Photos :)

We got pictures of Hudson done at 2 months...we just got the disc and I'm just so incredibly pleased with them!!!

Many, many thanks to Scott McCollum and McCollum Photography! He did an amazing job and I would highly recommend him to do your photos!!

I love my taggies!

My nana made me a taggies blanket...I sure do love it!!!

Pumpkin Patch

We took Hudson to a pumpkin patch this evening, I think he just was good for us, he really didn't know what to think about it. Poor baby, one day he will look back and see just how crazy mom and dad were these first few years with him :)

He really will appreciate all this one day right??? :)

Check out my new trick!

I went shopping with mommy today...check out my new favorite thing to do :)

I have toes...and I can reach them!!!

So proud of my hubby!

I love Jason more now than I did 7 years ago, but there are moments that just make you so proud to be a part of someone's life and that for me was last night. Every year Jason participates in Special Olympic events and my heart just melts each and every time I see him take part in the events and makes me so proud to be his wife.

Jason accepted an award for the Law Enforcement Torch Run and we ran into some old friends of his

This was Danny, Jason's athlete for the opening ceremony run

Lighting the torch at opening ceremonies

I am one proud wife! This is something that Jason is truly passionate about, and I have become very involved in as well. He's back at the games heading up security today...and he does all of this for free!!

Fun weekend

We spent the weekend in Bridge City, had our niece's 3rd birthday party and a concert. I can't say that I was quite ready to have someone else put my sweet baby boy to bed but I knew the day would come and Jason really didn't give me a choice - he kinda just bought the tickets :) It was fun though.

Silly cousin Kevin

Happy birthday girl!

Ended with a visit to see Granny...but Hudson was in fine form this morning!!

Only I...

Only I could get lucky enough to get hit my the courthouse shuttle...

Sheesh...I've had a pretty horrible week, this was the icing on that cake...

Baptism

My sweet baby boy got baptized today. All our families came together for this blessed day and even some sweet family friends came to lunch. Hudson did great too during church, even smiled at the pastor. The pastor that married Jason and I was the one that baptized Hudson, meant a lot to us to have him be a part of it all.

Our family

This is the pastor that married us...he's so tall!

My family...it's hard to get everyone to look at the camera AND smile!

And Jason's family, they're a little better at looking at the camera

Our certificate of baptism

Hudson got lots of Bibles as gifts today, I look forward to reading each and everyone one to him! Thanks to everyone for making this day so special for us.

Finally finished!

I finally finished my first Pinterest project! I started this while I was still out on maternity leave and just finally got it all complete. It was very time consuming, but I really like it...I just have no idea where I'm going to hang it :) This technique is called quilling...you can purchase the stuff to do it at craft stores but I made my own...

Supplies:
Mod Podge
Small paint brush
Scissors
Toothpicks
Hand sanitizer (trust me)
Small cup of water
Various colors of card stock

First, you will need to print off your letter you are doing in a light gray, you will cover over it and not be able to see it once you are done. I printed mine on just regular paper but now looking back I should have done it on card stock, the Mod Podge made regular paper kinda thin. Take your various colors of card stock and cut them into 1/4 inch pieces, if you can cut them smaller then you might like 1/8 inch pieces, and that's how they come in the store if you actually buy the "quilling paper" but I was cheap :) And you only need one sheet of each color...I only used about 2 or 3 strips of each color, so not even an inch of each color.

Choose the color you want to outline the letter, take it and figure out the folds of the letter. Do this before you glue it down. It's a little frustrating to get the folds just right but here's where a toothpick might come in handy. I used the toothpicks at corners for folds, it helped me out a lot, or try to work it out where the end of a strip is in a crease...and I would suggest not using a letter with curves...I said many a bad word around those curves. Take your brush and Mod Podge and glue the strips down along the outline of the letter. The Mod Podge is very sticky, I traced a little bit (a few inches) then put some on the strip and then put it in place and held it for a few seconds for it to set. Here's where the hand sanitizer came in...I kept washing my hands to keep them clean and free of excess Mod Podge. 

It should look something like this once you're done. So gather all your strips and then start designing. Most of the colors I picked rolled fairly easy, but some I needed a toothpick to get them started. 

You curl them and place them pretty much however you like. Setting them all in place with the Mod Podge, I would put a big blob of it under the thickest part of the curl. After each strip was set I would go back around the edges and paint some more Mod Podge on just as extra. I kept dipping my brush in water from time to time to make sure it wasn't getting clogged with all the Mod Podge...like I said, it was super sticky!

Once you are all done then find a matte and frame of your choice and there you have it! 

Here's a close-up of the detail...it took a lot of patience...

Now I just need to figure out where to put it, cuz Hudson's room is completely full!

First Friday with the family

This weekend is a busy weekend for us! Jason's parents are in town for the weekend and his sister will be here on Sunday for Hudson's baptism. This weekend is also Texas Reds Festival. We went and had dinner with everyone in downtown and then walked the festival afterwards, we got some cute pics of Huds with some pumpkins!

He had finally crashed and we woke him up...he wasn't too pleased!

