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Two By Two

Luke had a little bug last week, so we stayed home for 2 days until his temperature broke... after breakfast on the second day, I could tell he was needing his classroom structure, so we learned about Noah. We "built" an ark:

We put the animals in the ark. Luke would say "Save 'em, Save 'em" when he put them in the boat:

And we talked about when God makes a promise, he keeps his promises:

I don't know if any of it registered, but it was fun to remember and sing "Who built the ark, Noah, Noah... Who built the ark, Brother Noah built the ark"!

Bloggy Buddy

I would like to call everyone's attention to my "friend's blogs" on the right... my sister in law Jaime has just joined the blogging world. Check her out!

January Happenings

1. Luke singing-

2. Car problems- my car (Sarah wanted me to name it, so I am trying out ZoomZoom right now) has had major issues this month... we figured out if we were still paying car payments, it would take us 8 months to pay off the work. ZoomZoom better pull through this rough patch!

3. Wrestling- Luke is having a hard time not tackling his buddies at school. We have been trying everything with his teachers to get through this stage-- last Friday, Ms. Jett made flash cards of football players so that when Luke starts tackling his buddies like a football player, she pulls out the flash cards! I am hoping this works!

4. I had a Girls Night Out with my work buddies this weekend and we built ourselves on Wii... here we are ;)

(me, Jenny, Kathy)

(Jenny making us Rigatoni Carbonara and Kathy's red glasses are on her head ;)

5. Daddies are for making up games-

Chase the Sea Turtle on a Rope:

Going through tunnels made of blankets:

Momma's are for outings because they aren't as creative ;)

They really tried this???

Luke's Sunday School teachers decided to paint with pudding last week! I thought this was brave in a class full of 2 year olds! We picked up a happy Luke with a ring of vanilla pudding in around his mouth... I guess he ate his artwork :) Brent snapped a picture with his phone:

My Little Snow Man

Tangled

We took Luke to his first movie theater experience for New Years and he did great! We saw Tangled (Rapunzel story line)... it was very cute!

Ordering popcorn:

Strategic product placement- thanks AMC!:

Our seats!

We brought Horsey for reinforcement :) She enjoyed the movie too.

And the rest is history!

Brent found this email chain from after one of our first dates... seems like another life, but fun to remember back to our beginning :)

Brent,

I just wanted to drop you a quick note (well, actually it is an email... a note would have a stamp on it, or at least be hand written!) and say thank you again for a fun night. I had a nice time with you and look forward to more. Have a great week crunching numbers and I will talk to you later tater!

Abbey

Abbey,

Thanks for the email. I was having a really crappy morning until I read your email, it made my day. Hope your weekend with the fam was fun. I'll give you a call tonight and you can tell me all about it. Have a great day.

Brent

Brent,

Crappy Monday?!! What are those?! I just got a project in which I have to go smell fragrances named gasoline, burning rubber, excrement, flatulence, rotten eggs, and my personal favorite... SMELLY FEET! Talk about a crappy Monday. I would trade you in a second. I'm going to lunch dadgumit. I hope your day is going better than before.

Bye!

Abbey

This look: Lovestruck! Ha!