Washington

The whole time we were in Washington in January I only took 3 pictures, man I must have been really sick to have only taken 3!  Good thing they are cute pictures of Hudson, and my besties girls, Lucy and Chloe.  

They were having some chicken nuggets for lunch, and Hudson decided he needed some too!

CrossFit Tire Flipping

This is my last post from our Washington trip. My brother since being home from Iraq, has been stationed at Ft. Lewis, so he is living back in Bremerton. He has opened a gym in downtown Bremerton called Bremerton CrossFit (Click here to check out his website.) Anyhow, he held a BBQ for all of the members over the weekend, and to invite new people to check out the gym. Once of their pieces of equipment is a huge tire that you flip, so we had some fun with it.

Here is Andy flipping the tire....you can barely see him, but I promise you it was him, and he flipped it!
Here is Boos trying to do some lifts

Trying to flip his own smaller tire


I think it was much more fun to play in!

Fun at the Bremerton Water Park = Young Love!

So there are still a few things to post from our trip back to Washington in JULY!!! Of course whenever I go home I have to hang out with my bestie Tara, and her cute little family. One day we went to Azteca (A Mexican restaurant that I have to go to when I'm in town), and then down to the Bremerton Water Park. I had not been there yet, and it's pretty nice right there in downtown Bremerton by the ferry docks.

Here is cute Chloe posing in my shades


The three amigos...Chloe, Lucy, and Hudson.

Chloe checking out Hudson

Hudson thinking about making a move.....

And he goes for it!!!

(OK fine...I will admit, Tara placed his hand there for the picture..it's cute though!)

Chloebug!

Alki Beach

I mentioned I was behind in blogging right?

For the 4th of July my mom surprised us and flew us up to Seattle for the long weekend. We were able to do quite a few things with friends, and one of them was going to Seattle to hang out with my friend Stephanie from high school who I have not seen in YEARS! She and her boyfriend live right by Alki Beach, so we went down there to have lunch and walk around. I have no idea why I did not take pictures of all of us together, but here are a few of Hudson walking on the beach which he absolutely loved. He was a little weirded out by the sand at first, but then loved running around in it, and playing in the water (Once he realized the water was FREEZING he didn't love it as much!). He was a total disaster when we got him back in the car and had to strip him down to his diaper because of all the sand, and we were washing sand out of his hair for days! It was such a beautiful day, and I forget how nice it is to be so close to the Puget Sound. It was such a fun day, and I especially enjoyed catching up with a good friend.

Part of the beach aftermath (He looks happy though!)

Of course he had to try and eat the sand!

He loved the waves splashing on him at first, then he felt how cold it was and started to cry! Cute little piggy toes!

Playing with the rocks, and throwing them in the water

Inspecting a seashell

Strolling the beach

Memorial Day in Pine Arizona

I have some major catching up to do...so this is all the way back from May...and hopefully I will soon be caught up to present day.

Our friends Tyson and Bethany invited to go up to Bethany's Grandparent's cabin in Pine, Arizona for Memorial Day. We gladly accepted since it was a GREAT excuse to escape the heat. We had a great time eating good food, playing tons of games, and watching Hudson run around the yard like a mad man! This literally was the first time since he has been walking that he could run around OUTSIDE in GRASS, and not DIE from heatstroke! I think you can tell from the pictures that this kid had a blast! He would fall, face plant, trip, etc...and get right back up dirty face and all, and keep running around....it was hilarious!

Mom...you are the funniest person ever!

"If your happy and you know it clap your hands!"

Why does it look like he's about to pee on this tree?!!

MMMmmmm...dirt does the body good!

One of his MANY falls

Cutie Boy!

Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day!

Hudson is walking.....like an old man!

This is the last post of old pictures....I am finally caught up!

While in Washinton one of our elderly neighbors had a walker. Whenever we would go over there he would always start playing with it and pushing it around. She had an extra one, so she let us borrow it for a while cause he would start crying everytime we had to leave and he couldn't play with it anymore. Thanks Millie!

I do have to make a note that as of March 4, 2009 Hudson is finally taking steps on his own! He has been so LAZY about walking! He is still really wobbly, and only takes about 6-7 steps at once, but it's so exciting! We are working at getting it on camera. Whenever we pull out the camera he sits down...We need to become very very sneaky!

So fun! He would pull himself up on it.

Are you sure I can't eat the camera?

Having fun with Dad

Chillin out max and relaxin all cool

(Please tell me I'm not the only one who know this theme song!)

He's not having any fun is he?

He LOVES to be thrown in the air!

Here is another sideways video for your viewing pleasure!

What a NERD!

Winter Wear

I am embarrassed for him every time I look at these pictures. I am sure he will kill us when he's older, but dang I get a good laugh out of them! Up in Washington it snowed like 4 different times. Being from Arizona we don't own a snow suit for him. So we kind of threw something together so we could at least take him out in the cold. There wasn't actually snow on the ground when he went outside in this, it was just really cold, and for some reason we were outside doing something and wanted to take him out with us....so we geared him up!

This picture doesn't look so bad

Now this one you get how ridiculous he looked! He was such a rolie polie he kept falling over! Notice the 80's style leg warmers!

Mom get me out of this thing!

Who could resist this face!

Precious

um....why am I outside....in public, in this getup?!!

Chasing after the dog

And we documented the whole thing on video for your viewing pleasure...enjoy!

Such a big helper!

Once again another couple month old picture, I'll catch up some day. This was at Grandma and Grandpa's house over the holidays. He loves to "Help" load the dishwasher! He will now actually take all of the silverware out and hand it to me to put away so that is nice. Anything else though he usually takes it and throws it on the floor....he wants to make sure the dishes get extra clean by making me wash them twice!

Sorry it's sideways....flip your head!

Seeing the world from a different angle

Once again, this is about 2 months late, but I just finally downloaded all the pictures from my camera.

So Hudson is finally forward facing in his car seat, and I think he likes it. I think he likes the view as well as being able to see Mom and Dad. We just got him new car seat for our other car....its a Britax Boulevard, and let me tell you that thing is sweet and worth the money! His head does not seem to slump forward in the Britax like it does in this Triumph. I don't know how he can sleep like this, but he usually passes out in his car seat and looks just like this! Cutie!!

Sleepy boy

New Years 2009

Yes, it's two months later, but as the saying goes, better late than never! Andy and I celebrated New Years with some of my good friends from high school and their husbands. We had a great time.....we did a pot luck style dinner, and rocked in the new year singing karaoke. We did take pictures of the guys, but they weren't taken with my camera, oh well, they were there and had a good time too.

Me, Sandi, Cindy, Erin, and Tara