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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...

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Bear Lake

Posted on Monday, September 3, 2012

Last weekend we went to a Otteson family reunion at Bear Lake.  We had so much fun hanging out with cousins and babies!  Hudson did so well being held by everyone and sleeping in an unfamiliar place.


Bear lake is so beautiful, especially when compared to the mucky Utah Lake we are used to.  My mouth still waters for delicious raspberry shakes...yum!

Below, Jason plays twister with my uncle Brent and cousin Logan.  It was his first family reunion ever and he seemed to enjoy himself.


My cute nephew Asher on a kayak ride, Grandma Dot holding Hudson, and Jason and Huson in the water.





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Hudson 3 Months

I can't believe Hudson is already three months old!  The past three months have flown by!   It seems like just yesterday he was a tiny newborn who slept all day and kept me up most of the night.



Hudson now LOVES to hear himself talk. He coos and squeals and jibber-jabbers to himself all day long.  We have had many long conversations about who knows what.

He took his first flight to see his Aunt Brittany get married.

He is so strong, he has been rolling from tummy to back since six weeks.

He has learned to hate his carseat, unless it is nap time.

He is starting to grab things, anything in his hands goes straight to his mouth, even if nothing is in them, his hands are in his mouth.  I found him sucking his thumb after a nap once!


We love this little guy so much!