Dave is a winner

Did I mention that it is Dave's last day of medical school?! Heaven.

First day- August 2005, with buddy Mike Mortensen. Young, naive, childless.

Last day-May 2009. Older, wiser, with child.

Hooray! You can thank the Owen family for the tradition of jumping off of things on special occasions pictures. Good job Dahveed!

Only a boy would turn their mother's glue gun into super powerful laser gun. Luke had quite the little grin on his face when I pulled it out to glue his pirate hat together. "What dat
mama?" It's a glue gun. "Gun. Oh. Hmm." Next thing I knew he had lasered everything in sight.

Mothers Day 2009

I must say it was quite a good Mothers Day this year, filled with: sleeping in, baked french toast, 2 boys doting on me, homemade pizza's from the recipe of pizzeria Bianco, and a surprise blog book (below) that Dave put together. You just send the blog to blurb.com and they mail you a book filled with pics from your blog. So much better for me than scrap booking and albums. Sorry to get cheesy but I really do love being a mom and staying home with Luke. He is such a funny, unique, sweet little guy. I am so happy to be able to be a mom. I don't know how we lived without him (well actually sometimes I do know how) but I can't get enough of him and I feel so complete and happy when it is the three of us together. Motherhood is a million times harder/ more frustrating than I imagined but it is also one million and one times more fulfilling than you could imagine. I am always amazed at all of the great moms in this world. Props to moms everywhere!

Senior pictures

Lucas D. came prancing in the room one day with Dave's graduation cap and gown on. I thought it was so funny, so I whipped out the camera for a little photo shoot.

Here is Luke's favorite pose. Anytime I hold up the camera he sticks that tongue out.

This one is my favorite. He is getting so sick of me. I am thinking that I will put this one in his high school yearbook one day when he is a senior!

Laughing at his dad.

Making hooting owl sounds for some reason.

SAY WHAT!?!
Making this face after I told him if he wants to be a doctor like his dad someday he just has about 25 years left of school. Ha.

What's for dinner

Dinner last night consisted of chocolate chip oatmeal cookies and smoothies in the backyard... and I didn't hear one complaint.

Perfect pearly whites

This little dude just got back from his first dentist appointment, which will not interest anyone but me and possibly his dentist uncles.
Outcome: excellent, cavity-free, plenty of space for permanent teeth, and one chipped front tooth.
Best of all Luke loved every minute of it! He was secretly smiling the whole time. He loved the dentist (who looked more like an NBA player than a dentist), the movie playing, the chair that reminded him of the Disneyland rides, the toy at the end, all of the high fiving and he even enjoyed the teeth cleaning strangely enough. Good boy Luke, you can add excellent dental patient to your resume.

Grandma came to town

My mom and Luke's Ma came to visit. It was so fun having her. Luke only cried twice. Once when we left the hotel and he other time was when he woke up in the car and looked over to see that my mom was gone. We dropped her off at the airport while he napped in the car. He was so sad! We have missed you lots! Thanks for everything. Thanks for...

cuddling Luke

the super cool rubber snake that Luke brings everywhere

the fun night stay at the Wigwam

cleaning our house from top to bottom for the last minute open house and numerous random showings

treating us to some scrumptious meals

swimming at the Wigwam

and being such a fun Grandma!

a drive-in, bf, and a board.

We went to the drive-in last night.

It was dreamy.

I haven't been to one in so long. We saw Monsters vs. Aliens.

Luke thought it was so weird that we were making a bed in the car and watching a movie outside.

It was a perfect Az night...warm with that cool breeze.

I am definitely going to miss those nights.

Luke was hanging out the sunroof waiting for the moon to come out so that the movie would start.
Cozy and comfy.

Love the bargain Tuesday night at the drive-in. (As you can tell by the band aid, Dave had some moles removed on his body. They were dysplastic nevus, in case you were wondering).

Dear Arizona, thank you for the skin cancerous moles on Dave and myself since we have lived here. Yours truly.

Luke's bff uncle Nana (Danny) visited today. We got to swim in his hotel pool and Dave was treated to an up close and personal seat at the Suns game. What a nice brother.




And last but not least...the flannel board is finished. I know that it is ugly and who even makes flannel boards in the year 2009, but I am telling you the two year olds love it! Luke plays with it a ton. I thought it would be good to teach him colors, counting (10 apples or leaves or snowflakes in the tree) etc. and good for FHE and my primary class. It was less than $10 and I did it in an hour. Also, you can just stick flannel to the back of just about anything. Like Buzz stickers.

We are moving to.....

Hershey, Pennsylvania

(Wahoo)!!

For the anesthesiology program. (Do you know anyone that lives there)?

(Above)This is where Dave will be spending many hours.

(Below) Kate from Jon and Kate Plus Eight delivered her sextuplets at this hospital. Fun.

