PlaYinG iN thE RAiN...

It's been raining pretty heavily all day thanks to hurricane weather! Luke has been itching to play outside since we went to the store earlier this afternoon and picked up some laundry detergent. He didn't think it was very cool that I rushed us into the car and the store with an umbrella over our heads instead of hanging out in the rain. So, when Jake came home from school Luke ran outside to "get ALL wet!!"... this boy loves getting wet. He takes any chance he gets to drench himself. He had lots of fun running around out there! We still haven't put up a rain gutter on the house, so the rain just rushes off the roof... Luke found out that standing underneath is the perfect spot for a kid to get soaking wet... even when the rain slows down to a drizzle.
Aaa! so fun.
Trying to catch the big drips coming off the roof...

Then trying to catch them in his mouth... haha

My cute, soaked little boy.... he finally agreed to come inside once the rain stopped.

19 days

until the 2008 Beijing summer Olympics start!I'm an Olympics nerd... LOVE watching them. My favorite sport has always been gymnastics. When I was little I thought Shannon Miller was the coolest person that ever lived.

I'd pretend I was Shannon, Kim Zmeskal, Tatiana Gutsu, or Svetlana Boginskaya when I'd tumble. Yeah, so nerdy. Anyway, I'm counting down the days until the games begin again. Here's the lineup for women's gymnastics in Beijing... Bela Karolyi says this year's team is the best ever. Can't wait!

Ok Baby,

we're ready for you to come! Well, almost ready. Here are some pictures of baby girl's room. We haven't decided on her name yet so baby girl will have to do for now! Last month we had crown molding put up throughout the house and bead board in baby's room. It's my favorite room now :) If you can't tell, I'm loving brown and pink... and polka dots. Putting everything together has been a fun project!

Here's her room!...

A couple more bedding shots...

Here's my bear I've had since I was a baby (Alexander), and we'll put a picture of baby in that frame when she gets here! Found the frame at hobby lobby the other day in super bright colors so I painted it to match...

Yeah for a changing table! We changed Luke all over our house since we didn't have one with him and it seemed like I was constantly picking up diapers, wipes, and stuff everywhere. I think it will be easier having changing things in one place. Oh, and I saw some cute collages at http://www.petitcollage.com/ and decided to copy and make one. It's the picture above the changing table. So easy and fun to make... and so cheap when you're the one making it.

These next two pics are for my mom... she claimed it didn't look like I had a belly in the last few posts. Well, mom... I definitely have a belly. Here ya go. I don't know how it's going to get bigger since it feels like there is NO more room for her to grow in there. Luckily I have tons of things to keep me busy until her expected arrival so I won't have much time to think about my largeness. Haha.

The torpedo belly...

Another house update... We made some changes to Luke's room a while ago, but I never got around to posting about it. Here's our little guy's big boy room...

I made this sign like over a year ago with my sis-in-laws and finally put it up above Luke's closet. I'm such a procrastinator when it comes to putting up pictures and stuff!

Well, I think that's it as far as home improvement goes. Now we've made all the changes that we'll make while living here. I'm off to see what my guys are doing... bye!

Happy 4th!

Happy 4th of July! We had a fun day... went for a little while to our ward's 4th of July pancake breakfast, had to go on a search for new cell phones since Jake lost his and mine only works half the time (found some cheapo's at Target... woo hoo!), and went to see the fireworks last night at Sea World. It was a good fireworks show! The loud noises startled Luke at first... he screamed like he was surprised at the first few fireworks that went off... and then he loved it. Actually, he was mad when it was all over that there weren't more coming. Haha.
Pictures....
There were so many people at Sea World!!!... nowhere left for us to sit, so Jake held Luke the whole time...

On the 3rd, we decided to be spontaneous and went to the circus! Ringling Brothers is in town for a few days. I hadn't been to the circus since I was little, so I wanted to go! We went early so we could see the animals and the performers before the show started. You can get so much closer to them then you can at the zoo, or anywhere else really! We got to see a bunch of the elephants getting ready for the show, lots of tigers, zebras, and horses. It was a fun night... it's amazing what people can do... and what they can train animals to do! Whenever all the clowns and people would come out to do their stuff, Luke would ask "where the animals go?" They were his favorite part!

Jake and Luke before the show...

Cutie Elephants!

Cheesy couple...

The cotton candy came with a big goofy circus hat... Luke thought he was so funny :)