Night of Musicals!

Last night our fellow Austinite, Rachel, came over for a night of musical watching. We started with "Sunday School Musical" which is probably my new favorite movie, imdb didn't think so though.
We decided to finish the night off strong with the most amazing HSM yet!! I loved it and I can't wait until College Musical :) haha...I'm just glad I had someone to watch it with, however I totally would've watched by myself too (but don't be fooled, Luke watched it with us and loved it). It was awesome, imdb didn't seem to think so either, hmm I don't know about imdb's judgment though, remember they gave "Blade Runner" an 8.3.
Does anyone else see a resemblance with these movie posters?

(Hint: I want HSM3 for my birthday)

Canoe! (again)

It was beautiful again after church on Sunday, and our friends Sam & Chelsea wanted to go canoeing...good thing we have a canoe!
Chelsea and I got to just go for a ride while the boys did all the work, then we watched as they loaded the canoe back on the Yukon. What a life :)After canoeing, we went back to our pad and watched "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Which is a very unique and pretty funny movie. And then we played guitar hero and other games, well the boys played video games while Chelsea and I played cards and other board games. This is Chelsea's first attempt at guitar hero...

Valentine's Weekend Surprise!

Ok so if any of you knows Luke, you know that he's always surprising me for Valentine's day. It started the year we were engaged when he put 315 paper hearts with "lovey dovey" phrases (like you are my sunshine and te amore) all over my yard in College Station. But because that wasn't enough, he made a life-size blowup of himself holding roses. (One of his gifts from me that year was a "I heart Stephanie" shirt :) )

Feb. 14, 2007, our first marrieds Valentines, he filled my cube at work with balloons and rose pedals. I think he was a little nervous that day because I wasn't feeling well and didn't go in to work until lunch; he didn't want all that work to go to waste :) We also stayed in downtown Austin and saw "The Lion King" on broadway.
Last year he surprised me with a trip to Big Bend. The morning of Valentine's my car wouldn't start, so I called Luke and he told me to check the mailbox for a clue. Our mailbox was one of those you had to walk around the corner to, so when I got that clue it told me I shouldn't have left my car unlocked because it was stolen when I got back to the house. Then there was a blindfold for me with a note telling me to stand at the end of the driveway and wait to be picked up. I thought this was all just a show for a breakfast or something, but we ended up driving to the border of Mexico, so I knew I wasn't going in to work that day or the next. My co-workers knew about the trip, and tried to get me to a "stopping point" the day before we left. (The picture is us canoeing on the Rio Grande)

So this year I should've known something was going to happen. I really didn't think we were going to do anything because we just bought a camera and canoe and we're going on a cruise in June. But maybe I won't be so oblivious next year. For a week or so leading up to last weekend, he kept saying 1000 or texting 1000 or emailing 1000, so I was like what is the deal with 1000?? Well when he got home from work on Friday he said pack a bag we're leaving. So of course he didn't give me any hints as to what to bring, any question I asked he answered "sure, bring it" which is frustrating :) Anyway, he told me to dress up and kept saying 1000. We got in the car and I had to drive, I was like, I can't drive, I don't know where we're going....follow the gps, that's all I got. So we ended up in Virginia Beach for a weekend getaway. It was very relaxing and fun just getting to hang out and not worry about anything. Oh that Luke, how I love him. Oh yeah, so I guess you want to know what 1000 means. Well he calculated that we would've been married for 1000 days on March 6, 2009 and he decided that's not that far from Valentine's day, let's make a date out of it, so he decided to celebrate early, which threw me off of course :)

So here's the view from our room. Virginia Beach isn't such a happening place in February, go figure..
We decided to sit on the beach and read/talk...but Luke got too cold :) so we went back to the room and pretended we were sitting on the beachThat's it and that's all.

Canoe!

This year, Luke and I decided not to get each other Christmas gifts...instead we bought a canoe! There's a put-in to the Powhatan Creek about a quarter of a mile from our house, so yesterday after church we went exploring :)

We're ready for the spring and fall so the trees will look beautiful again...as you can see they're a little bare.

