Family pictures!!!

We had our pictures taken last Friday and you can look HERE to see them!

Reese's new trick

Reese learned to walk with her walker a few days ago! Here is some video footage. She can only go straight though, so she gets to the couch or the wall and gets stuck. She is pulling herself up and standing all the time now, and moves along the furniture or whatever else she is holding on to.

Spring Fling Boutique

I'm going to be selling blocks at my friend April's boutique! I'm doing some that say "Spring" and "Easter". Here is the info.

Spring Fling Boutique

Help us welcome Spring with Food, Shopping, Giveaways, Friends, and Fun

Friday, April 3rd 6:30-8:30

April Maw’s House

Our vendors include:

(To preorder or place a custom order so it’s ready for pickupVisit websites below and email the vendor for questions or orders.)

* Sweet Ruby- Baby and Children Accessories- sweetrubyblankets.blogspot.com

* Scentsy – scentsy.com/saras safestcandles@gmail.com

* Pampered Chef-pamperedchef.com dal.pass@gmail.com

* Addie Jane Embellished Words – ajembellishedwords.blogspot.com ajembellished@gmail.com

* Jewelry and dish scrubbies

* Beaded Watches – skye-thompson.blogspot.com

* Bows, bow holders, tutus, wands, and more – thechicbowtique.blogspot.com

* Holiday Blocks

* Decorative frames

*Photography- http://www.ashleymcfarlanephotography.blogspot.com/

*Simple Expressions Vinyl – http://www.chelseys-simpleexpressions.blogspot.com/

If you would like more info, address, directions, please email me, call me or leave me a comment with your email and I'll give you the info. We'd appreciate it if you would post about it as well.
There will be tons of food, giveaways from every vendor, just a good, fun night out with the girls.

This is for the grandmas

Reese finally learned to crawl last week! She would get on her hands and knees a lot before that, but wouldn't go forward, so one day I had a bowl of cereal that she was reaching for, and I set it on the floor in front of her and she crawled a few steps to it. The next day she did it a few more times only when she was bribed with cell phones or something like that. Then the next day that was her mode of transportation! My mom wanted to see her do it so I put this video on for her.

Lucky

Sorry it's wrapped up, but you can still see it. This was for my friend Boualay. She wanted me to do her last name. It was definitely the longest word I've done by far! (There are the same amount of letters in my last name!) I loved how it turned out. The paper was so pretty, I wish you could see it as well in pictures as in real life.

I'm a new woman

BEFORE AFTER

Reese and I went to Heber this past weekend to visit my family. I have two sisters in hair school, so they were nice enough to give me this new do while we were there. One sister colored it, then the next day the other cut it. I love it.

Want a good work out? Try this.

Reese is always kicking her legs up like this, and she'll sit and do it for a long time. You should try it! I wanted to have it on video so we remember one of the funny little things she does.

Love

I made this for a friend and thought it turned out so cute. I'm thinking of making some for other holidays too, and I think I'll definitely do one that says "SPRING"!

My camera does this cool thing where you can choose a color and it will only show that color and everything else is black and white. I thought it would be fun to use it when Reese was wearing this cute green sweater. It also lets me crop right on the camera, which I've been playing with a lot. So this is the same picture, just cropped. I can change the direction of pictures too. Outside on a fairly warm day, but we only stayed out for a few minutes. I'm so excited for warm weather and being able to play outside and take walks.

How Big...

Reese Pot Pie

For some reason, Reese pot pie is one of Reese's nicknames. Kind of funny. But I thought it was a fitting title for this post because I have all sorts of pictures of Reese that aren't really from a certain occasion, just here and there I've been taking a lot of pictures and I'm going to post lots of them all at once, just a warning that this will be really long. (I have a camera again, thank goodness, but I get a little carried away sometimes)

We had Reese's 9 month Dr. appointment a week ago (even though she's almost 10 months, I got behind in our appointments by forgetting one once) and she weighs 20 lbs 7 oz! Big girl! Her weight is in the 70%, she was 29 inches long (85%) and her head was in the 90%! So I guess she is tall and has a big head! I've never really thought of her as having a big head before (minus those cheeks) but I guess I was wrong. She sleeps at least 12 hours these days, sometimes more, which is great. She takes two naps, sometimes three if her afternoon nap wasn't long enough and she can't make it until bed time.

