Wedding Part 2

Yesterday Elissa and Trevor were sealed in the Newport Beach Temple. The day was perfect! The weather couldn't have been better and the reception was beautiful. The two of them were beaming the entire day and we are so happy for them! Prepare for picture overload!

In no particular order...

I guess I am a Coons... always with my camera :)

 Lucas and Grandpa Steve

 Post pictures with their diet cokes :)

 My cute in-laws at the reception

 Cutting the cake

 Skyping with dad at the reception

 Bruce girls... minus 1 (the newest addition, Elissa)

 Andy and I--we left Lucas at home while we enjoyed the party. Best decision ever!

 Acting silly

 Ashy and Zaners

 Family of 3 1/2

 James Bond

 Larsen Family

 Grandma and her kidlets

 Mr and Mrs Bruce!

 Shea love love loves Trevor. When he came out of the temple she burst into tears and said, "I wanted to marry Trevor" It was so sweet. She had a rough day as she kept thinking she was marrying him.

We love Elissa and are so happy she is in our family now! Now we get to just play with mommy while she is in town. Lucky us!

Wedding Festivities Part 1

To start the wedding off my mom threw a Rehearsal Dinner at Dave and Busters. We had fun meeting all the extended family, seeing all our family who was in town, eating yummy food, and playing all the games.

Pretty Centerpieces

Christmas 2011

We have been in California for the past week celebrating and having fun with my mom. My brother is getting married (tomorrow) so my mom got to come home. Here are just a few picture from the past week.

Straight off the plane (and a little jetlagged) SO happy to have an actual Diet Coke with crunchy ice and a styrofoam cup!

Mommy and me

The two lovebirds :)

Christmas Eve

Christmas morning was so much fun. We have loved having my mom home and spending so much time together. This pretty much sums up how Lucas feels about Christmas. He was jumping out of my arms and went running into the living room:

The Christmas Tree

The girls in their matching PJ's

So happy with his ramp!

We had a lovely morning and afternoon playing with all our new gadgets and toys. My mom got all the boys remote control cars and they were thrilled to play outside.

Now it's on to the wedding festivities!

Exhaustificated

This is the word my mom uses when she is exhausted. After this week I am officially exhaustificated.

Between loads of laundry, packing for 4 weeks of vacation, getting ready for Christmas, wrapping, and packing up Christmas... and getting all things squared away for the wedding... I am ready for vacation to begin.

Andy keeps asking me if I am excited for California. Of course I am excited, but my reply is always, "Once we are on the road I will be excited". I never realized how much time/energy is spent when you have to have Christmas elsewhere. Topple on top of that 4 weeks worth of outfits (don't worry, we will be doing wash), the wedding, and my mom coming home there is lots to do!

I just finished packing all our clothes, shoes, books, etc... Now all I need is to clean the house (tomorrow's chore) and pack up the last minute items--blankies, sound machine, toiletries, etc...

So even though I am exhaustificated I am getting excited for our trip!!

I haven't taken any pictures this week... but I made a Shutterfly book of Lucas' first year and found these gems. Love my boy!

Lucas' Birthday Dinner

Instead of having a birthday party this year we decided to go to dinner with family and cousins at Frank and Finnas--Lucas' favorite. We had so much fun eating chips and guacamole and hanging out.

Lucas my "Big Boy"--This was before we went to dinner. He is so big!

Family of 3 1/2

Cousins Owen and Lucas

They came out singing Happy Birthday. Lucas immediately put his hand over his ears

The he realized ice cream was involved and started smiling :)

Everyone! (Lucas is sitting next to me... too short so he isn't pictured)

Lucas got a new remote control car from his cousins. To say he loves it would be an understatement! He wanted to take it to bed so we compromised and it is laying next to his crib.

 Doesn't he look so big here?

Happy Birthday Lucas!!

23 Weeks

Here I am at 23 weeks. My first "bump" picture this pregnancy.

Things are going great. Baby girl is right on track and I am feeling great. I am only craving chocolate and pickles (not together) and I want diet coke all.day.long. I savor the "one" diet coke I get and look forward to it every afternoon.

Happy Birthday Lucas!

Today Lucas turned 2! I cannot believe my little baby is now 2. It seems like just yesterday he was came into our family and soon we will be welcoming number 2! :)

This morning when Lucas woke up Andy and I went into his room together singing, "Happy Birthday". He started jumping and knew something was up. We scooped him up and took him downstairs. Andy and I decided a month or so ago to buy Lucas this ride along train. Lucas love love loves "Choo-choo's". As soon as we were downstairs Lucas yelled, "CHOO CHOO!" wiggled out of our arms and went running.

Upon closer inspection he was a little shy, so he got on the floor to look at it from afar:

Not a few seconds later he took it for a spin!

He then opened some presents from my parents and grandparents. I think it is safe to say he loved his new fire engine.... Because for the rest of the morning, afternoon and night it was tied to his hip. Literally.

He also loved his blocks... I especially love this picture because you can see Andy's awesome beard. He is in the Nativity and has been growing it out for the past few weeks.

This morning I made homemade monkey bread (Lucas favorite) and we sang Happy Birthday. Lucas didn't want to blow out the candles, he wanted to hold them.

Notice Lucas' new "Choo choo" dining set and silverware. His new favorite.

After breakfast we got ready and took him to his first movie. We saw the Muppets and I Lucas loved it. We let him pick out his own treat and was in heaven and the huge bag of fruit snacks offered. He sat and watched while eating popcorn and fruit snacks. His favorite part was the singing and he would get up and dance. It was so cute! We lasted about an hour and 10 minutes. Pretty good. I'm sure if it was Winnie the Pooh or Toy Story we could have made it longer.

All in all we had a great day! Lucas is honestly one of the sweetest boys around. Tonight as I put him to bed he gave me a big bear hug where he squeezes really tight. Then he kissed me and fell asleep. Love that boy! I am sad my baby is not really a baby anymore, but I guess everyone grows up eventually!

Happy Birthday Sweet boy!