Random Update about Luke

It's been a while since we've made a post so I thought that I would share what Luke has been up to lately...so here's what Luke is up to!

CHP update: Last August Luke was told after not passing the eye exam portion of the test, if he were to get contact lenses, that he would have to wait a year before he could apply again, but if he were to get lasik surgery that he could apply right away after healing (presumably 3 months). After healing from the lasik surgery, Luke had it confirmed to him via email from the CHP recruiters that they now have a new director of the CHP academy. And, the rules have been changed about when he can apply again. Apparently now you have to wait a year regardless if you have had lasik surgery or contact lenses. So much for trying to speed the process along! So, Luke will reapply this August. Lucky for me he will be here when we have the baby! I wont have to worry about him being in the academy or something. We both feel that even though this may be frustrating to him, that it is all happening for a reason. We are happy that he will be able to (hopefully) get into the academy when the timing is right for our family.

Personal life update: I wanted to share this funny story about what has recently happened to Luke. So, Luke tries to stay very active, he plays on the church basketball team, and on a card league basketball team (his team is called the "Stripling Warriors"). Along with playing on these teams and going to basketball practice twice a week he has taken two weight lifting classes this semester... Lets just say that maybe he is exerting himself a little too much this past week. His arm, chest and tummy muscles were so sore, he couldn't lift his arms above his head! I called him "Barbie arms" because he couldn't even straighten his arms all the way! He was just walking around with his arms at 90 degree angles. Haha! Anyway, I'm excited to have a buff husband...eventually, even if right now he can't even lift his arm to put it around me!

PS- Luke's shirt in this picture....he tried to cut off the sleeves so that he could wear it as a work out shirt. But, he didn't take into account that it was a baseball tee. He just cut off the colored sleeves all the way up to the neck line! Luke is so funny! He's always making me laugh!

The moment we knew!

We found out last night that I'm pregnant! We couldn't be more excited! We've been thinking about how much our lives are going to change, and that we need to get a better vacuum!
I kind of had a feeling that I was pregnant all month! We finally went to Walgreen's and bought the pee stick! Turned out to be positive, so I grabbed the camera and said, "Luke! We have to take pictures now!"
Luke was kind of surprised that I wanted to take pictures of us with the pregnancy test. But he was in such a good mood that he didn't even bother to argue!

I've now posted one of those baby things that tell you how far along you are, and what the baby looks like. Right now the baby looks like a weird iguana or something!

Its ok, it will get cuter. I'm 36 days along, I'm feeling kinda nauseous. Nothing sounds good to eat and I can smell too much, and it makes things unappetizing.
We're hoping for a boy. Luke of course wants a little one to rough house with, and I've always wanted there to be a big brother to take care of the little girls we'll probably have. Either way, we'll be happy. It's pretty soon in the pregnancy, we hope and pray all goes well! But we're just too excited to keep it to ourselves!

Bloopers!

Luke was complaining about how we had our wedding pictures up on our blog. He said, "it was two years ago! It's old news." So, we went to Bidwell Park today to take some new pictures. It was just him and me, so we took a camera and the tri-pod. I was the one positioning the camera while Mr. Grumpy pants waited for me to get the camera set up in the right spot. After a while, he got silly and I took these pictures of him. We'll call them, "the bloopers". He cracks me up. Always trying to be the male model he was born to be.

Walking down hilarious memory lane...

So, I was looking at some of my old pictures that I have of Luke and me before we were dating and were just friends. I came across Melissa Passantino and my themed birthday party we had for our 19Th birthday. Our theme of Course was "White Trash Birthday Bash!!!!" I remember we made really funny party invitations that were just crumpled up pieces of paper with a picture of a hillbilly. The hillbilly had a word bubble that told everyone to come to the party. At the party we had name tags that people would wear so they would have "white trash" names. Mine was Aggie-May. Luke's name was Billy-Bob (classic). We also had different games that we played including, "who's knocked up?"- a pregnancy test game, color that velvet NASCAR poster, And of course trashcan basketball. Then after all of the games we ate a birthday cake made of Twinkies. When our bellies were nice and full, we went out on the town to play a game of cops and robbers in a trailer park. We felt that it was only fitting for a white trash birthday bash to end with someone going to jail.


