This n' That

~Today was a snow day!! yipee!! If they would have had school, I would have had to go and help with the treat sale.  Yay! Got out of that one! ...Just being honest...don't be mad!

~There is a 4 foot snow drift on my front step. :)

~It's either feast or famine in Joslyn's clothing department, since she just had a birthday and Christmas, we are feasting.

She loves her purple sparkly pants!

~Joslyn got a Tinkerbell movie for Christmas and she has watched it like 25 times, you'd think it was the only girly movie we owned or something... :)

~ My goal for the new year is to be a better visiting teacher. My new calling is, visiting teaching coordinator. There will be no x's on my beat, only check marks!

~The sound of this makes me want to get up and waltz around the room!

 

 

Sunday nights are now the best for TV, Revenge then Downton Abbey, ahhh!

 

~ hudson--Hudson just typed his own name.

 

~ Speaking of Hudson, when I picked him up from preschool he hopped in the car and said, "Mom, you know The White House? It has a bowling alley in it and a swimming pool with a DIVING BOARD! And a movie theater, and you don't even have to leave, you can just go to the movies." me-"WOW, cool should we live in The White House?" Hudson- "YEAH!... well you have to be the President."

It was like dejavu because I had that exact same conversation with Brody about 4 years ago!

My kids must be really impressed that a house would have those things in it.

 

~Ever heard of Project Life? I am itching to get this. I've been eyeballing that kit for a month. I'm a scrapbooker at heart, I used to scrapbook every photo, that is until we got a digital camera. :( I did a bit of digital scrapbooking, it was fun. But this, this is it! So easy too! I will keep you updated, just need to take the plunge.

 



Happy Birthday Joslyn!!

Joslyn turned 3 on January 4th!!

Her birthday cake this year, The Ombre Rosette Cake:

 

I love the way it turned out, and it was SO easy!

Here she is wearing her "beautiful dress" she put it on herself. :)

 

Make a wish sweet girl.

 

Even the inside has some ombre action.

 

 

Cinderella doll :)

 

"Puzzles!" She loves doing puzzles!

 

 

Cinderella dress ups = one happy girl!

 

I told you that we don't quit partying until the 4th :)

 

Joslyn went from a baby girl to a little girl in a year, she changed SO much!!

~She loves to help... we always let her put away the silverware when we empty the dishwasher, if you do it without her it makes for 1 sad girl! She loves to help me cook, if she hears the mixer start, she comes runnin' and grabs a stool so she can be in on all the action.

~She loves to play with her babies and her kitchen and she loves to bring you pretend ice cream cones!

~She is still not a huge breakfast eater which is totally opposite from her brother, she is happy with milk...and maybe a little yogurt an hour later.

~No naps for this girl just 12 + hours of sleep.

~If she sees Hudson playing my kindle she asks if she can play, if I say no she'll say, "Why Hudson?" funny!

 

We are so glad to have our little Joslyn she definitely brings and element of sweetness into our home!

 

Happy Birthday Hudson!!!

Hudson turned 5 on January 2nd!!

To celebrate we had everyone over for meatball sandwiches and glass block jello . Most people stop partying on the 1st... not us, no way, we keep on going until the 4th-at least!!

He wanted a Spiderman cake, I made this same cake for Braiden when he turned 4 so I guess it took me 7 years to forget how nightmarish it is to make... It wasn't really that bad, it was way worse the first time.

I baked the cake the day before and Hudson kept asking me, "When are you going to paint the cake mom?  Mom when are you going to paint the cake?"  So when I finally got it "painted" I called him up to see it, he thought it was so cool! Mission accomplished and worth every piped star!

1. When he wakes up he is hungry and needs food right away.  Usually the first words out of his mouth are, "mom, what's for breakfast?"
2. He loves Superheroes; Spiderman, Batman, Power Rangers, Lego Ninjago and "bike guys"
 and you can often find him in costume of any one of these. Sometimes you may find him riding around the neighborhood on his balance bike wearing a batman cape or his motorcycle helmet and gloves, it is quite comical!
3. He loves to play any electronic device, the computer, my kindle, dad's phone, Braiden's ipod, it doesn't matter.
4. He loves going to preschool and "when I learn all my letters I can go to kindergarten." Now that he's 5 he's all of the sudden all grown up.
5. He loves the color RED! He wears it, his favorite shirt is a red one with a bike guy on it, or a red one with Spiderman on it, or just a red one! He colors with it, don't even try to give him a red/violet crayon or you will get an earful!


I wondered what we were thinking having a baby in January's bitter cold! When we brought him home from the hospital I think it was like 8 degrees. 
I thought the world was going to end when we got home from the hospital and discovered that Brody had an ear infection.  So we called the Dr and rushed him in (they squoze us in at the end of the day because they knew we just had a new baby.) The Dr. joked that we were the first and last patients for the day; first to discharge Hudson from the hospital, and last to care for Brody's ear infection.
The transition from 2 -3 kids was a tough one!! We sold our house in Omaha, Nate graduated from dental school, we moved half way across the country found a decent rental and started a new job all before he was 5 months old! But, we are so happy to have this smiley brown eyed boy in our family!