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Mother's Day

Posted on Monday, May 13, 2013

Yesterday was my first Mother's day as a mother.  (Although I did count last myself as a mother last year, being nine months pregnant, because being that huge IS a mother!)
I could go on and on and on about how amazing a being a mother is, instead read this post, and let me summarize...it's amazing.

My day was pretty great, besides to part where I didn't get to take a nap, but I guess that is what this day is all about, celebrating who sleep deprived i have been the last year.


 


 I just got a new camera for an early birthday gift, and spent a lot of time playing with it, and a little time playing in photoshop.  Forgive the photo overload!  After church Jason made me chicken empenadas for lunch, and we headed over to my parents for a family dinner.








I cannot get enough of that picture of Hudson and hid Grandma, my amazing mom!  He loooves books.  (Sorry mom I was blinking in all the pictures without  your glasses!)


My grandma is in town!  It is always so fun when she visits from portland.  After a great dinner we spent as much time outside as we could.  The weather was so great and my parent's backyard has the best view.





 
                     



Hudson loved playing with baby Oaklie.  She is so sweet and kept smiling right at the camera, hopefully someday soon Hudson will understand the whole picture taking thing.








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Things Hudson Does

Posted on Friday, May 10, 2013

Today we got our carpets cleaned.  And let me tell you, they reeaaally needed them, bad!  When we moved in the past tenants had "cleaned" them with a rented machine, but really just got them soaking wet.  So now they are clean and our feet won't turn black and the knees of hudson pants will stay a little cleaner.
Moral of the story, I am sitting on the couch in out kitchen with nothing to do, waiting for the carpets to dry.

Jason is at work, Hudson is asleep, and I am booored!

So let me tell you about my funny baby.
Can you believe he is almost one!?  Oh man, I can't!



He is so smart! Seriously, so smart and observant.  He proves this to us all the time. And so funny!


  • He loves to "talk on the phone". Or remote, or anything semi phone shaped.  He puts it to his ear and says "'lo?" "Hedo!" and jibber-jabbers away.
  • The other day he found a bucket of coins in a cupboard and spilt them everywhere. So. Fun.  While I was putting them away, he helped me put them away, one by one.  Later he found a nickel we missed and I watched him crawl across the kitchen, open the cupboard, and look for the bucket to put the nickel away.
  • He is very neat & organized.  He loves to put things away, and move things from once container to the next.  I find the remote in the diaper bag, random things in boxes, even a soap from our bedroom in the diaper bag in the front room.
  • He likes to drink from cups, or bowls, or anything that slightly resembles a cup.  He tries to tilt it up and see if there is something he can drink inside.
  • He won't let me feed him from a spoon.  We haven't ever been too big on just spoon feeding, but now he has to try himself, which can get pretty dang messy.
  • He sometimes likes to make animal noises while reading books. Like "Cockadoodledoo!" or "Cockadododoo!" and "Meow", or "ow!", and "Mooooo!"
He is so cute, and so fun.  I feel like he is not my little baby anymore, time goes by far too quickly.  Even though I miss him sleeping on my chest and being that snuggly warm newborn, I love this stage and watching him learn so much everyday.  This will be a great summer!

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Hoppy Easter!

Posted on Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Holidays are a lot more fun with a baby.  I was excited to put together an Easter basket for Hudson (and Jason), but I didn't expect him to love it so much!  We put the little bunny ears on him and he giggled with delight!  We set the basket in front of him and one by one he took each item out, examining each plastic egg and little toy.  




I made him a polka dot, yellow bow tie to go along with the outfit for Grandma bought him for church.  What a cute baby I have!



(We spent forever trying to get him to smile for the picture above and he was too distracted.  Finally Jason said, "Hudson, smile!"  And he gave us this one quick smile.  Don't you love those little teeth!?)

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Remembering Grandpa Hal

Posted on Monday, April 8, 2013

My Grandpa Hatch passed away a while ago, and he is so missed. 


I will always remember him as one of the most healthful people I know, showing up for his weekend trips with a box full of supplements, and showing us his funky crystals.  I remember being so impressed by my Grandpa running the St. George marathon.  Every time I see the red rocks of the St. George desert I will think of being a kid and finding fire ant hills and lizards in his yard.  Jason will miss their conversations about guns and science.  



