Entries Tagged as ‘luke’

November 30, 2009

Thanksgiving 2009

Thanksgiving 2009 – lots (and lots and lots) of food, lots of family.
Meal #1 at my MIL’s

Meal #2 at my parents’

Lunch with Eric’s side of the family at Buca di Beppo (the day after Thanksgiving)

November 24, 2009

Who’s the boss?

Apparently I am.
Kenny and Luke were playing legos and I overheard Kenny say, “No, Luke, I get to be mommy because she’s the boss of the house.” 
Eric is going to love that.

November 24, 2009

1 little, 2 little, 3 little indians

Kenny had a Thanksgiving feast at school today.  The kids dressed up in their Indian gear and ate a lot of turkey, ham, muffins, popcorn and fruit. 
Front view

Back view

This was one of Kenny’s homework assignments.  We had to work together to disguise our turkey so he would be safe on Thanksgiving Day.  We turned ours [...]

November 20, 2009

Oh Christmas tree

Our Christmas tree is up and the inside of our house is decorated for the holidays.  I didn’t take out as many decorations as usual.  I figure that less is best (or safer) this year with Luke and Mac running wild in the house. 

Can you believe it?  I got a picture where they are both smiling.

November 17, 2009

Time out

Luke’s quote of the day:  “You do it again and you go in time out.” 
Can you tell where he’s been a lot lately? 
We’re going through this lovely stage with Luke right now, full of now’s and sassing.  I’m not talking about the sweet little “Mommy, can I get down now” type phase, I’m talking about the [...]

November 11, 2009

Roly-poly

About 30 minutes before we had to leave to take Kenny to bible school, I asked Luke to pick up his cars that were laying around the family room.  Here’s how he picked them up:
1.  Look at the car in question from across the room
2.  Roll across the room to pick up the one car [...]

November 10, 2009

Elf Yourself 2009

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

November 9, 2009

In pictures

My friend Brook met us in downtown Overland Park yesterday to take some fall pictures of the boys.  She takes amazing pictures so when she offered to do it (for free!), I immediately said yes.  She got some amazing pictures and I got to learn some of her photography tricks.  Thank you Brook!
Here’s a sneak peek of [...]

November 3, 2009

No, maybe, yes

When all the talk of the H1N1 virus started, I had no plans to get myself or my kids vaccinated.  I knew the symptoms of H1N1 could be bad but I wasn’t sold on the safety of the actual shot. 
But, then Kenny’s school district sent out a permission slip for free H1N1 shots for any kids [...]

November 1, 2009

Our Halloween

This Halloween was a lot of fun because #1, I didn’t have to carve our pumpkin and #2 Luke really got it.  Luke had so much fun going up to the different houses and saying yelling “trick or treat”.  He and I went with Eric and Kenny almost all the way around the block and then [...]

October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween 2009

Happy Halloween from our superheroes to yours.

October 28, 2009

Halloween party

Kenny’s class had their Halloween party today.  I’m one of the room moms so Luke and I helped out.  We had an hour to dress the kids in their costumes, do a parade through all the different classrooms (since they’ll miss the actual parade this afternoon), do 2 projects and finally eat some yummy treats.  [...]

October 25, 2009

Jack-o-lantern

My dad took on the *fun* job of carving our pumpkin this year. 
Here are the guys deciding on their course of action.  Kenny wanted the pumpkin to have a nose, a toothy smile, 2 eyebrows and 3 eyes. 

Luke wanted his hands washed as soon as he touched the pumpkin guts.  

The three guys and the finished product. 

Thanks Dad!  [...]

October 19, 2009

Fall lessons

Eric coaches for a swim team 2 nights a week.  One of the perks he gets for coaching is free swimming lessons for our kids.  We started Kenny up last week and then both boys swam yesterday, Kenny, with an instructor, and Luke, with Eric.  I’m hoping that Kenny will be ready for the pre-competitive swim team [...]

October 18, 2009

Pumpkins

My mom and I took the boys out to the Weston Red Barn Farm today to pick out some pumpkins.  We loved this pumpkin patch.  It didn’t have as many extras (trains, etc) as some of the other ones we’ve been to but the people who ran it were really nice and there was still a lot [...]

October 16, 2009

I’ve got a few things

In the past few days, I’ve come up with a few gift ideas for the boys.  
For Kenny:
- a magic kit.  A friend suggested this.  I’m going to have to look into these and see if I can find one that’s fairly simple but not so simple that he’d use it once and never look at again (aka a waste [...]

October 13, 2009

I’ve got nothin’

I know it’s early but I usually try to start thinking about Christmas gifts around this time of the year.  I’ve usually got some good ideas but this year, I’ve got nothin’ in terms of the boys.  Kenny loves Legos but I think he has enough to last him a few years and Luke has [...]

October 10, 2009

GOOOOOOOOOOOAL!

Kenny scored his first goal at his soccer game….yeah Kenny!
I was (randomly) taking pictures when it happened and then got caught up in the moment so these are the best I was able to get…

I know, it’s completely blurry but you can see that Kenny is in control of the ball.

Kenny was all smiles afterwards.  He [...]

October 9, 2009

Spooky

Luke helped us put out our Halloween decorations on Tuesday while Kenny was in school.  His favorite thing is my black metal haunted house that is sitting next to our television.  I have a feeling that it’s going to end up somewhere higher that’s out of his reach by the time the 31st gets here. 
Luke [...]

October 8, 2009

Kenny’s field trip

Kenny’s kindergarten class went on their first field trip yesterday to one of the local fire stations.  The kids all came home with these cute hats. 

Can you guys believe the weather lately?  I like fall but I’m not excited for all the leaves that will soon be covering up our yard.