Summer Fun: Event 1

So, now that summer is winding down...I am taking this chance to recap all the wonderful things we've done over the past few months!!

The last day of school, Nick dropped off Lucas at Papa and Nana's, picked me up, and then we met up with my cousin Becky and her husband Dustin for a road trip to Galveston!!!  My oldest cousin was getting married on Sunday and we were going to spend the weekend celebrating her with my cousin Rachel and her husband Sean!

We headed off and stayed the night in Dallas!  We ate yummy Mexican food and spent the evening chatting and laughing:)  Such a great start to the trip!

Lucas started off great too:)  He loves smelling Nana's flowers (why he doesn't have pants on, I don't know?!)

We slept in and headed off for Houston!  We ate a good lunch, sat in traffic forever, went to Target, and then went to the Astros game!  My dad had a goal before he died...to see every major league baseball stadium.  Well, Nick wants to carry on that tradition, so we go to as many baseball games as we can:)  Sadly, Becky got a migraine and had to go to the house, but Rachel, Sean, Nick and I had a great time at the game!!

Lucas also woke up to great breakfast at Nana's:)

After the game we drove down to Galveston to stay at the house Rachel and Sean rented us for the weekend:)  It was so cute!  Becky was feeling better by the time we got back, so we stayed up late again chatting and catching up!  It had been a long time since we were all together!  Too long!

On Sunday, Nick and I woke up early and strolled along the beach.  Down the street was the pier, but we were too hungry to walk all the way down there.  We stopped at a cute little restaurant instead and had breakfast:)

We then all got ready and headed to the beach!  It was awesome!  So nice to relax, read and get a little sun before the wedding:)  A little too much sun for some of us!

 Lucas also had a great evening at Grammy's house for the Buzzard reunion:)  Again, no pants!  Haha:)

**For some reason, it's fuzzy!  But of course he's playing cars!!!

We then headed back to the house and up to Houston for Maradee's wedding!  It was such a sweet wedding with great music, great food and a great couple!  We couldn't be happier for Maradee and Robert.  He's a great addition to our family:)

We woke up Memorial Day and headed home.  It was a short trip, but very sweet:)  We loved our time with cousins and new family!  We need to take a cousin trip every year!!!

Happy Anniversary!

We met seven years ago...

We fell in love that summer...

I took a leap of faith and moved to Miami and we got engaged...

We had the most beautiful wedding...

And the greatest honeymoon...

We set up house together...

Then we added another...

We took another leap of faith and moved to BA...

I've since changed jobs and our house still isn't sold, but I couldn't imagine a more fantastic journey! You make every day fun and exciting and I can't wait to see what happens next! I know this next year will be amazing with you by my side!

 I love you so much!  Happy Anniversary:)  5 down...70 to go:)

The Great Potty Training Adventure

Spring Break 2013 was an important week in our family!  We started potty training.  Lucas turned 2 in January and he'd been talking about it for awhile, so we thought Spring Break would be a good time.  I had 9 days off of work so we could stay home and stay focused and get it done;)

Monday morning we set out his things...it was just like Christmas!  Little Man is obsessed with "Cars" so everything was "Lightning"!  Underwear, pull ups and the potty itself!!

He was so excited!  He looked so cute:)  He even wore his Lightning jammies the night before, so he was all decked out in "Cars"!!!

We built it up really big talking about how he was a big boy and big boys use the potty and not diapers anymore!  He was excited:)  We went about every 15-20 minutes all morning long and every time he peed he got an M&M.  He loved it:)

We had to take his 2 year pictures that morning, so we did put a pull-up on for that because we were at a park for an hour with no restrooms!  Then when we got home, we put them right back on:)  He did awesome!  No accidents!!  We then went to Pryor that afternoon for the next few days and no accident all Monday!!!  He even pooped in the potty Monday evening:)

Tuesday morning he did great too:)  We went to see chicks at Orscheln's, got hot dogs at Sonic and dropped Daddy off at the golf course and no accidents!!  When we put him down for nap, we didn't know what to do?!  Should we put him in a pull-up?  Should we just let him go in his underwear so he'll start to hate it?  We decided to give him a pull-up and we decided we'd deal with that another time.  Maybe over the summer?!

Tuesday afternoon, when I went to pick up Nick from golf, Mimi watched Lucas and he had his first accident!  She said they were on their way to the potty when he couldn't hold it any longer!  Oh well, one accident in two days...not too bad!!!

Wednesday, we went to his first movie, out to eat and had a pretty busy day.  We put him in a pull-up for the movie, but the rest of the time, just one accident all day!  I was so excited, but I also knew that this 3-day potty training thing was officially "over" and he was still having accidents.  I started to get a little frustrated!  But, Nick reassured me it's not 3-days for everyone and we still have the rest of the week and he's doing great...