And a familia photo :)

Daddy time :)

I had a meeting this evening and came home to Jason posing Hudson for photos 

He was playing at first on his new playmat we got

But while I'm cooking dinner I see the flash going off for this

It is pretty funny though 

Then Dixie decided she wanted in on a photo

But now as I'm typing this...here is the cuteness going on, although daddy busted me taking the photo

I LOVE me some Pinterest!

I have been totally addicted to Pinterest here lately and decided to try a recipe out today, it was very simple and they turned out pretty good. These are homemade pepperoni rolls made with crescent rolls!

3 ingredients...super simple!

Roll up some pepperoni in the rolls with some shredded cheese, the recipe called for string cheese but the shredded worked just fine

Pop 'em in the over for about 15 minutes at 350 degrees

And there you have it! 

Can't wait to try some more recipes I find!!

Lovin' my new hair!!

Got my hair did...wanted a change and knew I wanted RED...

I totally LOVE it!!! Jason told me my hair looked maroon...thanks sweetie...

My first "born" injured :(

Wednesday night Shiner, my Yorkie that my parents repossessed when I got married, got a little too big for his britches and went head to head with this beauty:

That's 37 inches of pure EVIL! 

Recovering...

Shiner was rushed to his vet and then from there had to be taken to A&M's Vet School because he was in such bad shape. He spent Wednesday night there and now is back home and doing better each day but he learned a hard lesson. He is a little scared to go outside by himself, however I don't blame him because frankly, I think I'm even afraid to go outside by myself.

Oh my baby is growing up!!!

My sweet baby boy is growing up! What am I going to do?!?!

He's still too tiny to be holding a bottle on his own!!! This was Wednesday at home with daddy...then...

Thursday with grandma he was still holding it!

Seriously...rolling over?!?!

And I love when my uncle Trey comes to have lunch with me!

He did roll over for us at about 2 weeks but it was a pure accident I think...so I'm glad I at least got to see it, but seeing videos like this makes it hard to be back at work. What am I going to do once he starts crawling...and walking!!! Ahhhhh!

We're 3 months old!!

Oh my goodness, my chunky monkey is 3 months old!!! So much fun and so exciting to experience each and every day with this precious lil' man in our lives now.

Well, sweet boy, in the last month you have grown a little bit, weighing in at a healthy 13 pounds 8 ounces and measuring 24 inches long. Oh you are so much fun! You are still nursing, and judging by your weight gain, you are doing it very well! You take a bottle a couple of times a day while at grandma's or with daddy, taking 5 oz. each time. You are sleeping ALL through the night now for good! You usually go to sleep around 7:30pm and we wake you back up at 9:00pm to feed you one last time before bed. You go right to sleep now as soon as we swaddle you up and put you in bed. You sleep until anywhere between 5:30am and 6:30am each morning, most times the 6:30am is only because I make you wake up! You usually go back to sleep and sleep until it's time for your 9:00am feeding. We still swaddle you to get you to go to sleep but most times you "break free" by morning. You're not a huge fan of being covered up anyway, you always kick covers off, even if we tuck them under you. The only way to get  you covered up is by swaddling you. You are such a happy boy! You laugh and smile so much more now, you're "talking" a lot more these days too, you are able to entertain yourself for the most part as long as you can see someone in the room. We have a playmat for you and you like to lay on it and kick all the toys, you still sit in your bouncer and kick and have fun as well as your swing, you LOVE your swing now and will take naps in it now!!! You are exploring a lot more these days, focusing on objects and staring at them (still infatuated with fans!), grabbing objects that are placed near or in your hands and wanting to put everything in your mouth! We thought you might be teething but you're not, but you grab everything and put it in your mouth, and have fits with your fingers and fists while sucking on them. You aren't too fond of the pacifier which is fine by me! You aren't a big fan of "tummy time" but grandma makes you do some each day. You love to grab everyone's fingers and pull yourself up then stand up. You kick your little legs like crazy, we always tell you to "ride your bike" and you just laugh at us. You are actually starting to laugh out loud now, it melts mommy and daddy's hearts how infectuous it is! We have to watch you very carefully now when we have you on the couch or our bed, you can almost roll yourself over but you can scoot yourself with your feet. Grandpa says if you just can learn to tuck your arm under then you are going to be rolling over in no time. Right now you like to arch your back when we have you in our arms, makes for very difficult burping. When we try to have you sitting in our laps you arch your back and stiffen up. You did this in your Bumbo the other day too, scared mommy half to death! You thoroughly enjoy your bath time, I think you tinkle all over yourself just so you can get baths! Yes, you do that on a regular basis!! You are wearing all 3 month clothes, some 3-6 month items, some newborn bottoms cuz you're so small and size 1 diapers. We might have to go to size 2 diapers soon though, not cuz you're big enough but because you can sure fill up a diaper! We have to wash quite often because your poop sure does stain! You have just about outgrown all your shoes we had for you, your little feet are getting long - not to mention those gorillo toes of yours! You still have a full head of hair, except for the small bald spot on the back of your head now...but your hair is so long that it almost covers it up!! You change each and every day, I love it! Being your mommy and daddy is the hardest, yet most rewarding job that we have ever had! We love you so much and look forward to the next month as you continue to grow!

HAPPY 3 MONTHS my Chunky Monkey!