Baby Luke turns 1!!

On Monday we went to our friend's house for their son's first birthday!  It was his actual birthday and they are having the party in St. Louis this weekend, so it was a small gathering to try and see him eat some cake!  Unfortunately, he wanted nothing to do with the cake!  Hopefully, they have better luck this weekend and get some good first cake pictures :) 

The birthday boy!

 Opening his present

 What the heck is this??  It did not do a thing for him!!

 Chloe had fun and could not wait for cake, on the other hand!

Our very own Karate Kid!

Preston has been attending karate now for the past month - he loves it!  He goes 3x/week and does not want to miss, EVER!  He is learning to be focused and motivated - we are trying to use it all to our advantage at home with saying "yes sir" or "yes ma'am"!  If you are ever in town on M/W/F you should come watch - it is really cute to see all of these 4-6 year olds doing the drills and saying memorized phrases!

Our Cute Valentines!

Happy Valentine's Day!

The kids both got a new movie that they were so excited to get!!  Preston got Iron Man and Chloe got Cinderella - we have watched them both already!

Playing, a child's work!

The kids have enjoyed playing both inside and out lately!  They have their moments where they play really well together and then there are the times when they just don't do as well and I really wish we had a basement!! :)

This was from a snow early in January that they thought was great!

Cutie!

This is Chloe telling me she does not want her picture taken!!

Fun finger painting!

Just hanging out tonight!

Christmas Day!!

I know I'm a little behind, but here are some Christmas Day pictures, that I know Papa Butch has been anxiously awaiting for weeks and weeks! :)  I of course have too many and couldn't delete many, so if you want to see some more, please go to Picasa b/c I can't put them all on here!!
We got to wake up Christmas morning and have another Christmas with Grandma, Papa Butch, Uncle DJ, Aunt Tori and Aunt Ali!  Luckily, Chloe again didn't realize what was going on so we were able to hold off until everyone else got up.  We enjoyed our time as a little family and then later the Abt side came over for a fun day!