Hogle Zoo

Ξ October 14th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ General |

We’ve been wanting to take Mister to the Utah Hogle Zoo for awhile, but we’ve been so busy it hadn’t worked out.  Finally, we found a Saturday that we didn’t have anything planned (well, besides the football game but it didn’t start til 8 ;) ).  We invited Grandma to come with us.  Grandpa had to work.  Hogle Zoo has SO many babies right now.  Zuri, is the baby elephant.  There are three baby tigers, a baby howler monkey, a baby giraffe, a baby crocodile, and another baby black-footed cat.  Mister loved all the animals and was very well behaved.  Zuri was adorable.  She is very clumsy still and it was fun to watch her play.  Glad we got up there before it got too cold!

Zuri and her mom



baby tiger
Roaaar

My boys


 

Picking Pumpkins

Ξ October 14th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ General |

My younger brother did a garden at my parents house.  They got quited a few pumpkins this year.  They let us come over and each pick one out.  Mister has been able to watch them grow and got to pick out one just for himself.  Once we carve them we’ll post more pics. 

Mister picking out his pumpkin
daddy cutting Mister's pumpkin
mommy's pumpkin
daddy's pumpkin


 

September

Ξ October 14th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ General |

Well, September brought around my birthday.  Some days I feel my age (or older), other days I feel so young.  It was just another year, but I did get to eat out alot.  My mom took me to our annual Los Hermanos lunch.  My dad took me to our annual bday breakfast.  And Mike took me (and mister) to Ruby River.  Yum yum!  The fall colors were really vibrant this year and we went up to Cascade Springs in Provo Canyon to see the colors.  It was beautiful.  Miss L turned 12.  Crazy!!!  She had a fun Chocolate bday party.  And of course, football season has come!  Hooray!

loved his first ride in the shopping cart car
Mister loved my guac

Mister was a "neutral" fan. OU shirt-BYU pants
pirate island restaurant
mohawk mike

Cascade Springs


 

August

Ξ October 14th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ General |

August flew by.  We were very busy.  We got our new house so we were busy packing, moving, and unpacking.  We did a few things.  Mike had his work summer bbq.  They played bingo, had a magician, and had some yummy bbq pork.  Mister learned to go down the slide by himself, so we invited the Shaw’s to come to the park with us.  All in all it was an exhausting but fun month. 

my sweet boy!
using his spoon
Miss L got to participate in the magic show

eating potato salad at daddy's work bbq
getting to play together

eating his first own ice cream cone
playing at Brideval Falls
All by himself

Meem climbed up a tree.
boo
mommy loves to go with him

loves the slides
Eating his first hamburger
Sweet little Miss H


 

Mister’s 1 year pics

Ξ August 28th, 2009 | → 4 Comments | ∇ General |

We finally got our little boy’s 1 year pictures done.  They turned out pretty good.  He didn’t want to cooperate for the most part, so we had to take a break and come back to get the rest done.  But luckily he’s such a cute boy that we still got some fun ones. 




 

 

 

Home Sweet Home

Ξ August 28th, 2009 | → 4 Comments | ∇ General |

We are now home owners.  We bought a town home in Orem and are loving having our own space . We’ve been here for 2 weeks but are still slowly getting things put together.  So, sorry these aren’t great pics, but I’ll try and get more up when we get things situated to how we want it!

entry way
1/2 bath

kitchen
dining (curtains came down!)
back yard

downstairs tv room
play area under stairs
downstairs bed

master bed
Gav's room becoming blue

 

Mini Photo Session giveaway

Ξ August 11th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ General |

Last year we got some pics done by Triana Ord.  She did a great job capturing the joy and anticipation of having our little man. She is having a give-away for 2 mini session.  Sign up to win here, http://ordfamily.sk8erord.com . 

 

OOOOOOklahoma

Ξ August 3rd, 2009 | → 1 Comments | ∇ General |

The end of July we had the opportunity to go to visit Mike’s parents and brothers in Oklahoma.  We were there for 8 days and it was great for Gavin to be able to warm up to Grams and Papa.  When they come to Utah Gavin usually just wants to get down and play with his cousins so we were so happy he warmed up and loved playing with his Grandparents.  We did a lot of fun things and ate lots of good food (Braums, Zio’s, Mazzios, papa made steaks and roast too).  We got to go see Uncle Brent race his car at Hallett, go to the  Crystal Bridge Botanical Gardens, the zoo and we got to swim in their pool.  Gavin is a little water baby!  It was a great trip and we hope to see Grams and Papa again soon!

going to watch the cars
cute stinker
loved the sandbox
ate the dirt
watching uncle brent

splash splash

one, two, three

first lemon
uncle matt
me and grams

brent getting ready to drive
car dying
getting towed
waiting for papa and brent

little driver
you can finally see my teeth
love the "push here" sticker
mister and unka punka

all the Luke men
give five
mom and son playing bust a move
so cute when he sleeps with bum in air
papa keeping the rain off
so sweet!!!

first haircut attempt
"smelling" the flowers

brent's "ugly" puppy
first snow cone
Roaaarrrrr
my monkey looking at the monkies
in the ambulence

driving the fire truck
Mike's past coworker

kitty kat
Donny and Donna and their 3 boys

 

 

our baby boy is one years old

Ξ July 31st, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ General |

Can you believe our little man is 1??  This last year has FLOWN by.  We love having him in our family!  He is such a sweet little boy and really good natured.  At his one year appt he weighed 21 lbs 8 oz (25%) and was 32 1/4 inches (97%).  So he’s still long and skinny.  For his first party we had a Music theme.  He loves music of every kind.  He loves to dance.  Mike and I had our first go at making birthday cakes with Annette’s and Emily’s help.  Grandma helped us with the decoractions.  It was a lot of fun!  We love you little boy and are so glad you are in our family!!!!!!




 

 

Happy 4th of July

Ξ July 26th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ General |

The 4th was a lot of fun.  Mister got to experience seeing fireworks for the first time.  He was unsure at first but warmed up and clapped for more.  We got to go to some of the parade, went for a hike, bbq’d and watched the stadium fireworks from the Provo high football field.  All in all it was a good day!








 

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About

    US

    We met at a party at a mutual friend's house in January of 2000 and were married a year later in February of 2001. We just had our first child in July and love being parents. He is the cutest kid ever!!

     

Mike

    Mike grew up in OK for most his life. He served a mission in Brazil (Santa Catarina), then moved to Utah in 1999. Mike is currently working at NovaRad as a Support Engineer.

    I play Volleyball as often as my schedule allows.

    I am attending the University of Phoenix online for my degree

     

Nicole

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    Nicole was born in Arizona. She moved to Utah when she was two and has been here ever since. She is currently working at Teamworks. Raising her first child. Loves to sing, read and play volleyball (even if i'm not that good). I love hanging out with family and friends.

     

Gavin

    Arrived July 2008!!

    Gavin arrived in July. He's cute, so he must take after his mommy, but he looks like his daddy.

     

Twitch

    Twitch is our "other" child. He lives at his mother's house (which also happens to be at Nicole's parent's house. Twitch was born on Mike's birthday in 2002. He loves to swing and get into water whenever he can..