The Air Show...

We went to the Hill Air force Base Show this last weekend. It was so cool! Jordan LOVES fighter jets and airplanes in general. Joel took Jordan and Madi up early to get right by the tarmack, and I joined them later. We got to see the Thunderbirds do their show at the very end...they were definitely the highlight (for me anyway). I tried and tried to get pics, but the planes go too fast! So below, you can see the sky, and the edge of 2 planes...


One of the Thunderbirds did a fly by, and scared Hudson, so he got the earplugs and was in la la land the rest of the time. He couldn't hear a thing!!


Soo....I couldn't get any great pics, so I took a picture of all the people that probably did get a good pic. Boy, that is one way to get everyone to look in one direction! I'm jealous if they did get a decent pic!

We had a rat in our house!!!

I know, who would voluntarily invite a rat in their home....well, us. Madison's 1st grade class has a pet named Lullabelle. Lullabelle is a hairless dumbo rat, and oh yes, has a long freaky tail. Well, Madi has been begging all year long to let Lullabelle spend a weekend in our home, even though we have cats. Well, I finally gave in. When Lullabelle was delivered to our home by the teacher (I refused to transport it), I screamed! It scared me to death! Lullabelle stayed in her cage for a few hours, then I finally walked over and just looked at her face and she was actually pretty cute...so I held her, that freaked me out...so back into the cage. We let her run around in the ball in the house, and the cats were scared of the rat! Go figure. I now have a better appreciation for Lullabelle. Not any other rat, but Lullabelle :) Hudson liked chasing around the ball with the rat in it... he was very curious.

Hudson at 8 months...

Hudson is in such a fun phase right now. He is sitting on his own, rolling everywhere, starting to crawl (crawling backwards counts right?), he'll wave, give kisses, and dance by bopping his head around. We often find ourselves calling him a "monster" or "the big hulk" or "hulk Hudson" because he will growl and sometimes if he gets upset enough, and if he is in snap pajamas, he he will pop all the snaps open (thus the name "HULK"). Then on the other hand, he has this really high tone voice he will talk in and sound so sweet...that sound only manifests itself about once a week. Overall, he doesn't do the growling and all of that because he's upset, I think it's just because he's a boy! Oh! Another reason he has earned some of these nicknames is because he has large hands! They are so cute! He loves to go outside, screech in a really high voice to get attention (then when he gets your attention, he just laughs), he likes to gag himself too (that would keep him occupied for hours if we would let him!) and he loves to be with the family. He has a really hard time napping if the family is home, because he wants to play! He's so much fun and we all love him tons! Right now, as I'm writing, he is gagging himself and laughing...he is crazy!