Easter 2014

We had a great Easter weekend this year. On Saturday, we went over to Josh's cousin's house. This has become an annual tradition to go there on the Saturday of Easter weekend. A lot of his family travels in and stays with them and it is always a good time to catch up.

Sunday we woke up with the intention of going to church. However, Lucas was moving very slowly and by the time we were all dressed and ready for church, the service was already 20 minutes in. After we realized we would't make church and were all dressed up, we grabbed our annual Easter pic on the porch. That afternoon, my mom hosted her annual Easter celebration and egg hunt. Lucas loved searching for eggs and loved the candy inside the eggs even more.


Saturday @ The Cantley's:





The Easter Bunny was good to Lucas:


Our Annual Easter Pic in front of the house:


The Egg Hunt at Grandma & Dave's:







Austin hunting for eggs:








Mike, Annie & Austin:


Annie & I (friend since we were 3 and 4)

Christmas Break

I took a full week off for Christmas this year to spend some quality time with Lucas. Unfortunately, both Lucas and I had colds over the long break so It was not much of a fun vacation. However, it was still nice to be home with him and get ready for the holiday. The main event from the week besides Christmas, was transforming Lucas' room into a big kid room. More on that in a separate post.

I literally felt so bad on Christmas that I did not take a single picture on my real camera on Christmas day (which I still can't believe). What an epic fail! The only thing I got was a few pics on my iphone and a video of Lucas coming downstairs to see his train from Santa.

Santa left Lucas' train table in "the study" as Josh refers to it - haha. His other gifts were left by the Christmas tree in our family room. We had a good day and Lucas got spoiled with lots of toys, books and movies. Later in the day, we had family come over for dinner. It was a very nice Christmas minus being under the weather.

Here is a video of Lucas finding his train table from Santa:


Here are a few random pictures of the trees and stockings:

Santa Photos

We took Lucas to see Santa early in the season (I think it was the weekend before Thanksgiving). We wanted to go before lines got long and he had an excuse to run away and not take a pic with Santa. That Sunday, after church, we headed to Pentagon City for our Santa visit. We both expected that it would go horribly and we would not get a single decent photo. Lucas really surprised us! He was definitely apprehensive of Santa at first but warmed up when Josh and I joined him.

Here are a few of the pics:

Thanksgiving

We traveled to West Virginia to see Josh's family for Thanksgiving. Josh's parents came up from Louisiana with HeeJin and the kids as well. We had 2 meals on Thursday, one with Josh's mom's side of the family and one with his dad's side.The next day we decided to take all the kids to Chuck-E-Cheese to burn some energy off. All the kids had a great time including Lucas who loved the ride-on cars and trucks.

Lucas on the road trip:


Nancy, Charlie, Josh & Lucas


HeeJin, Noah, Mia, & Alex


Lucas & cousin Alex at Chuck-E-Cheese:

Valentine's Day 2013

We had a low key Valentine's Day this year. Things were really busy so Josh brought home kabobs from a restaurant we love by his office. Here is a family photo we took.

Christmas 2012

Christmas is always such a busy time of year! Santa came to our house early on Saturday, 12/22. We also celebrated Christmas with my family Saturday as well. Lucas got spoiled by Santa, family and friends. He is a very lucky boy with lots of great toys.








The next day (Sunday, 12/23), we headed down to Louisiana to see Josh's family. Josh's mom and dad finally had a chance to get all their grandchildren (5 and soon to be 6) together under one roof! They were very happy about that!

We had a very, very hard time trying to get the kids together for a photo:




Christmas eve we had a lovely early dinner and went to the candle light service at church. Here is a pic of Josh & Lucas after church (I changed into my pajamas 2 seconds after we go in the door):



Christmas day was a nice relaxing day. It is always fun to watch kids open gifts!

We headed back home the next day. Lucas did great on both flights on the way home (much better than the trip going there). We almost had a near disaster as I realized when we got home that I forgot Josh's iPad on the plane! We looked up Delta's lost policy and it said that 90% of the items left behind on planes are never found. We were both pretty upset. However, a hour later we got a call from Delta that someone turned it in! Wow, there are still good people in this world! We had it sent overnight to us via FedEx. Thank goodness for the nice person who turned it in.

Memorial Day Weekend 2012

We had an enjoyable Memorial Day weekend. On Saturday we went over to my mom's for their annual memorial day BBQ for Rolling Thunder. They ride in the Rolling Thunder motorcycle ride every year. They always have the bbq on Saturday and ride in the parade on Sunday. Besse, Nate, Billy and Besse's parents were able to come this year and we were so glad to have them!

Here is a photo of Besse's mom (Jill) with the boys:


Billy & Lucas chewing on toys


Daddy & a very happy Lucas



On Sunday, we headed over to The Dailer's community pool. It was Lucas' 1st time in a real pool. He did really well and we all had a great time!