We traveled down to St. George to say our goodbyes.  Our family stayed in a charming old manor and enjoyed the warm weather.  The funeral was on a beautiful day, until the graveside where a chilly wind blew and blew.  There were jokes that this was Grandpa's doing, as he hated standing around these sorts of things ;)  So it was short and sweet, the wind whistled and blew as guns were shot and a bugle played in salute to his time served in Germany, a flag was handed to my mom, and sweet words were said.


Even though he was gone so unexpectedly, he lived a good life and didn't have to deal with those doctors he claimed were so full of Bologna :)  Although he will be missed here and now, I feel him watching over my family and someday will see him again.






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How 2012 Changed Me

Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2013

2012 was a pretty amazing year, for obvious reasons.  We welcomed our little baby boy Hudson into this world!


Being pregnant and having a baby has been filled with so many challenges and blessings and feelings that I could never imagine.  I once heard a quote which basically said "When a child is born, a mother is also born."  You hear time and time again people saying they were reborn when they had their baby, and it is so true.  I felt like I was finally complete.  Learning to be a mother in turn helped me to learn so much about myself.  I learned to trust myself more than anyone else, I learned to love harder than i ever thought I could, which taught me the meaning of truley being selfless and humble.  I worried like never before, i experienced joy like never before.  I found the ability to feel so much compassion for other living things that it hurts. I figured out exactly what it is I am meant to do with my life. I will never forget 2012 and how it changed our little family.




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Happy Belated Halloween!

Posted on Friday, November 16, 2012

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays.  When I was a little girl I would beg my parents to tell me "spoooky stories" at bedtime, and I love dressing up for any reason!  In fact, I think I usually have more fun putting a costume together and getting ready than actually going to Halloween parties.

Now let me flash back, Halloween 2010, Jason and I's first Halloween married, I can't even remember what we did, boring! Halloween 2011, we played games and passed out candy at my parent's house, and announced to friends that we were pregnant with Hudson!  Still pretty uneventful (Besides the prego part)!  Halloween 2012 we had Hudson to dress up and show off, which turned out to be my favorite Halloween yet!

While I waited for Jason to get home from class, I carved three pumpkins in a row, all by myself.  THREE!  Who does that!?  Someone excited for Halloween!

The puking pumpkins, and the baby pumpkin!


Jason got home and we put on our costumes.  The night before we managed to pull together some silly costumes.   We already had Hudson's giraffe costume, so we dressed Jason up like a bear, and I was a Zoo Keeper.


The rest of the night consisted of trick-or-treating at J's work.  Trunk or treating in the neighborhood, and a ward hot dog roast.   Hudson may not remember anything, but we sure will!









PS, Halloween is Tilly the cat's Birthday!  We celebrated her turning 2 with a candle and can of wet cat food, she loved the food hated the candle, in case you care. :)


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SLC's Fashion Night Out 2012

Posted on Sunday, September 16, 2012

Last night I had the fun opportunity to style hair with the salon at Fashion Night Out.  I love doing hair for these sorts of things, it allows my to be creative in ways I don't normally get to be in the salon.  Plus, doing hair for a runway show was on my list of things to do as a hairstylist back when I was in hair school.  I feel I can now say my list is complete, something I feel few can say! I still have so much more I can accomplish, I think it is time to make a new goal list!

We did Hair for Mary Rino, a bridal designer who makes gorgeous romantic gowns.  We set hair in curls and weaved hair into big romantic dutch braids.  The green room was crowded with models, makeup artists, hairstylists and photographers all elbowing their ways around each other to finish the looks.


As we sat in the middle of the Gallivan Center waiting for the first runway show to begin, we people watched and were fascinated with how many interesting people were gathered to one place.  I began to get a sense of what it would be like to be at the Capitol in the Hunger Games.  People with hair every color of the rainbow wandered around, hairstylists with crazy (ugly) haircuts and black clothing liberally applied hairspray to models hair, people sat around dressed as if they had stepped out of every era possible. (Bettie Page you're real cute.)  As fun as it was, at the same time it was a little silly.  We all try too hard to impress each other...