Guess what Mikey found...

Yep, my makeup. It was in the middle of the afternoon when Mikey was laying in our bed to watch a show. He usually doesn't fall asleep by himself for naptime, but it's been known to happen and it was nearing that time. So when it had been quiet for awhile we thought it just might have happened. Finally Lance went upstairs to check. He was not asleep.
Instead he had my makeup out and this was the beautiful makeup job he had done. I guess I could be worried that my son wants to play with makeup, but he kept referring to himself as Spiderman while we were looking in the mirror and trying to wipe it off.

A Blessed Day

Today we had Luke's baby blessing in our ward. It was a wonderful day and Lance did a wonderful job. We missed all family and friends who couldn't make it, but we sure enjoyed those who could. Unfortunately for me, I only had a few moments to enjoy the post-blessing festivities since I had to run back and teach Relief Society for the third hour.

Mikey is normally quite the man on camera, but in the few minutes we had to snap a family shot he was NOT in the mood. What a cute family anyway :)

Hey guess what! Those are MY boys :) What a lucky girl I am

Heather and Ben

Luke is thoroughly enjoying his party

All the men! (Sorry Herb, if you're going to pose like that, I'm going to post it :)

It's so hard to say good-bye

Guy Smiley

Luke has been flashing little smiles for a while, but he has just started to give us smiles for long stretches of time alowing us the chance to snap a few pics. And what a cute smile it is!

This one is actually the beginning of a smile since he opens his whole mouth to smile. I love it.

To the Zoo!

Well Mikey took his first visit to the wonderful Hogle Zoo with some of his cousins

Being the animal lover that he is, he appeared to thoroughly enjoy his visit. It was also an improvement from the last zoo visit at Busch Gardens in Florida in that he has learned to loudly say good-bye to each animal so that he can see more animals instead of crying after leaving each one, not understanding he'd see more in just a few minutes.
Though very recently Mikey has discover fear. He has suddenly started to deem things "scary."
Therefore, these pictures that we going to be of Kate and Mikey ended up with only Kate since Mikey didn't want to get too close to the giant gorilla or the giant elephant.

But hey, rocks? Now those aren't too scary

Luke Update

Just so you know how cute he is getting...

About 5 weeks:

About 6 weeks:

Happy 4th of July! (a little late)

Mikey was making sure he was well rested before the fireworks since he would be staying up so late (yes, we let him stay up until about 11:30--don't judge us!)
Camped out and waiting for the fireworks to start
Mikey and daddy kicked the soccer ball around to pass the time (I can't get over how grown up Mikey looks here!)
Mama and her boys--Luke didn't quite appreciate the fireworks as much as the rest of us
And finally the show started
Mikey loved the fireworks but still couldn't keep still for longer than 5 minutes or so. After that he ran in circles around our blanket for the remainder of the show telling each person he passed on the surrounding blankets that he was running. Yep, that and only that -- "I'm running!"

One month old!!

Little Luke was one month old on Sunday. He's getting so big so fast! I swear I can see him growing. He's a great eater and a pretty good sleeper. He usually only gets me up once in the middle of the night and then at 7:00 am. He gets cuter every day! We love you, Luke!

Say cheese!

Mikey loves to smile for the camera. The trick is then finding the picture with the smallest smile because when he says "cheese" it's head back, eyes closed and every tooth showing.

Mikey insisted that "little brother" sit on the stairs with him for a picture.
And then insisted the next day too. (Yes, he already has his little brother in a headlock...great.)

The whole clan relaxing under the trees (We obviously asked Mikey to say cheese.)

See Mikey Sleep...

See Mikey slip closer and closer to the edge... See Mikey in the position mom and dad found him in after hearing a thud from the other room.
On this day Mikey was fighting his nap (like every other day). But finally agreed to lay down and watch a show. He quickly fell asleep. We didn't want to move him because we didn't want to wake him even though we were nervous about him being so close to the edge (he's not a still sleeper). Well we were in the kitchen and we heard this sound. It took us a second, but then I looked over and didn't see him on the couch. At closer inspection.... Do you think he fell and landed perfectly in that position? Maybe...?

Not to be outdone...

Though Luke is all new and squishy and therefore just cute as a button, Mikey hasn't lost any ground in the cuteness department.

Mikey has recently become quite enamored with his sunglasses. He also loves hats and when he found this one amongst his things, he immediately put it on and wouldn't take it off.
His other two favorite activities? Singing and golf. He actually played golf out in the front of our house like this with dad for at least an hour. Then he came in and started serenading me. By the way, it's not exactly cold here.

More pictures!

Okay, I know there a million pictures here and all just of varying angles of the new one. Sorry about it, but the grandparents' wishes rule so if you're not interested in this many pictures stop scrolling now.

Three days old and Luke's first bath at home

(Go ahead, laugh at my editing job, but you never know what kind of pervs there are out there browsing unblocked blogs for just that kind of thing!)

After his bath his hair is super fluffy and fuzzy. I love it!

Four days old--I know these are all of him sleeping, but it's all they do at this point!

Almost all the rest are at one week old

Gotta love it when they get binki lines


All my boys (man am I outnumbered!)