March 2013

So smiley!  Happy 3 months old, Rachel Joy!

She's starting to communicate a little bit - here's a video of her making noises.

Happy!  Here's some footage of this photo session - interacting a bit.

Silly sticker boys – you’re supposed to put stickers on your face, right?

My sunshiny boy enjoying the swings like a big boy!

Green Day at Sparks!

Our bubbly little girl – doing more talking & gurgling!

St. Patrick's Day church clothes.

Showing off the St. Patrick's Day shirt my Aunt Kathy got her - "I'm Cute, My Mom is Cute, and My Dad is Lucky!"

Jersey Day at Sparks!

I found some super cute PINK tennis shoes in a box of forgotten hand-me-down clothes.  Yea for playing dress-up!

A favorite picture of the boys holding hands on the walk to school.  :)

Hello there!  Why, yes, I DO enjoy my saucer!

Pretty in HOT pink!

Jonathan is 2-1/2 years old!

Snuggling with Aunt Joanna at the park.

Luke saying "Hi" during pillow tummy time.  :)

Jonathan checking out the yellow & orange flowers in the backyard.

We planted our garden with tomatoes, bell peppers & carrots!

November 2012

Luke riding his bike during a family trip to the park.

Jonathan getting help climbing on the playground equipment - getting braver!

Swinging buddies!

Celebrating Aunt Tara's birthday.

8 months pregnant.

My sweet boys!

Playing knight & prince in the backyard.  Luke got more into it than Jonathan did.  :P

They got along pretty well these days.  :)

37 weeks pregnant - getting closer!

On Thanksgiving Day, Nathan had the fun idea to have a Turkey Hunt with the boys.  We started by making several turkeys out of hand prints on construction paper.  We filled each one with a few candy corns so when they were successfully "hunted" the boys could eat them.  :)

Ready to go!

We had hid some of them in the house...

and some of them in the backyard.

The boys had to find them with minimal help, then shoot them with their dart guns.  Once they got a hit, they could retrieve it and divvy up the candy corns inside.

It's a Thanksgiving tradition for me to forget to take pictures during our family festivities.  :P  But, here are several of the cousins eating dessert together - the first picture taken with my new-to-me iphone!

Enjoying baby James.

We got pictures of both boys with Great Grandma.

Jonathan lining up his cars around the coffee table.  I remember when Luke used to do this a lot.

Airplane time with the cousins!

Taking a "pregnant pause" with my buddy instead of tackling that pile of laundry in the background!  :P

38 weeks pregnant!  This is how far I got with Jonathan's pregnancy.  I was so thankful to make it at least this far again.  :)

Joanna had come over to take my pregnancy picture for me and insisted on getting a friend shot together.  Little did I know, but she was newly pregnant herself!  She wasn't sharing her news yet, but later I found out that we were both pregnant in this picture!

October 2012

Luke had Crazy Sock Night at AWANA.

Luke got the Busy Bee Award at school!

Jonathan trying corn on the cob for the first time.  Here's a video of him eating it.

Our annual Lombardi's trip starts with our family picture - I think it turned out pretty good this year!

Our silly scarecrow.

Boys on top of the hay bale pyramid.

Jonathan was willing to do the cut-out with the yellow tractor.

"Driving" the jail truck.

All the cousins!

The older cousins got to have a train car all to themselves this year.

Picking out pumpkins.

Here are ours - for our "three" kids!  The boys picked out theirs and I found a baby one for our new little girl.

Jonathan enjoyed the playground equipment at the park when we went to play with some of Luke's friends from school.  Here's a video of him on the slide.

My 7 months pregnancy picture - Luke took this one.  :)

Luke helping me juice some limes from the backyard tree.

Our last trip to the zoo with our membership before I get too pregnant.  :)  We had a nice time as a family of four.

Here's a video of Jonathan helping Luke unload the clean silverware from the dishwasher - he says the name of each piece before handing it over.

Jonathan started to say "Go Broncos!" when Nathan would watch football games on TV.  Here's a video of him saying it.  :)

And Luke doesn't want to be left out of the picture taking, often making silly faces like this.  :P

The best picture I got on my camera of the grandkids' Pilgrims & Indians picture for Grandma Hughes' Christmas card.  Check out Jonathan's expression - priceless!

My two little pilgrims!

Phyllis, Jessica & Joanna threw me a nice baby girl shower!  Bring on the pink!

Jonathan helping me load the washing machine.  I usually throw the clothes over the upstairs balcony, then load them from the floor, but with a 7-1/2 months pregnant belly, that was getting harder to do!  Here's a video of him putting a few things in.  :)

Hanging with my little buddy!

Here's a video of him telling the colors on his electronic maraca.

The boys dressed up to go check out the Fall Carnival at Luke's school.  They're wearing modified versions of their upcoming Halloween costumes of a knight and a prince.

All the boy grandkids holding up their t-shirts that Grandpa & Grandma Hughes brought back from Spain.

I made a jack-o-lantern pumpkin pie for Halloween.  Any excuse, right?

The final rendition of the boys' Halloween costumes - Sir Luke and Prince Jonathan!