Happy 1st Birthday, Luke!

Luke loves his Aunties...both were there to celebrate with him!
How very very special!!





And the party really didn't get started until Auntie Abbie decided to show us how to really ride the horsey!!

Real Messy ...Happy Birthday Luke!

Luke is 1 !

Thank you for my new shirt and awesome koala bear socks(all the way from Australia), Uncle Kevin! I miss you!



We all celebrated surviving a year! Yeah!!! To celebrate Luke got LOTS of presents...and Mommy & Daddy got lots of offers to have date nights! And we did! What a challenging yet wonderful year we have had!

Sean & Luke

Luke met a very special person...his very distant cousin, Sean Hart! Oh boy...he was so excited
to meet him!

Luke is walking!

About a week before Christmas Luke started to take his first steps! We had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed our trip to N.J. where we had lots of good food...and warm & loving company!

Future Lacrosse Star?

Merry Christmas!

We are so blessed this Christmas to have a wonderful and healthy family! God has given us so much to be thankful for! We had a bit of a scare on Dec. 12th when Luke got a dime lodged in his esophogus. We were admitted in the hopital and Luke was operated on Wednesday morning. The procedure went perfectly and everything was fine afterwards, as we all went home and slept....a lot! God always has a reason for everything...and he showed us during this time that there are so many families that have children who are sick and in the hospital. I can't imagine a life like that...and my heart and prayers are with those families. Thank you God for continuing to show us your awesome power and love!



Our Christmas tree before we came home and took it down...because we were scared Luke was going to eat the lights & glass balls!




Luke's first Christmas!

Growing & Learning

Luke has learned how to splash!



....and sometimes he plays so hard he doesn't realize his pants are falling down!




Loves bathtime!



Was that Luke who at all the spaghetti?


Luke found the book, Pat the Bunny, on his shelf and took it down to read it all by himself! He loves this book the best!

Thanksgiving!

Happy & Full after eating lots of turkey!



Father & son


Morning...preparing turkey!

Our wonderful host Abbie and me...observing the dessert table!
We had a fabulous Thanksgiving with our dear friends, Mark & Abbie Batia! Luke really really really enjoyed the sweet potatoes!

Luke's Room

Finally after 9 months I am starting to put Luke's room together...here are a few touches that have been added.






Garbage bucket...with definition of "boy"..."a noise with dirt on it".









Laudry pail with definition of "dirt".