Christmas Time is Here

Yes that's right...I said Christmas time is here. Some girlfriends recently were mentioning how Thanksgiving is later and that means less time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. After that I decided it was time to bust out the Christmas tree. If we're going to do all the work to put out the Christmas decorations then we need to enjoy them for a while! So join the club - put up your Christmas tree!

Hudson wasn't real sure what was coming out of the giant box

Hmm...that's pretty cool

Growing up, my mom always gave us girls an ornament for Christmas. It made for a neat tradition as I now have ornaments from when I was 5, 6, 7....years old. Christian and I decided to carry on the tradition and this is the ornament he got me the first Christmas we were married. It's one of my favorites!

Ahhh...the Christmas tree all lit up. It's a little sparse on the ornaments right now because I was afraid to put up anything very fragile since Hudson is very interested in touching everything!

A Wee Dance

Here's a bit of dancing/hopping action from Hudson for your viewing pleasure ;)

Fun with Paper Towels

Remind me again why we bother buying toys for our kids....Last week I went to Costco and while there I got some paper towels. When we got home Hudson decided that paper towel rolls make great toys. They're great for stacking and then knocking over, or even better, they're good for throwing down the stairs. Hudson thought it was all great fun. Friday evening Hudson's Grandpa Koethke was over for our housewarming party and they played the throw-rolls-of-paper-towels-down-the-stairs game and Hudson was so giddy he was doing a funny little happy dance. Who knew paper towels could be so much fun?

Super Dealio

Lately Hudson has been really into Thomas the train. I told family that would probably be a good way to go for Christmas presents. So I started thinking about maybe getting a train table. I checked craigslist and also looked online a little but didn't really see anything I liked for the amount of money I wanted to spend. Saturday morning Susan called me and said there was a yard sale in West Valley and the add said they had a train table. It was already 10am so I hopped in the car just hoping that they might still have it. (oh, and I hadn't even told Susan that I was looking for a train table.) I got to the yard sale and they still had the table....here's the kicker...I got the table with two huge trundle drawers, a couple of trains and a ton of wooden track for....drumroll.....$44! I was stoked! I thought about waiting until Christmas to give it to Hudson but I was just too excited. He spent nearly all his waking time Saturday playing with the trains. $44 dollars well spent. :)

Fall Fun

A couple of Saturdays ago Christian went golfing so Susan and I took Hudson to the Pecks Canyon Road Orchard where they had a pumpkin patch, hay maze and other fall festivities.

Hudson loves pumpkins!


He also loves wagons

They had built these "forts" with a couple of apple bins...they were just the right size for Hudson.

"See what I found"

Hay maze

We gleaned some apples from an orchard near a friends house and then made a bunch of applesauce. Hudson wanted in on all the action with the apple peeler/corer/slicer.