History of Drew

Today is November 01, 2011. 

28 years ago Andrew William Pepper was born to Terri and Kevin Pepper. He is their second son.

For your viewing pleasure, I will take you through his life thus far (well, the Reader's Digest version). Grab a snack and sit back, 'cause Drew's life is worth learning about!

Sorry, no baby pictures. Here is little Drew. Drew claims he looks like a muppet in this picture, so I like to call this photo "Kermit Drew." He was born in Plano, TX and grew up in large part in Lancaster, TX. His teenage years were spent in Mansfield, TX.

He's played lots of sports throughout his life

He's shown interest in many different career paths, such as

DJing

Being a cowboy

Joining the Ninja Turtles (can anyone point out his 2 brothers?)

Becoming one of Santa's elves

Replacing the old Cowardly Lion

Wrangling dinosaurs

He also has an amazing family. 

Kev the Professor, Drew the Comedian, Matt aka Fish Hook

And great friends

Went on a mission to Switzerland (left with a girlfriend, came home without one)

Met a fabulous girl

Convinced her to date/marry him (a different story for a different time)

Carted her off to New York for 6 weeks (internship)

Moved to Texas, where he proudly welcomed his son, Luke Andrew

 Tore his ACL playing church basketball (figures)

Worked for Ecolab for 2 years and then welcoming his second baby, Grace Kathryn

 Got a promotion and moved the family to North Carolina when Grace was just a mere 2 weeks old

Don't mind the meds next to her

And now?

He's a great father and husband, a man with a strong testimony of his religion, and someone with a great vision of his future. He's planning great things for himself and his family. We love him sooo much!

Happy birthday, Drew!!

Graham Cutie

Gracie has recently started a love affair with graham crackers. I think she could eat them all. day. long.

And of course, she makes a lovely mess with them.

Pumpkin Patch

We took Luke and Gracie to the pumpkin patch last night and Luke was really (overly) excited. This is the first year he can actually say "Pumpkin" and he found it thrilling to be able to run through all the pumpkins and sit on the fatty ones. And our kids just look oh-so-cute with the pumpkins as their background.

Sharing the head hole in the wood pumpkin cutout.

We (it was really me) let a 10-year-old kid take our picture. Drew was extremely nervous during this picture because our camera cost a lot and a kid was holding it.

The Pumpkin Princess

Pepper Women

Daddy-Daughter Pumpkin Moment

See how excited he was?

He's dancing. He seriously has awesome dance moves.

They LOVE each other. Seriously.

Cap'n Luke & More

Luke has been obsessed with pirates lately. And dinosaurs. But the other day he was using a storage bin as his "pirate ship" and a baseball bat as his sword. I went back to my fabric stash and found some pirate-y fabric and made him a little headwrap-thing. What are those called?

This was his pirate day:

ALSO...Drew gave me a pedicure the other night for the FIRST time! It was magical. He's the best husband in the whole world. He even went back and fixed the parts where he went over. What a stud muffin. (He chose orange for Halloween.)

And...we went to the park (again) so of course I had to take pictures and I saw a beautiful color-changing tree. It's fall! I love seeing nature change, but leaves changing color is one of the most beautiful to me.

New Camera!

We recently got a new camera and we LOVE it.

So we went and had a picnic at the park and tested out our fancy new camera and had a little photo session. And that baby didn't disappoint. I'm pretty sure Drew and I are equally as in love with it. Here are some of my favs from our photo shoot:

Okay, that's more than enough. I just love this camera!

In other news, Gracie is 7 months (how in the world did that happen?!), Luke is officially a mega talker and potty trained (the trip to Utah was a little setback), Drew may be getting his knee scoped, and I'm going to a neurologist at the end of the month. Other than that, we're all good in da hood.