California

We went to California for a week with Barrett's family and had a lot of fun. Barrett's brother Lincoln just got home from his mission so it was fun to all be together again. Barrett's other brother Clayton got married the day before we left so he and his wife Katie met up with us after a couple of days. We did LegoLand, SeaWorld and spend a lot of time just hanging out on the beach.

Barrett and all of his siblings

All of us (minus Kylie who is taking the picture) hanging out

Barrett explaining all about boogie boarding to Luke

Luke catching his first wave

Wendy and her sand castle masterpiece

love this picture of Luke, he looks like a super hero

Dinner at Ruby's on the pier

Legoland

Luke loved this ride

SeaWorld

Luke thought this was Bruce from Finding Nemo

More Bruce

He loved every minute of SeaWorld

Luke LOVED the dolphins, he could have sat and watched them all day

Barrett catching a wave

We had quite a scare while we were there. Barrett and I ran to get a smoothie and while we were gone Luke pushed out the screen on the window and fell about 10 feet down to the next. Getting that phone call was the scariest moment of being a parent for sure. It ended up that Luke was just fine after some crying and motrin. He actually started limping a day or two ago so we took him to get x-rays just to make sure everything is okay. Nothing is broken, the doctor thinks his hip and leg are just bruised and sore. We are sure grateful that Luke is okay and nothing serious happened to him, it makes me sick to think about what could have happened. We definitely count it as a miracle. Below is a picture of the window he fell out of and where he landed on the deck.

Luke's favorite activity was playing buckets in this sand box. He was out there anytime he could get someone to play with him.

Fun times!

Busy Month

We have had a super busy past month, so here is the rundown. Once again, this is my family journal/scrapbook so if you don't want to see a plethora of pictures of Luke, stop now!

Family Reunion
Barrett's family had a family reunion at the beginning of the month. It started with a boating trip to Dear Creek. Luke loves to knee board and he thinks it is always his turn.

Knee Boarding with Dad

Luke and Uncle Cake

Kylie Looking like a Pro!

The next day we all met up at a park and ate, visited and played games. Luke had a blast with all of his second cousins.

Luke absolutely adores his Great Grandpa "Pops" and he loved that Pops has these cool new wheels while he is recovering from foot surgery. It was so cute to see them cruising around.

Can't forget about the pie eating contest!

Weekend Getaway

A couple of weeks ago we went to Midway to our friends, the Hess', cabin with several other families. We had such a great time. We ate (and ate and ate), played games, had fun at the lake, and went fishing. It was such great weekend. Thanks to all of our great friends and especially the Hess family for making it possible!

When we got there on Friday we went over to the fishing pond, the building was closed so we just played in the water and at the park. I took about 6 pictures of these cuties and not one of them was looking at the camera in any of the 6 pictures!

Sophie, Luke and Olivia

Cam, Luke and Olivia

Luke and all his girlfriends back at the cabin

Luke and Jack "playing" Guess Who at the cabin

Friday afternoon we were finally able to go fishing after it finally stopped raining and hailing. Luke loved it, but I think Barrett liked it just as much. He loved trying to teach Luke and trying to get him to hold the pole up. It was really cute to watch the two of them together. Luke talked about it non stop and has asked several times since to go fishing.

Luke kept checking on the worms

Luke checking out Christian's catch

Playing With Friends

My friend Nikki brought two of her kids, Annie Kate and Henry, over to play one afternoon and Luke was in Heaven! He has only played with them a couple of times but he just thinks they are the greatest.

Luke giving Annie Kate loves

Having fun with Henry

Taking a break to have a snack and watch a show

Camping

Last weekend we went camping with the Gonzalez's. What a great time. We camped up near Pineview and it was great to get away. Luke and Jack love hanging out, so they thought this was the greatest thing ever. Thanks to the Gonzalez's for always putting up with the Morley's so we can have great adventures!

Buddies

We took the boys down to the river so the they could cool off and throw rocks

They kept sitting in the river so finally we just took their shorts off and let them go in their diapers. They thought that was pretty cool.

The boys building a dam

Heading back to camp

Busy month, lots of fun, great memories, fantastic friends and the month is still not over....!

Lake Powell, Baby!

Over the 24th of July Barrett and I went camping at Lake Powell with my brother Gary's family and the Tidwell's (Luke stayed at Grandma's house). Lake Powell happens to be Barrett's favorite place on earth so it didn't take much to talk him into going! I love to see how excited and happy he gets when we get our first glimpse of the lake. He is literally like a kid in a candy store. We had a blast! (I had a lot of fun editing most of the pic's with photoshop)

We found a great camping spot

Everyone soaking on "the island"

My attempts at wakeboarding

Some of Barrett's awesome jumps

Fun Times at Powell!