Superbowl...

We were in a total dilemma for the Superbowl this year: both my dad and our good friends, the Wibergs, recently purchased big screen TVs! We did not know where to go--so many options! :) We decided to go to both. We always love hanging out with the Wibergs and this time was no different! Lots of yummy food, lots of fun people and lots and lots of football!

By now in his lifetime, Tucker is totally used to being the only boy at any functions involving the Wibergs or the McLuskies! :) Here he is with all of his lady friends, including Madison! (even though she is a little old for him!) :)

And here are us old ladies...(pre-photo shoot!) :)

We then headed over to my parents house for the last half of the game. More good food, and more good company! :) Here is Tucker tickling his dads AND Angie's feet at the same time. He loves to tickle!

Tucker was on a total sugar high by this point in the evening...

And life goes on...

This is what happens when you've been married for over 5 years...

Your wedding guest picture book that you slaved to make for your wedding day becomes a racing ramp for hot wheels...

and the shoes you wore on your wedding day become your work shoes in the basement after you wore them when your basement flooded and you needed their height to walk through the water....

And such is life, isn't it wonderful!!! :)

Is it over yet?

Just wishin'...

and hopin'...

and dreamin'...

That one day we can again go out in our backyard and enjoy the great outdoors without getting frostbite!

new camera...

Just playing around with shutter speed on my new camera:

I'm thinking about framing it and putting it on our wall, whaddaya think?

(I think I still need to work on my Y's a little!) :)

Booty Shake...

This is my 100th post, and because it is such a big accomplishment, I wanted to celebrate by giving you all a little treat! Tucker loves to shake his booty and I finally got it on film. Because I am not so technically advanced yet that I know how to crop these videos, you have the entire two minutes of him saying goodnight to his dad. You probably only want to watch the first 30 seconds or so, after that I get pretty annoying. :) So...with that being said; goodnight from our home-and our booty-to yours...

**disclaimer: I don't claim that he is the best dancer yet, we're still working with him on that one; but it sure is cute!**

**Oh, and he usually shakes a little bit more, but in this video he's running as he is dancing, which makes it hard for him to shake it real good!**

ps... this is for you, Heather! :)

Keyton Turns Two...

My LITTLE brothers LITTLE boy, Keyton, turned two last week! We went down to Quincy, WA for the celebration! By we, I mean my friend Sadie and I. Doug and Sadie were here visiting and I couldn't miss Keytons birthday party; (Tucker wanted to go SO bad) so Sadie was kind enough to come with me. (what a good friend I have!) :) We hopped in the car with my parents and away we went for the day. Anyway, Doug and Ben had no problems with us leaving them for the day. We found them in the exact same spots in the living room as when we left. Still in their pajamas, X-box controllers in hand.

By far the prized possessions of the day were the Thomas the Tank Engine balloons that I brought him. He would have been happy with just those all day.

Tucker and Keyton are always happy to see each other:

Helping Kelli get ready for the guests:

Grandma loves her some Keyton:

Kelli, Sadie and I:

Decorating cookies is such a serious thing:

Cookie faces:

Eating the frosting first, of course:

Keyton wasn't exactly sure what to do with the candle, but luckily he had Tucker and his daddy to help him out! He just kind of smiled like this, enjoying the attention! :)

Keyton got the coolest Thomas the Tank Engine set from Grandma & Grandpa, and the boys were Thomas heaven!

If we didn't have to hurry home to our husbands who missed us dearly, we would have stayed and played longer! We wish Keyton was closer to play with more! Its so much fun having a cousin that is so close in age as Tucker!

Happy Birthday Keyton!

Old friends, Crafty things and such...

I'm going to start doing a Sunday Summary, so all that I miss throughout the week I will get to on Sunday. For posterity's sake! :) This week I have some things that are from the past 2-3 weeks, so hopefully from here on out, I won't have such mammoth posts! We'll see! :) I'm more of a picture person, so my documenting consists of a lot of pictures.

Here goes...

I've wanted to stay in a lot this past week. Just tired and in the winter lull...you know, after the holidays, its cold and wet outside, you just want to stay cozy and warm inside.

We have been doing a lot of hanging out at home:

Still playing with a lot of our fun toys from Christmas:

Tucker can't wait for it to warm up to take this baby outside! :)

I've had some old friends come in to town.

Emily was here for Christmas, her sisters threw a baby shower for her. It was fun seeing her and catching up! And Joette was there and it is always wonderful to see Joette! :)

Jessy came in to town this week. I always love having Jessy here and now its even more of a bonus because she brings that cute little Will of hers! :) Tucker and I love us some baby Will! :)We got together at her parents house with some old friends. My friend Gen also just had a little baby, Wyatt, 6 weeks ago! He's so adorable-I couldn't believe how good of a baby he was! Good thing that I have such great friends who are great mothers to teach me how to do things! :) We're just a bunch of tired, worn-out mama's now! :) (you certainly can't tell in this lovely picture, though!--that was sarcastic!!) :)

We were at the Enloe's watching American Idol this week and I think that Carter is becoming a bad influence on Tucker. He is a monkey man, he climbs on EVERYTHING! I think its adorable! :)

Next think I knew, Tucker was up on the counter with him and they were throwing magnets on the ground! We found them like this during one of our commercial breaks! :) Too Cute!

Olivia was getting into the American Idol spirit and put on a little show for us! Here she is rocking out...

And taking a bow...

And just trying to woo us judges in this one...

I've also been getting really crafty these days! I love being crafty and making and creating things. I'm not good at like coming up with my own unique things, but when I see things that I like, I can usually re-create them pretty easily! I made all of these necklace, bracelet and earring sets for my sister-in-laws on Ben's side of the family. I thought that they turned out pretty cute!

Doug and Sadie came into town from Seattle this weekend. Sadie is an awesome knitter and makes the cutest baby hats and mittens. She is going to be in a trade show next weekend in Seattle. We worked hard all weekend to get her prepared! We made a cute tablecloth for her booth and some cute vases to put on it! I think that they turned out great, if I do say so myself! We also made her some awesome fliers and business cards! We were working women!!!

Doug and Tucker both love their puffy vests, and Tucker was so excited to match Doug this weekend! :)

And of course, Tucker was following Buddy around and abusing him all weekend. He still hasn't learned the difference between loving on him and abusing him! Poor Buddy is probably very happy to be home and Tucker free! :) Here he is saying goodnight to Buddy!

Another side note about this week is the fact that our ward boundaries changed! A LOT (as in most all) of our good friends are out of our ward! We were excited for the changes at first, but it really hit us today as we went to church and felt kind of lonely with all of these new faces! I love change and welcome it and embrace it, so I'm not devastated. It's not like any of our friends moved, we still live the same distance away, we can still be friends. We have just been so used to sitting with our friends at church and being with them all of the time, going to activities, and meetings-it just won't be the same without them! I guess it's time to turn a new leaf (is that the phrase?) and get out of our comfort zone and meet some new people! Although, I'm sure our new friends could NEVER be as cool as our old friends!!! :)