So, here is Melissa and me posing in our white trash outfits. We told everyone since it was a themed party, that everyone had to dress up. Melissa and I went shopping at one of the local thrift stores where we purchased our lovely attire. I opted for a pink and black lacy tank top covered with a leopard print sweater. Now, you cant see my pants, but let me assure you, they were AMAZING! They were of course tight denim stretch jeans that had slits on the outsides of the leg. Then those slits were laced up (like shoe laces) with leather laces! YES! I wore a pare of plastic white and blue Velcro platforms that Uncle Boyd bought from payless for 3.00. He bought these as a joke for me for my birthday one year. I held on to them because I knew that I would be able to wear them as a joke for something. I'm so glad that I kept them because they were perfect! I chose to style my hair after Peg Bundy. I didn't have a picture of Luke, but I just blew up the picture that I had of him in the group. Luke came with his group of family and friends that he's been friends with forever. While we were friends and would always hang out, our group dubbed them "The Boys". The boys were so fun and came dressed up too. We were so excited that they actually dressed up (We didn't think that they were going to)! So when Luke came in a jacket-vest without a shirt on underneath, I laughed so hard! I have no idea what he's holding up in this picture. But he is doing one of his famous "Luke faces".



Now here's a picture of me and Chad Waggstaff that I just had to put in here!! His white trash name was Peety Jr. Chad slicked back his hair and he had cheese wiz all over his wife beater (how absolutely white trash). We of course we had cheese wiz at our party, and only Chad would have a cheese wiz fight with someone. This was such a totally fun party and a silly night. I wish that we still had fun themed parties like this!! I might have to start a new tradition and get these themed parties going again!!

I've been tagged twice!!

Leah and Dawn tagged me!!
Here are the rules:
Link the Person who Tagged you.
Mention rules on your blog.
Tell about 6 quirks of yours.
Tag 6 fellow bloggers to do the same.
Leave a comment to let them know.

I don't know enough people on Blogger to tag 6 People.
I'm not that popular I guess...haha
So, I'm just going to answer the questions!

1. I read the entire twilight series in 1 week (including midnight sun). I have a huge crush on Edward Cullen (Luke knows). And I used to Hate Jacob Black. I think that I got a little too into the series...

2. I get really grumpy when I'm hungry.

3. I play sims 2 a lot. I'm Waitng for sims 3 to come out this spring!

4. I'm a primary teacher and when the kids do weird things (because you know kids do weird things) I just straight up say to them, "You're weird". Haha! I like to laugh at them a lot. I think that kids are nerds.

5. I'm obsessed with picking at Luke's back...gross. He hates it.

6. I carry/hold my dog Josie in my arms like she's a baby. She likes it.

Outlaws Baseball Game

We had a fun time with the fam at an Outlaws game. Luke's parents won the raffle and so we got to sit on the couches by the team's dugout! Come to think of it, I don't know how much of a treat it was...those couches must be nasty! Haha, at least they were comfortable.
I accedently took this video sideways on my phone, and I don't know how to flip it. But its a cute video of Rylee dancing the Chicken Dance followed by the YMCA. She's so hilarious!

Are anyone else's dogs as weird as mine?

Here's a really weird/funny/annoying thing that Rocky does. He gets OBSESSIVE over the bathtub (PS- I've tried to clean it with all my might...its just old and stained) Josie taught him to drink out of the bathtub. Now he will just stand in there until I make him get out, because he's a weirdo. Now, because I wont turn on the water for him, he's started sticking his nose down the drain and breathing into it. Hahaha, it makes this loud noise, but I laugh every time I hear him doing it.

Now I just try and keep the bathroom shut at all times. Their water bowls are always full, I don't know why they like to drink out of the tub! Funny dogs!

Josie always seems to eat the big bones, while Rocky prefers the small bones. Josie thought that this was a particularly good bone, so she was trying to find a good hiding spot for it, so that Rocky wouldn't find it. We had a good laugh watching her trying to carry around the bone and trying to hide it.

The closet seemed like a good spot

But, then she changed her mind. All the hours of gnawing on the bone, she's barely nibbled off one corner of it.