Our friends, the Candela's invited us over for Thanksgiving they also had some family from out of town. It was very yummy and the company could not have been any better. Between the three families, there were 6 boys under the age of 3 years old. They all played very well together.

On Saturday night, the 2nd Annual Santa visit happened at the Candela's. Luke and Jack were scared when Santa came throught the front door. The pic at top is Luke hiding when he heard Santa, Jack had a death grip on Matt, but after seeing the other kids sit on Santa's lap Luke warmed up but Jack did not. Santa handed out gifts to the boys and they were excited. Luke remembered this from last year and he was asking, "when is Santa coming to Carson's". Thank you, Candela's for adding us to your family traditions!!

Boys! Boys!! Boys!!!

Gammy and Papaw came down last weekend, it has been 4 months since we have seen them. We had a great time with them. Luke and Jack of course love them and take right to them the instant they walk in the door. Jack gave gammy the longest hug in "Jack history" when he saw her. We miss all of our family and wish they could all move here with us.

Luke played dress up for the first time this week, our wonderful neighbor-georgia family-friend, gave us a ton of her boys dress up clothes/halloween costumes. Matt and I were amazed he even put on the batman costume b/c he is usually scared of masks. But he has wore it off and on for the past couple of days and when anybody comes over we have to try it on for them. Thanks, Pam!!!

We have set up a computer for Luke in his playroom when he started preschool since he takes a computer class we thought it would help him since we had not let him play on the computer at all before he started school. We were very surprised how well he does with it. But we were amazed this week when I found Jack actually doing some of the computer games. He would sit in their with Luke and watch him do them and took it all in.
Uh oh!! The boys have been very good and quiet while I have been on the computer. Luke just came around the corner and said they are buiding a fish tank. I hope its not like the swimming pool of 2008 they built while I was on the phone. (bowls of water poured on the kitchen floor !!!!)

fun pics

These pics are just cute. Luke took that one of himself, he is really getting into taking pics. The pics of Jack is just proof that we have a monkey in our house, Jack climbs on or in anything he can get into. If the washer or dryer doors are open he will be in them, he climbs on top of the table all day long. The top pic is Matt reading the boys their bed time story. Luke is growing up so fast in a couple of weeks he will be 4 years old and I'm trying to cherish all of these sweet moments. Luke has turned into these very sweet, sensitive and caring little boy in the last couple of months. It has amazed Matt and I how we are starting to see his "true personality" and how we are just amazed by it, but like us all we still have our moments. Every night he wants to say the blessing and he always ask who needs to be prayed for, I love that this is his heart speaking. Thank you God for such a blessing!

bath fun

What a fun bath they had. This was Jack's first whirlpool bubble bath and he loved it as you can see, its always Luke's fave. Luke pretended he was Santa Claus and would say "HO! HO! HO!" and Jack just splashed and splashed. Matt and I went to go see the movie Fireproof and it was so good, I recommend every couple to go and see it. Which this is our first movie to see since, The Passion of the Christ, it was so weird to actually sit through a movie that's not animated.

Happy Halloween 2008

Happy Halloween!
The boys had a great time last night. Jack was a monkey b/c he is our little monkey he climbs on everything, as you see, he kept climbing in and out of the stroller. He was adorable and the costume had a banana hanging from the hand and he chewed on the banana all night, he couldn't been happier. Luke was of course Lightning McQueen and I think he could not have found a more perfect costume for him. Last night, we did our Halloween tradition and went to our church's Hallelujah night, we usually go to a couple of friends houses before the church but we were running late so that got thrown out this year. The church rents jumpy houses, climbing walls, trains (Luke's fave), obstacle courses, and so much more. They have a lot of small games inside so the kids can get candy, too. Luke and Jack love it and so do Matt and I b/c we have no problem putting them to bed that night. The pic of Jack at the top is him double fisting lollipops, he sat in his chair for about thirty minutes eating the candy.

Fall Festival

I haven't posted anything b/c we have been sick and there is nothing cute or fun about that. But we are well so we went to Luke's fall festival at his school. Luke is Lightning McQueen this year ,he loves wearing the car. He actually was this last year but only wore the costume for a maximum of 3 minutes on Halloween, so when he said he wanted to be this again we said, you got it. He zooms around the house racing other "cars", also known as Jack, and saying, "ka-chow". At the fall festival, we rode on the hayride and picked a pumpkin out at the pumpkin patch. After this we went inside because it was to cold and windy, there we played games and received prizes. After school, that afternoon it was warmer and we finally got the chance to paint our pumpkins that we picked at the fire station about 2 weeks prior and then Luke had to paint the one he got at the festival that day. The two top pics are of the boys playing outside while the paint is drying. Luke playing soccer and Jack blowing bubbles, their two favorites. Sorry the pics are out of order, but I am working on that.

Bike Rodeo

Luke had his first bike rodeo at preschool,he was so excited about his first event at school. Bike rodeo was were the kids brought their bikes and visited different centers setup and at the end a police officer checked their bikes and helmets and conducted a race. I volunteered with other parents to help and I saw how competitive he was with other kids in his class (this would be Matt in him). He would say "I am going to smoke you", and tell his friend Cannon, "let's get going". He actually had to race two different people during the bike race. It was so sweet to watch him pedal as fast as he can around the track. There is also a pic of Luke hanging laundry,he went their once and never came back to this station. I am blessed to have been able to be there to see all of this, that is one of the reasons I am doing a blog so our family and friends who live away can see what is going on in our lives. Another reason is just to have another format to document these exciting years in our lives.