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Luke's Birthday Pics

School Picture Time!

Happy Birthday Luke!

Today was Luke's 3rd birthday! He was very excited to tell everyone he saw that it was his birthday and that he is now 3. And of course, he was happy to show them, too.

After school, we met our good friends Thomas, Alexa, Baby Cody and Jaye at Chuck E. Cheese for some fun playtime!

Chuck E. himself brought Luke his cake. Luke wasn't at all sure about this Chuck E. guy at first.

He checked with everyone else at the table...

And then decided to just go with it!

Yum yum, cake!

Cody enjoyed it, too!

After we got home from one party, we had another one just the 5 of us! Here is Luke's Micky cake.

Daddy helped Luke blow out his candles.

And here's the Birthday Boy with his cake. Can you say SUGAR HIGH??

Happy Birthday Peanut! We love you so much!

Trick or Treat!

Happy Halloween! This year, my boys all wanted to be a Star Wars character. Jacks knew right away that he was going to be Darth Vader, and Cody and Luke both loved that there were characters that shared their names. So they went as Commander Cody and Luke Skywalker.

Here's Luke, trying to use the Force. Apparently, it's really hard.

But he got the hang of it eventually! The Force is strong with this one!

Then Luke realized we had a bit of time before he needed to save the Galaxy, so he decided to go for a Sunday drive. You didn't know Luke Skywalker could drive, did you?

But before too long, Darth Vader came along to try to lure Luke over to the Dark Side.

Jacks makes evil look pretty cute, doesn't he?

Darth actually decided to give the Dark Side a miss today and went for some scooting (scooter-ing?) instead.

And here is our Commander Cody.

Cody really, really liked his blaster gun.

REALLY.

So here are our Star Wars guys, all ready to go Trick or Treating.

One of our first stops was to Mrs. Stecklein's house. She taught Cody for 2 years in preschool, and we hope Luke will get to have her as well. She lives right around the corner from us and the boys just love her.

We had a great time wandering around the neighborhood, looking at all the decorations and costumes. Luke loudly explained who he was supposed to be to anyone who even looked in his direction, and he really enjoyed saying "Trucker Treat" to the people who answered the doors.

Happy Halloween!!

Feelin' Groovy

This week has been Red Ribbon Week at Cody and Jackson's school. It's a special week recognized around the country promoting drug prevention. And each day has had a different theme so the kids can dress up a little bit. For example, Monday was "Take a Stand for a Drug Free Land" and they wore red, white and blue. Tuesday was "Team Up Against Drugs" and they all wore sports team jerseys.

Today was "Peace, Love and Say No to Drugs." I know, it's a little weird. LOL But the boys were SO excited to dress up like hippies. They've been looking forward to it all week! We found these great tie-dye shirts at Walmart for $3, and Jacks picked up an "Insta-Hippy" kit at the Halloween store.

Here's Groovy Jacks...

I think he got rapper and hippie confused. LOL

But here's a peace-lovin' pose!

And Cody! He got a couple of beaded peace-sign necklaces, but he was jealous of Jackson's glasses so he dragged these out of our costume box. They're kinda Elton John-esque, circa Crocodile Rock, right? They totally work.

Peace, baby!

Hope they had a totally groovy day!