it's the final countdown...

hi! it's luke, with a few recent pictures to start things off...

we've been getting ready for our week-long trip to the UP (upper peninsula, of michigan), so things have been a little silly around here, as you can see above and are about to see below... as we've mentioned before, ben loves his "grampee shorts" and here he is pulling them up in a goofy way...

and then wearing them gangster style, which was "cool" for certain boys to do when momma was in high school, but she really hopes this is no longer the trend, although she thought it was hilarious when ben was doing it at the time (diaper and all)...

(that container above was empty, by the way, but that doesn't stop ben from pretending...) and here he is playing with a few letter tiles that momma made for him to practice learning his lowercase letters using pictures of his favorite things (better pictures of those another time). she had daddy cut some wood, then sanded, painted, drew/colored, and mod podged 26 different tiles, which it turns out ben loves... because they make perfect "yellow ones." here he is lining them up just so...

and driving the new car over them (yes, momma is a little worried about his OCD characteristics, but what can ya do?)...

and giving a silly face for all the pictures (featuring daddy's cuero hat - go gobblers!)

more silly pictures of ben...

playing with noah's ark (notice the polka dot socks, clearly momma's, which he's been wearing around the house for 2 days)...

messy face from a "hamburger samich"...

okay, i guess that's all. i realize it wasn't much, but we've been busy packing and getting ready for our big trip and will have much to report and share afterwards!! can't wait to see all our lehman family relatives!! and definitely are missing our matthys family relatives and look forward to seeing you sometime soon after we get back. bye!