So Many Books...

...so little time!

I have a gazillion books to read right now! I've tried reading 2 at once, but that usually doesn't work for me because I get into 1 of them and never read the other one. I had a hard time deciding which book to read to first. Levi and I were given Love & War by John Eldredge, Facing Your Giants by Max Lucado, just to name a few! Then there's the fun girly ones by Karen Kingsbury, Sophie Kinsella and Jodi Picoult. Oh my!

I finally decided to read one that I knew would go quick by Jodi Picoult. (She wrote My Sister's Keeper.) Her books are phenomenal! In my opinion anyways :) This time I am reading Harvesting the Heart. It's about a girl named Paige who's mother leaves her when she is 5 and how Paige grew up not knowing how to be a good mother or a wife. Following in her mother's footsteps, Paige left her father the day after her high school graduation. She then met someone and is now married with a baby, but coincidentally, she has left them both in search of all the answers; her mother.

Does it sound good to you?! I am almost finished. I am at the part where Paige has gone back to her husband Michael and baby Max (something her mom never did, because in the end, she doesn't want to be like her mom after all; the leaving part anyways) but her Husband won't take her back....dun dun duuun! Haha :)

I'm already thinking what I should read next! Until then, here's to Jodi Picoult!

Mason - on the job

Mason has been here and there and everywhere! When Levi and I were working on redoing a house, we would take Mason with us. He's been to a lot of places in his 6 months! Here are some picture of Mason on the job - looking cute as always :)

Is it time to go home now?

He LOVES water bottles! He would run around the backyard and lay on the unplanted trees (thanks Mason) and chew on his water bottle

Digging, digging, digging!!

Do I have any dirt on my nose??

I spy a cute puppy in the front seat! (Every time we hit the unlock button, his little head pops up from the seat...its pretty funny)

Hanging out with the girls!

sun bathing

"What aisle is the dog on?"

This is the life!

Mason's Mimi

My mom's mom, grandma Donna, has been making blankets for the family called mimi's. I was brought home from the hospital in my original mimi, which I still use today, (Its on our bed right now!) it's seen its better days. I've received a few new ones over the years, but my first mimi is still my favorite. It's so soft and warn in, I love it.

When Levi and I were engaged grandma made Levi his very one mimi, one that was even long enough for him. He was officially part of the family!

About a month ago I got a package from my mom for Mason. What could it be?!

It was wrapped so cute with little dog stickers!

It was his very own mimi!! Now Mason is officially part of the family!

She also sent some cute ribbon and more dog stickers...which will be perfect for when I do a scrapbook for Mason :)

She even made this cute tag! At first I thought she bought the present it was wrapped so nice!

Grandma, I love my new mimi. Thank you for making it just for me!

Love, Mason

Busy, busy, busy!

So much has happened in the last month that I am just now getting around to updating our blog! Whew! What a whirlwind of a month. Can't wait to fill you in on what's been going on!

The Bachelor Finale

Who will it be, Tenley or Vienna?! We all want to see him choose Tenley(we can only hope!)...they can live happily ever after with no ex-husbands and dance their little hearts away for ever and ever. Or, he could choose Vienna...and hang out with the crocodiles on the swap all day.....Either choice, tonights the big night and I'm pretty sure it will be

the MOST dramatic finale EVER! :)

Disneyland

Before we left California, we went to Disneyland for the day. I love how that place makes we feel like a kid again. I get so excited and can't wait to go on all the rides!

Notice who won ;)

Emma and Travis (some great friends of ours :) met up with us later on in the day. It was so fun to hang out with them and go on some rides together. Travis HATES the tea cups BUT we convinced him to go on it just once for us. He hesitantly agreed as long as we didn't spin the wheel.....but once we all squeezed in one small (pink) tea cup, we asked, "could we spin it just once?" And one time turned into two times, and so on and so on :)

Until we see you again Disneyland...you've been fun!

Indoor Sky Diving

For Mike's birthday (Levi's dad) which was back in January the Luster family went indoor skydiving. I've never been real skydiving or indoor skydiving. Of course I was scared at first but a little bit excited too ;) When we pulled up a group of men from the Army were just about to land from doing a few jumps. You can do real skydiving there also. They made the landing part look like a breeze. But then again they've done it 100 times, too. Once we got signed up we had to wait for the group in front of us to finish. They were doing twists, two people at once, and all sorts of tricks...again, they made it look easy. We went through a short tutorial, and then put on our jump suits. I felt like I was getting ready to rob a bank!

Here's Levi, Mike and Tanner in their jump suits

Here's Levi and I with our hats and goggles on. Cute, right?!

Each person got to go for two 2 minute sessions. On the first turn they help you in and helped you maintain the form they gave you in the tutorial

If you got too close to the walls or ground, you just push off to get back into the middle

"Cheese!"

It gets cold inside because the HUGE fans under the ground are pushing up so much air.

Of course Levi was good :)

On our second turn in the last 10 seconds, they hold onto you and twirl you allll the way up to the top. That was the best part! It's hard to tell in this picture but you go up pretty far

Everything we were doing that day was very basic. So if we were to go again, we could learn how to stand up, do flips, make circles, etc. Our instructors were very good at it, which they should be :)

Now onto the real thing!! ;)