Happy Holidays!!!

This Christmas was lots of fun!!! First we went to a couple family Christmas parties the week before. The first party we went to also had a couple of our friends their that had babies the same time we had Gavin. There are three babies in three weeks. Gavin is the youngest. The next day was our annual Bastian party which we LOVE to go to and see our family. Awhile back Tim took Sky and Logan on a 4wheeling ride that they really enjoyed. Sky also got to open all of her presents from Tim's mom and received a finger paint set, she loved to finger paint...as long as the paint stayed on the paper. Tim put it on her belly and face, and she flipped out, she was adorable asking for a bath. Christmas Eve is always spent at my moms for dinner and new PJ's and this year we added a new fun activity...making cookies for Santa. Skylr and Logan didn't like their Santa visit, so while we made cookies for Santa she would remind us that she doesn't like Santa and doesn't want him to have her cookies. Christmas morning Sky thought Santa would be downstairs and so it wasn't until she saw Tim downstairs that she decided she would go down. Opening presents was fun this year, Skylr loved opening double (we let her open Gavin's presents for him, although she did know they were for him). We all loved everything that we received and want to thank you all, and we hope your Christmas was as wonderful as ours and filled with the spirit. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Family Pictures

Gavin James Lucore Has Arrived

Gavin was born on Nov. 4, 2010. He was 8lbs 9oz 20 1/4in. Gavin was 19 days early and a very healthy boy. I was able to experience a successful VBAC and hope they can all arrive this way in the furture. Skylr LOVES her brother and wants to hold him and tell him it's okay if he cries. She also knows that Gavin isn't in my belly any more she tells us "Gavin no in you belly mommy, Gavin in you arms" she is a great big sister and Gavin is a wonderful new little Lucore. We are so happy to have him here and to be adding to our family.

Halloween Fun

This Halloween weekend was a blast!!!! Saturday was our wards trunk or treat and this year all the wards that attended our building participated in one huge 3 ward trunk or treat. It was awesome :) !!! First we started the evening with soup and salad with my parents made by my mom and me, then we headed over to the Trunk or Treat. This year Skylr was a Fairy Princess (that she picked out herself), I was a Ballerina, Tim was a football man and Darby was a Tiger. My parents didn't dress up, but Logan was a horse. Skylr went to every car and was so polite...saying trick or treat and thank you to everyone and then promptly asking for Tim's hand to hold (until I ran out of candy and went around to the last few cars with them, then she asked for my hand). Sunday the mall passed out candy and we used that as an excuse to do a little speed walking to try to induce labor, but no baby yet (just lots of contractions) then we went around the neighborhood for our final trick or treating experience in 2010, although I think Sky enjoyed passing out the candy more then asking for it. :)

Last Thursday was my most recent Dr.'s appointment and i was told that Gavin is doing great (in the head down position) and will come when he is ready, but the only thing i can do to move things along are walk, so we have been walking a lot. :) We are all ready for Gavin James Lucore to arrive and Skylr keeps telling me that he will come "soon mommy soon, Gavin come soon" whenever i ask her. Friday is our next appointment and hopefully I will have progressed even more, as of Thursday i am 2cm dilated and 50% effaced...which is great considering I am not in labor yet :) Come on Gavin we want to meet ya!!!

Fall Has Started

Friday Oct. 15th was a busy day. Tim started painting Gavin's room while I made dinner and got pumpkins ready to be painted and carved with my parents, and it was also the last day of watching Logan and the official start of my mom staying home with him. After 13 and 1/2 months of watching Logan, he now gets to spend all day with mom...we are so excited to have my mom home and to be back to our little Lucore unit. Saturday Tim and I finished painting Gavin's room and got all of the decoration's put together...We LOVE how his room turned out,we even framed the BSU sports illustrate and put them in his room and now we are just waited to get some letters to spell Gavin above his crib. A big thanks to Tim's Dad and Shannon for getting Gavin his room kit xxx!!! I have been seeing to doctor weekly since the beginning of the month and Gavin has been growing and doing great :) we are so happy with his development and position. Friday is our next appointment and that is when some birthing decisions will be made...if everything is progressing well we may get to meet him in a couple weeks...we can't wait!

Skylr has been such a big help around the house lately. She loves to put the dirty clothes on the washing machine (she can't reach to put them in), help change over the laundry, make the beds, put away the dishes, make biscuits, cut olives, set the table, put away clothes and so much more, but that's all that i can think of :)

Having Fun Together

The weather is changing like crazy and is keeping up to Idaho tradition. Last week was lucky to get to 70 degrees and this week we are up in the mid 80's...crazy. Tim has started school and we LOVE his new schedule. We are able to have dinner together every night and most mornings we enjoy breakfast as a family. We love having all the extra time and have been able to get so much done, as well as have so much time for relaxing and FUN. The backyard has been done for a few weeks so we are out there everyday and since we found a picnic table at a yard sale for $10 the kids LOVE eating lunch outside. Last week when it was colder Skylr and I made some chocolate chip cookies and Sky was all decked out in her backing gear and Loved helping. She has also been a big help picking the cherry tomatoes out of our garden...they were really late, but now we have to much to handle, so the other day Skylr and I picked about 5lbs of tomatoes...CRAZY...and there are still so many to pick. The other day Tim went up to Skylr's room to ask the kids to clean up, and this is what he found...those too are so funny together.

