On his own two feet...

Since I'm on a roll with this blogging thing now...I felt like writing about Luke walking!  It's funny how once you have kids its little things that really make your day.  You start to rememer months by milestones that they have accomplished and keep looking forward to the days where they will hit that next milestone!  Kids are definitely amazing...take Luke for example.  I had been saying for soooo long now that he was going to get up and walk since he was 10 months old.  Here we are 3 months later, past his 1st birthday and he STILL wasn't walking.  But then on Thanksgiving day of all days he got up and took a couple steps and then took some more!  2 days later he was walking around the store with his cousin Nick.  It just amazes me how fast they can pick things up and how fast they learn.  Who knows what will be next on the road of milestones for us...

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A year gone by....

I can't believe its already been a year (well technically 13 months) since we have been blessed with a bouncing baby boy in our lives.  We planned a big 1st birthday for him which was supposed to take place at a real Hanger in Vacaviile, but plans fell through and unfortunately we couldn't have it there...so instead the 100 people we invited had to be "diverted" to our house!  Good thing we bought a bigger house! LOL  His birthday theme was airplanes of course. 

Since there was going to be soooo many people we decided to get a tent for the backyard so people can mingle out there too...unfortunately that was the weekend the weather decided to act up and it was raining the WHOLE day =( Also that night Luke woke up with a 103.5 degree temperature!!! This was his first time really getting sick and gave him meds and his temp when down, but he still didn't feel very good at his birthday party...Here is the setup of things before everyone arrived. 

"Clouds" in the "sky"

Luke's Month Clouds

I had such a great time doing it all even though it was a lot of work! thanks to all my helpers Beth, Gi, Jassy, David and James =) And because we had so many awesome decorations here are the close ups!

Jassy's AWESOME cake!

Gi and James' airplane fruit basket

Luke's Airplane (by Daddy)

And everyone recieved a Pilot's License as part of thei favors. Here is Luke's Great Grandad showing eveyrone how it's done!

blowing out his cake! He got a little overwhelmed when everyone was singing to him so we had to turn him around so he wasn't facing the big crowd

 

To everyone that came, and even to those who couldn't make it, thank you for helping us celebrate Luke's first birthday!!! We hope you all had a great time! Until next year....

Present time

Luke's First Year at OneTrueMedia.com

Since I am sooo far behind in my blogging this year I decided to put this video up of Luke's first year. Now you can have the condensed version =) Hope you enjoy!

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June- the month of WEDDINGS!!!

Ok...so now I'm in June...I feel like I will never catch up! =) June was definitely the month of weddings for us this year...we had 4! One almost every weekend...and Luke and I also took a trip to the East Coast to Washington DC to visit/see my dad graduate! We had a very FULL summer and it all started off with JUNE!

So a quick recap with pics....Luke has already been and seen most of the Smithsonian Museums, here is the Natural History Museum featured in Night at the Museum.

It was also the first time he took a bath in a sink LOL

Here we are at the Air and Space Museum (also featured in the Night of the Museum)

At the Lincoln Memorial

The Reflecting Pool

 Inside the Lincoln Memorial

 At the Washington Monument

 We went all the way to the top of the monument...twice! Once during the day and once at night.

 Here we are at the annex of the Air and Space Museum with the SR71 featured in Transformers 2!

While we are in the East Coast we took advantage and traveled to Hershey, PA!!! YUMMY!

Of course we had to pass by the White House

 And see Papa GRADUATE!!!! We are proud of you!!!



As soon as we got home the next day we had a wedding to go to in San Francisco.  Our good friends we met through David's Pilot Training were getting married.  We had to honor of actually being with them the night they met!!! It was sooo fun to see everyone again!

The newly Mr and Mrs!

 Awesome table settings (they are both pilots in the AF)

 Absolutely LOVED the peacock colors!

 Bobblehead groom's cake!

 The happy couple

After a week we were on our way again traveling down south for Ny and JR's wedding at the Disneyland Hotel!!!! We had a wonderful time and the wedding was BEAUTIFUL....beyond words actually! The colors were yellow, silver and white and to sum it all up in one word: UNFORGETTABLE!!!!

Then we were finally home and of course we had the best weddings for last...both our BROTHERS got married in June too! First Joston and Ana and then Steven and Bridget. What a way to end the month ;)

Happenings in May

May went by so fast! Which I was really happy for b/c David was gone for half of it!  David went off to AC upgrade school back in Altus AFB, Oklahoma. But before he left we took Luke to the Old Sacramento Train museum. I hadn't been there in a while and so off we went!

This was a neat picture b/c you can see how BIG the trains are and how little Luke looks!

David left and I kept busy with Luke. One of the things we did was visit Sonoma Train town with all the family.  I think we may have visited every train place there is near us!

Getting kisses from Lolo

checking out the outhouse

Luke gave his Daddy a little present before he left...he said DA-DA for the first time! It may have been directly at him, but he can definitely say it!  He was able to sit up really well already! He is way more playful now and just loves to laugh! Check out some of the shots from this month!

Starting early...need to let him know to close his eyes when you kiss :-*

Touchdown!!!