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New Year's Resolution: Catch up on blog!!! 

Carson's Birthday

We met up with The Clifford's to celebrate Carson's birthday (he happens to share a birthday with my brother)!  It was so nice to see our friends and Hudson and Carson had a great time playing together in the jungle of bounce houses!  London also found a new friend in Kendrah!  We love these special friends!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CARSON AND UNCLE JOSH!

Papa's 60th Birthday

Papa and Gigi came to visit at the end of July so we were able to celebrate Papa's 60th Birthday with him!!  We had a variety of decedent cupcakes from Gigi's Cupcake Shop.  They were so good!  We had to share them all so we could all get a taste of each one.

We played a fierce game of Jenga! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPA!

Blogging Hiatus Over

I unintentionally took a hiatus from blogging over the summer.  It is officially over!  We had a super busy summer and I have been too exhausted to get on the computer once I get home from work so my poor blog has been neglected.  I'm not promising to stay caught up (once I get caught up that is) but I'm putting my best foot forward. 

It seems like we've been to birthday party after birthday party this summer.  This is mostly because I've said "yes" to nearly every invitation the kids received.  We didn't get to do much as far as vacations go this summer due to my husband being beyond stressed and tied to work so I thought this would be a fun way to get out and do things with them.  However, Hudson became a bit obsessed with parties.  He wanted to plan a party at home nearly every night.  I think he will be the Hostess with the Mostess when he gets older as he has observed every single thing that takes place at a party and he has mimicked these things at home by throwing his own parties.  He even delegates jobs out to all of us!  Here we are partaking in Hudson's first party planned all by himself:

We baked cupcakes and grabbed some juice boxes then went up stairs to his room (a.k.a. The Party Room).  We had to wash our hand with hand sanitizer just like we did at Pump It Up and the other party places we had been to.  Then we laid out a towel and ate our snacks.

We had to wear our party hats of course!

Hudson enjoyed eating only the chocolate frosting part of his cupcake.  London didn't hesitate to eat the leftover cake part!

After cake time, Hudson made a Pin the Tail on the Elephant game that we played.  Next he cranked up the auto-play music on his keyboard and we danced to some polka music.  Good times!

Splashtown

 We went back and forth a million times trying to decide what to do for the 4th of July weekend: Galveston or Sea World, Galveston or Sea World, and we ended up going to Splashtown!  It is a water park located very close to where we live and we have never gone.  I'm glad we did because it was so much fun and there was so much for both of the kids to enjoy.

Here we are on our way:


First stop, the pirate ship:

Then Hudson and Jason went down their first slide:

Then the kids and I went down a slide London could enjoy...and boy did she!

Then Jason went down this BIG slide!! 



Hudson is finally 42' (sniff, sniff) so he was tall enough to go down some of the bigger slides with Jason.

Going in....

Coming out...

Hudson played on this crocodile forever while London napped.


Then it was time to cool down with some ice cream! 

Primrose 4th of July Parade

 The kids had their Red, White, & blue parade at school July 1st.  I snuck away from work for a bit to go watch.  London saw me in the crowd and beelined it over to me!


This is Parker, Hudson's friend Logan's little brother.  I thought their firecraker costumes were super cute and worthy of making the post!


Here is Hudson.  His class sang Yankee Doodle Dandee.

Astro's Game

US Oncology treated the company to a game at the Astros on June 11th.  They had rented out a big room that was filled with mounds of yummy food and great snacks!!  We felt obligated to try a little of everything since it was there and it was free!  I don't think I've ever eaten so much junk food in one night: hamburgers, hotdogs, chicken strips, (I did add a little salad to my plate), ice cream, popcorn, crackerjacks, cookies, etc...It was a good night!  Both of the kids loved the ballgame!

London's first baseball game!

Happy Birthday To My Mom

(I'm getting caught up again!)

While we were in OK during Memorial Weekend, we celebrated my Mom's birthday since we wouldn't be with her on her actual birthday.  Hudson couldn't wait to put the candles on her cake and sing to her!

Hudson got to go on his first Harley ride with Jason.  They just made the circle around the hill on the dirt road.  I was nervous the whole time but they were very careful and Hudson loved it...of course.

 We brought Hudson's tent so he and Daddy could 'camp' out.  They put the tent up and Hudson played inside forever.  Then it got dark out and he, Jason, and Gigi looked for shooting stars in the sky.  When it was time to go to bed, he said he was done camping and wanted to go sleep inside!!  Maybe next time!