Sears Family Vacation

I love my boys! We just returned from a fabulous vacation and it was so fun to see family, play with the boys and get quality time with Kent...we are already planning our next adventure.


Luke loves pillows! I finally bought a bedding set for our bed and while Kent doesn't care for the seven decorative pillows that came with it, Luke loves them and likes to "hide" in the pillows. I think it is his own personal heaven!

This past week we went to Cherry Hill (a RV and water park)to join my family for a huge family reunion. Kent had not met most of my extended family yet so it was really fun to introduce my hunk of a husband to all the craziness that is my family. He was a good sport and we all had a great time. The kids did so well on the flight and the whole trip that Kent and I have decided we can start taking family vacations for real! YEAH! Kent is voting for Disneyland but I want to wait until the boys are a bit older. I bet we go within the next six months though.

The only bummer is that we were so busy playing the water and trying to keep the little ones happy we did not taking any pictures-we will just have to go back soon and make sure to take pictures!

Luke was very brave and went down the "Double Dragon" (a waterslide that had dips, dark tunnels, and fog) with Kent three times. He thought it was pretty great until he came out into the pool at the end and went under water for a second or two. He kept telling anyone who would listen all about it: "Luke fall down go boom under water".

And Jack is just an angel. He wakes up each morning with the biggest smile and keeps them coming throughout the day. He is the easiest little guy and absolutely huge! He makes friends everywhere we go and draws lots of comments from people about how he is going to be a football player when he grows up. Time will tell!

Kent and I were even able to leave the kids with Grandma and Grandpa and go down the waterslides for about an hour. We had such a blast!

Happy 2009!

We woke up December 18th to SNOW and a lot of it! As much as we love the snow, we were afraid it was going to keep us from being with family for Christmas. But after being stuck in our apartment for four days, Kent dug out our car and we headed on the road to visit family!

We spent the next few days in Vancouver and Molalla celebrating Christmas with family and had so much fun! I hope this Christmas season was a blessed one for all.

2008 was a great year, but man did it fly by! 2009 is full of exciting plans for our family beginning with a cruise in February where I will be making a presentation and leaving the boys at home with Grandma. Kent and I are having mixed emotions about being away from our very young, adorable boys, but we are planning to have a blast!

Merry Christmas...and belated Thanksgiving and Halloween

We have our Christmas tree up, there is snow outside...it is starting to feel like Christmas! I would love to cuddle up with a good book or movie and drink some hot chocolate, but Jack doesn't do well with dairy, so no hot chocolate for me. And when I get a chance to rest from the day, I run straight to bed, so no movies or books either. I will save that for another year. This year I am very grateful for my busy days and by wonderful little boys. Luke is growing up and saying new words everyday: today he learned "poop" (by accident). He had a great time at the tree lot, he wasn't very interested in the trees but there were a lot of different blow up Christmas displays that he thought were cool and he loved the reindeer!

All I can say about Jack is that he is wonderful and perfect...that pretty much sums it up. He is two months and already over 15 pounds! He is a good eater and a good sleeper: he slept seven hours straight two nights last week. I am hoping this becomes a regular thing.

He was a purple people eater for Halloween, but he slept right through the trick or treating, so he didn't get any candy.




Sorry that it has been a while since the last update, but my boys keep me very busy. Just this week, Luke has perfected climbing out of his crib. And as fun as it is to wake up to his cute, smiling face next to our bed in the morning, it is torture to get him to go to sleep. It looks like he will get an early Christmas present of a toddler bed.

Below are some pictures of a farm we visited to pick up a pumpkin for Halloween (we never got around to carving it though).





Luke was a bat for Halloween and went to Microsoft to trick-or-treat around the offices. He kept trying to put his candy into the Microsoft employee's baskets, he didn't realize that he was supposed to take the candy from them-what a sweet kid.




Since the weather has turned cold, Luke has taken up a new hobby to replace going to the park: cooking! Almost every day Luke will pull a chair from the dining table to the kitchen and pull out a pan from under the oven: signaling that he is ready to create a masterpience. He has perfected pumpkin bread, muffins, and peanut butter cookies, but his favorite thing to do is eat the chocolate chips while I do the rest of the work.

Introducing Jack Kenan Sears

He is finally here and we are so estatic!!! He needed a little extra nudge (I was induced), but he arrived safely on October 6th at 3:10 p.m. Weighing in at a hefty 9 pounds, 11.4 ounces, there is no doubt he was ready to be born. The labor went really fast and was a totally different experience than Luke's birth, but since I have a healthy baby I can't complain. I was really afraid I was going to need a c-section, but I only pushed for about seven minutes!




Yes, I was huge! In fact, a hospital employee asked if I was having twins when we arrived for the induction. Lucky for her, I was in such a good mood since I was finally going to have this baby that I didn't kick her in the shin.

Luke has been great about sharing the spotlight. We video taped the first meeting of Luke and Jack; expecting Luke to throw a bit of a fuss when Mom and Dad were suddenly paying attention to another little one. Instead, Luke got a big smile on his face and now loves saying "Jack" which sounds more like "Quack" and pushing Jack in his baby swing. Life is good!

Grandpa and Grandma Sears and Grandma Puffer were all able to come up and hang out at the hospital until Jack was born. Grandma Puffer stayed and watched Luke which was a huge help and Grandpa Puffer came a few days later to play with Luke and Jack too. It is so nice to have family so close!

A few days earlier, we tried on Luke's Halloween costume. I had tried to save a few bucks by buying a costume after halloween last year to use this year. As the pictures show, that plan backfired. Luke now has a new bat costume that he will wear this year. Pictures of that are to come...

Really...he should be here any time!

Jack are you listening? He has been an angel thus far giving me a very easy pregnancy, but now I am overdue and anxious to meet the newest man in my life I want to take away his allowance and ground him if he doesn't come soon!
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He should be here anytime!!!

So Kent and I, not to mention grandparents and extended family, have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of Jack. My doctor started telling me three weeks ago that he (Jack) was ready and could come at any time. My due date has pasted, my doctor is on vacation, and I am starting to wonder if Jack is ever going to join the outside world.

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