T&T Visit

Yesterday I got my girls back!

Loooong ago when Taylie was born, I was in college. For a brief few months my cousin Shannon and I lived in the same city and just minutes from each other. She had just had the most beautiful baby girl ever and when she had to run errands- I got to snuggle and watch the munchkin. BEST EVER. Then a few years ago, Shannon lived around the corner with her now TWO lovely ladies and they would watch Luke for me while I worked. Luke actually started CRAWLING one day Shan was watching him! Then they moved. :( and every summer they come back out here, but it wasn't until THIS summer that Nana and I finally were able to snag them for the day. I seriously can't get over how TALL they both were. And polite. And helpful. And funny. And sweet!! The day went too fast, and even tho we didn't do anything fancy, it was fun to just all be together. They had never met Jack and the last time they saw Luke he was Jack's age! They were best friends within 5 minutes, which was awesome. I miss them both so much already!! Here's a few cute photos I took of our trip down to the river. LOVE YOU T&T!

"i'm fake 5- right?"

This past weekend we had 2- yes TWO- parties for our almost-5-year-old. We're at the age with Luke in preschool that he wants to party with friends, and yet the families still want to celebrate. So this year- and this year ONLY- we did 2 parties. His friends all celebrated with him at the Portland Children's Museum, and then Sunday we had a lasagna dinner feed (thanks to Costco!) with all our family. It was madness, but fun was had by all. But the best thing was something he said to me Sunday before his second party.

Luke: "Hey mom? Since yesterday was my birthday party and we celebrated my fake birthday- that means I'm fake 5- right?"

LOVE that boy.

here's some photos from the events:

his real birthday is friday- so stay tuned for his yearly interview. Click here to find out what he said last year! LUKE YEAR 4

the weekend

This past weekend was Luke's first jog-a-thon and carnival for his PreSchool. It was at my work, so needless to say I was quite busy with it all. The only photo I managed to get was this one of all the kids ready to go. I love the looks on their faces. It's like "what are we doing again?!".

the jog a thon starting line

I also got this adorable little video of Jack showing off the parts of his face that he knows. He actually knows more- i just couldn't get him to "perform". Love that kid...

And as the Indian Summer dwindles down, it's pics like this I'm going to miss. Luke has always loved sticking his foot out the window. I bet by next year it will be hanging out there...

PreK Orientation

We had Luke's PreK Orientation on Tuesday! We got to go into the preschool and hang out with Teacher Kellie, see where his stuff would go and play a bit. We had a lot of fun seeing our old friends from last year and meeting a few of the new kids. Luke is super excited to get back to school {and so is mommy!!}.

Luke is also lucky to get to go to school with cousin Grace! I got this sweet picture of Grace painting. Isn't she SO GOOD?? Love that kid!

Last Day at the Pool and Park

Again behind on posts!! ack! Last Saturday was the last pool day of the summer at grammies. All 4 of the granbabies went in and had an awesome time. I, of course, had NO PHOTOS of the event b/c I was in the pool the whole time catching kids jumping in. It's amazing how fast they grow in a year. Last year at this time, I could barely get Luke to jump in and Addy was just beginning to swim well. Now Luke is swimming and jumping in with no abandon and Addy is doing handstands in the pool! Even Grace was enjoying herself! It also took us all summer- but we finally got jack to go in the pool to his waste and splash around!

After the pool we all dried off and went to the park. The kids had a blast and I know my 2 slept great that night! Here's photos of that!

On the giant teeter-totters

Posin'

Cutie Girl

Chillin'

all the kids and grammie running or rolling down the hill

Addy relaxing in my lap and having a snack

Jack Snackin'

Grace showing Grammie how she got her shirt all wet at the drinking fountain

Luke rollin' away

Newport Beach Trip 2012

Sorry for the delay in this post- the last few weeks have been super busy!

We recently went to the beach with my Mom's side of the family {huge thank you to my aunt lisa and uncle steve for renting condo's for us all- so generous and sweet of you!}. When I was younger and then again when my cousins were younger and I was in high school, we used to go to the beach every summer. It seems that now, hopefully, this is a tradition I will be passing on to my boys.

We had a great time down there! The biggest highlight was seen my Aunt Corriney and introducing her to Jack. Her and my uncle were here last summer and left just days before I had Jack. It was so fun to see them together!

I think Luke had the most fun out of all of us. He got lots of attention, special outings with Auntie Leesh and Jordon, and probably slept the best {jack had a hard time- we had a rough first 2 nights}.

Here's some pictures of our trip!