Happy 1st Birthday Lucas!!

My sweet baby boy, Lucas, turned 1 today! I can't believe a year has already passed since the day he was born...but I'm pretty sure we all say that with each of our kids on each of their birthday's. He is such a fun little boy and bring some serious laughter and fun to this house! Spencer has his daddy/son bond and it is amazing....but it's also amazing how much the girls just adore him and love playing with him (ok...99% of the time).

We had a little family birthday for him today, he opened present from Mommy & Daddy, his sisters and from my friend Val who was staying with us this weekend. He loved his "boy" toys that he finally got! We have lots of gender neutral toys in our house so adding a dump truck, parking garage, plastic animals and a foot ball....oh and of course his 1st Gator's hat, well they were great additions to his toys!

Happy Birthday Lucas Brock, my sweet baby boy! Mommy loves you bunches!!!!

xoxo

The day Lucas Brock was born, October 13, 2008!

His 1st birthday today, October 13, 2009!

All over again....

We are having another boy and couldn't be more excited. I can't believe it! I am really still in shock from seeing the ultrasound yesterday. Up until a couple weeks ago I had no idea if it would be a boy or a girl. I kept thinking there is no way that Spencer is going to get another boy, no matter how bad he wanted one! I was so wrong. I have been telling him for a couple weeks that it's a girl, but really I didn't have a clue. With both Lucas and Kaylie I had a dream about them and knew for sure and I was right with both...but didn't have a clue this time around. So I guess as much as I didn't want to know the sex until the baby was born, yesterday was a surprise for me!

The whole family (all 5 of us) were there to see our new baby boy moving around in my belly. Kendra journaled about the experience while we were there and just loved watching the baby. Kaylie kept calling the u/s tech doctor so she didn't respond to Kaylie cause she didn't know she was talking to her, but she really loved seeing the baby's heart and asking about what parts we were looking at. Lucas...well he sat on Daddy's lap and wiggled like always until we let him down, but blocked him off from going to other parts of the office. The tech did all the measurements and then finally said "Ok let's see what we have here"...I was so nervous and excited. When she said it was a boy, I did was I always do...started to tear up and couldn't have been happier.

I have to admit though, I would have loved another little girl...might have to try for 1 more in a few years! I do miss the bows and cute outfits that you don't get with a boy. However, with a boy you do miss out on some of the drama. This really is perfect for us for when we finally move into a home. The girls will have their own rooms and the little boys will always share. The house is even and no more girls over ruling the house ;)

Here are the ultrasound pictures from yesterday, there was no question about if he was a boy or not. Kaylie asked if the picture showing he was a boy was actually a butterfly...kinda makes sense when you look at it!

I'll try to blog more about what's been going on with the rest of the family later!

xoxo,

Kate

Ok so it's been a month, but I have a valid excuse for not posting lately. Things have been crazy busy in our house! To top it all off we are having another baby. I can't believe I am saying that when I have a 9 month old right now. I am starting to actually get excited though since I'll be done having children and that's a nice thought. I am a miserable pregnant person so I can't wait for this pregnancy to be over with! (yes already)

Well we have had a bunch go on since June when I posted last, I am now 29 years old...crazy! Summer is going good, we were busy doing stuff all the time, but we've been home bodies this last week cause I've been sick...I know the kids are dying! They just got super excited when I told them they could watch High School Musical 3, which I didn't know I was agreeing to cause Kendra had Kaylie ask!

Lucas is constantly making messes in the house, which we laugh about sometimes because they are things that you just wish he wouldn't do, but you can't get mad at a cute boy like Lucas!

The girls are the girls...they fight and they love each other, it's a daily adventure with them! I do love when all 3 kids are playing and enjoying themselves in the room. Today Kendra was having fun taking pictures of Lucas with graham crackers all over his face. I love those moments when they are loving one another!

Here are some fun pics from the last 2 months.

Pics we took for Spencer's tie for Father's Day!

4th of July, I made the girl's outfits!

Kaylie's dress is my favorite I've made so far!

I love when Lucas lays his head down, he loves his Daddy!

My Baby Boy

Ok so I haven't posted for a while and let me just say, a few BIG things have happened. Well big for me! This post is mostly about Lucas, since he is the one doing the newest things :)

My friend, Kathy, buzzed my baby boy's hair on May 15th, he really needed to have his hair evened out, there were some long strands and it just bugged me.

Before

During

After

Lucas got his first 2 teeth on the 22nd & 25th. Boy was I excited for this day to come. Teething for him was horrible, painful and he didn't sleep very well for 4-5 weeks. He was waking up about 1-2 times a night and I was so sleep deprived. I am loving him being back to sleeping his normal 11-12 hours a night. Now if I could just get to bed earlier I'd be good!

And now for the fun part, my baby boy started crawling on Saturday and now he is on the move all over the house. It is the cutest thing ever. 

So now I have a baby on solids, with teeth and ready to destroy my house! He is such a curious one that I don't know what I'm going to do. Kaylie wasn't like this and didn't head for the dvd's (well she does now, but that's only because she knows how to work the dvd and ps3 player). So we'll see how it goes, but I'm loving having a boy. I mean I love my girls, but a boy is so different and I'm loving it!

Hair & Share!

Check out this great site for girls hair-do and an awesome contest. I love it!!

http://hairandshare.blogspot.com/

Little Gator

So last Sunday on our family walk to feed the fish at the lake we were suprised with a little gator eating the bread and scaring away the fish! Spencer said it was about 4 ft. in length so it wasn't too big, but big enough to keep me from not wanting to be near it! I did get a bagillion pics of it and the kids loved feeding it. 

Happy Mother's Day!

Well today was a great Mother's Day! I really couldn't have asked for a better day, well except church could have been at noon so I could have had breakfast before I left. But all in all I had a great day with my family. We had family over after church and I made Tortilla Soup (thanks Gretch) and it was yummy! We had a great time just hanging out and the guys watching TV like they always do! Anyway here are some pics.

Fun for the kids!

This last Sunday I needed to get out of the house after church so I called Brenda and asked if she wanted to take the kids on a walk. Kaylie didn't get to go to church cause she was a little sick and Spencer headed out of town for work. So I took the 3 kids and we went to Brenda's and took all 4 kids to the lake to feed the fish some bread. Well on the way there is a big green field of grass so before we headed home we let the kids run around and they loved it!

Girl's Night- Part I

Ok so we have a good friend who is moving back to Utah, Brooke. So we had a girls night to get together, play games, eat junk food and have fun....we did all that! I'm gonna miss you Brooke!

Sea World

So on Friday night I went to Sea World with some of our friends. When my family was here all 4 of them bought a 1 day pass...well you get the second day free. You show them your pass on the way out, give them your name and they print a pass for you to come back. So I gave them the names of 4 of my friends :) Is that bad? Hhhhmmmmm....

Kaylie is sure going to miss "her Troy" and of course Brooke & Cocoa!