catch up!

*Disclaimer: Normally my pictures would be spread out through the post but as you know it's been awhile since i did this and i forgot that my computer won't let me move my pictures once they're uploaded. I was too lazy to redo everything!

Luca's 2nd birthday party at Whistle Stop Park in Temple.

He had a great time hanging out with his girl friends!

Luca and Rachel made friends with a puppy.

Just what we'd been waiting for! Luca couldn't walk when we listed the house.

Having fun playing in the leaves at Nana and Papa's house.

Luca's family party, Nana made him a choo-choo cake with all his favorite snacks.

Luca loves his train hat and anything he can get dirty playing with!

We took Luca to the Halloween fair at church and he had a great time playing games with Papa and jumping in the jump houses.

Luca loves playing in the woods with his daddy and Papa.

Daddy "go bang bang"

We headed over to Calleo (I think) to see the Christmas lights.

We headed to Boston for Christmas and Luca had a great time with his cousins. He's still adjusting since we got home and asked to see Emmy and AJ this morning!

Papa Mike took us to see the Christmas parade in Lynn. Mike and I couldn't believe how scared Luca was by all the sirens but he rallied for the candy and afterwards he said he liked the parade!

Christmas morning...

The clear winner of Chrsitmas 2010 is the guitar. Luca loves his guitar and dances while he plays it. Now he runs to grab his guitar when he hears music so that he can play along.

We had a huge snowstorm while we were in Boston and the kids had a lot of fun playing in it!

The snow was almost as deep as Luca is tall.

Luca loves his cousins!

Luca styling with Emmy's pullup for his hat.

Helping Nana get Christmas snacks ready.

Luca directed Christmas and Nana and Papa's and helped everyone unwrap their presents.

RaRa gave us all TX flags (haha) in our stockings but Luca thought his belonged on the tree.

Nothing says Merry Christmas like ammo!

Luca's new keys that he calls RaRa's keys.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I can't believe how long it's been since I posted. The end of the year really got crazy for our family. Our house sold in October, Luca turned 2 and we moved to MO. I found the timing to be devine. Since Luca was born I had been praying that by the time he was 2 we would be in MO and one week after his 2nd birthday...we were. We squeezed in a birthday for Luca with his friends before we left. I didn't realize until later that he had all little girls at his party, what a lucky boy! My parents came down to help us with the move which was greatly appreciated. Luca got a second 2nd birthday party when we got to MO since Auntie RaRa couldn't come to the first one. Mike and I went back the first week in November to close on our house in TX.

So, we are officially Missourians! We are currently renting a home just down the road from nana and papa. The 1.5 minute commute is much better than the 13 hour one! Luca is having a great time and his first words each morning are usually for his nana and papa. We got here just in time for winter and have had a few snows already. But our biggest snow of the year so far happened when we were in Boston for Christmas and got 18+ inches in 2 days. Luca got to spend his 3rd Christmas with his cousins and Mike's family. It was a great time, a house with a 2yo, 4yo and 6yo can never be boring! We still hear a chorus of "no hit Emmy, no hit AJ, no hit Whitey (the dog)" every morning although it has now had the additions of mama, dada, nana, papa, rara and this morning...knife. I have to agree, not a good idea to hit knife.

Christmas was fun, Luca is just starting to understand. He loves to play with the nativity and can recognize Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Baby Jesus gets carried around quite a bit in addition to being rocked and fed, yesterday it was peanut butter. Luca also learned who Santa was and that Santa says "ho, ho, ho" but he thinks that Santa lives at the mall and anytime we go now he asks to "see santa". Seeing Santa was ok but sitting with Santa was not. Although he didn't cry, Luca's Santa picture has a look of panic on his face like a deer in the headlights. I'm still trying to locate it since we got home.

Speaking of deer in the headlights. Luca also got to take part in deer season this year. He learned that papa and daddy go to the woods to "bang bang deer". I think he will be helping before long!

Well, that's a quick catch-up to now. Things have felt so busy but I'm determined to get back to our blog with the start of a new year. We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and wish you and your families all the best in the new year!