Lucas is 1

 My sweet baby is ONE!
I can't believe it!
We sure had a fun time celebrating though!

Lucky Lucas had 2 parties. We had a birthday party for my cute niece Kylee, who was born one week before Lucas, and we did a party then before my parents went out of town.

We had a one year trivia, and a crawling contest... 

 Lucas has been a a funny crawler from the beginning. He started using his head, then went to an army crawl.. Where he still does it today if he is in a big enough hurry. So we had the adults do an army crawl race. It was great! 

  First Picture of Lucas on his 1st birthday!

I hope he had a fun day! It was a busy fun day!

   

   The night before I was going through all of the pictures of Lucas and decided we would do a picture month by month game. So I had 4 pictures per month of Lucas, I handed them out to everyone and they had to guess how old he was in the picture, and put it under the month they thought. It was fun.

(I didn't get a final picture of the wall, but this is close to done.)

Then we had Banana spits, because they include most of Lucas' favorite things,

Bananas & Blueberries. 

And what kid doesn't like ice cream with all the toppings?

   

 He didn't really enjoy the singing process.. it kind of scared him. 

 He got over it fast, and quickly enjoyed dessert.

 

  

 And it wouldn't be a complete birthday with out some sort of cake.

 

  

We sure do love our Lucas boy! He has been a fun and wonderful part of our family! He has made it more complete. I am so excited for all the many more years we have to get to know him and love him more!

Happy Birthday LUCAS!!

Rise & Shout!!

  So last night we got tickets to the BYU game from one of Andrew's co-workers. It started late (8:15 pm!), and even though that is our kids' bedtime, we decided to take them. So after bundling them up in about 6 layers each, then putting on our coats, we headed to the game!

 

It was super fun, for the first half Kennedy could not keep her eyes off the field, "Mommy Look! Fupah, Fupah!" (football). It was cute, she really was paying attention, she would say, "ready, set, GO!!" when they would hike the ball and clap when everyone around her clapped. She loved when the announcer would say, "That's another Cougar.." and everyone would yell "FIRST DOWN!" She loved yelling "TOUCHDOWN" with her arms in the air, singing the fight song, the fun environment, peoples balloons, the big lights, and especially the cheerleaders and drill team. "Dance Mommy Dance!!"

Lucas also enjoyed the game from what we could tell, haha. He does good at football games. This was his 1st BYU game but he has been to plenty Viewmont ones!

Well, during half time Kennedy got pretty tired. She loved watching the marching band but fell asleep in my arms after just a few minutes (which is really rare for her! She is such a light sleeper and won't sleep in your arms).
Lucas had also fallen asleep so we had two sleeping babies.

So just before the 3rd & 4th quarter we decided to head out. As we walked out we saw Elder Nelson and his escort leaving the stadium! I was freaking out! Then once we got out of the gates we saw President Uchdorf being escorted into HIS car! Once again I was freaking out! If I hadn't been holding a sleeping baby I would have run up and tried to say Hi, but we got a good wave instead!

It was good timing because I loved the talks they gave this last conference, and have been reflecting on what a good conference it was, so to see any of the Apostles outside of conference was really fun! We are so blessed to have them, and to live in Utah to have these fun experiences where we can get the chance to see them at different events like the BYU game :) (I mean, let's be realistic, you only see apostles at special places, right? General Conference, the Temple, BYU games.. ;)
 

Although the BYU game was fun, I would say just those few seconds that we got to see them was the highlight of the night!