Little one turns ONE!

Our baby turned one on the 19th! It's crazy how it seems that one year has been a very long time and a very short amount of time all in one. It seems like it was not very long ago that I was pacing the hospital wondering what in the world I was doing there for the 3rd time! But....I can barely remember his sweet little newborn cries and the tiny little guy we brought home from the hospital.
At one year Hudson still doesn't say much and only has 2 teeth out with 3 more ready to come through at any minute. He is a tough little guy who takes his fair share of torture from the bigger two. Porter loves packing him around while he screams to get loose and Adlee loves loving on him. He has rhythm like no other baby I've known. He is a comedian like his sister (only in the silent mischievous way).
He has many names: Hubs, Huds, Baby Hudson, Little Man, Diesel, Butters, and Hubba Bubba. He is our sweet little Hudson.






My self imposed rules that will be in place from this year on:
I will never wrap his birthday presents in Christmas paper.
His birthday party will take place on his birthday or at least before Christmas!
He will have birthday themed parties and cakes not Christmas themed!
Please help to keep me accountable to my rules!

Advent Conspiracy

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Tim and Jenny in front of Payette Lake.


My cute little man at the ice skating rink.The cutest little ice skates on the cutest little feet in the whole world.
Porter,"I kinda hate ice skating"
Adlee did an awesome job with a little help from Uncle Tim.
Jenny's first time ice skating.
Tubing: Going up!
Tubing: Coming down!

Tim and Jenny bought Porter a book full of paper airplanes. Tim and Porter had a great time making them and even more fun flying them. Tim and Jenny with the kiddos!

Sledding with Uncle Tim

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Yummy Treats

The kids made chocolate covered marshmallows today. The were so easy and fun! I need to remember this next year.

Cookies

The kids helped make cookies last night. I have decided it is a good thing we don't live by family that might unexpectedly drop by because 87.2% of the time we are home my kids are running around in their underwear. I have come to terms with it and have decided that it is our way of helping the planet by cutting back on laundry.



Today I decided to try my hand at royal icing. It is a lot of work to prepare but it is so pretty. Through this process I found out that my calling in life is definitely not as a baker/cookie decorator.

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Beautiful Girl

Oh, how we love this sweet little girl!




Facts about our two and half year old princess.
She loves the color purple.
She loves butterflies.
She is never clean.
She likes watching Christmas Barney, Dora and Diego.
She says her favorite food is spaghetti.
She likes giving her baby a bath.
She is tough.
She loves her brothers.
She is great at helping put the silverware away.
She is the funnest 2.5 year old I know.
She loves to dance with or without music.
She says "I wove you so much" at random times throughout the day.
Most of the time she listens better than her brother.
She loves to help with Hudson.
She is sweet, caring, helpful, loving and perfect!

Snow Day!

Starting Tuesday afternoon the snow started dumping on us and by Wednesday we easily had 9 inches of fresh powdery snow. The kids played in the snow throughout the day. I made the kids into life size elves! I finally got around to taking a picture of our steal of a Christmas tree. We got a 10 foot noble fir for $14.99. Now I hope we can keep it around until Christmas. It is the best tree we have ever had!

What fun it is to be 4!

This morning Porter was given the choice of getting in the bath or washing off by rolling in the snow. I thought I was being funny!


Can you guess which one he chose?