My little Lukey graduated from Pre-K on Thursday. I know it probably doesn't seem like a big deal but it is a HUGE deal for me. It is the start to a brand new chapter in his little life. He will be starting Elementary school in August and the beginning to many years of his education and the end to his carefree days. He is so bright and eager to learn and I can't wait to experience his new adventures with him.

I just love that amazing smile!

Miss Wilson- his teacher for part of Pre School and all of his Pre-K. She was so amazing and really helped prepare him for Kindergarten. We will truely miss her : (

While Mom was here we took a road trip to California. This is a picture of us in Palm Springs having margaritas and mexican food. We had so much fun!!

Here we are just finishing lunch and getting ready to go shopping.

We visited Santa Monica pier. It was really neat to see all the things we have seen in movies and music videos in person. Luke loved it too! We ate lunch at Bubba Gump's restaurant and the waiter quizzed us on Forrest Gump trivia. We did pretty good.

After visiting the pier we went and layed on the beach while Luke and Juven built sand castles and played in the waves. We then drove up Highway 1 through Malibu and the Malibu hills. It is just sooooo beautiful! and worth the 450 miles to drive home!

Luke and I at my Mother's Day Tea Party. So sweet!

The class playing musical chairs. Luke did pretty good!

I had a wonderful Mother's Day! Soooo relaxing! I didn't want to do anything but stay at home. Juven cooked all our meals and cleaned up. We swam and laid out in the sun. I loved it!! I feel like for the past couple of months I have been going, & going, & going... So today I extened my relaxing day and after going to the gym this morning have done nothing but sit on the couch. It has been wonderful!

I am (hopefully) almost done with physical therapy. My therapist told me to try pretty much whatever I wanted at the gym within reason to see how I hold up. So far, so good.

We have 5 more weeks left until our trip to France !! : ) We are sooooo excited.

Juven has been crazy busy with work and it won't slow down anytime soon, but he loves it and is doing great things for the company!

I'm excited for Luke to be done with school for the summer. Excited to not have to be anywhere at any time. He is starting a new chapter this August with going to Elementary school! We are excited but a little sad. He is soooo ready though. He is super bright and loves to learn and read.

My grandaddy passed away Saturday morning. Even when you think you are ready it is still hard. He was 90 years old and had a great life but I am still sad. I'm so happy to have so many wonderful memories of him and will always cherish them. We will be headed to Texas for the funeral. Glad I get to see my family and friends though.

It is heating up in Arizona and though it is only April I am sporting a pretty good tan so far. Way more than I ever got last year! Yes- using sunscreen!

So I've been fighting with this damn back injury for several weeks now. I have seen a spine specialist and doing physical therapy. I was feeling soooo much better until.... at the gym warming up on the eliptical and this trainer comes over to Heather and myself and wants to know what we are doing in thirty minutes. We are doing Body Pump class we tell him. Want to do something new?? Ok... what. The gym is doing a new class put on by personal trainers. A group personal training class. Ok. no biggie. We'll try it. Hard as HELL and I have never been so close to throwing up when working out before but a great work out. Until... the next day when my back is FREAKING out! I was almost cleared and done with physical therapy. What was I thinking??? So I am now getting a little better from that - 8 days later! I get to go to the gym tomorrow for the first time since my episode but can only walk on the treadmill (can do small incline) or do eliptical. Well its a start. This has been the worst thing! You just can't escape back pain and trying to be a mom, wife and take care of yourself on top of that is very difficult. I've been tring soooo hard to get some weight off and be healthy but with this pain and not being able to go to the gym all I want is to drink and eat cookies!

Luke coloring Easter Eggs : )

Pool pics.

Luke and Juven playing "Jedi Light Sabers".

wow. so much has changed since my last post... we have decided to wait on the adoption for a couple of reasons. We had some concerns about the agency we choose and we are going on a big trip to Europe in June and we didnt want to be in the middle of paperwork and homestudies while being gone. So we are just waiting for God to tell us what to do. Also- I had gotten motivated to get back in shape for our trip and was working out quite a bit. I started have really bad back troubles and ended up at a spine specialist. I was diagnosed with spinal arthritis. I am on medication for now and doing physical therapy. I'm really depressed about it because even though I'm no spring chicken I am still relatively young. I'm gonna fight through it though and get back to the gym!
Luke is doing great!! We got him registered for Kindergarten and he is starting in August! I can't believe it!! How did that happen??? He is super excited and we LOVE his new school! He will have a couple of friends from Primrose going there with him and they will even be in his class so hopefully that will help with the transition.
That's all I got for now.

I am about to fill out the paperwork to start our homestudy! I am already a nervous wreck! Last night I found a cup of milk and leftover Ravioli and peached in the pantry!! I will be a little scatter brained through this entire process but hopefully it will be painless! Juven is in Salt Lake City today and Seattle tomorrow. He is spoiled with the warm weather here and tired of the cold! More to come!!