I am planning on hanging out with them and having play dates. They only live thirty minutes away.

I am also planning on hanging out lots at Chocolate World and gaining a good twenty pounds while we are there.
I am extra excited about living next to Amish country. I hear their homemade treats are to die for. I am so intrigued by the Amish. Other fun facts about Hershey...

-Population: around 20,000.

-Philadelphia and Baltimore 1.5 hours away.

- D.C. and the beach 2.5 hours away.

-Best of all my cousins are less than 4 hours away! Lots of road trips with Ashley.

-The lampposts are shaped like Hershey kisses.

- The fresh chocolate within arms reach.

-Surprisingly a lot to do with kids for such a small town. There is ZooAmerica, Hershey Gardens, Hershey amusement park, and Dutch Wonderland.

- Safest town.

-Green, Green, Green!

-Everything revolves around Hershey chocolate.

-Is this making anyone want to visit. Please? Visitors are always welcome.

Negatives= far from home and I am pretty sure that the winters are going to shock us.

We are nervous but mostly excited for the next 4 year adventure. We will see you soon beautiful Pennsylvania!

Happy St. Patty's Day! Thanks Grandmas Linda and Dena for the fun package filled with lots of Irish loot. I especially love the clover planting pot and the pot o' gold coins. You spoil us!

The email that we got today

TITLE: Did I match?
(Longest second ever as Dave clicked to open the email)
and............... Congratulations! You have matched.

Yeah! Now we get to wait three more long days to find out where we are moving to for the next four years. AAAAHHH. Can't we just find out already? Our stomachs are hating us... butterflies + ulcers and every other emotion in between.

My shadow

Me and my shadow

I have two shadows. One is tall and looks like me, the other one is really short and has a nice, round head. My little shadow follows me from the second I wake up early in the morning until around dinner time. Then sticks onto Dave for a few hours. My shadow eats meals with me, goes on every single errand with me, follows me to the shower but just stands outside because it is slightly scared of the shower. My shadows favorite thing is to pull on my arm as hard as possible and say "follow me." When my shadow is doing something naughty and knows it, it either shoots me with its arm laser or tells me to "shoo, shoo." This is the only time the shadow likes to be separated. Lately my shadow is extra clingy when it comes to sleeping. It sleeps in my bed now. After two years of my very strict no co-sleeping rules, it now sleeps with us. I always said that this would never happen and it has been going on for a couple of months. It always needs to be holding my hand while sleeping. Loves to snuggle. It is actually quite nice. I think it is maybe my favorite part of the day now.

While we were watching Peter Pan the other day, my shadow asked what was going on when Wendy was sewing Peter's shadow back on. I explained that Peter's shadow came loose and ran away from Peter. It made me realize that my shadow probably won't be stuck to me for much longer either. It will want to go off on its own too. It made me sad to think about how in 15 years (probably even a lot sooner) my mini shadow won't want to tag along with me, watch movies with me or snuggle in bed anymore. That is going to be strange. So for now, I am loving and enjoying my little shadow.

California dreamin'

Ice cream in Balboa

and Luke's first visit to DISNEYLAND!

Disneyland in February is the way to go. It was warm and perfect for the first half of the day and it rained pretty much the second half of the day. But...no lines! We would go on rides over and over and the longest wait was about 5 mins. Not bad.

Patting the chipmunk on the head

Luke couldn't take his eyes off of the life sized Buzz Lightyear. His favorite ride was the Nemo submarine ride but the Toy Story and Buzz rides got two thumbs up! We would ride on it, Luke would chant more then we would hop back on for another turn.

Somebody REALLY liked Jessie but I must say he is very good about never throwing tantrums when we don't let him get toys. He would just put her back on the shelf, give her a kiss and sign I love you. He pretty much did this after every ride.

Not quite tall enough for the raft ride but just tall enough for the Matterhorn. Yep, we took him on the Matterhorn. He closed his eyes the whole time!

A Bug's Life

L is for Luke Loving Life.

7 pm- Bye Disneyland. Thanks for the best day of this boy's life! This is the part where we beg Luke to go on a few more rides and he tells us "no, frome (home)" over and over.

**and a special thanks to my sweet friend/neighbor Kelly, that offered to have Luke play at her house while I blog because she had noticed that our Disneyland pictures had no been posted yet! How nice is that!!

You know that you are a good mom when...

1-You hear the doorbell ring while you are busy making dinner and you open the door to find your smiling two year old! How did he get out there? I guess he has learned how to unlock the doors.

2- When FHE is held only during The Bachelor commercials. I am ashamed.

3- You give your son a black eye {accidental of course}. Thanks to Luke's Kung Fu Panda head-butting skills right into my super strong cheekbone.


Let's hope tomorrow will go more smoothly.

Here is the poor litle guy holding an ice pack o his eye for a straight hour saying "broken eye".