Saturday, January 23, 2010

Luke's heart

Luke has a plastic baggie that he always shoves in my purse where ever we go, just in case we go to his favorite pizza place and he gets some time in the arcade. This dirty little baggie has coins that he has earned from various chores around the house. Very simply, he loves his baggie of coins. Well, we were at church last Sunday and they did a collection for Haiti. I have told Luke very small bits and pieces of what happened over there. Mostly, just that kids don't have water, food or houses right now. At church I asked him if he wanted to give a couple of his coins to the basket.....
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He dumped the entire bag in the basket.
And shh...he truly thinks those coins have built a house for someone and their baby. I love him.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Storm Watch 2010!!

We are officially having our first major storm of 2010. Drew wasn't feeling great so we stayed home and out of the rain.

Good ol Dallas Raines...

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I played more games of Break the Ice than I care to remember.

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Luke "read" to his (not so attentive) brother
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We played lots of Batman Cave
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And Drew cooked up a tasty snack. (yes, I changed him into more pj's...don't judge) :)
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And when Daddy got home it was Potato Head time.
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Friday, January 15, 2010

and 3 years later.....

We have grown in size. Yeah, we have added a couple of kiddos...

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

and even more mountain pics...

Uncle Josh and Papa spent most of the trip like this....

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a rare picture of me and my luke

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Ethan, king of the mountain

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Drew, after falling in the snow one too many time....
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Papa's favorite thing in Big Bear is the Discovery Center. Right when you walk in there is a huge grizzly bear....who Luke had no problem cuddling right up with :)
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There were a few snowball fights
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because of a sneaky little girl....
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But the best part of all was all the time spent with cousins (and Momo and Papa of course!)
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And the single reason that Luke asks for a sister....every.single.day.
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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Sledding, sledding and more sledding....

This was the first trip to the mountains where the kids really loved sledding (for the most part...I am still not sure Drew is that big of a fan). Right outside our condo was the perfect little hill to get them started.

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This boy did not want to come home from the "snowy" mountains.

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Future snowboarder Ethan.

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Jett LOVED it.

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Drew had given up sledding at this point. Although I do think he may have a future as an EMT. He ran down the hill (mostly after Jett) to ask "you ok, Jett?" Every. single. time.

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Raquel, getting some air!

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Uncle Josh forced Auntie Nikki to take a ride. She was not thrilled.

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The next day we headed out to find a bigger hill. Much bigger. Here are the boys getting ready to take a run.

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Luke's first ride down. Um, terrified?!?!

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many more pics to come.............

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Mountain of madness

We just got back from our annual mountain trip....once again, a big thanks to Momo and Papa :) I have a million pictures to upload but I thought I would start with these....

Since Drew takes this everywhere....

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it could only lead to this. Fumble and recovery with Drew and Jett

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they tackeled like this for a long, long time

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can't you hear Drew screaming in this pic?

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I am sure this isn't going to be the last time we see the two of them going at it :)

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Sunday, January 3, 2010

Dr and Dr...aka....

....the Mr. and Mrs.....

So, Matt got engaged last night. We knew he had bought a ring but he was VERY secretive about the details. Pfft...something about us having big mouths or something. Whatever. Anyway, I would love to share more details but that is about all he told us. He is engaged. Oh and we know it happened in Tahoe and Julie said yes. Please Lord, let my boys share more with me than that. At least I have Lila and Raquel I can live vicarously through :)

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Congratulations to you both! Julie, welcome to this crazy little family. :)

Friday, January 1, 2010

Happy 2010!

I have started a new blog (of course, I will still have this one to document our little crazy life) but I read a lot of photography blogs (in my quest to be more like my dad and Josh :) and a few have talked about a challenge to take a picture a day for a year. Hopefully, by the end of the year, I will have a year of our life to make into a book, and I will also become slightly better at taking pictures.

Here is the new blog: http://www.ourphotofiles.blogspot.com/ :)

And because every post is better with a picture....
here is Jedi Jett....

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