Faith Baby

I just love Luke's new onesie! Check out http://www.faithbaby.com/ to see the different items they have. They make great gifts!

Last Day of School!

I can't believe Jack's first year of "BIG" school is over! He loved Kindergarten so much! At first, it was all about riding on the bus. He had been waiting to do that for years! Ms. Lisa, our bus driver, was so awesome! We hope she will be the bus driver next year, too! But, Jack found out very soon that he really loved school. His teacher, Mrs. LaMonte was so wonderful! Jack learned to read, write, to add & subtract, and so many other things! It was so much fun to watch him this year. We sure will miss her next year when Jack goes to 1st Grade! Wow! I can't believe that!

Beach!

We went to the beach the week of Mother's Day. Luke loved putting his toes in the sand! He wasn't sure about the pool, but he was just happy to watch Jack & Daddy in the pool! Our trip was great except that Jack had strep & we had our first ER visit away from home. He did get better after a couple of days, so he had 1 great day of beach, pool & go-karts!

6 Months Old!

I can't believe my baby Luke is 6 months old today! We never thought we could have another sweet baby, but we are so thankful that God had other plans! Luke is sitting up, trying his best to crawl, and he started saying "dada" & "hey" just this weekend! Of course, that made Bret very happy! Our family is now complete now that we have Luke. Jack just loves Luke so much! I know I'm very partial, but I do think that Jack is probably the best big brother in the world! I am so excited about what's to come with both of our sweet boys! Every month on the 24th, I take Luke's picture with his toy George. See how much he's grown since his 1 month picture?

Happy 1/2 birthday Luke! We all love you so much!!

Survivors

Jack's school is participating in the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. They asked the children to ask for donations & to send in pictures of family & friends that they would like to honor on their picture collage wall. It made me think about how cancer affects so many people, just in our family. In these pictures are me, my mom, my grandmother, Bret's mom, and Chloe. All of us (yes, even Chloe) are cancer survivors. We wanted Jack in the pictures, too! My grandmother & I are thyroid cancer survivors (I am actually a two-time survivor), my mom is a lymphoma survivor, and Bret's mom is a breast cancer survivor. My grandmother had thyroid cancer almost 40 years ago. My mom & I found out the same day that we both had cancer, just different cancers, in 2003. Bret's mom found out almost exactly a year later after Mom & I were diagnosed. Chloe just had a cancerous tumor removed this past February. So, in my family, there are 3 generations of cancer survivors. I think that's pretty cool! Not cool that we all had cancer, but very cool that we all survived! Very cool that Bret's mom survived too! Not cool that Bret's sister, Lisa was just diagnosed with breast cancer. She just had surgery & is about to start her treatments. Since we all have had 100% success beating our cancers, I know that Lisa will too! Just stop & think about how many people that you know of that are survivors, or currently going through treatment. Hopefully in my lifetime, a cure for cancer will be found so our children will never have to fight it!

Happy Easter!

We had a great Easter. The boys had so much fun!

Yam It Up!

Jack's school had a yam decorating contest. Jack made his yam into Perry the Platapus (from Phineas & Ferb). It turned out so cute & he was so proud of it! Bret & I were just happy it made it to school in one piece!