October 2011

Huddy turns...

 This year for Hudson's birthday we decided that we would give him a certain amount of money and take him out to shop for whatever he wanted.

Here is what he ended up getting

It was a very good lesson on managing money.  He actually had to think about what he really wanted before he purchased it.

We then had people over for cake and ice cream with family and friends.

He got a lot of loot!

Hunting

Hudson went deer hunting with my dad and brother. He seems to really enjoy it.  I don't know when he will actually get into the whole killing of a deer.  But for now he just likes being in the mountains with his papa and uncle T.

Pumpkin Carving Party

Stacey had her pumpkin carving party again this year and the whole family had lots of fun

Somehow Jon and I end up doing most of the carving.

All the kids left with a prize and great memories

Thanks for such a good time Christensen's!

Ugly Bug Ball

We had an Ugly Bug Ball at church this year.

We all dressed up as bugs and had a carnival with games, prizes and of course candy. After the fun inside we did some trunk or treating in the parking lot.

 Grady was a bed bug

 Huddy was a black widow spider

 I was a "tutu" bug. I got to help with the prize table

 My mom came to help out

 

Trick or Treat

This year Halloween was on a weeknight so it was pretty low key. We just took the kids trick-or-treating.

 

September 2011

11 Year Anniversary

We celebrated by going to dinner and then doing some shopping. We like to take each other out to pick out something that we want.

Jon brought me my favorite flower, which he always good about!

We raise our glass to many many more years together!



August 2011

Pine View

2011

We made our annual trip to Pine View Reservoir. Which is one of my favorite things to do!

This picture was when we were leaving so we look like rag-a-muffins! 

We did some beachin'

The kids got to do some craftin'

Every year we have more and more people join us and it just gets funner and funner!

Church Campout

This year we were able to go camping with a bunch of people from our church.  We went to Rockport and we had a lot of fun swimming, eating and fellowshipping together.

We also had worship time on Sunday in the great outdoors.

The Bee's are suite!

My boss gave me tickets for a suite at the Bee's game so we took 16 of our family and friends.

We also were able to enjoy picking out what food we wanted to enjoy. Nacho bar, chicken fingers and a sundae bar!

The Bee even stopped by to say hi to the kids



First day of Second Grade

The first day of school just keeps coming! Hudson started 2nd grade and I always have to take some pictures.

I can't believe that next year both of my kids will be having a first day of school.

August was good to us this year!

July 2011

4th of July

I absolutely LOVE the 4th of July.

I have taken it on as my hostessing gig every year.

We always have a lot of fun things going on for the kids and for the adults.

And of course we always have way too much food!

Fireworks are always a MUST!

We usually have a great view for the big fireworks too.

And we can always count on some good tunes!

The next day we had a little photo shoot in our patriotic attire

Take us out to the ball game!

We were able to go to a Bee's baseball game with friends and family.

It was hot but it was fun and after we were able to enjoy fireworks!

It was a great July!