Hairspray and Never ending story

I am feeling quite a bit better today, thanks to the antibiotics my sweet mother-in-law had extra of, and gave to me. But still not well enough to take care of Hudson alone all day again. So my mommy came over again today and brought me treats and the movie "Hairspray". I had been wanting to see it for a long time, and since its not really a Derek movie, we decided to watch it together while I was stuck in the house sick. Emily came over with my mom, and we all three had a great time watching it. Its such a cute movie! I loved it. Hilarious with John Travolta in it playing the huge mom lolol! Anyway, later on Derek came home and we started watching Never Ending Story from our netflix account. I must say it brought back tons of memories from my child hood, since Nat and I used to watch it at least once a week, definately one of my old favorites! So, now its about 11:30 and things are winding down, Hudson just went to bed, and Derek had a lonnggg night with him last night so he went to bed early too. Hopefully tonight is a better one! Its just been hard with Hudson being sick the past few days because it totally threw him off of his feeding/sleep schedule I had him on, which means him not sleeping through the night recently. Thats ok, I just hope last night was the last one like that! Guess we'll see.... goodnight!

Sick!...Blah

So Yesterday Hudson and I both woke up feeling a little under the wheather... and today I woke up feeling TERRIBLE! Sore SORE throat, caughing, sneezing, stuffy nose, the works basically. Luckily I have my mommy close by to come watch Hudson for me today so I can rest and hopefully get better soon. I already have missed my little brother Nick's birthday last night at PF Changs. Which I was very sad about because I do LOVE Changs!... ANyway, just a sob story from me I guess. Hopefully Hudson and I make a recovery by the weekend!

The past week Derek, Hudson, and I were house/cat sitting for the Hortin's. It was hard transplanting Hudson to a new home, it kind of threw him off schedule at night time, which meant waking up at 4 am opposed to 7, but it was also fun because they have a cool house! Here are a few pics of Hudson enjoying their jacuzzi tub, and posing for the cam :)...









I love him!





Hudson loves when daddy sings " Whinnie the Poo" after bath time!





time to snuggle











Derek giving Hudson his medicine before he goes down for a nappy...

My baby is growing up sooo fast! Its bittersweet

Its so bittersweet watching my little angel getting bigger by the day. on one hand its amazing to see how quickly he is developing a little personality, he smiles and is making more sweet sounds every day. Lately, instead of just crying when we put him down for bed, he'll lay awake and make this precious "ohhhhh" noise for a while. I can't believe he is already 14 weeks old!!! I saw a 10 day old baby in church on Sunday and couldn't believe how much smaller he was than Hudson! Sometimes I wish he could just stay this size forever, but its super fun seeing him interacting with us and recognizing us more and more every week. So since the last post, We have had a pretty busy and fun few weeks. We have been to Hell's Canyon twice for boating trips, which Hudson suprisingly enjoyed both times, even riding on the boat!Another event was the Lady Antebellum and Tim McGraw concert! It was soooo awesome. Best concert I have ever been too, It was just Derek and I and was so nice to have a really fun night to ourselves.... Also, 2 weeks ago our sweet kitty Yin had a near-death experience as she drank some comet out of our toilet bowl, and we found out 2 days later that she wasn't eating or drinking anymore, so we took her to the vet and they thought she probably wouldn't make it. Of course I was devastated and came home crying to Derek, all of her hospitalization bills were going to be steep if they were going to try and save her, but he said we would pay whatever it took. Thank goodness he also had the idea to give her a blessing that night, and by the next morning she was almost back to normal. They gave her one more full day of being on the IV and fluids, so she would be completely flushed out. Anyway long story short she made a miraculous recovery, thanks to the power of the priesthood......
So we are currently house sitting for the Hortin's while they are in California. Hudson doesn't know what to think of sleeping in a different house at night, he has been waking up at 4 or 5 in the morning instead of his normal 7:30 in the a.m. So we are actually excited to start sleeping at home again at the end of this week! As for everyday life, Derek has been really busy with the business, they are opening a call center at his office which is amazing growth for the company! Were both excited for all of the good news, but Derek is also a LOT more busy now and gone a ton, which means me being home alone quite a bit. Good thing I have a sweet baby to keep me company, and lots of friends and family near by :)!

So here are a few pics from our recent little adventures!...




@ Tim McGraw/ Lady Antebellum concert!




so much fun!

Hudson's first 4th of July...and first Road trip!

I've been slow lately still trying to find time to blog! But last weekend, the 4th was tons of fun for our little family. We finally got some much needed yard work done at the house on Saturday, planted some flowers, got patio furniture, etc... and Hudson was outside with us in his swing...so cute. Later that night Derek made his famous burgers for everyone and we made homemade vanilla ice cream! YUMMM... one of my favorite "4th" traditions we do. And after that lighting off our little fireworks outside the house was fun too. On Sunday, since it was sunday we didn't do anything too exciting during the day since we had church, but in the evening we drove downtown Boise to Ann Morrison Park where they do the big city fireworks display, and that was awesome, we found a park where only like 3 other people came to watch them, so we had the area to ourselves pretty much! I was half relieved that Hudson slept the whole time, but in a way I wanted him to be able to watch the fireworks with us...I guess next year he'll be old enough to to like them.


Anyway, the rest of the week has been pretty uneventful, other than the fact that Derek has been WAY WAY too busy with work, and I miss my husband being home. But atleast he's making progress with the business, so I have to be thankful he is so willing to work hard to support us!.. Luckily however, we got to get away for the weekend and come to Utah for our yearly Nish/Stokes Reunion. We left EARLY on Friday morning to beat the heat driving down. My sweet little boy just slept peacefully the whole way and was perfect. When we got to the hotel, we were pleasantly surprised to walk into the jacuzzi suite that my dad had booked for us! It's very nice, and Hudsy enjoyed a nice jacuzzi bath with his mommy.... he lovvvved it! The jets in the tub must have reminded him of being in my tummy or something. So sweet <3. He slept pretty well until 5 a.m. in his bed we brought for him, and then he slept between Derek and I for the rest of the night! Let me tell you cuddling in a king sized bed is a LOT more enjoyable then in a queen! Derek agrees we need one if Hudson keeps sleeping by us :-) .... So today we woke up, derek brought me breakfast, and we got ready and went to the reunion which was in Logan. It was lots of fun showing Hudson off to everyone who hadn't met him yet. He was in a good mood and he smiled and laughed for everyone.. We had fun and ate WAY too much delicious food... the best part was just napping under a tree in the park and Derek not having to anwer his phone 500 times a minute! Love getting away! :)

Do I need to say anything else ??? :-)

4 days old... in Grampas arms :-)



Darling salad bebe ...


his feet look so tiny here!









Hudson and mommy pics






His darling "apple" outfit...he was getting sick of taking pictures :-)



I love this one !

Happy Birthday Hudson!... Your two months old today!

He was born two months ago already! And obviously I've been a little slow on getting around to blogging about our amazing miracle since he joined us. Everything has been so amazing since then, live has felt more complete, he is so fun to just stare at and snuggle all day long! enjoy these pictures that tell the story of his birth day better than me.






He's so easy to stare at for hours on end ...





Great Great Grandma LaRae came to see him at the hospital.


Sweet and beautiful since day one...



Hudson has already been developing and changing so quickly! Some sweet things he has just been doing at 2 months old, are socially smiling (not just in his sleep)... cooing, and sleeping aleast 6 to 7 hours straight at night time, on average! :-) We love you sweet angel boy and are trying not to let every minute slip away so fast! Don't grow up too quickly sweet puppy, we want to remember every minute of your precious life.