Christmas 2009

Here is our Christmas in pictures.

Me and my precious kiddos.


Happy Lily on Christmas day.


Luke was so excited about his new carseat.


Some fabulous Christmas morning hair!


We had a wonderful Christmas with all of our family. The kids had a great day with three separate events and no major meltdowns. That's about all a mom can ask for.

Snow Babies!

What a beautiful snowy day we had today! We were all packed and ready to go visit my Granny in Marble Falls this morning, but the weather made us reconsider and I am so, so glad Luke got to play in the snow. He thought it was too much fun and even Lily seemed to like it.

Daddy and Lily (notice the precious winter hat and boots - I love them!)


It was really coming down.


If you click on this picture you can see that Luke has his tongue out and is trying to catch snowflakes.


Matthew made Luke a little tiny snowman and after saying how much he liked it, Luke decided to eat it.


We also got to build our Gingerbread Train this afternoon. I have always loved decorating gingerbread houses, but Luke loves trains so we decided to let him loose on this one once I got it built. He was very proud of himself (I was proud that more of the candy made it on the train than in his mouth.) He admired the completed train for all of two seconds and then took a giant bite out of the roof!


It is days like today that remind me how much I love my family and how thankful I am that I have such a wonderful husband and that I get to be Mom to these two precious children.

Dewberry Farm

I just wanted to post a few pictures that we took when we went to Dewberry Farm last weekend with the Proctors. We all had a great time and will definitely go back next year. There was tons to do!

As usual, Lily loved the swing.


Luke had a blast on the bouncy thing.


Sweet Lily loving on her Daddy.


Daddy and Luke in the corn maze.


Luke on the rope swing at the haystack. I was so proud of him for trying it!


It really was a great day and I'm so glad Jenn and Matt invited us.

Halloween 2009

So, first things first, we did make it to the Pumpkin Patch this year, but the kids were not particularly in the mood to have their pictures taken. These two are the best ones we got, and yes that is my hair blowing in Lily's face.

This picture is from the Fall Festival at church. Luke had a fabulous time but we were too busy playing to take many pictures. I did like this one of a happy ladybug though.

And here is my pride and joy - Luke in his Man with the Yellow Hat costume. I spent many, many hours working on this and I am so happy with how it turned out. Luke loved seeing himself in the mirror and he especially loved wearing the galoshes. In retrospect I would have made the hat lighter because it didn't really stay on all that well, but otherwise my first costume making experience was a success!

Me with my two sweet babies just before trick or treating!

And last but not least, a goofy shot of Lily with her animal crackers. Not sure why, but EVERY time she got ahold of this bag of animal crackers, she put the bag in her mouth and took off. I have numerous pictures of her roaming the house, animal crackers clenched betweeen her little teeth. She makes me smile!

Milano

Our weekend in Milano in pictures...

Here is Luke climbing on the remnants of a tree that was cut down.


Luke with a grasshopper that PopPop caught for him.


Sweet Lily with a grasshopper bow in her hair.

Mommy and Luke.

Lily and Daddy on the tractor. She was loving it!

My babies and their Dad.

Nina and Lily bean.

Luke feeding the cow at the neighbor's.

It was a GREAT weekend.

Lily at 9 months!

So here she is at nine months old! She is all over the place and usually has this happy grin on her face. I can't believe it's been nine months since I held this little girl for the first time. She brings so much joy to our family - we are so very blessed.


Some things for the record book...At 9 months Lily is

• Pulling up on everything and cruising around the furniture like a pro.


• Standing for several seconds at a time before plopping back down on her bottom.


• She has seven teeth and the cutest little grin in the world!


• She weighs just over 16 pounds.


• It's not in the book yet, but we're pretty sure she knows who she's talking about when she says Mama and Dada.


• She adores Luke and always wants to see what he's doing. She drives him crazy trying to touch whatever he's playing with, but he is super sweet with her and will always go get her another toy to play with.


• She still loves her Mommy best when she's sad or tired and I still occasionally get to rock her to sleep. Just thinking about it now brings tears to my eyes.

She is such a precious girl and we love her so much! And on that note, a final picture...

September

We have had a very busy September moving into the new house and getting everything unpacked and everyone settled in. We are really liking the new neighborhood and Luke absolutely loves having a playroom for all his toys. There is still A LOT to be done, but we are mostly unpacked and we finally have a few things up on the walls. No paint yet, but hopefully soon we'll get started, most likely with the kids' rooms.

Anyway here are just a few pictures from the last month...

This is Luke's new "smile" - he has this one squinty eye thing going in almost every picture we have taken lately.


For those of you who missed seeing Lily's first two top teeth...may I present Vampire Baby! ( I would like to add that she has since gotten her two front teeth so she no longer looks like she has fangs!)


Luke helping with Daddy's tools.

Sweet Lily girl playing with her kitchen.

I promise I'll post again soon(ish)...maybe Lily will get a 9 month post.