Chloe is ONE!

Chloe is one. Thank you for your phone calls, cards, and gifts!! Here are some things we love about Chloe.

1) We love her smile and her dimples.

2) Her chubby cheeks and thighs.

3) Her pink, plastic, googly, glasses.

4) Her duck imitation. QUACK, QUACK!!

5) Her Miss American wave.

6) Her laugh and how she gives kisses.


Lisa gave Chloe Bam-Bam hair, and she doesn't like it!!





She has frosting all over her glasses, but she didn't care because all she could think was "CUPCAKE!!!"

She stuffed her mouth as full as she possibly could. A girl after my own heart.

Luke's 3rd Birthday

Luke turned 3 today. Thank you for all the phone calls, cards, and gifts! We have done a lot of celebrating. Yesterday he played his first round of miniature golf, and absolutely loved it. Then today we had a few of his friends over for cake. We made a fire truck cake, but it is pink. No matter how much red food coloring I put in it would not turn red. Oh well, he was just happy it was a ice cream cake with donut wheels.

Luke is also potty trained. He stays dry all day and night. I can't believe he has mastered it so quickly. Whenever has has to go #2 he looks at me and says, "You close door and I'll pee". He loves his privacy and he could sit all day long on his potty seat sometimes. He got a junior set of golf clubs for ditching the diapers. The day he got them all he could say over and over again was, "I love my golf club bag!"

Chloe is almost one. She has cut three teeth, which means she has been very cranky. We love her so much and look forward to celebrating her birthday!

Video Frenzy

I hope you think these videos are as funny as I do. The biggest news in our life lately is that Luke kicked his binky addiction. We had a couple of rough days, but we did it!!!

The Holidays

Thank you to everyone who let us come visit for the holidays.
We had a great time!

We were lucky enough to go to Will's baptism. Congratulations Will!

Chloe with her great-grandma Zwahlen!


Baking cookies Chrimtams Eve with Garrett and Jenny!

Chloe hanging out with her favorite Aunt Kelsey.

Christmas Morning: Chloe's Stash


Christmas Morning: Luke was elated to find a gun in his tent.
He knew Santa could not ignore his love for fire arms!


Christmas Day

Luke helped Kay blow out her Birthday candles on Christmas!

November

This is the season of traveling for our family. Here are the highlight of the last month.
Chloe is growing up so much. And literally she is growing. She already weighs 15 lbs 6 oz and she has fat rolls from her chin to her ankles.
Kyle shot 3 deer this hunting season. Two bucks and a doe. This is the bigger of the 2. Can you tell he was a little excited?
We went to Grandma and Grandpa Hobbs' for Thanksgiving. The WHOLE family was there. It was a blast. Luke could not get enough of his Grandma reading books to him and his cousins.

Luke and Chloe got to hang out with their great Grandma and Grandpa Hobbs.

Jennifer spent Thanksgiving Day with us. It was her first encouter with Chloe and I think she is hooked like everyone else. It was so great to see her and catch up.

It is finally truly cold here in Kansas City. Luke's cheeks and nose get so red in the cold weather. It cracks me up.

Halloween Fun

Thanks to Kyle's great idea Luke and Chloe were a cowboy and indian. Tiff let me borrow her pattern and Makenzie helped me cut out and sew the costumes. Seriously, I hate to brag, but they are so stinkin' cute. Luke had so much fun trick-or-treating and Chloe walked around with us the whole time. She was just happy as can be to be outside with all the camotion. Halloween night was in the high 60's, which made trick-or-treating perfect, and when we were done we just sat on our porch and Luke loved to hand out candy and see all the costumes.

Our kids are growing up!

Luke and Chloe are growing up so fast! Here are some cute pictures from the last month.

Look at those eyes! They are so blue.

Luke is sharing some tummy time with Chloe.

She doesn't hate it as much as Luke did.

I don't know what it is, but somehow we tend to all wear the same color. It happened to Kyle and I on our first date. Even the other day we both had on our Stanford shirts without realizing it and pretty much were exact twins. How embarassing!!!

Kyle shot this nice 8 point a few weeks ago. Luke went with him to take it to the butcher. When Luke saw the deer he kept saying "big deer dad" and when he got home he told me it was "HUGE!" He also calls Kyle's binoculars "hunting mirrors" and he came up with that on his own.

Makenzie and Bowen came to visit. We had a blast. Bowen just fit right in with Luke and Chloe.