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!  

Prints for Luke's Nursery

No real photos yet, but here are some purchases and my own creations.

First we wanted to pay tribute to our favorite Ben Folds with some lyrics from one of our favorite songs.  It was a song he wrote for his son.  We just used the first line "Good morning son, I am a bird..."  (we decided the chorus "It sucks to grow up" was too depressing to be in a baby's room.)

(if you want the files to print yourself do email me!)

Next print is from Momo Prints on Etsy.com.   (Have I mentioned I heart Etsy? Well I do.)  

We printed the Young Women's theme for Abbey's room and wanted something to compliment it for Luke.   After much consideration I saw this print of D&C 4 and thought it was perfect...but in red.

The rest is just another work in progress, but I couldn't wait to share these!

Love

Works in progress

Since last pics we have added drawer and cabinet pulls and finished the backsplash.  I am in love!

In this space there was a fireplace and a useless tiny nook.  Zach took the fireplace out and put in these cabinets.  They are AMAZING! So much storage I could cry.  They still need some trim work and extra wood to connect the cabinets so there isn't a random floating one in the middle and under the sides will be faux drawer fronts that lift for dvd and cd storage.  And for the beautiful shelf arrangements I owe all my gratitude to my friend Rachel Peterson.  She is amazing.  I would have cluttered them all up, but she kept them simple.  Every time I look at them I feel cool.  Thanks Rach!

Happy Summer

We have been having a fun busy summer.  Here are a few shots from Bear Lake.  We were spoiled enough to spend 10 days straight there!  It was awesome!  It's been so beautiful with the water all the way.  I just look out and feel so nostalgic.  

What else have we been up to?  

-growing a baby :)

-lots of Bear lake

-fun afternoons at the local splash pad

-trying to stay cool

-playing in our brand new playhouse! (its way too hot outside so I made Zach set it up inside in the basement.)  Thanks Zabriskie cousins!

-working, working, working. blah.

-getting Abbeys room set up and decorated. She loves her big girl bed!

-Abbey is potty training

-Getting Luke's nursery ready

-choosing paint colors.  I honestly can't make up my mind. It's awful.

-Zach transferring to work from home. Yay for us!  We love it!

-Endless other house projects involving yard planning, building furniture, painting furniture, installing shelves.  

More pictures to share. I wish I could promise they would be posted, but we'll see.  It isn't often I sit to process pictures lately.  So, I'll try?  I know you are all just DYING to see more pictures of our little family :) 

We are so excited for baby Luke to come.  I have 8 more weeks to go and have been so excited and nervous and sore (is everyone's second pregnancy a million times worse?! Okay I'm exaggerating, but common.)  We are so grateful that he is on his way. It is overwhelming at times to think of all the years we waited and to just have another surprise blessing when we weren't sure we'd have any.  It is absolutely amazing.  

Abbey seems to be getting that a baby is on his way.  I still can't decide if she will be overjoyed with a baby in the house or completely jealous.  Probably a little of both.  

Abbey is amazing.  Perhaps I'm a little biased but I swear she is the cutest smartest funniest girl on the planet!  I feel so lucky to be her mom.  

A little about Abbey now

-She loves daddy more than anything on the planet.  

-She is super attached to her blanket and binkie

-adores M.ickey Mouse

-loves to run 

-is obsessed with her indepence.  "do it! do it!" means she thinks she can do it herself.  A lot of things she can. Some things she thinks she can, but cannot include tying her shoes, playing whatever song I'm playing on the piano, cutting up veggies, reaching the top shelves in the kitchen, and doing whatever project Zach is working on.  And when she realizes that she can't do it? A dramatic fit of tears (luckily short lived.)  Except for tying her shoes, she thinks she does it every time.  Too funny.

-loves watering the plants and herself

-loves the idea of the splash pad, but mostly watches the other kids and will splash her hands in the water.  

-hates sharing unless its her veggies

-is picky at home with food, but if she sees anyone other than mom or dad eating, will give it a try.

-loves the color blue and often requests wearing it, eating off of it, drinking out of it, or bathing in it.  Yes the color.

-she loves to identify who's is who's. ie. Abbey's cup, mommy's cup, daddy's cup.  Abbey's shirt, mommy's shirt, daddy's shirt. You get it.

-Has an ever growing vocab.  We love her little words and sentences! Here are some of our favorites.

Hod you = hold me

mimmie = minnie mouse

gain! gain! = do whatever amazingly fun thing you are doing with me again

bobby= her blanket

ginky=binkie

baby luke = all of her dolls

poop! dowa! = means she's about to go #2 on her dora panties or pull ups.

runacks = fruit snacks

ticker = sticker

mojuse = more juice

Abbeyjuse = watered down apple juice, gatorade, etc. 

daddyjuse = Coke zero :)

mok = milk

papajake = Grandpa Chris. he has a dog named Jake