We got our MIRACLE...

Yes, we did, we got our miracle!

We are pregnant!!!!!!  9 months ago we were told we would NEVER have another baby, but Justin and I never believed that.  We had more faith in our Lord than that.  We kept praying, our families and friends kept praying, and today we are going to our 1st doctor appointment as expecting parents!!

God is good, even during the storms, He still will shine through.

Faith trusts from God, what is beyond all expectation!

Ruidoso Fires

 This past weekend, the Little Bear fires ripped through the Bonita Lake and Park area of Ruidoso.  Our family cabin was burned.  Gone. :(  The charred truck sits in front of once was our cabin.  It is actually a blue truck and it is the work truck for while we are there.  

Justins grandfather, Pops, pretty much built that cabin with his bare hands.  I've been dating Justin for 10 1/2 years and I LOVED it.  Justin and his family have had a lifetime of memories.  I know in time it will be rebuilt and new memories will be made, but it still deserves a special blog! :)

Reminiscing a bit, Justin and I spent our first New Year's together.  We had been dating for almost a year off and on by that time.  We went to Ruidoso with a group of friends, but ended up staying alone camped up here.  We were young and all we wanted to be with eachother.  Soaking up the knowledge of each other's entire life history and cuddling, watching movies, going for walks, cooking, etc.  Our relationship had really started becoming very serious at that point, and from that week on, the cabin became part of mine too.  I have spent 10 years worth of summers and family church camps with Justins family here.  And throughout the years, any time Justin and I wanted a break from life, we would pack up and make our trip there.  Most of every New Year's is spent here.  We've came alone, with friends, other family, it didn't matter, all fun times.  The dogs came every time with us.  We have NEVER been 1 single time without the dogs in tow.  They LOVED IT!

Our favorite things to do at the cabin:

Hike

Sit on the front porch and watch the deer

Sled down hills next to cabin

Make breakfast burritos

Shop in town all day then come back for naps

wine and the porch swing

watch movies

take a bath!  the bath tub was the best "old time" tub, my favorite

play games at the table

Family Camp in the summers

Laugh

Turning 4, super-hero style

Our sweet little guy is 4!!!  We celebrated Super Hero style with a fun birthday party at Ready Set Go little gym in Lubbock.  He had so much fun jumping, flying, running, and being crazy!

I got so many ideas from Pinterest!  I really love that website lol.  But, everything came together the way I had envisioned and Luke was part of the whole planning process.  Now that he is getting older, I wanted to keep him involved with what he wanted for his birthday.  I was horrible at taking pics.  Most of the pictures I have are a combination of what others took or from Justins cell phone.  I was playing with the kids and loving every minute of watching Luke on his special day!

Luke at 4:

- He is an absolute charmer!  Loves to bat those long eye lashes and smile :) 

- He is obsessed with chocolate milk and pop tarts STILL

- He loves to sing/dance and likes us to record him so he can go back and watch himself

- Into super-heros, dinosaurs, baseball and wall tracks for his cars

- He loves watching movies.  His favorite thing to do at night is cuddle up and watch a movie.  (Fine with me and Justin!)

- still loves his nap!  I feel soooo immensely blessed for this lol.  He will still take a 2 hour nap everyday.  After church on sundays we stop and play at the park or let him play around in the back yard for awhile.  After that he has been known to take a 3 hour nap, and believe me, momma is right there with him. Ha!

- He likes to grocery shop.  He has his own drawer in the fridge and he likes to pick out his own snacks, etc.  It's usually filled with grapes, yogurt, fruit cups and pudding.

 

 

Lukes 4th Birthday wish list:

- He wanted a real monkey

- Happy Nappers

- a new dvd player

- music (got a karaoke machine so he can make his own music)

- more superhero's for his batman cave

- Spiderman movie

 

* We got everything covered except the monkey.  Sorry baby, maybe next year?! ;)

Spring Sunshine!

Luke and his best bud, Tony, have already been soaking up the spring sunshine.  The temps have already been in the high 90's and low 100's and its only the beginning of May. Yikes! 

DisneyWorld in pictures...

We had a BLAST at DisneyWorld!  A truely, truelyyy good time.  Luke took it all in and went with it.  Splash mountain was by far his very favorite.  We got fast passes and we waited in line a few times to ride this!  It was a good time, but seeing Luke love it, made it an awesome time!!!  We got there at 8am and left at midnight, with NO nap.  That's how much fun Luke had.  He was so well behaved and loved seeing the characters, riding rides and eating.  GEEZ, he ate the entire day!  DisneyWorld is the most magical place on Earth :))

Mommy Loves...

Sometimes, I wonder, how can it be possible for my baby to be turning 4?!

He is in such a fun, busy and silly stage right now.  Luke has always been a goof ball but lately he has been entertaining to watch transform from a toddler into a little boy.

Luke, here is just a little list of my endless loves:

-- I love the way  you tell me and daddy, " I love you to the sun, moon, spaceship, stars, moon and all the way back"

-- I love the way you crawl into our bed at 4am every morning.  It's like our our personal alarm clock.  I love how cuddly you are and wrap up into my arm/chest and fall right back to sleep.  I lay awake for awhile and listen to you breathe.  I pray over you and I feel complete peace.  Then I kiss your forehead and back to dreams I go...

-- I love your "pretend" list you come up with at the grocery store.  Always including: popsicles, dino chicken nuggest, cheetos...

-- I love how the very rare times you get into trouble you always say, "but I said I love YOU!" It doesn't get you out of time out but it does make my heart laugh.

-- I love how when I hold you, you play with my hair and rub my arms. I will NEVER get tired of that!

--I love how you get so sad if the dream fairy doesn't visit you at night...

-- I love how nothing can put a smile on your face like chocolate milk. :)

-- I love how genuinely sweet and loving you are.  Everyone's your friend, everything is so beautiful in your eyes.  I pray it stays that way always~

All my love babyboy,

Mommy

Name..

We are so proud of our boy for learning how to write his name. He keeps telling us, "the K is hard". But, I think he is doing great!!! I love seeing how proud he is of himself. I am always proud of him, but I really love it when I can see him be proud of his own self as well. I want him to be confident in himself...to see himself the way Justin and I do. Yay, LUKE!