The Polar Express

Yesterday Luke & I drove to Palestine, TX with our friends Kristen, Madi, & Abi. We went to the Texas State Railway to ride the Polar Express.


The five of us before we boarded the train.


Outside the train depot


The train when it first pulled up

The kids with the conductor.

Luke & Madi waiting to get on the train...

here is comes!

Abi, Kristen, & Madi on the train

Me & Luke

The chefs bringing out the hot chocolate.

As you can see Luke really enjoyed his!

Madi & Luke with one of the chefs.

The conductor punching the tickets.

The North Pole!

Once we stopped at the North Pole Santa got on the train.

The the Elfs. Luke doesn't understand why there were no boy elfs...

The five of us!

We had a wonderful time and made lots of wonderful memories. The kids loved every minute of it! The one thing they didn't understand was why we didn't get to see Santa's deer????

Who knows...

Brady 15 Months

Here's what Brady is up to at 15 months:

weight: 25 lbs 12 oz
height: 33 inches

vocabulary:
mama
dada
bubba (favorite word)
bye bye
trash
touch down
ball
"bob" (his word for his bottle- yes he still drinks a bottle at night)
bath

favorite toy: any vacuum cleaner
favorite food: anything he can get his hands on
favorite game: hide & go seek

accomplishments:
doing better at sleeping through the night, but still not a pro at it
climbing
running
clapping
acting like a monkey (for real)
having fun at Mother's Day Out

Our Christmas Card 2009

Luke's First Christmas Program

Today was Luke's first ever Christmas Program at school. My baby is growing up way to fast. I have to say that I did shed a few tears at this one...

Here is his class. Trinity, Joseph (Jophess as Luke calls him), Luke, Madi, & Rafi.


Here are all of the three year olds together. Luke is on the back row second from the right.


Rafi, Mrs. Alissa, Luke, & Madi

Luke & his music teacher, Mrs. G

All of the people who came to see Luke. Daddy had to be out of town on business, but we video taped the whole thing for him to see when he gets back.

Luke & Madi with their programs.

My favorite song they sang was "Happy Birthday Jesus". Caleb & I used to sing that song in our Christmas programs when we were little.

The Christmas Home Tour 2009

This year our church did a Christmas Home Tour. We had six houses of people in our church who opened their home for others to come see. Our house was on the tour. It was a lot of work getting ready for it, but I had a lot of fun. Grandma Sue came over to help me put up the Christmas decorations so I had fun spending time with her too.
Here's what our house looked like...


Master Bedroom


Kitchen

Kitchen

Living Room

Play Room

Guest Bedroom

Brady's Room

Luke's Room

Snow In Pearland

Dad & the boys got to play in the snow this morning! This is Brady's first real experience with snow. He didn't really know what to do. He kept walking around cleaning the snow off all of his toys in the backyard.

Luke had a blast throwing snowballs at Dad & Brady. He was a little confused though...he thought today was Christmas.

What a beautiful day it was!

Movie Night

Next week we are traveling to Palstine, TX to ride the Polar Express train to the North Pole. So tonight we decided to invite Kristen and Madi over to watch the movie so we will all be ready for the real thing!

The movie is in 3D, so the kids tried to wear the glasses but they didn't stay on very well. We decided we would do without them.


Ready for popcorn and the movie!