Frederick Meijer Gardens

The Sunday before Christmas, we visited Frederick Meijer Gardens and the "Festival of Trees" with our friends Jeff, Kellye and their little boy Carson and new baby, Dylan! We had so much fun!

The Loucks Family on a "sleigh ride" Ha!




Easton and Carson loving the trains!

Easton and Carson being best buds!

Easton staring at....

....staring a the awesome train of course!

Easton and Carson chasing these darling little birds that kept running around

Merry Christmas!!

Etoe looking sad, he didn't want to pose for a picture! He wanted to chase the trains!!

Aaaand, our lovely family again! Fun was had by all!

Visiting Santa....

So, I am still play "catch up" with photos from the holidays....here are some more!


The week before Christmas we brought Easton to see Santa. Unfortunately, this Santa was MEAN!

Easton and the mean Santa.

Easton hugging daddy for taking him on the carousel, because that is really all he wanted :-) So sweet!

Happy Birthday Sweet Boy!

Easton Ryan ~ 2 years ago today you change the lives of your mommy and daddy forever. Your presence has made a gloriously delicious wreck of our hearts and your giggles, smiles, hugs and kisses nuture our souls. You are a dream come true and the best little boy we could ever ask for. No one compares to you, our hearts are yours....forever and forever.

We love you, happy second birthday Toey Toe

Love,

Mommom and Daddy

Christmas Happenings #1 - 1st Annual Loucks Ugly Sweater Christmas Party

I have been really bad at updating lately! I am so sorry! The Christmas holiday season is always so busy and also with taking care of my family, working and starting up my new business, I have been a busy girl! The next couple of days I will be updating with our Christmas happenings from this season.

First, I will give you some pics from the 1st Annual Loucks Ugly Sweater Christmas Party that we hosted for a group of our friends, we had a blast! :-) There are tons of pics, I will share just a few funny ones :-)

Ryan's "treasure" from the White Elephant Gift Exchange....we have named him Paco.



Amanda got new Pez dispensers - Hello Kitty - I was jealous. Check out her shoulder pads and her fiance's ugly shirt, how did he even get invited?! ;-P



Showing off the fugly sweaters! Woo hoo!

Easton thinking he's hot stuff, even with a face full of peanut butter. He was having so much fun!

Host and Hostess

Mr. Josh loading our child up on copious amounts of cheese. Easton loves Mr. Josh.

But Easton does not love Mr. Josh as much as he loves Ms. Jessica. Holy cow he loves her!

Can't you tell?

The Smallegan and Place boys in all of their fugly sweaterness!

Our little hambone being the life of the party!



VERY excited for company!

The college graduate! WOOT! We are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO proud of you buddy!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

From our family to yours....

The Elegant Elle

This has nothing to do with our "family" per se, but I wanted to let all of our readers know that I have opened an Etsy shop called The Elegant Elle, you can find it here: http://theelegantelle.etsy.com

I have more items that will be going up in the next couple of weeks including headbands and young girl hair accessories (although the ones already listed also look so classy on a little lady!). Please let me know if you're interested in a custom order! Oh, and, if you're a local friend or family member, let me know what you'd like and you can purchase without using Etsy and by pass all of the shipping! Thank you!

All he wants to do is, all he wants to do is dance!

This weekend we went to downtown Holland to enjoy some of the Christmas festivities they had going on and then we enjoyed a meal at New Holland Brewery. Easton loved dancing after dinner with our friend's kids, Emily and Haleigh!