Making Valentine's

This year I decided it would be fun for us to send out Valentine's from Luke.  I've never really made cards before, but a friend of mine makes some lovely ones ( Alisha from Creations by Alisha Rose) so I thought we would try it and see how it went.  I found this little kit of Valentine type papers and stickers on Steals.com, and a trip to Michael's allowed us to get the rest of the goodies for the cards.

 He enjoyed playing with the glue sticks and coloring on the cards, but that was about all the attention span he had for this craft.  That's ok though, he can't love everything.  So the cards were mostly made by me, but it was so much fun to make them pretty!

Luke decided to take a break to fly Buzz Lightyear around and climb on Mommy.  Excuse my fresh out of bed look, we did this at like 6am one day.

He did color the back of each card and pick out a special Toy Story sticker for everyone though.

Here is the final result!

Luke's 2nd Birthday!

Luke turned 2 on January 25th.  It's seems so short and so fast that two years have passed.  I'm so blessed that I've gotten to spend almost every single minute of the two years with him.    For his Birthday we decided to head down to San Diego and invite all the grandparents to join us.  Nana & Grandpa, and Papa & Yia Yia were able to meet us down there.  Grandma wasn't able to join on this trip, but we will see her soon.

We spent a lot of time looking at airplanes and helicops, definitely the favorites of the little birthday boy.  San Diego had a lot to offer.  We went to the Air and Space Museum in Balboa Park, as well as the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier.  We had a blast at both locations.

We even took a little break for M&M's.

Our family photo off the edge of the Midway:

Then it was time to celebrate Luke's Birthday with ice cream cake and presents.  He's been very into Toy Story these last few months, so we kind of stuck with that theme.

It was nice to get away from Bakersfield for a little bit and celebrate with our little man.  It was probably our last big trip before Baby Jake is born as well.  Then we might have to take it easy for a few months, or just get him started on vacationing early!  Luckily, Luke has always been pretty good on vacations and likes seeing new places too.

Happy Birthday to our handsome little 2 year old Luke!

Belly photos

I am not one of those women who feels super cute when I'm pregnant and wants to take lots of pictures of the baby belly, but I know we need to have at least a few so that I can show Jake someday.  Luke loves to cuddle my belly all the time and he even talks to Baby Jake in there some of the time.

I was about 30 weeks pregnant in these shots.  Not too much longer till we get to cuddle and kiss him in the outside world!