So, Thursday we had like 3 accidents.  It was rough day, but Friday we made a break through!  We went to Chick Fil-A with some friends.  I decided I would let him play and eat normally and we would just take potty breaks.  I knew we didn't stay home as much as we should've that week, but it was Spring Break and we didn't want to be cooped up.  So, I said to myself "If we can make it through Chick Fil-A with no accidents, I will say we are 'potty trained'".

So, we went to Chick Fil-A, pottied when we got there, pottied halfway through lunch, pottied halfway through play-time, and pottied before we left!  He did awesome!  He went every time and was just amazing:)  I was so excited!  I figured since we weren't at home and he still had no accidents, he wasn't wearing a pull-up and still had no accidents, and he played on the big toy and still had no accidents we could be pretty proud:)  It was such a great feeling!

Lucas and his friend Hudson playing after Chick Fil-A!

Now, it's almost the middle of June and we are still wearing pull-ups during nap and at night, but today was the first accident in probably 2 weeks!  So, I'm pretty happy about it.  I'm not sure what to do during nap and at night, so any tips would be helpful, but overall, I'm pretty pleased about the method we used and he looks so super cute in his undies:)

Happy Love Day

I'm so behind!

Lucas had a lovely set up for Valentine's Day, but I didn't get one picture of it:( Or of Daddy's!

But, I did take a picture of the set-up I got delivered to me at school:)  Nick and I went super simple with Valentine's Day this year!

We went to Sho-Gun for Valentine's Day like we do almost every year!  Lucas has been every year since he's been born:)  Three Valentine's at Sho-Gun.  We go for my cousin Megan's birthday and we spend the evening with the people we love, our family!!

My two favorite boys:)

My little man enjoying the rope surrounding the water:)

My Mom and Sister

Rial girls:)

And my one True love!

So fun!!!  Great pictures:)  Great family:)

Here's a look at the past few years and how much Lucas has changed since that first Valentine's Day!!  And you can see how my hair changes every year;)  Haha!!

 
He's so big now!!  I do love that boy:)

Recap #2

The first weekend of February, we went to Miami and spent time with your cousin Colt!  We hadn't seen him or Uncle Josh since July at the beach.  We missed them so much and we were sad that Aunt Jana couldn't be there:(

The boys are just about 11 weeks apart and they are really fun to watch!

We spent Friday evening at Grammy and Grampy's and Papa and Nana were there too!  It was nice to see them with both sets of grandparents together!  We also had a yummy dinner:)

Lucas loves Aunt Megan's rocking chair:)

Colt loves Elmo and Lucas loves "Cars".  They are so cute with their fleece jammies:)

We had breakfast at Papa and Nana's on Saturday morning then spent the rest of the day at Grammy's again.  Great-uncle Steve, Grammy's brother, came over and the boys loved when he read to them:)  It was precious!!

They liked to play on Grammy's phone too!

We had another yummy dinner and a great time just watching the boys interact with each other.

Me and my main squeeze in our lovely self-portrait:)  Thanks for the t-shirt Uncle Josh!!

We went to church and had a great lunch at our favorite local Mexican restaurant and spent the evening at Papa and Nana's.  We had a great visit with some extended Maxson family, but sadly I have no pictures:(  I was getting bronchitis that day, apparently, so I wasn't really with it!  I'm sad about that, but I am glad I got some good pictures of the boys together and I'm thankful for the visit we had!

We wish we could see them a lot more!!!

Recap #1

Oh my goodness!  It's been almost 2 months since I've visited this ol' blog.  I know my readers haven't really missed me, but this is for us and Lucas anyway:)  I want to make sure we have major events of his life documented.  Since I'm not doing monthly letters anymore, I forget to update and I don't want to do that!

So, I'm breaking these recaps up and they will have a lot of pictures...

Recap #1 is our weekend vaca to Big Cedar with Mimi, Poppy, Uncle Cal, and Aunt Cassie!

We didn't do a lot, but we had fun hanging out and exploring Big Cedar!  We just relaxed and enjoyed each other and got away from life for a little while:)  We were gone exactly 48 hours from Friday evening to Sunday evening, so it flew by!

Mimi and Poppy took Lucas exploring while Cal, Cassie, Nick, and I played Shuffleboard!!  The weather couldn't have been more perfect:)

We then found some gorgeous parts of Big Cedar and took other pictures:)

We had some great food that weekend, did some great shopping, rested, and just had a great time with family:)  They are the greatest and we love spending time with them!!!!