Luke is 4!

This past week we celebrated Luke's 4th birthday. It is so hard for me to believe that my sweet little boy is now 4 years old. I must say the past four years have been priceless. For Luke's birthday, he told me as early as January that he wanted to have his party at Memaw's beach place. So we planned a small pool party at Emerald Isle. His actual birthday was on Wednesday, March 26th, but we celebrated it on Saturday, March 29th. Luke had his first soceer game that same Saturday morning. His team won 5 to 2 and Luke scored 2 goals for his team and assisted in another goal. He is my little David Beckham. After the game, Christian and Luke rushed down to Emerald Isle where Luke's party was set up. He wanted a Lightning McQueen cake which his daddy did a fabulous job on. I baked the cake and Christian decorated it. We had access to an indoor heated pool at mom's condo and the kids LOVED it. Luke invited his cousins; Jack, Allie, Josh, Phoebe and one of his friends Spencer to the party. Of course memaw, grandma and Poppop were there as well. We had a really good time! Around Luke's birthday, he loves for me to recount the days before having him, how he cried when he came out, how I use to snuggle w/ him when he was a baby, etc. As a walk down memory lane with him I cannot help but think about how much I truly love him and how thankful I am that Heavenly Father blessed me with such a sweet little boy. I love you Luke!

A Hoppy Easter

I must start out this post with saying..."How in the world do others have such elaborate and pretty blogs????" I am such a novice at this stuff! I seriously need tutoring on blogging! Ok.. now that I have vented... I can go on about our Easter! Easter 2008 was spent in Morehead City. We went down on Friday (Christian took the day off, yippy) after a very hectic packing and getting the house presentable for showings over the weekend while we were gone. On Saturday morning Sharon and Lisa helped Luke and Carman dye Easter eggs while I tried to get pictures. Then we took the kids to Shevon's Park. They love to go there and I must admit I do too. Then after naps, we had Ethan Guthrie over for an Easter Egg hunt. I was surprised how everyone was into the hunt and there were no big meltdowns b/c of someone feeling they had an inadequate supply of eggs! Overall that was a success. That night we ate a homemade soup that Sharon worked hard on all day. It was VERY yummy. As Carman would say "Yummy to Tummy". The next morning, Luke woke up first(no surprise there) and after finding Carman's basket (that is my tradition, where the Easter Bunny hides the baskets) he quickly found his. He was very excited about his basket full of surprises. After waking up Carman, we directed her towards her basket and she loved hers as well. Then we had to rush to get ready for church. But I must say.... they were some "purty youngins" on Sunday! Last week during our FHE, we tried to explain the reason that we celebrate Easter to Luke. He asked a lot of questions about why they put nails in Jesus' hands. Luke's reaction to that was "I am going to get those mean people so they cannot do that again". I liked that Luke was trying to defend Jesus. Overall, we had a fabulous Easter and enjoyed being together with family.