truman's first...

ornament that is. we have carried on this tradition still practiced in the hudson home. the boys each get a new hallmark ornament every year. this was truman's first. we like to pick a theme for each of the boys to stick with. isaac is airplanes and this year he added a cool new blue and white one. Beckam's is heavy outdoor equipment. he added a riding lawn mower (sweet!, i always wanted the easter bunny to bring me one but he still hasn't. maybe one of these years.) truman got trains. the tree is getting pretty full and hopefully we can keep these ornament mostly in one piece over the years to come. till next year.

one wintery day...

i made a snowman very round and tall the next day when i say him he was not the same at all. his hat had slipped his arms drooped down he really looked a fright. it made me start to wonder what do snowman do at night. i think that snowman start to slide when it gets real dark of the lawn and down the street right into the park....so if your snowman's grim is crooked or he's lost a little height you know that he's just been doing what snowman do at night. so i was too lazy to type the whole this especially since i'm doing it from a very rusty memory and again i'm too lazy to go get the book. (i was awake until 3 :45am last night, so give me a break.

i absolutely love that book (thanks aunt nancy).

the second we started making a snowman all the boys could do was ask repeatedly when they could knock it down. we made them wait until the next morning. we even got "other isaac" to come help.

last shots with our snowman.

i think the proved to be much tougher than isaac initially thought.

rock hammers and very large saws, what could be better??

the boys spent the rest of the morning playing with the snow in the street. that is until it melted at least.

sam found this in the backyard on the trampoline. we thought it was pretty cool.

BYE MR. SNOWMAN, THANKS FOR COMING TO VISIT US IN THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS!!!

snow, SNOW, sNoW, it won't be long...

this morning i found out that truman had learned how to crawl up our stairs. see our bottom stair is wood so it's been able to keep him from climbing them for quite some time now just because it's slippery. so up my cute gate went in front of the stairs.

we had been hearing for the last couple of days that there was a chance of snow for friday. last year sam called from work and told me it was snowing there well it wasn't snowing at home and it was little more that thick rain were sam was. so when we woke up in the morning it looked cold and wet but that was it no snow. as the morning wore on, it gradually picked up. the first pictures i took that you could actually see anything in looked like this...

i grabbed isaac and threw some clothes on him and ran out the door to take pictures not convinced that it would keep snowing for very long but then...

i got the other boys outside and it picked up some. isaac got freezing and ran back to the house before i could get many pictures.

but then i looked out and it was getting going even better.

i convinced beckam to go outside with me by telling him it was a "big boy" thing. he's totally into that right now, and so am i.

which let to...

watching it from the comfort of your own home fire roaring, elf advent calendar full of candy. (it a great place especially when you're 2 and you just don't understand one pocket a day.)

so then i called sam and told him he needed to get home for some pictures of this awesome phenomenon.and when he got home the real fun began...

there were snowball fights, and snowmen, and lots of neighbors and friends, and frozen children, and lots of laughter and fun! can you even believe how awesome!! we had total stranger stopping to take pictures of our snowmen. all our neighbors were amazed by our skills and as you can tell by the pictures enjoyed dressing him up.