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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!

Christmas 2010 In Reverse

There are so many pictures in this post that I feel sure my 2 loyal blog followers (the Grandmas) will be the only ones reading by the end of it! The way I downloaded the pictures, they go in reverse order, so we will all have to stretch our brains to see Christmas in rewind!

Luke LOVES his Buz PJs! Back at home, winding down from a very fun visit.

One more story time before we say goodbye:

Santa brought Luke the coolest train set!

Daddy... get in on this before Momma steals all my Christmas sugar!

Aunt Jamie makes the best french toast in the world!

Debbie lost her wedding ring years ago... Dwight secretly replaced it this Christmas with a beautiful (and I mean beautiful!) set! It was fun to watch it all unfold!

Giving $$ is still fun!

Dwight and Debbie are in housing limbo... Debbie made do and Santa still knew where to drop our goodies!!!

Luke got his very own Woody!!!

A Santa Sack with socks?!!! That silly Santa! The soccer ball and books were a much bigger hit.

Aunt Jamie makes sugar cookies every year... Luke helped. She tires at icing them, so I have stepped in, in year's past.

Christy got 6 bowls dirty to keep all of the icing colors separate! Ha! Her cookies turned out prettier than my brownish purple iced cookies... you are hired!

When we arrived to Chris and Christy's house, we saw a fire truck! Granddaddy took Luke up real close to get a look inside!

When they left, they turned on their lights for Luke!

The Christmas Eve service was beautiful... we got to hear the preacher who married us deliver the sermon and Luke did great all the way until the lights went out for the candles. The music was so pretty- a night to remember for sure!

The best full length picture I got of Luke... he had a train applique vest over a red plaid shirt. Cutie pie!

It works out nicely that both of our family's go to the same church, so we got to do this together (as in almost every year we have known each other). Here is the group at Papasitos afterwards!

At the Allison household, Granna dressed Luke so Santa would not miss us! These are his Santa shoes!

Christmas kiss!

Making cookies with Granna:

Santa filled our stockings early! He somehow always finds us!

Army guys:

Opening presents was really fun! Luke was a great helper running from person to person to open every EVERY last one!

Riding his big boy tricycle from Granna and Pops:

Opening cars from Honey:

A quick hug and then he was OFF to play!

Breakfast with Honey:

On our way to Houston, we stopped in College Station to see our Buddies, Ben and Tiffany... we took a run through the Holiday in the Park too! Luke and I twirled around under the big Christmas tree:

Daddy recalled in his younger years jumping up and touching the rim of this basketball goal... he thought he would try again, so he stretched out real good

AND.... (got close!) Ha!

We had a great Christmas... I will certainly miss the age of two!