Sweet cheeks

Since we were stuck inside pretty much all weekend with insanely cold temperatures I decided to pass a little time by taking some pictures of my littlest munchkin.  Don't worry it was nice and toasty inside, but  by insanely cold I mean -8 yesterday morning!  I'm pretty sure that was my first experience with sub zero temperatures and I have to admit I'm definitely missing Texas' winter right about now.  :)  Not a fan.  But I am a fan of this little girl.

Sibling love

I got this video of Langley laughing at Luke last night and just had to post it.  She LOVES her big brother.  Luke loves her back but also LOVES the attention he gets from her.  I get teary every time I watch it thinking about what great friends they are going to be.  :)  

Luke is 3!!

Three years ago today our little Luke was born and I'm not really sure how it's possible to go from this:

to this:

in what seems like a blink of an eye.  

We had a fun filled Toy Story party with friends that I'll post more about later but for now...Happy 3rd Birthday to our little buddy.  

Texas time

Because I can't seem to get caught up on here I thought I'd just go ahead and do a couple picture posts of what has gone on since Christmas:

We went to Texas and spent a fun filled week with The Merrick side of the fam on Lake Livingston...

Papa is fun

Nanny and Grandad made a special trip down from Ardmore

I got to hang out with my new "sister in love," and Michael got lots of brother time

Luke went fishing with Daddy 

and finally caught his first fish

Our sweet friends, Michelle and Paul, came to see us at the lake

Luke "played" his first 9 holes of golf

We got to see our Langley side too and had bunches of fun with them...

Billy and Luke had a movie date and watched Bolt in 3D.  

Gigi joined in on the fun too.  I'm so sad I didn't get any pictures of Gigi meeting Langley for the first time.  We loved getting to see her!  

Langley tried on some of Aunt Val's baby clothes

Our time with family always goes by way too fast, but I felt like we packed a lot of fun in this trip.  So grateful for such wonderful families.  

Our Michigan Christmas

So it's been quite a while since I got on here to blog but it's not for a lack of pictures or activity.  We had a wonderful Christmas and New Years and are finally getting back in to the swing of things around here.

We spent Christmas here in Grand Rapids with our little family of four since Michael had to work.  I have to admit I was a bit sad leading up to it about not being with our extended family, but it really was special to start some of our own family traditions this year.

 We made cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve and both little helpers seemed to enjoy it. 

 We went to Christmas Eve service at church and attempted a picture before. This is the best we got. 

Christmas morning Luke was up around 5:00 but we convinced him to go back to sleep so Santa had a little bit more time to come to our house.  ;)

We got to see what Santa brought first thing. As you can see Luke was pretty excited!

Then we took a break to have "Happy Birthday Jesus" cinnamon rolls.

And the rest of the day was spent opening and playing with fun presents and of course Skyping with both of our families!  Thank the good Lord for Skype!

Langley loved her first American Girl doll from Nana and Papa who looks strikingly similar to her I might add,

And Luke loved it all! He was so overwhelmed we had to take a break for a while so he could play with each thing as he opened.  Pretty safe to say we were all spoiled by our families.

Michael was on call Christmas night but thankfully didn't get called in until pretty late which gave us plenty of special time as a family.  So thankful for our little and big (extended) family and most thankful for Jesus - Emanuel.  

Merry Christmas

A Langley Grace update

Sweet little miss is already 4 months old! Hard to believe, and for the sake of documentation:

She's in the 90th percentile for height (25 1/2 in) and 75th for weight (14lbs 10oz).  Big and healthy baby girl!  :)

 

 She rolled from her tummy to her back right before the 4 month mark.  This was the official first roll, and she was not too excited about it but I was happy I got it on camera.  Please excuse the dorky commentary. 

She loves: her big brother....

smiling ("smiling's her favorite") and squealing.

standing up on your legs, and sleeping.  I don't know how we got so lucky but this child is a champion sleeper, and for that I am so grateful.  She generally goes down for the night around 8:30 or 9:00 until 6:30 or so, much better than my oldest child did.   We love you Langley Grace and are so glad you are in our family.