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Luke is going to be...

A cute little giraffe for Halloween.
Don't you love hand-me-downs?
I sure do.
Thanks to my sis Jenny (& Angi from last year, do you want that back? hehe).

We had a ward Halloween party last Friday. They set up a cute little backdrop & took all the kids pictures & then sent them to the parents. I don't know why I haven't even thought to take his pictures in his costume. I better get on it!

For the most part the costume was easy, it was the cute freckles on his face that were traumatizing. Happy 2nd Halloween baby boy!!!

Lily & Jake

Here are the pictures from my little photo shoot, that I did for my friend. I was very pleased with the result. I think we got some good ones. I had a lot of fun playing with & editing them.
My friend, Kat, got a very nice birthday present. A Canon Rebel EOS Ti DSLR camera. Ahhhhh...so while Matt & I are saving our pennies to get a nice DSLR, I used Kat's camera to get these shots. Thanks for letting me do this Kat. I had so much fun!

My absolute favorite of the bunch.

A day (or two) at the park with Luke's favorite (girl) friend.

My good friend asked me if I would take pictures of her two adorable kids. Of course I wanted to! I've been trying to get more and more practice as I am slowly learning all this photography stuff. The pictures turned out great!! I was so pleased. I will post some of them later. First I wanted to post a few darn cute ones I got during our little photo shoot of Luke & Lily.

Luke just loooves Lily these days. Her name is the only word he'll say with the "L" at the beginning. She bosses him around a little bit (she is the older one), "Luke push me on my bike" and he obeys her every word...it's actually quite funny & cute.

Here are some very fun pictures of both kiddo's & a look at their fun little personalities while interacting with one another.







Not sure what's going on here....but it looked so funny!



They are so cute together.










I think this one (below) is my absolute favorite!









I know this one looks a little weird, I just really liked his brown eyes. All the blue eyed kids stand out in photos, so I just wanted to point out Luke's big brown eyes.

the newest member of our family

Allow me to introduce...One of the last times we were home, Grandma Clark sent Luke home with this lovely dinosaur.
And just in the past month or so Luke has become obsessed with T.
It's actually pretty cute.
Thankfully, it hasn't gotten to the point where we have to take him everywhere with us.

T has to eat dinner with us, say prayers with us (Luke likes to fold his arms for him). When T gets a "bonk" Luke, mommy & daddy have to kiss T's head better. T likes to watch Elmo too. T sits in the high chair with a bib on & Luke feeds him & sometimes Luke gets a little frustrated when he won't chew & swallow.

Notice T's leash or harness?
Luke pulls T around & says, "Com'n T! Com'n!"

This is a fun age.

Loving Fall

Our good friends, Jeff & Sarah Nance, drove in Saturday night to stay with us on their way back to Milwaukee. We didn't get to spend a whole lot of time together, but it was still so great to see them!

After church on Sunday we all headed out to Kirtland to see the sites. It was a BEAUTIFUL day, but a tad chilly.

The missionaries there told us that President Monson had made a surprise visit the day before. We were a day late! I bet that was such a great experience for all the missionaries there.

After Historic Kirtland we drove up the road to see the temple.
I'm telling you we haven't had a day this gorgeous in quite a while! They couldn't have come at a better time.

We just love Kirtland.

These are the original colors of the doors & I have always loved them.

Jeff & Sarah

I got some cute little shap shots of Luke playing around.

After that, we said our good byes so they could make the long 7 hr trip home, Luke passed out in the back of the car so Matt & I decided to take a drive. The leaves are at the perfect changing point right now, with their colors so vibrant & beautiful. As we passed this location I told Matt to pull over so I could take a picture. So pretty!!!!

Monday Matt lucked out & got Columbus day off (because he was working at the Veterans Hospital) so we drove out to the zoo. We've taken Luke a few times now & he still doesn't seem to like it very much. He hates getting close to the animals.

This first picture, I just had to post. Since we've been having to put him in his coat, every time we buckle him in his car seat he freezes. He won't move a muscle. It is so funny. He'll stay like this for the whole car ride. It makes him look about 10lbs bigger than he really is.

Monday was not near as nice as Sunday, but at least it didn't rain on us much while we were there. It was darn cold though! (Thank goodness it's free on Monday's).

When we sat Luke down next to this monkey he made that terrified moan-scream, the one he made when he saw the gorilla. If you don't know what I'm talking about go here.
That's why he doesn't look very happy to be sitting next to it, even being on dad's lap.

This was about the only smile we got out of him.

Even though this picture is a tad blurry, it's still so funny. He was starting to smile for the picture & then realized that HUGE fish was swimming towards him (he doesn't understand that there is glass between him & the animals) & I caught this face. Hahah, he's so funny.

What? Oh, yeah I was there too. I'm just always the one taking the pictures, so Matt wanted the pictures of the trees & decided I should be in it too.

This was probably our last time going to the Cleveland Zoo!