Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Luke James

Our free-spirit….this boy keeps us on our toes and laughing
Andrew is a boy who keeps all his stuff together and organized. He always knows where things are and keeps track of things. Luke is the opposite of Andrew. On our trip I felt like we were continually saying, “Luke, where is your hat, your shirt, your toy, etc…” His reply is always, “well, I don’t know.” Andrew begins to get nervous when he finds out his brother has misplaced something. I think we came home with all his belongings, but one of these days we’re going to start loosing things.
Luke’s most memorable moment of our trip was at Aunt Kim’s and Uncle Albino’s wedding. Him and Andrew were the bell ringers. As they made their long walk down the aisle I was standing on stage and I could see Luke’s face and I just knew he was feeling nervous and silly. First I see him carrying the bells in his mouth and then he starts tapping Andrew on the shoulder with his bells, and then as they are about half way up the aisle, he swings his bells and hits Andrew in the head with them. Of course he has one of his darling little smirks on his face while he is doing all of this. Andrew starts crying and runs to Andy who is at the front of the aisle waiting for his sister to walk down. I hurried them off to grandma to resolve their issues. Mischief I tell you, this little guy is mischief!!!
Luke also has to use the bathroom quite frequently. On long car rides, this becomes a challenge. All of a sudden out of the back seat we hear, “Uh Oh, quick I need to go pee pee.” This morning sitting in bumper-to-bumper LA traffic he says, “hurry mom I have to go really bad.” Nothing happens quickly in LA traffic. When we were 5 hours away from home to says, “Um, dad and mom can you get home really quickly, I need to go pee pee bad.” Daddy gets us to the next rest stop and after Luke goes to the bathroom and we get back in the car and enter the freeway he says, “oh no, I think I forgot to go to the bathroom.” How quickly we forget what we did 10 minutes ago…. As I’m typing this we are 2 hours from home and little Luke just says, “how many minutes till home, I need to go pee pee.” Andy and I just have to laugh when we hear his little comments. He always seems to have not a care in the world. We love this boy!!!

Beach Week in Seal Beach

After a fun weekend in Bakersfield we drove down to Seal Beach to stay with grandma “E”. We were able to spend a whole week at her house on the beach. We went to the beach just about every day. The boys were very brave in the water. They both boogie boarded. Andrew was very brave and would venture far out in the water to catch a wave. We spent an afternoon with friends down at the beach and the boys were so cute riding waves together. Allie enjoyed the beach for a short time, but required daddy and mommy to take turns bringing her back up to grandma’s house. Grammie was also in town for the week to help grandma “E” recover from a surgery. It was so fun to spend the week with her as well and she was a big help with the kids. The boys enjoyed walking down to Main Street with her for ice cream and a visit to the seashell store. On Thursday Uncle Ryan, Aunt Christy, and cousin Noah joined us at grandma’s. We enjoyed a little beach time with them and running around for Aunt Kim’s wedding together. It is always fun to hang out with grandma “E”. We are so lucky to have her!!!







An Amazing Weekend with Friends


We headed to Bakersfield last weekend to spend time with our Biola friends. It was our first ever “Boochcation” (a name the boys used in college….) Our friend Nick’s uncle owns a ranch in the middle of nowhere, and it was amazing and so much fun. There were 9 couples and 16 children (6 and under)….so as expected there was chaos, but surprisingly not as much as you would expect. We spend three days just hanging out, talking, letting our kids play, and playing games. The ranch was awesome it had a water ski lake, we jet skied, went down the huge waterslide, played on the beach, jumped on the trampoline, played on the blob and water obstacle course, rode golf carts, looked at the random selection of animals that lived there, and enjoyed all staying in one big house and making community meals. The kids had a blast and it was so fun to watch them all play together and get along so well. The guys got some good time together and the girls even got to escape one afternoon to float in the lake and chat. We are so blessed by our friendships with these people. Although we don’t all live near each other anymore, we always seem to come back together and have a great time together and no it is fun to see our kids building relationships with each other. Plans are already in the making for next summer’s vacation together.
























Sunday, July 19, 2009

We had a fun week at our church’s VBS last week. We all went together this year. Daddy worked the water slides, mommy helped with some of the preschool activities, and the kids enjoyed their classes. It was great to all go together. The boys loved it. They sang songs, played in the bounce houses, did crafts, ate snacks, and hung out with their friends








Allie in her BIKINI at Austin & Jacob's Birthday



Als is sporting her new bikini at Austin and Jacob's birthday party. She looks so cute, but daddy says she can only wear this when she's one.