Look Alike

Guess who???

This is Brent! Looks an awful lot like my cutie pie, huh?!

Sugar Rush!

Haircut (suckerS to sit still)

+ Donuts (reward for sitting still during haircut)

+ Cake (gotta celebrate Josiah's birthday party with cake AND ice cream)!

= one fun weekend! We need to get some vegetables down this child this week!

Our almost 2 year old

Brent and I had a lunch date today (just us!) and sort of agreed that we are going to miss Luke at this age TREMENDOUSLY... if we could freeze him here, we would! Some of our favorite things that melt us are:

- When Luke holds Brent's hand, he wraps his whole hand around one of Brent's fingers
- When I hiccup, Luke says "Stop Momma" in such a cute, playful way
- When he and Brent are playing, the way he says "DaDee" is just precious
- Bath time-- we won't always have bath time
- One day, he will be too big to pick up :(
- Learning new things- lighting up when he makes a connection
- Fake crying and smiling when we call him on it
- When asked what color something is, everything is Ellow. Then when asked again, he tells us the actual color
- Licking his pointer finger to turn the page of a book, just like Ms. Jett does :)
- When Luke is ready to get down from a meal, we tell him to eat his (whatever) and he stuffs it all in his mouth with barely enough room to chew

Man, we love this guy!

Fun Luke Moments

1. Luke now calls the frogs!

Translation: (finishing saying T...C... "U, Go Frogs Go!"

2. When we were in the parking lot walking up to HobLob, Luke said "Pumpkins"... um, have I been going so much that my child knows what decor they have out in the entry way ;)

3. Last week, I popped some cookies in the oven to pull out as Luke and I were finishing dinner... as we at warm cookies and milk, he was humming with contentment and at that same moment, I looked down and noticed I too was bouncing with cookie delight :)

4. As we walked away from church to go home, Brent asked "Luke, what did you talk about in Sunday School today?". Luke's churchy answer, "Jesus". I don't think we have EVER laughed that hard!

Horsey Love

I captured this video on the monitor after nap time... we all love Horsey ("Di Di") around our house!

TCU Football

We took Luke to his first football game this weekend and he LOVED it!

Luke got to throw a few footballs before game time:

He thought he was hot stuff running around at the student center:

We saw the band march in... this was pretty cool to Luke! He probably said "yay band" 543 times!

The football team warming up (I thought they looked like frogs here :) While I was watching the Frogs, Brent and Luke went to get drinks and a cheerleadeer stopped to talk to Luke... she thought he was SOOOO cute... Brent later admited he thought to himself "Thats MY boy!".

It was H.O.T! Humid and nasty! (Brent fanning Luke)

I don't think Luke even noticed after 3 juices! Dr. Terk would NOT approve :)

Brent called our friend, Ben, to see how they get their 3 year old to sit through games and the secret is.........

Popcorn! He said it buys you an HOUR and he was right! Again, Dr. Terk would NOT approve, but Dr. Terk wasn't the one trying to watch the game either! :)

The thing (I am sure there is a proper name for it) in the middle of the picture with TCU in lights has train horns, smoke and bell type paraphernalia all over it... every time they score (they scored 62 points!), all of these things go off with a boom... The first few times scared Luke but by the end of the night, they didn't even phase him! What a trooper!

We left excited to go back next week!

PS- I asked Brent, hypothetically speaking if TCU and A&M were to ever play each other, who would he root for? He said they would never play each other... and when I finally got an answer out of him, he said he would have to sit there quietly and not cheer at all! He cracks me up-- the guy bleeds maroon folks, TCU won't change that :).

At another game, we go up close and personal with the mascot... Luke was not liking it until the Horned Frog game him a high five!

Operation World

Something laid heavy on our hearts recently is to show Luke our hearts for the world around us. We came upon THIS website that gives stats and prayer needs for every country around the world. We hung a world map on the back of Luke's door and circle the countries as we pray for them.

In one year, we will have prayed for every people group in the world and hopefully impressed on Luke's heart the need to make disciples of all nations. Please join us!

Roman Shades 101

My friend, Tiffany, inspired me on her new website to get creative and MAKE curtains! I thought I would attempt a roman shade for our guest room. After MUCH Internet research about dowel pockets and pulleys, borrowing a sewing machine and many, many hours... here it is!

My handsome helper attaching it to the wall mount (with his new birthday hammer :):

I still need to put a "cord cleat" on the wall to keep the shade up, but I just tied it off on a side table to get the general idea... I feel sure Hob Lob will have a 40% off fun knob or something more spicy than a boring metal one.

The quilt on the bed was my inspiration for adding gold into the boring 2 toned room. I bought it at Belks the day I was done with Jury Duty last February... I needed some retail therapy after committing a 21 year old to life without parole. Every time I see it, I think of him and pray that he finds peace. I digress.

The curtain looks good, now we need some color on those walls! It's coming :)

Notes to self:

1. Striped fabric HELPS get strait lines to hang horizontally

2. lining curtains makes them look pretty, but is double the work!

3. Outside mounting allows for WAY more measuring imperfections :) I opted for an outside wall mount :)

Note to guests:

Remember when you used to wake up with the sun in your eyes? I think this will help, however some of those "measuring imperfections" noted above did affect the length of the finished curtain... it falls about 2 feet short of covering up the entire window :) I still classify this as a "working shade" because it does go up and down! LOL!

Thirty-Something

Brent's birthday was this past Sunday... He thought he was turning 33 and I had to clear that up... he is only 32! I joked with him that I gave him the best gift of all- a whole year back on his life!

We told Luke it is Daddy's birthday to which he replied, "Cake." Yes, Luke, there will be cake :) So, Luke helped me make cupcakes while Daddy mowed the yard:

I did a trial run on Elmo cupcakes for Brent's birthday and we met our buddies at Freebirds for a birthday burrito!

Caroline and Cupcakes!

I got to host a baby shower for my sweet friend, Holly, last weekend.

Leah, Sarah, Holly (baby Caroline in belly!), Me

Luke got to eat a cupcake that Miss Leah made for the shower:

While I was away for the morning, Luke and Daddy went to the park to play. I got home, so tired, that Brent took Luke to get ice cream and play at the town square. They had a ball and I appreciated it tremendously!

"Biteyear"

Luke loves Buzz Lightyear (aka. Biteyear) and kites!