Week of 6/6/10-6/12/10

We had a very busy week. Brad went out of town on Tuesday so Grandma-ma & Papa came to visit and help out. We had lots of fun while they were here.

My cousin Tommy and his son Aiden came over to play for a little while. They had so much fun together, although I think Tommy had just as much fun as they did.

Austin, Grandma-ma & I had fun making some sugar cookies for Austin to take to school. Austin is very good at taste testing the cookies!
Hudson & I having a little playtime
And of course it would not be a good day at our house unless Austin took his red convertible car for a drive. He got this car from Brad and I on his 1st birthday and he rides it still almost every day!
Here is Hudson rolling around on the floor and chewing on his fingers (his favorite toy these days)
Austin has really started enjoying helping me cook.
Here we are making the cookies!

The finished product. They were super yummy! Papa even liked them!Hudson also got a new toy this week. It said 4 months and up on the box (shh...don't tell but he is not 4 months until the 15th). He loves sitting in here and checking everything out
Here are the boys with Grandma-ma & Papa just before they headed back to GA.

Baking Cookies

Austin, Grandma-ma & I had some fun baking some sugar cookies.

Austin and Grandma-ma actually made the cookies, then Austin and I cut them out and decorated them.

Here is Hudson helping us bake!

The cookies turned out cute and YUMMY!

Happy 6 Year Anniversary

Brad and I celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary on June 5th. I could not have asked for a more amazing husband!

Below are pictures before our big date. Brad's parents came over and babysat the boys while we went out on a date. We started with dinner at Bonefish Grill (one of my favorite places), then we went and did a little shopping.

Our little Rolly Polly

Tonight while we were having tummy time Hudson rolled over from his tummy to his back for the 1st time. He did it multiple times tonight.

He almost rolled right off his blanket


After having some fun rolling around he decided to chill in his bumbo chair for a little while.
Daddy also got to feed Hudson a bottle for the first time tonight! Of course Austin wanted Daddy to hold him at the same time. Needless to say I think Brad got a glimpse of my life during the day while he is at work.

Pool Time

We had our first family outing to the neighborhood pool this morning! The weather was great, it was warm but cloudy out. Both boys were too cute sporting there swimsuits. Below is a photo of Hudson as we arrived to the pool.

Austin testing out the water
Mommy & Hudson
Hudson pouring water on Grandpa! Check out Grandma's hot body!
Hudson passed out in the shade.
We were able to stay at the pool around an hour. Austin had a blast and made a little friend while he was there. Hudson and I both stuck our feet in the water, but that's as far as we ventured in.

5/31/10-6/6/10 Happenings

Below are some photos taken from my cell phone this week.

Hudson sleeping in my arms!

Hudson playing the roll of a "trashy baby", look at that belly.
Austin hanging out with no pants on. He has his shirt, shoes & socks so he is ready to go to any local store or restaurant ("no, shirt, no shoes, no service", he has that one covered).

In an effort to actually keep our family blog updated I am going to try and post the highlights from our family's week. So here goes our happenings from this week:

Monday 5/31/10: Memorial Day- We took the boys to the Nashville Zoo to explore the animals and have some family fun. You can see a whole post on our adventure here.

Tue. & Thur: Austin went to his teacher's house Mrs. Carmen for school. His actual school is out for summer but Mrs. Carmen is having "summer school" for Austin and Dawson (another boy in his class) along with her 3 kids. He loves it over there!

Wen: we had a play date with Mrs. Jenn, Gavin & Zoe.

Friday morning as I was cleaning out my purse Austin points to some coupons and says "Mommies Money". Too funny! Every Sunday morning as I am pulling the coupons out of the newspaper he is always trying to play with them (he loves putting the paper in a pile and jumping in it like a pile of leaves). I always tell him "please don't jump on these and mess them up, its money". Guess he actually does listen to what I tell him.

Hudson discovered his little feet this week and now loves to pull them up with his hands so he can check them out. He also has really been working on trying to roll over again. He seems to favor rolling onto his left side. He will get over on his side and then try to look the other way so he ends up rolling back onto his little back. He also graduated into size 2 diapers this week. Which mommy was very excited about because now I can buy the Target UP&UP diapers for him in the big box (huge $$$$ savings~we love these diapers for Austin).

Brad and I have been doing an at home version of Weight Watchers and both have had some great results. Brad has lost around 19 lbs so far since the beginning of May and I have lost around 12 lbs. I fit into a pair of jeans this week (they were actually loose) that I have not worn since before I had Austin.

Monthly Challenge/Goal

So in an effort to continue getting my house back in order I am going to start giving myself a monthly challenge/goal to complete. Hopefully over the course of a month I will be able to actually complete this task/goal. I am going to try and keep my blog updated weekly or so on how I am coming on completing my goal. I would like to challenge you guys to all do the same, we can help to motivate one another. I know I am more productive when I have someone to report my progress to.

So, for the month of June my monthly challenge/goal is to go through each of my closets in the house and clean them and get rid of anything that we don't need or that is not being used. The following are a list of each of the closets in my house:

master bedroom closet

coat closet

downstairs toy closet

pantry

upstairs linen closet

office/craft closet

Hudson's closet

Austin's closet

Some of these closets need more work than others. I figure I will work on two closets a week-one that needs more work and one that just needs to be picked up. I will try my best to post both before and after photos of each closet. Let me know if you are interested in joining me in this challenge.