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Monday, November 7, 2011

Happy Halloween

This Halloween was so fun! It has always been one of my favorite holidays for whatever odd reason. I have lots of great fun memories of Halloween as a child. I hope the boys do as they grow up as well! This year I really tried to utilize things we had at home to make their costume. Hudsons was all our own stuff, aside from the borrowed cowboy boots from Brady Howard. We had a bit of Porter's costume but my mom ended up finding his shirt/pants for like $5 at the resale shop (new!) and so part of his costume was purchased. Oh well!

We kicked off Halloween evening by a little parade when I picked Hudson up from Miss Marleen's. He was so cute running with all his little preschool/daycare friends. Hudson cracked me up by pushing around the little pink doll stroller. He used it to carry his two toy cars, a red leaf he found along the walk, the fruit snacks a bus driver tossed to the kids and some candy from a neighbor.

Hudson actually kept up really well this year going house to house. We trick or treated with my mom, sister, Jon and Aubri in a nearby neighborhood. It was the perfect size and we ran into a few families we knew from the area as well.

My favorite view of the day, however, was this cute little tushie. I giggled every time I saw him running up to a house. He was so darn cute!

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Wrapping it up.

I started watching the first season of Parenthood on Netflix. Totally hooked.
Porter insists on listening to Q106 to go to sleep. I can't stand Q106 "Rock On". Bleh.
We finally have Halloween costumes nailed down. I'm excited that we're completely making them from stuff/costumes we already have at home. YAY! Hudson is going to be a cowboy...err a "horseboy" he says... and Porter is going to be a pirate. I think it'll be adorable because we have a picture of Ryan dressed as a cowboy (err horseboy) at around 3 years old. Hudson will be a mini-blonde-Ryan!
I attempted to make cinnamon sugar pumpkin seeds today. Meticulously picked out about 3-4 cups of seeds from our 4 pumpkins we carved only to burn them to a crisp. Ugh.
Last week I made homemade chicken noodle soup. SO darn yummy! I made an entire crock pot full... woah! Dave stopped by- perfect timing, and we also sent some over to our neighbors Gary and Linda. It was so easy to make!
My mom comes to visit this week! I'm so so so excited.
Hudson is such a little sneak. He definitely follows in his big brother's footsteps. For the past few weeks he has been pushing chairs over to the counter to get into my carmel candy stash and spray the bug spray around the kitchen. The other day I caught him up there and snapped a picture. I love that he's wearing shorts and a tie. It's always random around here!

I forgot to share, but I started a Baby Blog for #3 awhile back. Just mainly preggo updates and such, but I like to keep that all in one place so I can print it and look back on it like I did the boys' pregnancy blogs.
We have our vacation plans for the beach next year already! I'm super excited. Since the baby is due the end of April/beginning of May, going to NC on spring break is out of the question. We decided to go in summer and Lori and her family, plus Dave and my mom and Mike are going as well. The only down side is the "season" we're going is triple the cost of spring break season. I've been busting my butt off this fall (photography-wise) to save up for our portion of the beach house and prepare for this trip expenses. Did I mention we'll be going when the baby is only 6-8 weeks old? Yeah, mama will need a relaxing oceanfront beach house by that point I'm sure. I figure if we moved twice before Hudson was 7 weeks old we can manage a vacay with Numero Tres. Holden Beach, here we come!
This weekend was filled with lots of family fun things for the fall... a little "carnival" at the local Lions Club, the pumpkin patch, making carmel apples, carving pumpkins.... fun fun! This will have to be a post all of its own.