Wildlife Refuge

After Christmas we went to Okla. for a few days. I wanted to take Luke out to the Wichita Wildlife Refuge to see if we could see any animals. I also wanted to take him up Mt. Scott and then on to Meers for lunch.

We stopped at the visitors center first and looked around. Luke had fun seeing all the animals....he didn't know they were stuffed!! Ha! We left and went to Mt. Scott....only for it to be closed!! We have no idea why it was close...the weather was nice and clear. I was sad! So, we went on and ate lunch at Meer's. If you've never been...GO!! It's yummy! After lunch, we decided to go to Holy City and look around. Luke got to see several prairie dogs along the way! Check out our day....

Luke and Papa climbed up to the Jesus statue

Luke and his Papa

Luke sitting on the Chapel steps.

Here's a funny story....Luke loves to sing. Every Sunday at church, he runs into the sanctuary to sing. We went in the doors of the chapel and Luke took off to the center isle. He ran up the isle--who cares that there were chains across, saying "keep out"--and gets on the pulpit and starts singing!!! He knew exactly where he was! Watch out...we might have a music minister on our hands!

Christmas

I know...I'm a little late! I planned on getting my blog up to date last week and only got 2 posts done.

We had such a fun Christmas this year with Luke. He really "got into" the whole idea of Santa. He calls Santa "Ro Ro" because he can't say Ho, Ho, Ho and in turns, thinks that is Santa's name. He woke up on Christmas and saw all of his wonderful gifts. His favorite things were the basketball goal and the guitar! Of course, after we got all of our gifts opened, we had to play with everything!! Here are a few pictures of Christmas morning at our house!

Luke's stocking...Yes, that is a Dora beanie....he loves Dora!Luke shooting baskets on his new goal!Playing a few tunes and singing for us!It's ELMO!!!Dr. WilsonLuke and Papa playing his Lucky Ducks game

Cookies for Santa

Luke loves helping....it doesn't matter if it's raking leaves, sweeping the floor, doing laundry or cooking! So...I thought he would enjoy making cookies for Santa. And...he did! I baked the cookies while he was taking a nap and then I let him decorate them. Here are a few pictures of Luke's decorating skills!

This is FUN!!

Which one should I use on this cookie?Spreading on some icing! Yum!

Gingerbread House/Lights

Lots of Updates
I can't believe how long it's been since I've blogged and shared pictures! I guess you can tell we've been busy! I'll try and make several posts instead of one HUGE one!
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Luke and I made a Gingerbread house. He thought it was lots of fun!! I think his favorite part was eating the candy. I think he would put a piece on, eat a piece, put a piece on, eat a piece....you get the idea!!

Not too bad for a 2 year old!

Now I can eat some!!

We also took Luke to see some Christmas lights. He sat in the front seat with Papa and just watched out the window (and hung out the window some!). He loved them. They also had some rides there. Luke rode the Carousel three times...once with Mommy, once with Mimi, and once with Papa. We also got him to ride the Dizzy Dragons (Tilt O'Whirl). We thought he would be a little scared...but, NO. He laughed so much on the ride. If the line wouldn't have been so long, we'd have rode again!

Breakfast with Santa

This past Saturday, a good friend and I hosted Breakfast with Santa for a few friends and their children. It was a lot of fun seeing the kiddos in their jammies and waiting for Santa to arrive. I'm not sure a lot of them realized what was going on...until Santa rang the doorbell! I was kinda worried about how Luke would do. As soon as Santa came in, Luke came running to me scared! He had me pick him up, but then he wanted to shake Santa's hand. After Santa visited and started pulling gifts out of his bag, Luke wasn't as scared. Actually, he was quite funny. He kept inching closer and closer to Santa, waiting for his name to be called. At one point, he even pointed at himself and said his name because he wanted Santa to call it. Once Santa called his name, he couldn't get to him fast enough as he came running around the couch! I'm so glad that Luke (and all of the kids--and their parents)enjoyed it. I'm ready for next years! Here are a few pictures that I took.

Some of my mom's yummy sugar cookies. Didn't she do an awesome job decorating them?

The food!!!

Luke and one of his girlfriends, Eden!

Here comes Santa Claus!

Luke and Eden paitiently waiting for their turn on Santa's lap!Luke finally getting his turn to sit on Santa's lap!Luke sitting with SantaOpening his present from SantaLuke checking out his Elmo gift from Santa

It was a little difficult to get all of the kids in the picture at once...and looking!
Another try...

Luke and Baby Reese....Luke's loves this little baby!

Luke giving Santa a hug bye!
This was afterwards in Cindy's backyard....I just loved the picture!!

And a BIG THANK YOU to my Dad for playing Santa!! I have the best parents ever!! Love you both!

Santa's Message to Luke

A friend sent a link for the following video. It was so cute, that I wanted to share it with other Mommy's!!
**Okay, so I can't figure out how to get the video here...so, click here to view. ** You will definately want to see it!!

If you would like to make one for your child/ren, go to http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/ .

Merry Christmas!!

A few pics...

I have been a big time bad blogger!! Here are a few pictures from last week.

Mommy and Luke at Holiday on the Hill for the Christmas tree lighting.

Luke and Mommy with Santa. Luke wouldn't sit by himself, but he didn't scream and cry! He shook Santa's hand and kept saying "Ro-Ro". If you ask Luke what Santa say's, he will tell you "Ro, Ro, Ro". He can't say Ho, Ho, Ho. Therefore, he thinks Santa is Ro-Ro. I think it's pretty darn cute! :) He gets so excited when he sees a picture of Santa or sees him on tv.

This one is kinda hard to see. If you look close, you can see Luke and I coming down the big slide! He loved it!! He even talked his Papa into taking him down it again!Luke was looking at the lollipop ornament...thinking..."hmm, maybe I should eat this!" Luke was "pretending to be asleep" and waiting on Santa! Luke loves listening to the Night Before Christmas "Ro-Ro"