Family Pics

My boys!
To be completely honest, in the beginning I was really nervous to have boys. I had no idea what I would do with boys. Now, their smiles melt my heart, while Luke's magic wand turns me into a princess, I'm addressed as "Your Highness," and half of our "castle" is cool for the 3 kings and the other half is pretty for me. I wouldn't change a thing!



Can you feel the brotherly love? They are soooo cute together!


Baby Jonah is all smiles! He loved traipsing around the leather couch while I tried to capture the look of freedom and excitement in his eyes. Caught ya!


This is our first family portrait since Jonah was born, unless you count the one of all of us in the hospital bed...nah!

Luke's 4th Birthday Party

Every year, Luke gets a big balloon on his birthday. It's become sort of a tradition for him. A big cheery sunshine kite greeted him for his party!!! Along with 10 other balloons for all his friends. This was the first year that we've thrown him a party with friends, not just family. As you can see, most of his friends are girls, mainly because most of ourfriends have girls...from left to right:

Lizzy, Annabel, Ellie, Maddie, Luke, Parker, and Caelan (his "bestfriend").

They all played pin the tail on the puppy. The birthday boy went first and ultimately won!

Luke was so excited to blow out his candles. He's always been a fan of this tradition.

I had planned to make a two layer confetti cake, but then Luke saw a picture of these ice cream cone cakes on the back of the cake box and decided that he wanted those instead! So, I hunted down ice cream cones (the woman at the grocery store looked at me with a puzzled look when I asked for them...probably since it's the middle of winter!) The cones turned out great and all the kids loved them!

Steve and I bought Luke a scooter for his birthday. Believe it or not, this is the first time he's ever ridden one! Check it out!!

Sledding

What a change from last year...Luke was very brave this year! He went down the hill all by himself and absolutely loved it!

Then he talked me into going with him. We went "superfast" down the hill...
hit a bump...
then tipped over at the bottom where he proceeded to tackle me in the snow bank! We were laughing so hard!!!

Steve and Luke at the bottom of their sledding hill.