We spent 10 days out of town around Thanksgiving. We had a 3 day adoption workshop to attend in Tulsa and decided it wasn't worth the gas money to come home and turn around to go back for Thanksgiving. Luke and I made turkey cupcakes while we were hanging out at Nana and Papa's.
They turned out pretty cute!
Luke had a blast playing with this pink Barbie guitar at Granny's house. Don't tell anyone, but I think he's getting his own for Christmas! :)
Here is Luke and Ryan playing Ryan's bass guitar.
The cousins playing tag! 
We got home late on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, but we HAD to get the tree up that night too! We had fun even though it was rushed.
We went to the Christmas Parade at the beginning of the month with Luke's friend Silas. The low was 7 that night! It was very cold. We had debated taking Luke since he was on antibiotic for double ear infections. We took him and he had a good time. 
Luke's friend Presley came over last week. They had a great time playing and wanted to pose for a picture.
Last weekend we took some of our girls to The Revolve conference. This was the first time we had to take Luke with us. Our babysitters - Nana, Papa and Jen - were busy that weekend. He did great and had a great time dancing to the music.
I am so proud of him. During the Stellar Kart concert he told me - as he was dancing - that he was going to be a rockstar and sing and play the guitar when he grew up. This mommy thinks he can do just that!
Last night was Luke's preschool program. I didn't get a good pic of him on the stage, but he did a great job. Another proud mommy moment - The kids answered questions about Christmas at school. On the question about why we celebrated Christmas Luke answered Jesus! Mommy and Daddy were both very proud.
Santa came to visit since the kids did so good. The 2nd question on the questionnaire was who did they want to visit at Christmas. Luke's answer was Santa because he brings him presents.
Papa came to Luke's program last night! Luke was really excited that he got to come.
This is what happens when you get your child completely off of his schedule! :)
We took Luke's pic on the stairs to heaven. He did so good. On the last night he waved so big to the audience. We had been trying to get him to do that all week. I think the real reason that he did that is because since he was elevated in "heaven" he could see in the audience and saw a friend. His bribery was going to see the movie Astro Boy so we did that Friday night. 
He got to wear his Halloween costume to school on Friday and they went to a nursing home. He was Bumblebee this year. He is in love with Transformers right now.
On Halloween night our church had a Harvest Party. He won a huge water gun and got some candy so he was one happy Bumblebee.
He got to wear a birthday crown and got a present. His teacher took his picture with me and Daniel for the book they make of the years events. He had a really good time.
On Friday night Nana, Papa, Aunt Jen and Granny came to our house. Luke "read" Granny his Transformers book. His memory amazes me. I can read him a book a few times and he has the thing memorized. The Transformers book isn't a short book either.
Friday night he opened up a present from Aunt Jen's boyfriend. He had been wanting that Chick Hicks Hauler.
We had a Thomas Party on Saturday! I didn't get too many pictures since things were kind of crazy and the pics I did get had other kids in them. I didn't want to post them without their parents permission - but here are a few! :)
Getting ready for our friends to come! Luke is really into big scary pumpkin heads this year. He loves the book called The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid Of Anything. If you haven't read it you should check it out!
He had a great day and ended up with lots of fun stuff! He has really enjoyed playing with all his new things.
I haven't updated since Luke's 1st day of school, so honestly I can't remember everything that has gone on.
My boy loves his trains. His room is generally a train lovers paradise. Occasionally he gets creative and will take his track apart to make a different track which generally results in his track being torn apart. It irritates daddy when this happens since he's the track builder at our house.
We celebrated Grandparents Day with Nana and Papa. Luke was learning about tadpoles and frogs at school. He had learned a tadpole song so we made a tadpole for their present. Then after we got home I discovered that I had already bought their present so I guess I have both of their birthdays covered. :)
We got to make a pennant for school. It was a lot of fun!
Luke also was learning about catepillars and cocoons/chrysalis at school. We went to mom's class and they had a chrysalis. Luke wanted one too! Nana was happy to oblige. She brought Luke a chrysalis. (It was already spun by the time she got to our house) We watched it for about a week and then one day Luke ran out of his bedroom and said "It hatched! It hatched!" The boy was so excited and Silas was here playing so that made it even more fun. 
Daddy was home for lunch so he helped us let it go. I was afraid that Luke was going to be upset so we talked about how the butterfly was going to go explore the world. It hung out for a few hours and then left. That evening Daniel and I were sitting on the back porch watching Luke play when we found a butterfly wing. Daniel was trying to hide it from Luke so he wouldn't see it and see that his butterfly died. For another full week Luke talked about his butterfly and how it was a catepillar. He'd say that the catepillar ate and ate and ate. Then it pooped and pooped and pooped. Then spun his chrysalis and then the chrysalis hatched. We let it go and it went to explore the world. This went on for about a week. One morning he started the story again but kept going. He ended the story with saying that he stepped on a butterfly on his slide. That little stinker had known for a week that his butterfly was dead. :) 
Luke had tons of fun helping Daddy fill in holes in the backyard.
Here's Daddy and Lukas watching the homecoming parade last Friday.
We celebrated tonight by going out to dinner and with cupcakes and ice cream!
Luke's present this year was a t-shirt from Ha Long Bay. He is anxious to wear it.
Luke had an eventful morning - He cut his hair. Aunt Jen says every kid needs to cut their hair at least once. I'm not so sure about that. I ended up laughing though instead of getting on to him too hard. He is grounded from his scissors for a week though.
Here's a cute pic of Luke playing his banjo that we made. He thinks he is a rock star!
Our cute little guy!
Lukas and Ally - the ring bearer and flower girl
Right before he prepared to walk down the aisle. Kori and Trevor gave this Bumblebee to him last night, but I wouldn't let him open it until he actually did the deed.
Right after the I Do's were said. I accidentally cut Bumblebee out of the picture.
With his bribes - Bumblebee and a sucker!
Luke had a blast playing the games.
His favorite part was driving the go karts with his daddy. They won first place! He even has a ribbon to prove it and he is very proud of it. 
After dinner we went to the movies and saw Up. We all liked it. It was in 3D and Luke didn't like wearing the glasses, but other than that we all had fun.
Friday morning we went to the zoo. The zoo trip didn't exactly go as planned. We overslept that morning and then when we got there they were having free admission. It was a mad house. On top of that I didn't bring a stroller because I thought Luke would want to walk around and see the animals. We had fun but it would have helped if we would have brought our stroller.
We left around 2:00 because Luke was getting cranky and went back to the hotel so Luke could take a nap. Funny note - We had slept at church camp so much this summer that when we were in the car going back to the hotel he kept calling it church camp.
By the time Luke woke up from his nap it was dinner time. We walked to Abuelo's. It was really good. After that we went and road the boats on the canal. Then we went and saw Ice Age 3. I haven't seen the first 2 all the way through but I think that I liked that better than Up.
This fountain was outside the movie theatre. Luke loved it. We stood here probably 4 times while he looked in.