Boys!

Luke is very much the typical boy! He loves to be outside, playing with any ball, getting dirty.... Playing guns and monsters is the new thing now... Not sure how I feel about that?!?! But love watching him grow and learn! His imagination is growing too! Especially when Mark is gone we try and occupy ourselves outside of the house in the mornings. Yay for fun play dates and friends! Jake likes it too! Here are a few pics of our adventures! Sea Center, park, church, creek, etc..

Loooong Time!!

So I haven't blogged in like 2 years and a whole lot has happened since then. Luke Jagger is now 2.5 and new Jake Logan was born on June 5, 2012. I am now staying home with both boys and loving it!! It definately is hard some days and different but perfect for our family right now! Jake is now 3 months old and is as sweet as can be. He smiles a lot and is almost sleeping through the night. Luke is a great big brother and is a huge help. He goes to preschool 2 days a week and loves
it! Mark has been traveling a lot this summer so that's been challenging! We are still involved at FBCLJ and figuring out our new role as non staff! Hoping to blog more now that I am at home!!

Chunky Monkey

So Luke has no problem eating! He got off to a slow start during his first few weeks, but has definately made up for lost time! At his 6 month appointment Dr. B said that he is bigger and longer (taller?) than 95% of babies his age. He described him as an average 9 month old! Seriously.... that is why none of his cute 6-9 month clothes fit him! He has now eaten rice cereal, apples, carrots, green beans, pears, banannas, and sweet potatoes! He makes a face the first bite and then chows down! We have also discovered the greatest things ever... Baby Mum Mums... they are just these rice husk things that disolve in his mouth, but he loves them and they keep him entertained for a while! They are sticky and gross, but we go through a box a week! Luke is also sitting up now and smiles ALL the time! He is such a sweet little guy and just goes with the flow with our crazy lives! :)

East Texas

This past weekend we were able to get away for a much needed few days of R&R. We headed to my parents house in Gladewater on Thursday evening and were able to let Luke sleep much of the way. On Friday my parents played with Luke all day while Mark and I went to Canton all day. It was like 110 degrees, but we had a great time and was nice to hang out just the two of us. I LOVE Canton Weekend because of all the unique treasures you can find shopping and Mark likes it ok because he gets to eat lots of fun food! We ordered some barstools for our house. I will look forward to going back when it is cooler! We then spent Saturday and part of Sunday on Lake Cypress...it was sooo great!! My aunt's boyfriend, Steve, has a fabulous 3 bedroom house right on the lake, beautiful pine trees, huge deck, rocking chairs, 2 jet skis, boat, tube... it was so great!! We got to spend lots of time with my cousins, aunts, uncles, grandma, brother, and his girlfriend, Sarah! Luke was well taken care of the whole time and we all were very sad to leave. It was a long trip back to LJ on Sunday and much discussion of buying our own lake house (yeah right!!), building a deck (possibly) and getting a pool (again yeah right!!). We can't wait to go back... if we are invited!

Luke with grandma "Honey" and great grandma Hall. Luke is not spoiled at all!

The lake was beautiful!!

Just chillin'

So sweet...like father, like son!

Yes they match!

Too cool! His little blue eyes and fair skin are so sensitive!

He did NOT like wearing this!! haha

Tubing! I still have bruises on my legs, but it was so much fun! Think I could do this everyday!

Luke had so much fun!

Relaxin' in the Hammock!

Preteen Camp

And Natalie and Matt flew out Sunday night and preteen camp started the next weekend! Preteen Camp is so fun!! I LOVE camp so much!! We had another great year down in Palacios! Great kids and counselors!!! 3 kids accepted Christ, 2 kids won campers of the week, of course we won the spirit stick! Lots of sunburns, tired kids, changed lives and lots of fun! Mark brought Luke down for one of the days and he had lots of fun!

Visit from my Family

Well, VBS ended on a Wednesday night and Thursday my sister, Natalie, and her husband

Matt flew in from Los Angeles. They had not seen Luke since he was born, so it was a great weekend for them to hang out with him! My brother and parents came down on Friday night, so we had a house full! It was a lot of fun! We went out to the beach to a great new restaurant on the beach and the guys all went to the Astros vs. Rangers game for Father's Day...including Luke! It was sad when they all had to go home!

VBS

We did VBS Outside the Walls again this year and it went awesome!! We had incredible families at our church get super involved and we had the opportunity to meet many new people in our community! Prayerfully relationships will continue! I was running around like crazy, Mark was teaching large group time at the apartments (which he is AMAZING at by the way) and Luke was having quality time with the grandparents! GREAT week! God is good!