Happy New Year!

Well the new year, to me, marks the end of the Christmas season. I take down my tree and all of my decorations, and this makes me kind of sad. Luke was born less then 2 weeks before Christmas and so I would sit and snuggle him on the couch and sing Christmas songs to him. This year he still would let me hold him on my lap and sing, but it was on his term...as everything is. But my favorite song to sing to him is Mary's Lullaby (Tonight you are mine). I tried to find it on youtube or anywhere actually but there is a different Mary's Lullaby and thats the only one I could find...but the words to the chorus are so sweet:

All mine in your loveliness, Baby, all mine;
All mine in your holiness, Baby Divine.
Sing on herald angels in chorus sublime;
Sing on and adore, For tonight you are mine


Oh let me enfold thee, my baby tonight;
While legions are singing in joyous delight.
A new star has risen to hail thee divine,
For you are a king, but tonight you are mine.

That's how I felt on Luke's first Christmas and that is how I feel on Ryan's first Christmas as well. My 2 sweet little Kings.

And these are my thoughts of sadness as I un-christmas my house. Call me a sentimental fool. I'm just an emotional Mom!

All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth

Well that is just what Ryan got! Well his 2 bottom teeth. He was sucking on a cookie last night and he got it down to a small piece so I took it away and swept his mouth with my finger to make sure there were no pieces to choke on and...I felt something! So I rubbed my finger around and found 2 little tiny baby teeth! I was really surprised because he never got grouchy! Not once did I see swollen gums, not even a hint of a fever and no sign of teeth coming in at all! I am so happy! Not for the teeth, cause I have already been bitten, but that my sweet chubby, happy baby wasn't in pain for his teeth! If the gypsy's had been in town when Luke was teething he would have been down the road (not really, but it was bad).

YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT

I don't think much needs to be said about this. Luke's Grandpa and Grandma Cate got him a BB gun for his birthday. There could not be a happier 3 year old in the world!

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Ours was good! It was really fun with Luke this year, he understood about Santa and that being naughty would get you rocks in your stocking instead of candy. We kept it small and simple as far as the presents go. Our boys are little and we want them to appreciate the things they have and not have the gimmies. All total, (i am quite proud of this too...) there were 10 presents under our tree this morning. There were a few that Grandma & Grandpa Cate brought on Tuesday that got opened cause Grandpa said they could...lol. But we had a very enjoyable Christmas, it is nice to focus on family and being together rather than fighting the crowds and stressing over money.

I think that my favorite thing that my boys got were slippers that my mom made for them. When we were little my mom would crochet us these same slippers and it brought back lots of memories of running and sliding on the kitchen floor!

A Ryan post

Well we thought that it was going to be hard to keep Luke out of the christmas presents this year, but boy were we wrong! The other night I walked into the living room where I had left Ryan laying on his blanket and found him unwrapping a present! He was so excited by the noise the paper makes when he plays with it!

Caught red handed
(a deer in the headlights look if I ever saw one)

Luke decided Ryan needed more pillows than the 2 I put in back of him....what a helper he is

He played with his boots for like an hour after church, it was so cute

Those eyes are gonna get him out of a lot of trouble some day!

3 Years Old

Well today is the day my Lukey turned 3! I can't believe it. It seems like only yesterday that I was laying on the operating room table after being induced twice in one week and finally going through labor for 12 hours, just to have an emergency c-section!




It was a week I will never forget, just like almost every day of Lukes life! He has kept us hopping! At 4 weeks old he was hospitalized with RSV for about a week and every day since has been an adventure! We sure love our Luke a whole lot and don't know what we would do with out him.

For his birthday he got a hunting bow! Spoiled rotten. It was a comprimise on my part. Caleb wanted to buy him a .22 rifle when he was born but I said no.

We went out to get our christmas tree today, its a tradition we started for Lukes birthday. It is usually alot of fun but the wind was horrible nasty today and Luke wasn't feeling well....come to find out he has the croop....er......

After the christmas tree we had a birthday party with some of the cousins and Grandma and Rex and also Mickelle, Jarom and Colton came. They are some of Lukes favorite people in the whole world! He loves to 'go to kels house' to get babysat, which means he gets to play with Coltons toys! But he got some fun stuff at his party, and we had a PINATA (hand made by his awesome mamma)!! Some of the loot that he got was; walkie talkies, a chain saw, and a lightning mcqueen car that talks! AWESOME! He even picked out his own cake and frosting and what shape it HAD to be! Its so hard for me to let him grow up, but it is kind of fun to let him pick the things that he really wants.

Pictures!

Oh my gosh! We had a friend take family pictures for us a couple of weeks ago and I just got them back today and they are SO AWESOME! Luke was such a ham for the camera, as he is for everything, but she got some really cute pictures of Luke being Luke! Ryan was still a little young to interact but he so just fat a happy so his were cute too. But what I really love is that she made me look good in them! She probably junked the ones that I looked bad in (thanks!) but I just can't stop looking at them! They are so good, I can't decide which one to use for our Christmas card this year! So if you get a Christmas card from us with a thousand pix on it, you know why! Here are just a few of them, enjoy!

Oh and if you want to hire this genius photographer, her name is Tiana and I'm not sure how she feels about me posting her phone number on my blog.....so I will post her blog address and you can get a hold of her there! Anyway, its coupleofhunts.blogspot.com.

Thank you so much Tiana! You are amazing!

How fast they grow....

Well on Wednesday my little Ryan was 6 months old! I can't believe it! I just barely brought him home from the hospital with tiny little bird legs and a car seat that engulfed him, now I can't hardly pull pants up over his chubby little thighs and his legs hang over his car seat! I love every stage they grow into, its fun to watch them change, but dang he is so good at being a baby I would just love to keep him the snuggly, happy, adorable baby he is! But I can't.

Anyway, my boys have the best grandma! My mom started this silly little 6 month birthday party for my oldest nephew who is now 6. So even though Ryan was treated to squash we celebrated his 6th month! Caleb thinks it is so dumb so we did it while he was at work! I think its cute, we usually put a little candle in a chocodille and everyone gets a bite or something. But I think it will be something fun to tell the boys about when they get bigger, they may just roll their eyes and think it was silly but they will always know that Grandma thinks they are special and loves to celebrate her grand kids.