Lucas & Max...

This past week we got to watch Max Parry for a couple of hours. It was so much fun to have him. He'll turn one in June. He's the son of Jordan and Ashlee Parry. Ashlee is actually Jed's first cousin. They live in Saratoga Springs. We love having them down here. He's the closest cousin Lucas has right now. We hope one day he has some more cousins!!
On Sunday after General Conference we decided to take Lucas on his first actual walk with out a stroller. He did pretty well. He pushed his little walker around the block. Notice his cute little sunglasses. He loves to wear them. He would get side tracked a lot of the time, but it was still fun to see him do it and he thought he was pretty big!

Prom...

This is my sister "Nappy" and her date "Spud"!!!
(aka Jessica & Alex)

New Home...

Lynsee Germaine(cousin), Jessica, The Bride, Shara & Katie

Look who caught the garter!!

What a week this has turned into. We've been looking at building a new home. Last Saturday after we got back from Tawnya and Landon's Holden reception, we went looking at another subdivision. This one is in Spanish Fork. We really like them and by the time we left we had signed papers to build. Of course that is all dependent on what the loan guy has to say! We are extremely excited though. We are completely out of room in the one we are in. We hope everything works out.
Lucas has been a little under the weather lately. We can't get him to shake this cold that he has. I've tried every medication under the sun. Hopefully he'll start to feel better soon. He's not always his happy self when he's sick. He's been so healthy for the last month that I almost forgot what it was like when he's sick!

Gangsta Lucas...

Playing in his box...best toy ever!

Happy Birthday to my stressed out mom!

Dad relaxing after the wedding!

Aaron, Shara & Lucas

Lucas...cute as always!!

What a weekend...

The Kesler's...


Grandma Clouse, Aunt Jeanie & Lucas


Waiting for our turn for pictures


Waiting for Landon to join them as the third amigo!

Landon and Tawnya were married on Saturday. It turned out to be great weather at the temple! We were worried and bought umbrella's, but didn't have to use them!! :) The wedding was very nice. We are extremely happy for them. The reception was a lot of fun. It did start hailing right before the reception, but stopped so that everyone could come! It was great to see and hang out with family.

Well...it's been a few days, so I thought I would do a little update on our lives. Last Friday my sister went through the temple. It was a very nice. She was able to attend a wedding the next day for Landon's sister. She has only 10 days left for her own wedding. It's coming awfully quick. On Saturday we went to the new Joseph Smith movie in Salt Lake. It was incredible. If you go, you must take a handful of tissues. All the movies that they have showed have been good, but this one was my favorite. Lucas was even good for the most part!! On our way back, we stopped to look at homes. We found a little subdivision here in Provo that has some new homes going in. We really liked them. We are going to look around for others too.
I had to teach Young Women's on Sunday. It was the first time I've had to teach in a long time. Being the secretary, you don't have to teach very often. We also had our family home evening that night with another couple and Tawnya and Landon. Jed gave an excellent lesson. Our friends, Chad and Alicia, had their little boy, Carter about a week and a half ago. He's has tons of black hair and is quite adorable.
I started my new job and I'm really liking it. It's very convienent to be working at home. Lucas is so much fun to be home with. He's really good at tearing the house apart!

Cowboy Up...

I don't really have a lot to write about today, but here is a couple pictures of our cute little cowboy. He loves that little horse he's on. He rocks sideways as it sings. My parents & my sister Nappy (Jessica) came today. We'll be going to the temple in a couple of hours.

Home, Home, Home...

So today is the first day in 6 1/2 years that I have not be employed at Utah Valley State College. Crazy! I started as a workstudy in August of 1999 in the Human Resources department and worked my way up into a full time employee. I have loved working at the college. It has been the best experience. I have made more friends there then I ever dreamed possible. I don't think there is any job better than the one I just left. Working for the Biology Department & the School of Science and Health was the best!! I am going to miss it tremendously, but...
the good out way the bad, and therefore I am thrilled about being a stay-at-home mom for Lucas. He is so much fun and I'm looking forward to spending every minute with him. He's walking a few steps at a time, and I think he's going to start running any minute. He already marches is you ask him to.
The Physical Therapist came a couple of days ago and will come again in a couple of weeks. She was thrilled to hear that he had started taking steps. The Speech Therapist came this morning and taught us about self talk and parallel talk. She'll come again in a month. We'll start going to play groups at the end of this month. The PEEP program sponsors them and while we are there they work on all the different motor skills, speech, etc. I love having programs like this...especially when they are free!!
My parents are coming tomorrow so that we can all attend the temple with Tawnya. She'll be going through for the first time in Mt. Timpanogos. The wedding is coming awfully fast. Only a couple of more weeks.

