Pink.

Yes. Our blog is now pink. Well I live in a house with three boys filled with trucks and dirt and boy stuff so I deserve to have a pink blog for just a minute.

Water!

Luke is our little water baby. He loves the water! So for Christmas Santa brought Luke a bath seat so that he can sit up with Mikey in the tub and have more fun. He does have more fun...but so does Mikey.

If you'll look closely below you can see that Luke has water running down his face and his eyes closed. Mikey's new favorite bath activity when Luke is there is to pour water over his head over and over again. Luckily it doesn't seem to phase Luke in least bit. Of course Mikey will scream bloody murder if a drop gets even close to his face, but since Luke just sits and chews on toys, for now they are good bath mates.

We actually took Luke to the pool for the first time a few weeks ago and he was in heaven! He was the cutest little thing splashing away and drenching his own head and face in the process. Unfortunately just as Lance was about to snap the cutest picture ever, the lifeguard came over and said they don't allow pictures (because it's a private gym or something? Lame.) But I'm sure there will be many more photo ops in the water with this kid.

More from the mouth of Mikey...

So over Christmas break Lance was allowing a lot of extra facial hair to accumulate. He frequently wrestles and plays with Mikey and after awhile Mikey started to complain about his "pokies."

The other day Lance came home and they were playing. It had been a few days since Lance's face had seen a razor. Suddenly Mikey stops and gasps! "Dada! The pokies are BACK!" And then while pointing to various parts of his face says, "there, and there, and there, and there, and there..."

From the mouth of Mikey

The other day I picked up Mikey and Luke from the daycare at the gym. As usual, Mikey was walking beside me focused on a granola bar. Then out of nowhere:

Mikey: Mama, I sure like your hair.
Me: .....what did you say?
Mikey: I sure like your hair.
Me: Well thanks....

7 months!

My little Luke is 7 months old (Dec. 29th) and getting so big. He sits up like it's nothing now and is slowly getting used to solids. He laughs non-stop at Mikey and occasionally at mom and dad. The dogs can induce a chuckle now and then, too. His little laugh is just about the cutest thing ever. We love him like crazy!


Ward Christmas breakfast with his biggest fan, Katie.

Champion sleeper

So tired sometimes he can sleep anywhere!

Carrots. Definitely less in his mouth than on his face.

He really does love those dogs--just don't lick!

Merry Christmas!

I almost forgot this one
We went to the Festival of Trees for this. We actually paid the $8 to have them take the picture and get a little card stock frame. I thought it would be great as they took a few and finally the woman stopped and said, "oh that one was great." But when we picked it up a half hour later I was more than a little disappointed. The picture was horrible. Luke wasn't looking and Mikey looked like he was about to vomit or something. Luckily Lance had snapped one (in the no-picture zone) as he stepped back after steadying the kids and as you can see, it was great (well we count ones of Luke as great if he is looking the right direction). And luckily we got this one because by the time we went to the ward Christmas party a few weeks later, Mikey had decided Santa was too scary to sit on his lap.

Mikey's clothes

So Mikey now no longer wears clothes. He puts them on to leave the house or when a friend comes over because we make him, but otherwise he wears nothing. When we get home from some place I bring him inside, go back out to get Luke and come back in to find Mikey naked already. What to do? Anyway, just in case you were wondering about why he has no clothes on Christmas morning below. At least he usually will wear a diaper (though we have had an instance or two when he refused even that.)

Christmas morning!

Our Christmas tree this year was one of my favs except that it died a few days before Christmas so here we have rather droopy branches, but it was still beautiful. I don't know what it is, but I just love the look of wrapped presents all under a tree so it makes me sad when our tree looks like this for only moments on Christmas morning before they all start getting shredded into. I could try to do this earlier in the month, but it was hard enough to stop Mikey from opening the handful that were under the tree before Christmas morning.

Stockings all ready to go!

Mikey digging in

Mikey was big help with everything "present."

Mikey the fire fighter (Thanks Mimi!)

Lucky for Luke Mikey was there to help

Mama and her boys

Mikey helped Luke open the bear he gave him, gave him a hug and now hasn't stopped trying to claim the bear for his own. He reacts well to kind reminders, though.

Merry Christmas!!

Family Christmas Eve Breakfast

On Christmas Eve morning we had a breakfast with all of my siblings where we ate and traded gifts. (What could be better than food and presents:)

My favorite picture of the season!

Cutest elf, right?

I wasn't very good a taking pictures except for when all the kids were tearing into gifts.

Mikey got a Diego rescuer vest and equipment from Amanda. He and Lance "rescued animals" non-stop for the rest of the day and Mikey went to sleep crying about how he had to rescue more animals. What a sweet heart to care so much about animals ;)

December got away....

Let me just say this:

husband in finals + running own business + bank personnel not knowing a thing about their services and telling me half truths for three weeks + employees doing dumb and stupid things + post office doing dumb and stupid things + teaching R.S. + Christmas + 2 kids + the flu(going through everybody) = Kristy hardly having time to sleep all month let alone blog

So I'm doing some catching up. Just give me a second!

6 months already!

I can't believe my little baby is already 6 months old. He's growing so fast and is so much fun. We love him so much and are so excited that he is such a wonderful addition to our little family.

He constantly sticks his little tongue out like this. It's ridiculously cute!

On November 18th Luke rolled over all by himself! He's pretty good at it now. The only problem is that he can't roll back onto his back and he only lasts on his stomach for a short period of time. He happily rolls over then gets mad moments later.

Oh, and he's obsessed with his feet. (I love this stage. It's just so cute.)

He LOVES daddy. Whenever dad comes into the room he just stops and gets a huge grin on his face (including in the middle of a feeding! Focus, Luke!)

He has started to take baths with big brother (though it's mostly because Mikey will actually get in the bath if he hears Luke is taking one too.)

So I know it looks a little like Luke is about to go under...I only found this picture on the camera days after this bath, of which I was not a part...Lance? (Just joking. For the record, I do, in fact, trust Lance with our kids :)

Happy 6 months! We love you!

Family photo shoot continued

We got our pictures back from our family photo shoot and we're quite pleased (especially considering the fact that Mikey was freezing and not all that happy through most of it). If you are on facebook chances are you've already seen these, but here they are. Thanks Sami! You did a great job!!