Dr Suess PartyTime!!

Hudson's first Birthday was a big deal for me. I fully realize he will not remember or care about this party. But I like having and throwing parties, so it was more for me. My mom told me a long time ago that the child's birthday should be more of a celebration for the mother than the child anyway. After all, the mom did all the work on the day we are celebrating. So back to my day.... it was Dr. Suess themed.
My friend, Roni, came with her little boy, Bode. They are destined to be best friends.
Uncle Sean gave Hudson his present and he loved them!
They were little animal figurines that Tanner and Sean always used to play with when they were little. We were so excited to find them in Blickenstaff's the other day.
Ryan's family all came. Grandma, Laurel, and Aimee
Eva just had back surgery last week and she even made it to the party!
Our friends from our ward, Veronica and Matt came. It's too bad I didn't get a better picture of them.
On Hudson's actual birthday he did so well eating his cupcake. On Saturday he was not having his cake. He screamed!

This was the dessert table. We had sugar cookies, cake batter muddy buddies, cake pops, cupcakes, an actual birthday cake and chocolate covered marshmallows. I might have gone a little overboard. The sign in the back says "Today you are you. That's truer than true. There is no one alive that is you-er than you! Happy birthday to you!"
He loved opening presents!
Matt and Kate gave him this Dr. Suess bag with some Dr Suess books in it! So Cute!
But then he hated when I would take the present away so he could open another one.

We had "Green Eggs and Ham" for lunch.
Mackenzie is modeling our cake pop boquets.
The guessing game was the only game we played. There were 444 swedish fish in the vase. My mom guessed 439 and my brother, Matt, guessed 437. Without talking to eachother about it! Crazy! I'm always way off on things like this. I guessed 167 (Ryan prepared and counted the fish)
Allen, Kim, and Aimee with their "Hudson" water.
Tanner and Kate
These are our party favors with buckeyes inside that my mom made.
It was a fun party and I still have lots of cake if anyone wants them!

Adventures with Nana!

My mom is in town for a visit which makes for a good time. Wednesday night we went up to Midway to have dinner for my uncle Michael's birthday. We ate at Tarahumara, a mexican restaurant, and it was DELICIOUS!! Ryan said they had the best tamales he'd even had!
My cousin, Aliyah, is Hudson's new favorite person alive! She entertained him all night long. I offered her a room at our house to live, one day I'll convince her.

Earlier that day we met Kate, Elle, and Averi at the park. It was a little windy, but we still had fun.


Kristen had been out of town for a while and her and Hudson don't like to go very long without seeing each other so we met up at Orange Leaf for some frozen yogurt.

Friday night we went to City Creek to do some shopping and have dinner.

Hudson's 1st Birthday!! (the actual day)

I can not believe my baby is 1!! But at the same time I can't really remember not having him around!(in a good way) We love him so much and he is so fun! We are having a party for him this weekend but on his actual birthday we celebrated with Nana and a cupcake!


He fed most of it to Moose and his daddy.


Of course then he got dumped into the tub so he was nice and clean again. Happy Birthday baby we love you!!

Play Dates

This is Hudson's friend, Cohen, they love spending time together. And it's nice, because I like hanging out with his mom, Jana, too!
The other day we went to the park with Averi, Elle, and Kate. Hudson loved the swings. I guess we'll be spending many of our days this summer at the park. Now if the weather would just decide to stay warm.
These little munchkins apparently liked their Chickfila lunch!
I make Hudson earn his keep! It's never too early to start making them do chores, right?

The Return of the Piano

I've been taking piano lessons for a little over a month from a lady in my ward, Racail Hays. It's so nice because I can take Hudson with me and he plays on the floor during my lesson and she'll chase him around the house while I play my songs for her! She's a trooper for putting up with us. I have loved taking lessons again and things have come back a lot easier than I thought.
I had a piano recital last week, and although I didn't get a picture of anyone at the actual recital, I thought I needed one of the zinho in his bowtie and his new forward facing car seat! I was under the impression when I said yes to the recital that I wasn't the only adult that would play in the recital. I was mistaken. The next closest participant to my age was 15!! It was mostly people in our ward there. Before we could go in the recital room everyone was waiting outside, and 4 different people came up to us and said "Is Hudson really taking lessons already?!" Nope just me. But I'm glad I did it, it's good for me to do things out of my comfort zone. And I'm happy to report I played my song flawlessly.

Basketball Champions

I was called to be the Young Women Sports Coach in my ward before basketball season started and I was so excited!! Not that I'm a great basketball player but I love sports in general. My group of girls were so much fun and pretty talented. Ryan and I have both been super impressed with their talent, and how cute they are! We won all of our regular season games so then a few weekends ago we went into tournaments and we won everything! We are the Champions!

Lately...

*The Zinho is everywhere! Crawling, standing, walking along things, he is so busy!!

*We went on a cruise with Ryan's work and we had a blast! I wasn't sure how much fun we would have but it ended up being a ton of fun and we had awesome weather. Hudson stayed with my Aunt Karen so I knew he was being really well taken care of.

*Ryan and I finished out month of "Clean Eating" and we had really good results. I lost 7 lbs and Ryan lost around 10. Then we went on a cruise and gained a few back but we are back on track. We really did feel so good following our plan. I never really felt hungry and we had a lot of energy. I don't think I'll always be as strict from here on out but it gave us really good guidelines to follow.

*My little brother Sean got his mission call on Wednesday. He is going to South Salt Lake Spanish speaking. He leaves on July 18th. A little crazy that 98% of his family lives in the area, but we are excited for him! He will be an incredible missionary.

*Ryan had surgery on his elbow on Wednesday. They removed a mass the size of a marble that was imbedded in his tricep muscle. Hopefully this will help and everything will heal well! He has been such a trooper, you wouldn't even know he had surgery except for his giant sling on his arm. He went back to work today.

*I started taking piano lessons and I have a recital in a few weeks! I used to take when I was little but I was surprised how quickly things came back to me once I started practicing again. I love having a new little hobby!

*Only 7 weeks until our next cruise!!