Splish Splash!!

While Brett took the older boys to church last night, I had SUCH fun with my sweet Luke! I would have to say that his baths are one of his favorite activities right now. He loves splishin' and splashin' in the big ol' tub. He looks so much older to me in these. Hard to believe he will be ONE in 12 short days. LOVE this adorable face!

Culinary Cravings

I started a food blog a couple of months ago and LOVE it. It's a great outlet for me to share with the world what I feel I do best - cook! So if you haven't checked it out, now's a great time! I'm doing a contest right now where you can win a $50 Visa Gift Card! Below is a sampling of what you'll find.

Picture Wall

After 10 years of living in our lovely home, our naked stairway wall is now covered! Yippee! I found this layout on Pottery Barn's site and bought the frames at Ikea. I love how it turned out. The perfect place to showcase our new family pics!

Splish Splash!

Yesterday to celebrate near 100 degree temps, we had our great friends Laura, Kyle, Micah and Luke over for a play date/fun in the pool. Mind you our "pool" is pretty tiny but it's loads of fun for 5 rambunctious boys and kept them entertained!

Kyle, Josh, Matthew and Micah

Silly Boys!

I really love this!

Family Photos

We just had our family pictures taken on my 33rd birthday! It was truly the greatest gift ever. Our friend and a super talented photographer, Randi, took these for us. I couldn't be happier with how they turned out. Love, love, love them!! Here are some of my favorites...

Playing Catch Up

Has it really been since October of last year that I last blogged?? Wow. SO much has happened since. Really just watching the boys grow by leaps and bounds; especially Luke. He will be 1 next month! Crazy. He finally started crawling this last week at 11 months old. Today was another big milestone for him too. He ate his first finger food, a graham cracker. He has never been into putting anything in his mouth so my other attempts to get him to feed himself something have been pretty worthless. He loved his graham cracker today though! Another thing he learned yesterday was "so big!" When you say "Luke, how big are you?" He puts his arms up in the air while you say "so big!" It's adorable. He's adorable.

Josh is doing great! He has lost 3 teeth since finishing 1st grade. He looks so funny with his toothless grin. I love it! He is such a joy and the greatest helper to his baby brother. He keeps reminding me he misses school. He adored his first grade teacher this year and misses her terribly. It was a wonderful school year for him and he's excited for second grade.

Matthew is as sweet and cute as ever. His big brown puppy eyes melt my heart. He is beyond excited to start Kindergarten in the fall. He loved going to Southwest Preschool this last year and made some great friends. In turn, I made great friends with their mommies!

Here are some recent pics of our sweet boys!

Luke and his graham cracker

Our boys after some fun in the pool. It reached 100 degrees today!

Our family on the Fourth in Seattle