Con-Crete

Haven and I were looking at a map tonight and pointing out the different states that our family lives in, and she said "I know where we live! We live in concrete!" I laughed so hard! She was close! (for those who don't know, we live in Crete!) Silly little girl... =)

Mother's Day

Happy mother's day to all of you wonderful, hardworking mothers out there! I hope you all had a great day. Harrison made this for me in sunday school this morning and it cracked me up. If you can't read it, click on the picture to make it bigger.

He told me that the reason I was pretty as a beach is because of my beautiful blue eyes! What a charmer! =) Oh, and then he said "you are 17, right mom?" And of course I told him the truth... that I will always be 17! ha ha.

Fruits of the Spirit

rain, rain, go away

rain, rain, go away

come again another day

little Harrison wants to play...

A few weeks ago we had Jody and Boz over to play poker. The kids had just gone to bed and Harrison was still awake. We kept hearing him messing around upstairs and I finally went to check on him. When I got to the foyer this is what I saw:

I had him interpret it... it says: "it's not fair that you guys get to eat!"

He saw that we had snacks (seriously, what is poker with out junk food?!) and apparently he was upset that he didn't get any! So he found some paper, made this sign, then posted it to the wall using soap and water!!

Hudson's first food

Hudson had rice cereal for the first time tonight. He was not impressed! I don't think he actually ingested any of it!! We had good fun watching him though! I didn't get the best pics because I had to feed him then put it down and grab the camera after each bite. I missed most of his inital reactions, still funny though.

The whole thing was a bit traumatic for him! After I was done trying to force the spoon into his mouth he started sucking his hand (which he does to comfort himself) I think he got more rice cereal in him from sucking his hand then the several attempts I made to feed him.

Hudson's 4 month check-up

Hudson had his 4 month check-up today he weighs a whopping 15lbs 13 oz!! My baby is getting big! Harrison went to the appointment with us and the doctor let him listen to Hudson's heartbeat and help measure him and stuff. Harrison likes the doctor and talked her ear off. He was telling her how he goes to work every morning (he actually does, every morning after breakfast he goes outside and "works" -work consists of either working in the yard raking, sweeping, picking up sticks, etc, or working in his "yard" and area of the yard where he has tools and pieces of wood and fence) and she asked him if he had any animals. He gave her this crazy look and said "I'm not a zoo keeper! I'm a carpenter and a fence man, I work for Master Fence and own many companies!!" It was so funny, he takes what he does VERY seriously and he couldn't believe she was asking him that!

Red Envelope Day!

I'm sure most of you have heard about red evelope day (if you haven't you can read about it here: redenvelopeday.com) We had planned on participating and I was going to pick up some red envelopes over the weekend, but our whole family has been sick and I was never able to get to the store. Then it dawned on me that we could just color regular envelopes red! They might not be beautiful, but they get the job done!! The kids had a lot of fun helping me. We haven't finished yet, but so far we have about 15 ready to send.

If you are interested in doing it, it's not too late! Just send them here:

and write this on the back:

Happy St. Patty's Day!!

Hudson's 2 month check-up

Hudson had his check-up this afternoon. He weighs 12lbs 12 oz

and is 25 inches!! He went from being in the 60th percentile for height to the 90th! He definitely takes after Billy!

Haven's funny

Hudson was crying a lot the other day and Haven came over and said the funniest thing to me:

Haven (very seriously): "Mom, can you handle this? Do you think you can handle this?
*pause*
Haven (somewhat frantically): "I don't think you can handle this mom, I'm going for help!"

She also told me another day when he was crying that she thought we were in over our heads!

i am just posting to say that i've now officially posted more times this month than I did all last year!! who-hoo!!

more fun with hudson!

snowy days

things cold snowy days are good for:

fires

lying in bed...

and watching the snow fall

building marble runs...

for hours!!

Playing in the snow...

and working a bit too

and...

making hot chocolate mustaches!!

Yes... more pictures! I can't help myself, Hudson makes me camera happy!! One of these days I'll actually post something substantial...

more updating...

Some of you may have already seen these on facebook, but I'd thought I'd post them here as well for all of my non-facebook viewers! I took these in my backyard last September. My kids are difficult to photograph so I'm pretty happy with what I was able to get! These are a few of my favorites...