A picture catch up that didnt quite catch up...

BUT I am still working on it :)

What makes this post even better is that they are in NO order at all and 1/2 were taken by Abbey or one of my neices with Abbey's camera.  

My brother came home from Afghanistan.  This is his family running to find him as he got off of his plane.

Abbey's first haircut that wasn't done by me.

Abbey's room by Abbey

Abbey by one of the neices.

Next is a series of Christmas morning all on Abbey's camera.  I am a BAD photographer and did not get my camera out once that day. So glad I have these, some of which I really love :)

Unflattering, but adorable self portrait of Gracie

Miss Allie

Self portrait by Abbey

This one cracks me up.  I don't think my grandparents thought they were really taking pictures :)

Abbey going through her loot.

This goes back to September when Luke was born.  He is two weeks old here and I had to get family pictures.  We went to Fotofly in Draper and they were awesome!

Abbey enjoying some of her halloween candy. 

This is at the ward halloween party.  They had a parade and all the kids ended up on stage.  It apparently terrified Abbey.  Saddest. Minnie Mouse. Ever.  The shoes she is wearing she wore in our above family pictures and she has worn them EVERY day since and refers to them as her "pictor taken shoes."

From family pictures.  Luke gets these kisses from Abbey every single day.  She adores him and has never been jealous for even a second.  I couldn't ask for more :)

I love the bliss on her face.  She was so excited to have a real live baby in the house.

His arms in this picture remind me of the Target lady on SNL. Random I know.

More home of my brothers home coming.  I love the look on my nieces faces.  Emma (in blue) looks so intensely happy you can see that she could just fall apart at any minute. 

I have more of these to add and I will.  I don't think they have even seen them! Sorry Zabriskies!!! I love you :)

I couldn't love Savannah's (in pink, like I had to tell you) little face any more.

More to come....
<3

Seriously funny

Watch "Luke eating peas" on YouTube

Eager beaver

I don't even know to describe our life since Luke was born. It has been a crazy whirlwind of craziness. There is so much to say and no time to say it all. In the next month or so it will all change again. Things will calm down again and I will do a proper update. For now here is Luke. He is rad. Now I'm of f to easybake.

New phone practice

Meet Mr. Luke

He is so cute.  I am obsessed.  He has been so wonderfully sleepy.  Except when he is naked, which made newborn naked pictures a challenge.  I would dare say Luke was the most difficult newborn I have photographed.  We are talking screaming bloody murder when the littlest piece of clothing comes off.  Poor guy.  

So we broke out the big guns.  We had a giant heating blanket AND an industrial fan for white noise.  Worked like a charm :)

So much so that said fan is now a semi-permanent resident in our bedroom thank you very much.

On to our Lukey!

Feeling crafty

We finally got our family pictures hung just in time to have Lukey join our family and have to replace some of them :)  We did leave one empty for an updated picture.

We've been getting ready for Halloween, but really we want to just jump ahead to Christmas!  

We were remodeling the new house last year at Christmas time and so we didn't get out a single decoration, which for us, was tragic.  We are going to make up for it this year.

Even Abbey has been helping.  She decorated this little web all by herself (and by herself I mean Zach helped.)  She is very proud.

We replaced our front door and we just had to make a new wreath to do it justice.  I love it.  I got all the tutorials from pinterest.com

(are you on pinterest.com?  I'm obsessed.  So obsessed I will probably pin this.)

Welcome Mr. Luke

Luke joined our family 9/17 at 11:52 pm.  He weighs 7 lbs and is 19 inches.  He is darling and tiny and so sleepy!  We are so happy to have him healthy and home.

Here is video of when Abbey came to meet him.  It is by far the cutest thing I have or ever will see. 

Cousins

These little faces make my heart swoon!