Christmas Report

Well, Christmas this year was good, but kind of rough at the same time. Starting on Christmas Eve, Hudson decided that he was going to be sick. In Talen's family, we have the tradition of doing a progressive dinner on Christmas Eve where we go to everyone's houses for a different part of the dinner. We did a lot of driving and were out much later than Hudson was used to. He was not a very happy little boy that night, and he didn't sleep well at all. Christmas morning came and he wouldn't eat a thing. He was not interested in opening presents, so Talen opened most of them for him. He did like his big slide that he got, but he was scared to go down it by himself. We had breakfast over at Talen's parents house and dinner at his grandparents. There was just so much going on and so many people around that he just threw fits all day long. I felt so bad for him. It was a long day for us all. Today has been the first day that he has finally begun to feel better and really been able to enjoy his presents (It's also the first time that he's slept through the night this whole week! Thank heavens!!). He's even going down his slide by himself now. We didn't take many pictures of Christmas, because they would have all been of Hudson crying!He really did like his slide but you would never tell from this picture!

Hudson on his rocking horse from gma and gpa Bundy.

One of the few presents he actually opened...and only after he knew it was a tractor.

Sand!

Hooray! We finally got sand in the sandbox Talen made before he went hunting in November. This was Hudson's first experience with the sandbox, but he seemed to know just what to do (there has been plenty of dirt in the backyard for him to dig in before). Talen, though, was having a lot more fun with the tractors and dump truck...he wishes now that he would have made the sandbox even bigger (I guess so he can play in it too!).

Oh, Christmas Tree!

Well, over the weekend we got our Christmas tree up...but it wasn't without drama. We decided that we would put the tree up Friday night, after Hudson had gone to sleep so he could wake up to it and be suprised Saturday morning. We got the tree up, but when we started checking the lights to make sure they worked, only one strand of 100 lights did! We tried for such a long time that night to get them to work...but no luck! I have usually put red and white alternating lights on my tree, but for the last couple of years I haven't been able to find any like that in the stores. So this year, I had to just get white lights. Bright and early Saturday morning I was at Wal-Mart buying the most expensive, commercial-grade Christmas lights they sold. Well, we got them put on the tree only to plug them in and find that half of one of the strands didn't work! I was so mad, but so tired of trying to fix lights, that I left it that way. I now have a strip of tree that is unlit all the way around. Every time I look at it it makes me mad, maybe one day I'll do something about it, but not yet! We had so many problems with the lights that while I was decorating the rest of the tree, I got about half of my decorations on it and Talen said, "Just leave it like that." It had never taken me so long to do my tree, so I agreed with him and didn't finish putting on the rest of the ornaments...I guess that's less to worry about Hudson pulling off and breaking!

Back to Normal

I know I haven't posted anything for a while, but things are finally starting to feel like they are back to normal around here. Hudson and I flew up north to spend Thanksgiving with my family. We had dinner at my dad's house and there were a lot relatives that I haven't seen in quite a while and some of them had never even met Hudson before. We had a good time, but were glad when that week was over and we were able to come back home. I didn't have my camera up there, so if you want to see pictures, you'll have to go look at my sister, Jackie's blog.

The next week Jackie, and her two boys came to our house and stayed with us for the week. It was fun and we got a lot of Christmas shopping done. It was also nice to have the company because Talen was still gone hunting.

This past weekend, Talen finally came home and Hudson and I were so happy! When Hudson finally realized that his dad was home for good, he wouldn't let me do anything for him...it had to be dad who got him dressed, and dad who fed him, and dad who put him down for a nap. It was kind of a nice break for me though.

With Talen home, we got a lot done in one weekend. We got our Christmas tree up and decorated (when I remember to take a picture I will post it). We did some Christmas shopping. And, yesterday, we went over to grandma and grandpa's house to decorate gingerbread houses.

We all had a good time and now hopefully we can bring our gingerbread house home without it falling apart!

Oh ya...Talen and I celebrated our 5th anniversary on the 23rd of November. I guess we didn't really celebrate it...I was in Lehi with my family and Talen was hunting. But, ever since we've been married we haven't ever celebrated our anniversary on the right day. Hopefully we can plan something before we have our baby in January!