Easter weekend with "Pa"

Pa came up this Easter weekend to help John assemble a swing set. It is "almost" up - one more weekday and we should have the swings and slide up. Now we know why the store wanted to charge $800 for installation! It came in 7 huge boxes and weighed 1000 lbs!

Hudson is a HUGE fan on Mexican food and has discovered that you can get the cheese dip and guacamole in your mouth faster when you use a spoon!

The box is almost as fun as the swingset!

Checking out "Pa's" new ride

the aunt's visit and Grey's birthday party

This past weekend during a spring snow storm, we attended Hudson's friend, Grey's second birthday party at Pump It Up.
Look at the darling sock monkey cake that Grey's mom MADE!

Hudson had a blast going down the slides with daddy and playing in the bounce houses. As soon as he got off the slide he would run to the back to climb it again!

We also had two special visitors, aunt Dana and aunt Sam who came to visit over spring break. This was during a little girl's shopping trip that dad was obviously not on!

Hudson's shopping days are currently on hold as he had decided he does not like to shop. Last night after dinner we took a family trip to Target to pick up just a few groceries and somehow while John and I were both in the produce section, Hudson escaped and found the doughnut display. After touching at least one, we gave him one and he proceeded to eat the whole thing (he has never even had one before). By the time we checked out, we had to pay for a missing doughnut, empty string cheese wrapper, and empty raisen box. I am not sure where he puts all this food as this was after dinner!!!

Playing with stickers on the new shelves Nana made for his playroom Don't worry, Nana, they don't take the paint off! Hudson had so much fun with his aunts and would drag both of them by their fingers to go with him wherever he wanted to go. Hudson is talking up a storm now. Before we had worried about him not talking too much and now it seems like it won't stop. He is still addicted to music and walks around most of the day rolling his arms saying "bus" to play "wheels on the bus" or "ball" for "take me out to the ball game".

An ELMO celebration

What a fun day Hudson had on his birthday Saturday. We had an Elmo party at the house and were blessed to have so many friends and family here to celebrate. Aunt Jane and Uncle Pete and Trey, Ethan, and Whitney came from Colorado and Great Grandma made it all the way from Michigan. Aunt Sam, Nana and Pa came from St Louis and we also celebrated with many of Hudson's little friends ranging in age from three weeks to almost three years.

Nana made ALL of these cupcakes for the birthday boy!

Nana, Hudson and Adeline

Eating an Elmo cake sent from Aunt Liz along with many fun Elmo balloons. They were a big hit.

I'm almost TWO!!!

the cousins visit KC

We have had lots of fun the past few weeks as we got a sneak peak at some Spring weather. We had some special visitors in last weekend who came to KC to see the Professional Bull riding show. Uncle Nick, Aunt Liz and cousins Brandon and Annika came to visit. Hudson had so much fun playing with them.

Hudson being the "wizard" at the Wizard of Oz display at Crown Center

Hugging Gage at the park

Going down the slide with Gage. Hudson had so much fun playing with Gage at the park and when Gage would run another direction Hudson would hollar out "Gage" and slap his had on his leg....I guess he has been observing us call for our dog Tanner!

Hudson got a special Elmo balloon at Crown Center

At the zoo with daddy watching the sea lions

Eating lunch at Crayola Cafe at Crown Center

On a hippo at the zoo

Playing at Crown Center

Riding the Royals horse on the carousel at the zoo

This weekend we have more special visitors coming for a very special Elmo birthday party! Hudson turns TWO on Saturday!

Pools and Puppies....

We haven't posted in a while so hopefully these pictures will make up for lost time! Crusin' in the now famous coupe car with passenger Elmo. He doesn't leave without mom's keys and purse of course to go to the store. He also attempted to "gas" this car by stripping naked and peeing in the gas tank....not kidding. So this car got a car wash outside.
We had a great time celebrating our friend Ben's first birthday! Hudson was quite a fish and has NO fear of the pool.

His new favorite thing to steal out of the fridge by pushing a chair over....yum....butter.

Reading to Tanner that he calls "teece" for some reason. These two are buddies. Hudson loves to hide her balls around the house for her to find and just cracks himself up when she finds them. He cried to take her in the car the other day, so we did but the plan quickly backfired when he was so worried about her when we had to leave her in the car while we went inside Target.

A spring like winter day

Lunch outside with Gage!

Yogurt eaten with fingers....notice how clean the spoon is?

Painting with Gage. Gage loved to say "perfect" after each paint stroke!

Yummy strawberries.....

Lunch with Benjamin

His favorite baby....Mason