Cousin Power!

We really like living near Joel and Melanie and their 5 kids who are great cousins and friends to Luke and Jensen. Some of Luke's cousins are a better influence on him than others. Emery, for example, potty trained Luke. Seriously, Luke watched Emery do it and wondered at the treats he carried around as rewards, and Luke was convinced! Last night he asked to get on the toilet 3 times and went to the bathroom each time! Today he has gone once so far. I think Emery's tighty-whities were an inspiration too.
Wesley and Preston's influence is more...physical. Sunday night they played tackle football in the living room! Of course, this is something Austin plays with Luke everyday. He has trained Luke to "hike"/throw the football to him and then to tackle him. In the video you'll see this, every time someone says "hike" Luke tackles them. It's pretty cute. He'll be a BYU football star in a few years! Go cougs!

cuddl'n buddies

Jensen in his new "get up" right before leaving the hospital



Luke showing his brother the intricacies of how to survive his dad's infamous baby burrito.



Luke really loves his brother Jensen. He is really curious about him and always wants to be around him. After we put Jensen to bed last night, Luke wanted to go get him every 5 minutes.



Oh...how'd this get in here. This is my beautiful HOT wife 2 minutes after giving birth. Gorgeous!

The Baby Jensen Joel Kramer!!!

I (Austin) came home for a few minutes to drop some stuff off and change. I wanted to put some videos and pics of our brand new baby boy Jensen up though. He is a great guy. We went in to be induced around 7 am on Wednesday 9/17. The baby was born at 1:23 pm. Heather had to push two times during only one contraction. It was great. As I said before he looks just like Luke did when he was born. He weighed 7 lb 15 oz. and was 20 inches long. Heather is doing fantastic. She said it was a million times better than the first delivery experience. She looks great as you can tell even after having gone through hours of labor and childbirth! Thank you all for your concerns, sentiments and prayers.




Baby Jensen Joel Kramer + 3 minutes



The new fam. minus big brother (soon to arrive)



There he is. Of course the first thing ya do with a new baby is poke him in the eye....right Luke?



Austin, proud papa, dresses to the 9s for the special occasion



Dad Flake was on baby alert and was there within the hour. He almost got to hold the Jensen before I did.

newly arrived

Talkin' with dad

Baby hick-ups at 4:45 am

Baby Jensen Kramer

Here he is baby Jensen ______ Kramer.
Born 9/17/2008 weight: 7 lbs. 15 oz.
20 inches long.

new baby

sorry everybody that I told I would put up a blog about the new Jensen. The hospital has a strict internet filter and wont allow uploads. I will post soon. I promise.

JETS..... yeah, Yeah, YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Before we watched the euphoria inspiring rout that BYU put to the UCLA Bruins football team (BYU- 59 -UCLA-0), Luke and I went to the Mt. Home Air Show.

This is Luke standing next to an F-22 Raptor. He wanted one himself but, they cost 137,500,000 dollars a piece, so I got him a 5 buck version

Even though this is the most advanced fighter plane in the world, Luke was more interested in the holes in the runway



This was definitely the coolest airplane there. I have been to dozens of airshows and never seen one in person.

Those Apache helicopters can sneak right up on ya!!!

AHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thunderbird F-16s flying by

Lukie loves the jets. We went to the air show in Twin Falls earlier this year and he is now fully aware of airplanes all over the place. He always sees airplanes in the sky way before we do and he just points up to them. Sometimes, it takes Heather and I a while to see them. He loves jets. When I asked him if he wanted to go see some jets, he said yeah, yeah, yeah!!!!!!!!!!!! He is so cute. As you can tell from this video, he feels quite at home with his jets.

This is what he wanted to drive home instead of the ole' 2 hub-capped Camry

Snap, Crackle, POP!!!

This is the BEST toy EVER....free.99

Luke's New Little Brother

Luke's new brother: 5 pounds, 19.5 inches long
Diet: Nothing, he won't ever wake you up in the middle of the night for a feeding!

Proud father of 2

I still have a huge belly even though the baby is born? Ugh! I hope not!

Is it going to be this easy being a big brother?

Tonight's family home evening was about the baby joining our family (hopefully this week). Austin thought it would be good to have a visual aid...what kid wouldn't want Elmo for a brother? Luke LOVED it and played along. I hope he's not too disappointed when his brother isn't quite as red and doesn't laugh or vibrate when you"tickle" him.

Vote Kramer

Despite what you may have heard, in a shocking turn of events, delegates at the RNC awarded the nomination to dark horse candidate Luke Kramer with his Dad as his V.P.

We've recently become aware of some great second-hand stores in our area. To make a long story short, we found this adorable suit for Luke in one of those stores. It was only $4! Can you believe it? Anyway, it's the perfect size and as it is IMPOSSIBLE to find little church clothes for babies this time of year, it was the perfect find. Austin thinks Luke looks like a politician. Would he have your vote?

A (little man) and his bike

Born to ride.........and smile

For some reason Luke is obsessed with motorcycles...I'm sure it must have something to do with his Grandpa Kramer (genetics I guess). Anyway, one of the times we went to see Dillon in the hospital there was this bike sitting outside the front doors. Luke begged to get on so Austin put him up. You can see how much fun he had on it.