long overdue..

Luke keeps on making us laugh and smile daily. He is full of energy and keeps us on our toes! But we can't even imagine our lives without him. It almost seems like he's been a part of our family since he was born.  Here are  pictures of some random things we have done in the last couple of months.  ( they are not in order)

in his box going to opa ( ethiopia) 

having fun at grandma's house 

                                     

doing one of his favorite things, play dough 

                               

playing with he valentines gift from grandma hallelujah ( that's what he calls grandma kalkman) 

being happy as always 

with one of his favorite people 

Diepenhorst  side cousins 

have doughnuts with grandpa doughnut ( thats what he calls grandpa diepenhorst by the way grandpa never eats doughnuts) 

At wild chef for Grandpa Kalkman's birthday and luke started screaming when he saw the guy throwing rice. 

In his pjs from Uncle James and Aunt Beth

Grandpa and Grandma's 50th anniversary at Clearbrook in Saugatuck 

he loves sledding with hunter 

Helping lauren blow out the candles on her 16th birthday 

Going to be a sad day when it melts 

little people 

tub time 

Christmas Part I

Today we got up early (for me anyways) and headed out to Prince Tree Farms. It was way out in South Olive and by the time we got there I thought we had been lost 2 or 3 times. As usual Luke talked the whole car ride, but it was mostly about snowmen, not the Christmas tree. When we got to the tree farm there was so many people! Everyone was parked alongside the road, and it was looking like we weren't the only people who thought today was a perfect day to get a tree. We walked on back and started looking for the tree. Luke fell down a few times because he refused to be carried, and I managed to lose his mitten attempting to carry him. We found a few trees but Mom shot them down, and by the time we found a good tree that more then one of us liked it had been two hours. Luke had snot running down his nose and was really crabby. So Dad got to work and started cutting our tree down. Mom was taking pictures and managed to move right where the tree was falling as it fell, and it didn't hit her cause she ducked but man I was laughing so hard. We had finally found our tree and Luke and Dad were going to carry it out back to the car.

Later today we got the tree in the house and made chex mix, which is tradition around here. Luke kept a eye on everything. Between making sure he got a piece of cereal when it was taken out the oven to be stirred to insisting on going outside to watch Dad cut a few branches of the tree and carry it in the house. It was a really good start to the Christmas holiday around here and hopefully a good start to Luke's first Christmas!

our photogenic family

Winter is Here!

We have had some snow off in on never really gathering on the ground, and Luke would get all excited when did snow a little bit. And this week the snow came and stayed for a bit! We bundled Luke up in his snow gear and headed out side. And he loved it! Between shoveling and throwing snowballs or playing with Hunter and the neighbor kids, Luke had a ton of fun!