Last week we went to labor and delivery to check on Gavin...I have been getting a REALLY hard belly when I am up and about and then some pain in my lower abdomen, but the doctor said that Gavin and I are fine, but because of his size and position he is pushing on some tendents that make doing normal activity very uncomfortable. I have been taking it easy and wearing a belly support, which has helped a lot. We are starting to countdown until Gavin comes and are getting so excited. We are also excited that my mom will be quiting her job to stay home with Logan...she is really deserving of this and I can't wait to spend more time together and let the kids have fun as friends rather than siblings :) lol.

Tim's birthday is on Saturday 9/18 (he will be 27) and we plan to have a BBQ and then watch some BSU football at a friends...GO BOISE STATE BRONCOS!!!

Potty training update...Skylr has it down!!! She may have one accident every week or two, but very typical, Sky also manages to keep her diaper dry most days during nap and bed time and wants to go when she wakes up (I don't think she likes the wet diaper now that she knows what being dry is like). She has now decided to go #2 in the potty after having her first cold bath, she didn't like it and reminds us that she would rather go in the potty "no cold bath mommy, Skylr hot bath mommy". She catches on quick. Skylr is talking so well know and talks a lot, she is growing so fast. Sky is in 3t-4t clothes and wears a size 6 1/2-7 shoe, and has become quit the fashion expert. Skylr picks out most of her outfits and does a great job matching them, she just picks a color for that day and finds a top and bottom with that color :) it's fun to see her get dressed and decide on an outfit. She is such a girl...every morning i get up and make my bed after i get dressed and Skylr has decided to do the same thing...what a copy cat QT!!!

Outside

Our outside projects are done and now we are enjoying them. Tim poured the cement pad and built the patio cover and we love it. It is so much fun to have the projects done and so nice to have all the shade. We have already had our first BBQ on the new patio as well as a family smores party. The kids love to go out back everyday to ride on the patio. We also put up misters to keep cool and the kids especially like those. Tim planted a tree as well that will also give us much more shade. We are all decked out for the summer and are excited to just enjoy it. Tim is in school now and we love his new schedule. For the first time in our marriage we have Friday, Saturday and Sunday (all day) together. We LOVE it. Tim will start some observation classes soon that will hopefully still allow him to have such an open schedule. Gavin is still growing lots and kicks harder every week. Tim and I joke that Gavin is playing football in there already. I have a Dr. Appointment this week which marks the start of my two week visits. I am already ready for him to be here and Sky is too. She tells us that Gavin is in my belly, but she wants to play with him. She loves to talk to him and multiple times a days asks me to "open my belly" which just means to lift my shirt so that she can talk to Gavin. She only likes to talk to him if my shirt is up. She sings him songs and tells him she lives him. Lately we have been going to the quarter sale to get clothes for Gavin and skylr likes to put the clothes away in Gavin's room and be a big helper. But the biggest news of all is that Skylr decided to potty train about two weeks ago. she is still figuring some things out, but all in all she is doing wonderful. She likes to wear her panties and tells us she has to go, she only has about 3 accidents a week...and is still figuring out the #2 part. But one evening she told Tim she didn't want to wear a diaper anymore and wanted her panties, and that kicked off the potty training...she hasn't looked back since...my big girl. I must say i am sooo excited. I will only have one kid in diapers!!!!! YEAH!!!

All Smiles

Tim has finally returned home after being in Ecuador for 3 weeks. He was teaching seminars and then was able to visit some of the families from his mission. We missed him lots while he was gone, but also had lots of fun on our own. We went to the Canyon County Fair (we were able to get free admision fron the newspaper). The kids had so much fun. Skylr pet all the animals she could, they played in the water (there was an old fire truck set out with its hose on to play in) and then we went to McDonalds to play on the indoor play area since it was so HOT outside. The kids had a blast and I did too (the funest times are often the least expensive times...lol). Skylr and I also kept busy by doing mani's and pedi's, taking walks, hangingout with family, going to the park and spending lots of time with my mom. Tim was also gonw during my birthday, so i celabrated with my mom. We went shoping and i got a free pair of maternity shorts from old navy with a coupon (those are always fun shoping sprees!!!) then dinner at Ice Burg...for there famous milk shakes for dessert. We were very happy when Tim got back though...we went to the park ad played and have been trying to get our outside summer projects wrapped up for a BBQ. The pregnancy is going great and Gavin is growing big big big...just the way we like. Skylr has also been growing and talking more...she often said that daddy is in ecuador and that we are in Idaho...she loves watching animal documentaries and going to the park. We are so happy to be together agian and hope that Tim doesn't veture off to far for a long time. :)