Piano Recital Firsts!

My kids have been taking Piano lessons recently. Sami gets to take from me and we try our best to be consistent, but house stuff gets in the way. She does really well if we stay on track. Eston really really wanted to take piano as well. I didn't think that I had it in me to take on 2 NEW students, so I sent Eston to the best place I know, my dear friend, Kristen Spere. He loves everything about it except practicing.

Since Eston is taking from Kristen it came time for her annual Piano Recital and he was so excited.  

Kristen was kind to let Sami join in on the Piano recital. She thought it was so neat to play in front of a crowd on a big piano.

He played two songs, one of which he wrote himself. I thought he would be too shy to perform but he proved me wrong. He went up, bowed and played perfectly.

Sami was beaming from ear to ear.

Good Job guys!!

Happy Valentines Day!!

Eston informed me yesterday that I needed to decorate for Valentine's Day! I am not great when it comes to decorating or celebrating holidays. However, when my kids have grand plans and want it to happen I suddenly get motivated to do something! So the extent of my planning was this wall display for when they woke up. On the back of the individual named heart is things that Matt and I love about them. The kids loved it, and then Eston told me he was excited to see what else I would have done for when he got home from school. I raised the white flag and told him that this was it. I don't have the energy to put into it. Because my bubbly Lucy gave me Strep.

Speaking of Strep, this little angel and I were each other Valentine's dates. The two of us had strep and hung out this morning. However, her heart was taken quickly by cute Jordan Spendlove up the street. Lucy for the last year has declared that she is going to the Temple with him one day. He is her "boyfriend." 

This morning Jordan came by and dropped off a single rose and a box of chocolates for her. Lucy hasn't quit grinning since. Jordan told his mom today that he loves her.

And lastly what would Valentine's Day be without Sami having her annual Valentine's day hair do. She loves it when I put a heart in her hair for this day. I love that she asks.

Because I have been sick with strep Matt told me that we will have our Valentine's day tomorrow. I can't wait to feel better to celebrate.

Hudson's one year stats

Isn't he just the cutest little thing in the world. Hudson is so independent and hilarious. He is our only kid at this age (or at all) that will just sit next to you on the couch and hang out for 10 minutes or longer.

Hudson went in today for his 1 year check up. 

Height: 29 1/2" 50%

Weight:  19 lbs. 9 oz. 20%

Head: 75%

Happy 1 YEAR Cheese ball!!

Look who is turning "1" . . .

I can't believe that my baby turned "1" today. Time has flown by. We started the day with a birthday breakfast of Pancakes. Hudson loves pancakes! He ate to whole big ones by himself! Grandma Brenda and Papa Dallas came down to celebrate and spend the day with us! It was very humorous to watch the other kids try to spoil him and to see how excited they were about his birthday! I think watching the older kids excitement made Hudson even more goofy!

Hudson is a character! Some things we have either discovered about Hudson or grown to love are: 1. Hudson is a very mellow baby. He goes with the flow unless he strongly feels otherwise. 2. He loves cars, mostly Hot Wheels, but we make him play with the Little People ones instead. 3. He thinks he is a big kid. He wants to be running and playing with the big kids. 4. He thinks he is so funny and so smart. He is constantly laughing at his own Genius! 5. Hudson learned how to walk at 10 months. 6. He has milk issues that we are still trying to figure out. 6. He LOVES when his daddy comes home. Matt can even just walk into the room from another and Hudson gets super excited. The two of them love to wrestle with each other. 6. Hudson's nicknames are H. Burke and more commonly Huddy Buddy!

We Love you Huddy Buddy, happy FIRST BIRTHDAY!!

The snow day(s) that never end. . .

This January has been crazy with storms. I feel as if I haven't seen blue sky since Christmas. The sky has been filled with clouds and inversion on and off and the snow has been crazy. We ended up with over 30" of snow within a 24 hour period. I haven't seen snow like that since I was around 13 or 14. It took me 3 hours that day to shovel out of our driveway.

About a week after that big storm we ended up with a big ice freeze. It was raining outside and the second the rain hit a surface it froze into ice. Driveways, streets, parking lots were all ice skating rinks. I went to go pick Eston up from Kindergarten that day. As I stepped out of my car to get him my feet went out from under me. Luckily I caught myself, but it took me 5 minutes to get out of my car and just get to the sidewalk that was 10 feet away. I was at the school for about an hour trying to get Eston and then getting stuck behind cars who were stuck from the ice.

As tiring as all this snow has been to work around, I must say it has added a lot of fun and excitement to. We got great stories from all of it.

Hudson got to go play in the snow for the first time with the kids. He didn't know what to make of the white stuff falling on him. He kept looking up and squinting as it hit him and then he would laugh. I let him feel the snow and he instantly started to cry because of the cold. That ended his play day.

I look forward to when the snow has melted and we can spend more time outside with clean air.