FLORIDA-Day 3 & 4

On these days we headed in to Clearwater for family pictures on the beach (a present for Sue from us kids) and to visit with friends from Lapel who invited us over to enjoy the pool and beach at their condo. We all had so much fun!! This was Luke's first time in the pool and he loved it! All of the pool and beach pics are on Chuck's camera so I'll try and add more of those later! ;)

The kids were able to fish right off of our dock in the backyard!!

It was SO windy for our pictures but we still had fun and cannot wait to see the ones the photographer took!!

I absolutely loved watching Emmy and Josh play in the waves

The photographer said the best lighting would be at dusk which was after Beau, Judd and Luke's bedtime so we had 3 sleepy boys, haha!

FLORIDA-Day 1 & 2

For Spring Break this year, Josh's parents surprised us and Justin & Whitney with a family vacation to Florida! We got to spend a whole week in Hudson, which is a little town not far from Clearwater. The house was huge so all 11 of us had plenty of room to spread out and enjoy the week together. And I have so many pictures and memories to share I thought I would spread it out over several posts and several days.....so here we go!!!

Day 1

After the long car ride, the kids were so excited to be free!! And to check out the house of course!

Day 2

While the "big" boys all went on a deep sea fishing trip, the little guys and us girls found a park to play and have a picnic.

Luke's first haircut

So Josh and I have been noticing for awhile that our sweet boy needed a haircut but this was definitely new territory for us with him being so young. Emmy didn't even have hair until she was almost 2 and we didn't have it cut until she was 2 1/2! But Luke on the other hand, his hair was almost halfway over his ears, haha! So, we took him last night and he did great, and so did the stylist! He sat "still" until the very end but she was able to finish it without giving him an accidental buzz cut :) Here are some cute pics of the big event!

 

Check out my new do'! 

Doesn't he just look like such a little man?!

*Before pic

(The little car was definitely a much needed distraction!)

  

How priceless is this face???

All done! 

9 months!!

Today we had Luke's 9 month check up with the Dr and the whole time driving there I kept thinking....how can our boy be 9 months old already??!! :) Sigh...it truly is crazy how fast the time goes. Here are his numbers from today and a few fun things he's been doing this month!!
 

Weight: 22.8 lbs. 90%

Height: 30 in. 95%
 

-Crawling everywhere!!! (And getting into trouble of course!)

-Saying da-da and ma-ma (and yes, Josh like to rub it in that he said da-da first! ;)

-Eating table food, so far there isn't anything this boy won't eat!

-Wearing 12-18 m clothes

-5 teeth!!

-Belly laughs (one of the best sounds in the whole world)
 

Our silly boy :)

Enjoying his 1st pancake

You can't see this in the picture but he's just about to grab one of his sister's toys, hence the sneaky look, haha!

Luke loves feeding himself...and also doing his hair afterwards!

Mommy's Little Helpers

Doing laundry is much more fun when I have these two cuties helping me!!! ;)

February Fun :)

Here are a few pictures we've taken so far this month, enjoy the cuteness!

 

These two just love each other, it's so sweet!! 

Luke is doing so great drinking from a sippy cup! 

Emmy & Josh doing her Passport Project that she gets

every month in the mail, thank you Papa & Grandma! 

8 months old today!! 

As you can see, Luke is now mobile!! He can crawl/scoot backwards

but is still working on going forwards. That's how he ended

up underneath the couch, haha! 

Luke loves to wave!! 

Here's a picture of Emmy on stage getting ready to sing with the other kids at church :) 

 

Luke enjoying the swing at Miss Carol's...can you see his 2 front teeth now too?? 

Pajama time!!

I couldn't resist sharing this....Emmy and Luke sitting in Josh's chair together before bed. Luke absolutely adores his big sis, you can already tell. And she has loved him since the moment she heard he was coming. She still whispers a special goodnight wish to him, just as she did before he was born. Instead of kissing my tummy and saying, "Goodnight precious baby, I love you" she now kisses his forehead and whispers "Goodnight brother, I love you" (except it comes out "brudder") and it is the sweetest thing ever...Thank you Father for these two precious children you have given us, we are so truly thankful for them!