6 months

Well, it's been more of the same around here. I've figured if I can get this blog updated every other week, it's a miracle. We've just been so busy! Every weekend we're in Auburn for the games. We've got this weekend and then we head out to see new Baby Mark (my brother and sister in law's new baby)!!! I'd show y'all pictures, but someone hasn't sent me any yet! But they're on Facebook, lol.

Luke turned 6 months yesterday! He's such a sweet baby :) He and Jackson are so fun to watch together. Luke can be fussy or crying and Jackson can walk over to him and smile or talk and Luke will start smiling and cooing. It's adorable. It's so hard not to compare the two, especially as Luke gets older, but I'm trying not to, lol.

Here's some more pics from Auburn. Jackson loves going down there, and both the boys are doing great staying in the RV.

Wes, Luke, and Nonnie

Jackson and Pops

Allison and Weston came down for the Miss State game. It was so great to see them!!! And I loved that I got a surprise when she showed up in a shirt that had "baby" on it :D We are so excited for them!!!

Here are some 6 month pics of Luke - he's always bright (and big) eyed!

I can't believe he's already 6 months old! Time is flying! He's rolling over both ways, but he's not crawling yet. He's "talking" all the time in his own little gibberish way;) He doesn't like to be on his tummy much, and he still likes to be swaddled. He also loves his paci when he sleeps, lol. It's so much fun to see him grow - and he's a big boy!!! We can't wait to see what he will do next.

WAR EAGLE!!

It's finally that time of year - FOOTBALL SEASON!!! We've been counting down the days since last season was over, and eagerly anticipating the changes that have been made down on The Plains. As most of you know, we bought an RV about 6 months ago, and we couldn't wait to be there. We tried it out over A-Day weekend, but it just wasn't the same as gameday, and Lucas was only 4 weeks old at that time. All of you with kiddos know what a difference pliable little 4 week old sleep anywhere baby and 5 month old on a schedule baby are!! And throw in a 23 month old and see where the ride takes you! But, the boys were awesome - couldn't have asked for a better weekend from either one of them. Both stayed on their normal schedules and slept through the night. Although they did wake up a little early, neither of them was up before 0630, so I guess we can't complain. It's great because both of our parents go to the games, so the boys get to see both sets of grandparents each weekend we're down there. This weekend Wes' sister and her family was down there, so Jackson got to play with his cousins. Unfortunately, two boys kept me pretty busy and I missed many photo ops, so here are the scant few I got from the weekend...and they're pretty much only of the boys except for this one...

Wes and Lance were our chefs for the weekend - homemade chicken fingers, fries, green bean casserole, rolls, salad and homemade ice cream from our neighbors - who could ask for anything more!

Little Jackson in his new Bo Jackson jersey. He had so much fun running around - not surprised are you, lol.

Lucas sitting in a chair - I can't believe how fast time is going by!!! He smiles and laughs all the time and just started rolling over both ways :)

More of those big cheeks :D

Both boys - it was harder than you know to get Jackson to sit for a few minutes, haha.

I couldn't get one where both of them were smiling, and am not sure how to photoshop one face onto another picture. One day I'll have the time to look that up and figure it out...so maybe by the year 2020... Hope everyone enjoyed opening weekend. We can't wait to get back down there next weekend - so glad it's a short week!

San Diego

A couple of weeks ago, Wes and I went to San Diego for a whole week without the boys! I had the American Association of Nurse Anesthetist's Annual Meeting to go to, and Mom and Dad offered to watch the boys for us, so we HAD to take them up on it! We had such a great time. San Diego is beautiful and the weather is perfect - between 60 and 80 yearround :) Of course, we missed the boys like mad, but it was so great to get away just the 2 of us. We were celebrating 5 years worth of anniversaries: 3 and 4 b/c Wes was deployed for those, 5 and 6 b/c I was pregnant, and 7 b/c that was this past Monday. Here was the view from our hotel room

The convention center that we had our meeting in is on the right side of the pic. There are tennis courts on the roof of it.

You can see the bridge to Coronado Island on the right side of this one.

Wes with our hotel (Marriott) behind him.

Saturday we went to a Padres game. This was the view from our seats. Wes went by himself on Sunday and was about 10 rows back dead behind home plate!

Here's the Padre doing a dance ;)

Our hotel and the convention center (in the background) are located in a place called the Gaslamp Quarter. It was a wonderful place to be! You can walk around for a couple of miles and there are hundreds of places to eat and shop. PetCo Park was within walking distance too, so we got our exercise by walking everywhere!

Here is the sand box in the back of PetCo. Not sure why anyone would want to get their kids in that but there was a group out there when we went to the game, lol. It's great b/c outside the stadium there's a park that's open to the public all the time except 4 hours before games and of course during the games. People who work in the Gaslamp will go eat lunch in the park.

And here is the most famous Padre - Tony Gwynn's statue, also located in the park.

One of the places that we ate had an amazing bar - the Yardhouse. There are over 20 of them. This one had about 130 beers on tap (one of the smaller ones too!).

It's blurry b/c it's through glass, but here is the keg room at the Yardhouse. B/c this building was built before the Yardhouse went in, they have to pipe the beer upstairs through an amazing maze of pipes.

The Midway was about a mile from our hotel. Impressive battleship!

Wes and I at the annual meeting. It was a great supper, company, and a little dancing at the end :)

After the meeting, Wes and I stayed an extra day and visited Coronado Island. We walked all around the island and had an amazing dinner at a restuarant right on the bay.

We walked across the island and saw the Pacific beaches - definitely not the Gulf, but still very pretty :)

More of the beaches! We had a great time on this trip. We couldn't thank my parents enough for watching the boys for the whole week - brave grandparents aren't they!!! I'm thinking we'll go back to San Diego in about 10 years and take the boys with us. There's so much to do and it was a blast - I'm already looking forward to it!!!

finally

I know it's been ages since I've posted any pictures (sorry David) but things have been nuts around our house. I just have a few minutes, so I wanted to put up a few pics of the boys and some from when we went to see the Braves play a few weeks ago. I promise more will follow hopefully soon!

Jackson loves to push Luke
4 and a half months now!

And he likes to swing himself. He's still within the weight limits for it!

Maddux got inducted the night before - one of the Braves' greats!

warming up

Why did we have to go to the game when Santana was pitching?

He's incredible though and we did have a chance to win, but couldn't pull it out

Chipper gets a hit

The All American Rejects played after the game and the concert was great. the lead singer is kinda weird though...

Loved this shirt - just had to post it :)

Hope everyone is well. Sorry we're a little out of touch these days. I'm trying to catch up with all my blogging and all my blog friends' blogs! Have a great week :)

Pics by Uncle Noel

These are some pictures that my brother took of our family. Luke was 2 weeks old in these pictures and Jackson had just turned 18 months. I hate adults' feet, but baby feet are so cute!

Lucas and Mommy :)

Sweet baby sleep!

This one is my fav! We have a very similar one that he took of me holding J.

Our wedding bands :D

More cute baby feet

J deep in thought...plotting his next adventure, haha

Our two sweet boys

J laughing, like usual

It's always great to have my brother visit, but I love when he pulls out the camera. He's such a great photographer. If you liked these pics, check out his website www.noelharveyphotography.com