Happy Birthday to Two of the Lucas Boys Favorites

Our sweet friend Isabella is during 5. We are so excited that we get to help her celebrate such a momentous birthday and we look forward to celebrating many more with her.


JT's favorite girlfriend Emily (I want to add here that JT told me that he knows when you call someone your girlfriend it means that you are going to marry them and that is why he only says that Emily is his girlfriend). I know this isn't a current photo of JT and Em and I know that I used it in October but it is so dang cute. You can go visit Em's blog if you want to see more recent cute photos of her.



And not to be outdone by two fabulous little girls, we want to give a shout-out to Chandra and Josh who are celebrating their anniversary. It takes a lot to put up with Josh so Chandra definitely deserves some congratulations!

New Orleans

What more could we want than great friends in a fun city with some fabulous food. We will definitely go back for more, soon.

3200 Miles

Happy 2009!

The Lucas family is officially home and back in to the swing of things.

We traveled through a total of 10 states during our holiday road trip. We got to visit friends, spend time relaxing with family, and of course ate lots of delicious food. I have lots of photos to upload and I'll get working on those this week.

We are thankful for our friends and family. With all the craziness going on lately, we enjoyed getting to spend time with the ones we love the most (ok, with the exception of Lauren who couldn't make it from Portland this year; I guess we have something to look forward to for next year). We hope everyone's new year is off to a fabulous start and that this year is filled with even more joy and happiness than the last.

Thanks for staying withe the blog; hopefully I won't disappoint this year.

December Highlights

I've been remiss on updating this month so I am posting a collection of our activities for the first few weeks in December. This list includes the Christmas Festival in Georgetown, Texas where JT and Zachy attempted to rock climb and Sam was snowed on. Cookie making with mom; I think I had over 100 cookies when all was said and done. A quick visit from Eli Nguyen. The boys did their first 1K, The Jingle Race. JT was disappointed with how short a 1K actually is and has asked to run a 5k. Zachy had fun too however I knew that having him at the front of the line wasn't the best idea; he started the race but then quickly had a collision with a little girl. Rick tried convincing Zachy to run but he decided it wasn't as fun as he thought. While at the race, JT met up with his kinder buddy William and his twin Katherine and their older brother Patrick. There are also a few photos from Zachy's Christmas party at school.

where is the lucas clan

we are currently in new orleans on our way to north carolina for one lat visit before pete and judes move north to new york.

we left austin yesterday around 2PM. the majority of the trip was uneventful.
rick got sleepy and asked me to drive, which i agreed to without realizing just how close we were to houston. i have two road-trip rules: i will not drive in dallas or houston. well, lucky me i got to drive through houston at 4:30, which was super fun.
we missed most of louisiana b/c it was dark and foggy.

we did get a nice 30 minutes side trip when jt announced in the middle of nowhere that he had to use the bathroom. we saw a gas station sign and foolishly followed into the middle of nowhere. it was about 11 PM so we really have no idea where we were but we did get lost and we believe we got to travel over this bridge, not once but twice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SunShine_Bridge.jpg.

we rolled in to town about midnight and stayed up until almost 2 drinking beer and having the best red beans and rice ever.

rick and lee had to take the car in to get a spark plug fixed - i am not thrilled - but once they are done we will start our adventures in nola.

Santa Plays Baseball

We went to Round Rock Express stadium on Saturday to sign up the boys for Spike's Club and we got a chance to see Santa. JT doesn't believe that this is the real one; he had several comments about the suit not being just right. We've had to explain that Santa needs some guys to help out during the season but that you never know when the real Santa will show up.

Zach told Santa that he wants carrots and JT told Santa he wants a Nintendo DS (a gift I keep telling him he probably isn't getting). JT also asked Santa if the elves know how to play baseball.

The group photo includes JT's and Zach's tball buddies - (from left clockwise) Sarah, Matthew, Sam, JT and Zach.

slacker with cool tile

I am still here but I've been miserably sick for the past few weeks. It started first with a fever, got better around Thanksgiving, and then turned into a very nasty stomach virus. Unfortunately both boys have had this mysterious stomach virus that seems to hang on. I think we've had at least 4 nights of "MOOOOMMMMM...I have puke!" I am not sure if Rick and I should be proud that we are a well-oiled machine when it comes to cleaning up puke and pukey kids. The good news is that Rick hasn't gotten it and I am really hoping he doesn't.

And since I've talked about it long enough, it is about time I show some photos of the fabulous tile Rick has installed. The photo is of the stuff that we put in the kitchen, laundry room, entry way, and the boy's bathroom. Our bathroom has similar tile that is a bit darker. I definitely found the best tiler in Texas; I am willing to loan him out to anyone who needs him.