This first pic is Luke and myself at the north rim. I know it looks like I have horns, but it was extremely windy.
Here is Luke and Kyndall sitting together at lunch. They had a blast together.
This Luke helping his Daddy with yard work on Father's Day. He loves to help whenever he gets the chance. My baby is growing so fast! Today we reached a huge mile stone. Let me back up- last night my neighbor had Luke and I over for dinner since Juven is out of town to visit and let the kids play ( she has a 6yr, 4 yr and 8 month- all boys). Luke always likes going over there to play with their toys. Anyway- she offered to let Luke come over for a little today to play so I could get some quiet time and house work done since Juven is coming home tonight and my family is coming on Sunday. Well- she called again today offering and I asked Luke if he wanted to go and he asked if I was coming. I told him, no and was going to clean the house and he said- okay. So, I walked him over, kissed him good bye and he was like see you later Mommy! For those of you who know what a momma's boy he is and a klinger this is a big move! I have never really gotten him to agree to go somewhere without myself or Juven. Wow- he really is growing up! Maybe we can work up to a date night!
On my last update I forgot to update about our fun weekend last weekend. Friday was my 34th birthday. Little depressed just because of whats coming next year, but Juven made it so special for me. He planned a dinner with some friends of his from work at a restaurant called Carlsbad Tavern. Such a great atmoshpere and great food, great cocktails! On the drive home he wanted to stop at the grocery store to get me a cake. I stayed in the car while he and Luke went in. They came back with a cake and a pink rose. As is well known- my favorite color is pink and my favorite flower are roses. Juven said Luke picked it out. 
It has been a quiet week around here. Juven is in Orlando at national meetings so Luke and I have been trying to occupy our time and stay cool. Monday we went with our neighbor and her 3 boys to the library to see the Bee Movie. We got it for Luke and he has seen it several times, but I never realized I havent' actually sat down to watch it until Monday. It really is a cute movie. I also started painting my kitchen on Monday and finally finished today. When I first start painting I always think- this isn't so bad, I think I'll go ahead and do the entire house. Then by the third day I am sooo beat down tired that I swear I'll not paint another wall. But- in a few months I'll forget how hard I worked and start another room. It's amazing what a gallon of paint will do for the house! Luke did so good at letting me work that I rewarded him today by taking him to eat lunch at McDonalds and then to see "Kung Foo Panda". I think that is what it's called. I only know it as the panda movie. He loooved it! It was pretty cute. It had a little more violence than I normally let him see but he did okay. As long as he doesn't start going around the house like he's fighting kung foo he'll be okay.
We are making progress potty training. He will wear his big boy undies now, but still will not stand by the potty or sit. He just tells me when he has to go and we put a pull up on him and when he is done we put him back in his undies. That's quite an accomplishment for him to wear his undies considering he would through them under the bathroom sink whenever I tried to put them on him only a few months ago. This potty training is soooo tough & he is soooo stubborn! I've just backed off and ask him every couple of days if he is ready to sit on the potty yet & of course his response remains, "No. No thank you." Patience, paitience, patience. He has always let me know when he is ready for a change and he has been consistence with his letting me know, so I will wait.
My family is coming on Sunday and I am soooo excited!!!! I can't wait for them to see beautiful Arizona and our new house. It will be so nice to have family around for a few days!
Here is Luke playing in the water and having a blast. It's not too hot yet. About 100 during the day, but it's a "dry heat"!! hahaha! (My mom thinks that is funny & ridiculous to say) It really is not that bad. Ask me in a month or so when it is 113 and I'll have a different story!
This is when we went back to Texas for Memorial weekend. We went to Juven's parents house and my family drove out to see us. It was so great to see everyone! The pic above is movie time. I was on the bed with them, but obviously did not fit so thought we needed a pic of it!
We got the kids a slip n slide at Grandma's house. fun,fun,fun!
Luke and Austin relaxing in the swing. My family will be here in about 10 days! I can't wait!! We are going to spend a few days at the Grand Canyon relaxing and enjoying the beauty. Maybe it won't take me a month to update next time.
This is Luke at a neighborhood cook out we had at one of our parks.
These pics are just some random pics of Luke being silly. If you are wondering about the q-tips in his toes-well, that is from Toy Story 2. Woody gets a make over by an expert toy cleaner and he uses q-tips to help clean Woody. Hence- the q-tips. Why they are in the toes-- I have no idea!!
Luke playing "working".
I spent a couple of days painting 2 walls in the living room "painted turtle". I always like to go with beige colors, but with our views of brown mountains, brown houses, and brown dirt outside these windows we felt we probably needed to go with another color. It actually has turned out nicely. The room was very bright with the light color flooring, so many windows, and white walls that it needed to be warmed up a bit.
Here are our samples from our "rock shopping". I think we will go with the "Apache Rose" on the far left.
Here is the concrete mixer backing through our utility gate to pour our patio. This was quite an exciting thing for Luke as he is really into all type of "work" trucks.
Concrete being laid and smoothed out. Our grass was delivered last night about 2 am. It was like Christmas for Juven. I heard the truck pull up and woke Juven up. He went and peeked out the window and couldn't go back to sleep once it was dropped off. He made me go outside with him to look at it and "touch"it!
Here is a BEAUTIFUL lake we found recently. Saguaro Lake. We ate lunch at the resaurant overlooking the water. Can you say BOAT FEVER??!!
Here is a river just south of the lake where people fish, swim, or float. Luke said he wanted to get his feet wet, but as soon as we got in he was not so excited about it.
We went to Palm Springs and Yuma last week with Juven for work so he wouldn't have to travel alone. Palm Springs is beautiful. Mountains, palm trees, beautiful flowers, beautiful weather. People- not so nice. I hope I don't affend anyone, but my experience with California so far is that it is way over rated. I acutally hated it. The people are rude, everything is expensive, and the entire time I was there I felt I had to constantly be looking over my shoulder. It was nice to visit and be able to say I had been there, but I don't want to go back anytime soon and I could definately not live there. San Diego last fall was a little better, but I still was not blown away from it like I thought I would be.
These are pics of just driving down the street in Palm Springs. It is georgous.