Gone Fishin'

This past weekend we went to St. George to visit the Valentine's. We had a great time. Jed and his dad went fishing on Saturday. He caught 3 rainbow trout. The biggest one he caught while I was watching, so I must have been good luck!! It was 17 inches long. We'll they were fishing, we went and visited the St. George Parade of Homes. There were some very fancy homes. On Sunday, after we got home, Jed cooked his fish. I tried a little piece, but I'm still not a huge fan. Jed really liked them. I was surprised that it didn't make the house stink like fish. Lucas had a great time spending time with is grandpa & grandma Valentine.

Tomorrow is my last day of work. I have very mixed feelings. I'm so excited to be able to stay home with Lucas, but I'm going to miss my job. I work with some incredible people. They threw me a going away party today, and of course I cried. Hopefully I'll do better tomorrow, but I'm not counting on it.

Lucas is almost walking. The day care said the he walked across the room, but I prefer not to believe them until he does it for me!! He has also learned to put on his own hat (which is much to big).

Lucas and his Dad!
















Standing on his head

It's Official...

I will be a stay-at-home mom starting on March 2nd! I am so happy. We have been able to work out everything so that I can be home with Lucas. I will be working from home for the Pearson Publishing Company. I am extremely sad to be leaving my current job, but look forward to spending more time with Lucas.
This past weekend, Jed and I went on a little "Valentine's" trip to Salt Lake. My mom watched Lucas for us. We stayed at the Little America, which was very nice. We haven't done something like that in a long time. We went to dinner and walked around the Gateway. We both developed a strong addiction to Steamer's from Starbucks! After hearing how much my sister Shara loves them, we decided to try one. They are delicious!
Jed was put in on Sunday as the 2nd Counselor in the Sunday School Presidency. He's excited about it. He's been off the hook for so long, that I'm excited for him to have a calling!!!

Watching It's a Big World with Snook on KBYU.

His new hair cut!

Sick Little Boy...

Too Cute!

What a week we have had. Lucas has been sick with an ear infection and RSV. I took him to Dr. Later on Thursday and they put him on some antibiotics. That seemed to help everything. He was instantly better! I felt so bad for him. He had a fever of 102 and constant runny nose. Dr. Later even said he looked awful. Considering how many times we have taken him to the doctor and there is nothing wrong, that was great to hear!

Today was his first day back at day care. He's been gone from it for a week. Hopefully they don't call me today and say that he's sick!!

Our weekend was pretty much spent staying home since we didn't want to take Lucas out. We did watch the Super Bowl, but were very disappointed in the ending. Oh well!

Haircut...

Lucas had is first major haircut this weekend. Jed went crazy with the clippers and now we call him our little cancer patient. His hair is sooooo short. I will have to take a picture of him and post it for all of you to see. I just wanted him to have a trim, but oh well! He's still cute as ever. I brought him to work with me today because he keeps throwing up at day care. I'm not sure what's going on. I'm going to have them start writing down everything he eats. I think he might be allergic to something that they are feeding him. We're sort of at a loss for ideas. Lucas qualified for a program here in Provo called PEEP. They will send a Speech Therapist and a Physical Therapist once a month to work with him. It's nice to have programs like this. We had a lady named Marianne from Welcome Baby come for his first year. It's amazing all the programs that want to help when you have a premie baby.
You'll all be happy to know that Jed applied for graduation this week. I am extremely happy about it! He'll be glad when the semester is over. We've decided that our house is getting extremely small these days. Homes are so expensive, so we are thinking about building one. Maybe within the year! Of course it's all still talk.