Livable Spaces

So Stephanie's official. She made some cash money the other day. Check out her business card and her website:

Christmas Time is Here (well was here)

Luke and I got to spend 2 full weeks down in Texas for Christmas, which was awesome. We started in Austin, headed over to Houston, then to Beaumont, drove through Elkhart, stayed in Bedford, and finished in Sachse. It was a lot of people seeing and driving, we had a blast. Luke figured that we slept in 7 beds of all shapes and sizes, so it was nice to come home and sleep in a tempurpedic king size!

First we stopped at our old stomping grounds in Austin (well we actually stayed in Jonestown). It was really fun getting to hang out on the compound with the Elliotts and Stokes, we miss those guys ;(

Christmas Eve Eve we went over to Houston. So last year Aunt Jenny brought a present wrapped 100 times with all kinds of tape for a game. Basically you pass 2 die around a circle and when you roll doubles, you get to unwrap the gift until the next person rolls doubles and takes the present away from you. In the end, it's usually something small, like a gift card. The winner is the one holding the gift completely unwrapped. Last year I won the gift card, so this year Luke and I brought the wrapped gift. As you can see, we went a little over board on the amount of wrapping we did. The present was a gift card, so obviously it's pretty far down past this huge box. Actually Luke was a little tricky and wrapped about 30 little boxes that we went through trying to find which one had the gift card, when in actuality it was in a box under a couch cushion. Sneaky Luke. So here is Lunsford trying to get the process going. He was pretty ridiculous in this game, body checking the box and all...we played this game in Beaumont and Bedford too, it's a pretty big hit.

Here are the beautiful siblings...of course David Eugene had his eyes closed, what are we going to do we do with him??
Here's me, Aunt Jenny, Laura & Mimi.
The day after Christmas, we headed to Beaumont for the big family Christmas there.
So it looks like we like to take pictures in front of that couch...Fur fur and Thai Thai's birthdays are Jan 5 and 10. They were twins born 5 days apart by different mothers. So of course if it's someones birthday, we have to celebrate at CEC (for those of you who aren't cool, that means Chuck-E-Cheese). Both of them were going to turn the big 22.
Is it ok that just because you're little, you can cheat? I don't know about that.
I caught Bethers shooting some hoops.Josh is doing his classic concentrated lips. And David looks pretty good too.The Edgar sisters with their mom.
Every year the Edgar kids have a business meeting, so this year, they decided to rent a room at CEC.
Even Grandpa couldn't miss out on the fun...On the way to Bedford, we stopped at the Gernenz's house, home of the old Living Hope youth pastor that Luke worked with in College Station. It was fun to see some old friends (who had 2 new little ones by the way).

In Bedford we got to see a bunch of friends and family. We went to a happening Redneck New Years Party where Luke looked ridiculous. I'll have to find a pic of that later.

On our way back to Allen to meet up with our driving buddies James & Sherrie, we stopped in Sachse to see my cousins Jason & Kendra's new pad which was really beautiful. And yes, we did drive, about 18 hours each way. Luckily for Sherrie and me, the boys did all the driving :)

So I know all our pictures are from my side of the family, but our camera died on us and those pics are from other people's cameras. I think Patti took some on hers, so I'll have to get them later too :) Luckily we got a new camera for Christmas!

Pics from Bethers & the fur

Ok so here are some pictures from Bethers & Jennifer's visit. They got in late Saturday night, so Sunday we went to Virginia Beach. There was pretty much no one there besides us, even a lot of the boardwalk shops were closed.

While in VA Beach, we went to Fort Story and Cape Henry Lighthouse.

After a day of walking viewing the sites, we ate dinner at Olive Garden (very VA Beach I know) and shared a piece of Black Tie Mousse Cake (of course). Then Bethers was feeling the call to go to Macy's, so we checked it out. Finally we finished the day with a drive through the Holiday Lights at the Beach.

On Monday we toured around Colonial Williamsburg. The picture below is at the Capitol.

On Tuesday we drove the Colonial Parkway to Historic Yorktown. After eating at Carrot Tree (a little restaurant in a 16th century home), we headed for the Prime Outlets. Williamsburg is home to a huge Yankee Candle store, you have to see it to believe it. So here's fur and me in the store.

On Wednesday before they had to leave, we went to Jamestown Settlement. They have a museum and live action exhibits of an Indian reservation, the ships from England, and the first colony. It was pretty fun. The picture below is us in an Indian hut, right after taking the picture, Jennifer saw a rat scurry across where we were laying...gross.

And that's the gist of the trip. It was a grand ole time :)