First Day of Fall!!!

Today is the first day of Fall and right on time, we have our first cool-front of the year!!! Gosh...WHAT a welcome relief!!

It's about 70 degrees for the high, with lows in the high 50's. The boys and I opened the windows and aired-out the house. It feels SO nice to have some fresh air.

The boys were so happy to have the windows open that they pulled up their little stools right in front of the windows and just stood there for a couple of hours this afternoon. Noah was fascinated watching the tree in our neighbor's yard.

I had to snap a couple of pics of them enjoying the cooler weather. Let's hope it sticks around and summer is gone for the year!

Sharing Popsicles

I recently purchased some of the old-fashion Tupperware popsicle mold for Luke and boy have we had some fun. I love that I can make apple-juice pops and he thinks he's getting a treat.

Today I made some with Countrytime Lemonade and you would have thought I was mom-of-the-year from the way Luke reacted. I haven't heard so many, "Yes ma'am Mommy's" in a long time!

What was even nicer was when Luke shared his popsicles with Noah. He was so sweet and thoughtful, which are virtues we've been working on a LOT lately. Ah...I love full circle moments like this where I get to see the result of what we've been teaching!! It doesn't happen often, but when it does, it makes my day!

Sweet Messy Boy

Today I took Noah to my dear friend, Sharon Brannick, for his one year photos. What a FUN morning!

We started off wearing the same outfit Luke wore in his one year pics...a little cream Cuban style button-up shirt with khaki monkeys and linen khaki pants.

After several cute poses, we changed into blue jean shorts and a little white tank top for his birthday cake shots. Boy, did he have fun eating the frosting!! It took him a little while to get started, but once he realized what it was, he dug right in!

I won't have the pics until later in the weekend, but Sharon was nice enough to send me a sneak preview. I love her title...Sweet, Messy boy!

Check out http://www.brannickphotography.com/ for more of Sharon's pictures.

Shhhh....quiet time

It's rare around here, but once a day we do try to settle down for some quiet time.

Luke, gave up his nap long ago, but thanks to some favorite videos I can usually get him to lay down on his sleeping bag in the play room. Right now, his favorite is Curious George. (Thank you Ms. Sherry!)

I have no idea what I was thinking sneaking in to Noah's room while he was a sleep just to take his picture. True to his good-nature, when the camera flashed, the only sound he made was a gentle sigh.

Ahhh...quiet time.

Best Friends

Big Luke, Lil' Luke (who isn't so little anymore) and Noah boy.

The "Luke's" have been best friends since they were babies. This is when I realized that working from home while taking care of Luke wasn't easy and I needed someone to help watch him for part of the day.

I seriously praise God for my neighbor introducing me to Christy! She lives one neighborhood over and has always been there for us...whether that be watching the kids or driving us to the hospital....she loves my boys like they are her family...and we love her that way too!

We even have the same taste in clothing... as you can see from the pictures we LOVE Carter's!! The boys actually have several of the same outfits, so when they wore the same thing today we couldn't resist the opportunity to snap a few pics! Best lookin' boys in Texas if I do say so myself!!!

And....we're off!!

It's official! Our baby boy, Noah, is walking!! We knew it wouldn't be long...he's been so close for quite a while now. But, over the weekend he started taking 10+ steps, so I'm calling it and writing it in his baby book!

Wow...only 11 short months ago he was born and now he's up and running...literally. It's amazing to see him grow and hit all all the "first year" milestones. What joy he brings to our lives.

His first birthday is in less than a month. Makes me sappy and sentimental to think my "Little Love" is growing up so fast.

I'm so grateful that I've been blessed with my boys. So often I wonder how I got to be so lucky that God gave these beautiful boys to me.