Happy V Day

We really don't celebrate the Valentine's day, just too commercial. This year we did homemade cards and I made Ryan a batch of cookies. Yum! Lucas got a Valentine that included stickers. Thanks Nana and Papa. The picture really tells the story.

Father and Son

So, Lucas has been a bit clingy to his Mother lately. I didn't think he could be more of a mommas boy, but here we are. Now I take advantage of any time he wants to hang out with anyone else, since it's usually only for about 5min. I do love that boy, but man is my back starting to kill. Plus who could resist this photo op?

Sick Day

This was the day that I got Lucas's cold. I don't know if you can tell in this pic, but my nose is totally red, I'm still in my pajamas and their is snot wiped all over my shirt. Love it. Classic Mom moment.

The many faces of Lucas

The classic spoon on nose face

This is what I imagine Lucas would look like if he were drunk, so we'll call this the drunk baby face.

How'd do ma'am face?

It's a moustache face

Needless to say they are all super adorable faces!

My Little T-Rex

It's Wedding Time

Our little Rachael got married! She was the last of our little college group to tie the knot. Luckily all the girls could make it into town for the big day. We haven't had the four of us together since Leslie's wedding in '09. I love all these girls. We are all so different, but have so much fun together.

We always have to get the pic of the four of us. It usually ends up happening on my couch for some reason. This was for the night of the bachelorette party! It was mostly just girl talk and naughty presents for Rach.

We got to eat at the Red Iguana, yummy. Rach and her fiance, Landon, were going to come to dinner, but they were snowed in up at Oakley. The rest of us had a good time eating super delicious food and the kids even stayed in their highchairs for a good 10min.

The day of the wedding included a breakfast, awesome. I don't know how Rachael knew that breakfast was my favorite meal of the day but I'm glad she got the memo. Here are Leslie and Steven enjoying the orange juice. They stayed with us for the week. It was so much fun to have house guests. Lucas was in heaven having four people to cater to his every need. Then when he went to bed for the night we stayed up for the battle royale of Five Crowns. Their was some major smack talk, but we have another two people addicted to the game.

The wedding was beautiful. Rachael was the most relaxed bride I've ever seen. She did almost freeze to death for her pictures, but she looked so pretty, I'm sure they turned out great. I just now realized that I don't have a single pic of her now husband. I was so concerned with getting one with the four of us in it, I missed the main event.

Since Ayumi was in town a little longer, we hung out after the wedding. We got to eat Cafe Rio, which made her husband happy, and let the kids play. Of course the only picture of the two of them together is one where Lucas is smacking Koe. We had a really good time anyway.

Christmas Break

It turns out that I love it when Ryan has three weeks off of school and I don't have to work. The only bad part is having to get back to life now that it's over. We had such an awesome holiday. So much relaxing, eating, family, eating, games and did I mention eating?

We took Lucas to visit Santa. He was less than thrilled. As you can tell from the expression on his face he's asking who this guy is, why he should be excited and why are we taking pictures? Luckily he didn't cry at all, I think he was just indifferent.

My Mom tried to make Lucas' helmet more festive. She was really excited to put Christmas decorations on him. He didn't really mind, but he couldn't figure out what that noise was.

We went to the Carl Bloch exhibit with my Mom after the holiday. It was very pretty, but kids are really loud in museums, echo and all. While everyone else is checking out the intricate details of light and shadow in a piece, I'm trying to wrangle a squirmy child so he can't touch the original art work.

Lucas loved to open his presents on Christmas. He could unwrap them, as long as we started them for him. He would get distracted by small pieces of wrapping paper though. For the most part he was really into it, especially considering he was only 7 1/2 months old.

The Sinner kids minus Casey and Mary. We spent Christmas Eve at the Sinner house. Besides Lucas waking up every 90min due to teething it was a super fun weekend. All the Aunts and Uncles were helpful and happy to see Lucas. He did get a little competition in the cute arena though. Uncle Cameron got a puppy! We were all smitten. Lucas liked him until the puppy tried to eat his socks and jumped on him. Now he's a little more cautious, or maybe I'm the more careful one now.

Aunt Kelli was in town for the holidays. We always love when she visits. Everything is so much more fun. We went bowling, twice! Plus we had major dance offs on the wii.

We got my Dad and Jan this super fun board game for Christmas called Imaginiff. We had to play it during the break. So of course Jan made us yummy food and we all had a good laugh playing the game.