We Are Blessed

It's been a crazy couple of weeks, hence my lack of blogging. It's so typical of me to fill my plate to the max (especially during this time of year) and I find myself exhausted at the end of the day. Yesterday we were able to spend Thanksgiving with family. What a blessing. We started our morning out with a trip to Granbury. My dad is in town so we met there so that my grandparents and sister's family could all get together. Hudson and Cooper with cousins Colton and McKenzieAfter lunch we headed over to Jason's mom's house. We had Thanksgiving dinner with them. We also got to celebrate Jason's birthday since it fell on Thanksgiving this year. Thanks Aunt Pearl for the delicious cake.

The details of this cake were really neat. Jason loves to fish so this cake was certainly appropriate.

The kids always enjoy a trip to Mimi's house.....especially since there are lots of "new" toys for them to play with. Cooper was fascinated with this toy and carried the balls around all night.

Hudson liked the sticky hand that Mimi gave him. He threw it on everything.......including our dog, Rudy.The last couple of weeks I have been asking Hudson what he is thankful for. He has said family (named specific members on different days), friends, and fans. I've also shared many things I'm thankful for so that he can see that many things in life are privileges.

• I'm so thankful for family. I'm so blessed to have a wonderful family that I am close to.
• I'm thankful for true friends. These are hard to come by but once you find one you know it! Thank you to all the friends in my life.
• I'm thankful for health. Besides the occasional cough and cold, our family is very healthy. I think about my uncle and various people that are facing cancer or other illnesses.
• I'm thankful for my mom. I really wanted to write a post about her but this year I couldn't muster the emotional energy to do it. This past Sunday marked 2 years that my mom was involved in a horrible car accident. One day I will write about this because it's important to remember- mostly so that I won't take her or life for granted. I also want my boys to know the story.

There are many more things that I'm thankful for but I don't want this post to go on and on. I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!

Brotherly Love

The boys are finally at an age where they are starting to play good together. Not only is there a 3 year age difference but they have very different interests. These were taken a couple of weeks ago, when it first started getting cold at night. I love long sleeved jammies!

Hudson running through the house......not typically allowed but he was doing something funny at the time.
Getting tickles from dad. Sorry about the bright pic. I had my camera on the wrong setting but I love his huge smile so I couldn't not include it.
Playing cars

Hudson with his prized screw drivers. He is lining them up in order of size- he says "here is the small one, the medium one, and the large one."
In Hudson's defense, this pink screwdriver belongs to me. My mom bought me one of those Lady Tool Kits long time ago and this came from that set.

Playing together
The boys love playing with Rudy. At night, he will sometimes get frisky and run around the living room really fast. They get a kick out of that.

That's about it around here. We are enjoying the cooler weather!

What happens when mom goes out of town?

I went out of town this weekend and came back to find Cooper looking like this. He is one huge scratch. Jason took the boys to his dad's house and Cooper fell down a step outside and banged his face up really good. I know that Jason feels bad about this- so this post is just a way to joke around with him. He's a great dad and the boys had a fun time with him while I was gone.