The Pumpkin Patch!

Last weekend we took a trip to the pumpkin patch! Hudson had a great time and was completely worn out by the time we left. I was a little disappointed because he wasn't all that into the pumpkins. He was distracted by everything around him that had wheels: strollers, wagons, tractors, trains, etc. Everytime he turned around there was something with wheels passing by him and all he could think about was riding and driving...such a boy!

Here he is eyeing the tractor or possibly thinking about stealing someone's wagon...
He thought the goat was pretty cool but really wanted to be in there with it.

He had a really great time going through the moonwalk obstacle course. The first time he went through he couldn't really figure out why he was inside this werid maze thing. After he went through it the first time and realized there was a slide at the end he couldn't get enough of it!

After playing on the moonwalk, it was time to wait in the long line for a train ride! It really started heating up outside so I had to take off his Halloween shirt and put a cooler shirt on. We had some snacks while we waited and Hudson got to have his first bag of popcorn...
and his first snowcone! He doesn't usually like cold things but since it was so hot he decided to give it a try!


Finally, it was our turn!! The pumpkin patch is at the Christmas tree farm so the train took us on a tour of the trees and the surrounding farm. It was sad to see that a lot of the trees were damaged from the hurricane. There will still be plenty for Christmas time just not as many perfect ones.

Before we left, Hudson got to go down the BIG slide!! He got to go 3 times for every ticket and he used up all the rest of our tickets going down the slide. He's pretty much a moonwalk slide expert now. So as you can see, we had a fun day at the Pumpkin Patch! Next stop...Zoo Boo!!!

Hollywood here I come!

Hudson is quite the little actor these days. I noticed it early on when he first started to pretend but now it is even more evident. He would probably be quite successful as a child actor (just to brag a bit: it seems that nearly everywhere we go someone comes up to us and tells us he should be a baby model or actor) but I really don't want him to turn out like McCaulley Caulkin, The Olsen twins, The Spears girls or the many other childhood stars that were ruined by fame. He'll have to settle for a smigett of Blogger Fame!


Here he is in his first acting debut:


This one came about after Jason was teasing Hudson and poked him in the belly with his finger. Hudson's reaction was so dramatic that he looked as if he had just been shot!

Here is Hudson acting out one of his favorite past times "crashing". He fake crashes off of everything. One of his best crashes actually came while pushing his toy lawn mower but of course I didn't catch it on camera.

This is Jason's version....hmmm, I wonder where Hudson gets his acting skills??? The first time he did this Hudson was actually very concerned for his daddy. He kept asking him if he was ok and was patting his head. This time all he cared about was his truck!

What are little boys made of?

Little boys are made of snips and snails and puppy dog tails! Two of my besties just gave birth to gorgeous baby boys!

Please meet Lincoln Thomas Born. He arrived September 28th weighing in at 7lbs. 1oz. His proud parents are Don & Beth Born.
I am also proud to introduce Eli James Moffitt. Born September 30th. He weighed 6lbs. 12oz. Proud parents are Jeramy & Terrie Moffitt.

Carlock Wedding

This past weekend we went to a wedding in Grapevine, TX. One of Jason's navy buddy's, Arron Carlock, got married. This was the first time they have seen each other in almost 10yrs! The wedding was at a really neat little winery in downtown Grapevine. We had a nice time except for on the way there. We were almost to Grapevine, in heavy traffic and hoping we would make it there on time, when Hudson got car sick and started throwing up! He threw up in my purse, all over himself, and all over his carseat. We made it to our hotel in time for Jason to unload us and all of our stuff and then he zoomed over the the wedding. I staid at the hotel and cleaned up Hudson and everything else. Then Jason picked us up and took us back to enjoy the reception. Hudson was feeling great as if it had never happened.

Time Out

The terrible 2's are starting to kick in and someone has been spending a lot more time in Time Out lately. Since he is almost 2 he has graduated to 2 minutes in time out. For the most part he is really, really sweet but every now and then those wild, naughty hairs come out and we have to let him know who is boss!

We have POWER!!!

Just has I hit "enter" to submit my last entry, the power came back on! Yippee!! We are back to modern times!


One of Hudson's favorite things to do now is practice his ABC's and 123's:

Post Ike...still NO POWER : (

Well we survived the storm unscathed. A lot of our neighbors weren't so lucky. Many of them had several trees fall on their houses and put gaping holes in their roof tops. There were so many huge trees taken down by Ike that it caused mass destruction to the area power lines. It has now been almost 2 weeks without power. Ugh! We have seen convoys of electricians working to restore the power the past couple of days so hopefully today or tomorrow we will be back up and running. Luckily, we got a generator so we have been able to keep our fridge going plus some fans and every now and then we'll plug in the computer/tv! The past 2 days have been much better b/c our friends, Terrie & Jeramy, were so wonderful to let us borrow their generator, window a/c unit, & more fans!!! Then we were able to pass our generator to our neighbors so they could survive a little easier. Terrie & Jeramy got power back earlier this week so I was able to go wash some clothes (we had to go by new underwear b/c we were running out of clean ones!) and spend some time in a nice cool house. It has been hard on Hudson b/c he hasn't been able to sleep upstairs in his bed since its too hot and he is all out of his normal routine. However, we are very thankful that our house did not receive any damage and hopefully we will have electricity soon! I miss the microwave!!

Waiting for Ike to arrive

The past couple of days we've been busy fighting the crowds of people and searching from store to store to gather all of our hurricane supplies. I think we are as ready as can be. It will be our first true hurricane. After the horrible experience with Hurricane Rita, we decided not to try plowing through the mass evacuation traffic to leave. So as Jason would say, "We're "hunkerin' down"!".

Here are the boys sitting on the front porch waiting for the storm to roll in.

Here is Hudson saying "Hi!" from Jeff's golf cart.



This is today (Friday) around 1pm. It's a typical slightly overcast hot day. No wind. Yet, Galveston, is already underwater just from the storm surge. Only a couple houses up here have actually boarded up their windows. We don't have too many big trees close to us to worry about. We have a few pines but hopefully they'll stay put!



This is around 5:30pm. We are just starting to get a few good gusts but for the most part its still pretty calm. The worst is supposed to hit us in the middle of the night. I'm not much of a night owl so Jason has the night watch. All of the neighbors are hanging out on their front porches or cruising around in their carts watching the storm blow in.

***oops! having a hard time getting this video to upload-I'll keep trying!***

It's about 9pm now and Jason just went for a cruise around the 'hood to see what's happening out there. As long as we have power I will continue to post updates and pictures. I'm pretty sure we will be out of power for a while though according to the predictions. : ( Looks like we'll be having some smelly game nights together!

playing with Daddy

My little tadpole

Since the weather is more tolerable lately, we were able to break out the frog pool again!

It's fall!

Since fall has arrived and it has been cooler in the mornings, we have been able to start going to the parks again! Hudson LOVES going to the parks!! As soon as I get him out of his bed in the morning he starts asking me to take him to the park. It has become a great bribing tool too!

Happy Birthday Evan!

Happy Birthday Evan!! Sorry I couldn't make it to your party...I hope you had an awesome time at Chuck-E-Cheese!! Tell your mom & dad to move here and we can celebrate our birthday's together every year!!! Stay cool man! : )