Luke learned a very important lesson last week during his bed time routine. Before bed we always read Luke a Bible story. On this particular evening Luke and Daddy made a fort on his bunk bed to do their reading in so I stayed out of things so they could have their guy time. During this Bible story Luke learned that the most important thing that he could do is to love God. He says all the time "I love God" and "Jesus came back from the dead". I am amazed at how much he knows to just be 2 years old.As for other things going on since I last updated - We took some of our teenagers to the Acquire the Fire youth conference. We had a really good time, but got home incredibly late or should I say early Sunday morning.
This is just a cute pic - I love this shirt. I always see little girl shirts that say "Sweet" and I always say that when I have a little girl she needs that shirt. Well, this is the first boy shirt that I have seen that says "Sweet". Just kind of a play off of our name!
The weekend after Acquire the Fire we went back to Tulsa while Daniel was at a youth pastor conference. We hung out with Nana, Papa and Aunt Jen. We also had lunch with Sarah, Andrew and Heather.
Sarah and Luke are so cute. Luke was tired when we got to McDonald's and it took him a little while to get down and play, but they ended up having a really good time.
Last weekend was the prom for the town that we live in. Kori came by our house to get her picture taken with her other boyfriend.
You can't see it very good in this picture, but Luke likes to run around the house in his briefs and Lightning McQueen shoes. It is so cute!!!On a different note, Daniel and I had hoped to begin an adoption from Vietnam soon. It looks like Vietnam and the US are terminating their adoption agreement on Sept. 1. This makes us both really sad. If they don't have things worked out by next summer, we are seriously considering beginning the adoption process from India. We are very excited about that possibility, but also sad about the children that will remain in orphanages because of the termination of adoptions between VN and the US. Please pray that they will be able to work things out and come up with a transparent adoption process.
At the end of March we spent the night with Granny and went to my Grandma's birthday party. Luke had lots of fun playing with cousins. Morganne introduced Luke to Elmo Play Station games. He has had loads of fun playing them at home. He is learning numbers and letters with the games.
Makayla spent the night with us at Granny's. Kayla and Luke had so much fun playing together Fri. night and Saturday. Luke was asleep when we left and the first thing that he said when he woke up was - "Where's Kayla?".
We celebrated Daniel's 27th birthday. Happy Birthday Daniel!
Here is Luke with a student from our youth ministry. He's a pretty special boy!
He has so much fun coloring eggs. He enjoyed it last year, but I think he had even more fun this year. We really didn't do anything else exciting until yesterday. One of the churches in town puts on a big Easter egg hunt. We decided to go to it on Saturday.
Luke absolutely loves to hunt eggs. He loves the candy inside the egg even more! :)
Daniel didn't want to tell Luke that the Easter Bunny came, but something came last night and hid all of Luke's eggs and left presents. He really liked the candy in those eggs also.
We had an egg hunt at church today. He got lots of eggs there!
Someone was ready for a nap after all that fun!
Daniel has really been working with Luke about the real meaning of Easter. Luke can say that Jesus came back from the dead. I know he doesn't really know what that means, but it is so neat to hear him say it. 
Funny side note to the story - Luke had done so good about pottying that day. He stayed dry traveling, through lunch and through the first part of the show. At intermission I took him to the bathroom and he went. They were selling Elmo balloons at intermission and Luke wanted one. Daniel didn't want to buy one then because he didn't want to wrestle with it through the second half of the show. There weren't many left and I was bound and determined to get Luke one after the show. After the show I made a mad dash for the salesman and paid $8 for this Elmo balloon. We made sure it was nice and secure so it wouldn't fly away on our way to the car. 
Here is Luke back in the car with the coveted Elmo balloon. We headed to bricktown to walk around for a little while before we had dinner. 
We ate and headed to the car to come home. Well, Daniel had both the drivers door open and Luke's door. You guessed it. The balloon flew out the drivers door. I was on the passenger side and couldn't catch it in time. We watched the $8 balloon fly away. Luke was already tired, so he was in the back seat almost in tears. I made Daniel stop on our way home so I could go into Dollar Tree and get Luke another balloon. The replacement balloon isn't as cute but it is still a balloon. All in all it was a really great day. Here are some pictures from the show!