Here is what Reese has been up to in the last month. Her mode of transportation is rolling. (Still no crawling. I know when she does and I'm chasing her around all day I'll be thankful that she waited so long, but for now it seems like all the other babies her age are already crawling and almost walking!) She's gotten really good at rolling around everywhere and getting where she wants to go. She rolls to drawers and gets into them occasionally. She loved to roll under the Christmas tree and play (I moved the bulbs at the bottom that she could reach). She likes to roll under my console table in the living room.

Posing in her cowgirl shirt. Had to post this for Kellie!

She loves to empty things -drawers, baskets, her diaper bag. I admit I let her empty the DVD drawer just to keep her entertained!

She now has her own toy basket in the living room that she can empty. She gets a little ponytail in her hair now!
She likes to stand up in her crib or on the couch, but she doesn't pull herself up yet, we stand her up.

She likes to stand with her back to the couch too.

She loves to eat basically anything we give her. Mostly she eats the normal things -baby food, rice cereal and oatmeal. She loves Cheerios, Kix, graham crackers, and bananas. Sometimes she eats bread or toast too. Barrett tries to sneak in some ice cream, whip cream, chocolate, or things of that sort occasionally, which I don't appreciate, but he still does it. I've been trying to get her to drink out of a sippy cup, but she doesn't like it. I don't know what I'm going to do about that. Yeah I usually put a bib on.

Check out those teeth! She has two teeth on the bottom.

For a couple months now she has been doing this thing where she tilts her head back, smiles really big and squints her eyes. I think she knows it's funny and does it to show off. I love her regular smiles too, and her cute laugh.

Love those pretty blue eyes.

She jabbers constantly, mostly says dadadada, but all sorts of other made up words too. She waves, sometimes on command. She points at things a lot. She'll dance when she hears music -she bobs her head to the side and twists back and forth and puts her arms up. For some reason she likes when we sing her that Beyonce song that says "if you like it then you should've put a ring on it" For what reason we started singing her that dumb song, I don't know, but she likes dancing to it. She hates her hands being touched, always has. She will grab onto my hand when I'm feeding her, but it has to be her choice. She loves books and gets all excited and starts to breathe faster when we read to her. She likes to play peek a boo. When I tell her to give me kisses she will lean her face into mine and just breathe on me, it's so cute. (I could go on, but this is already really long, sorry, probably boring for everone else!) I just love that little girl! What a joy she has been in our lives, I feel so blessed to be her mom.

Reese clapping

Reese loves to clap these days! She likes to clap our hands too. I tried to get her to clap a couple times but she would only clap my hand, then one day she just started clapping! A few days later I was watching Oprah and she was doing her show in a big auditorium because it was the day before the inauguration. Reese saw all of the people clapping on TV and she clapped when they did-it was cute. It's so fun to watch her learn to do new things. Now if only she would learn to crawl...(No she still isn't crawling and she's almost 10 months old!) I took this video last week.

Blocks

I've been making these blocks for the past few months now. My sister-in-law and I made them for a party and then other people kept buying them from me, and I made some for Christmas presents. I've made some that said Noel, Love, Home, etc. as well. I just wanted to post this picture because I thought the paper on this one was so cute! Now if I could only get some made for myself!

Snowmobile party!

We had the annual Hudgens family Christmas party in Heber this year. It was an eat soup/snowmobile/sled/eat some more/bingo party. These pictures were from my cousin's camera (which I wish was mine because it's nice :)

This is my cousin's daughter Ava. She is more than a year old and Reese is about as tall as she is! And Reese definitely weighs more.

Reese with Aunt Krista.

Ava's sister Ashlyn.

This is my mom. Isn't she beautiful?

After everyone got there and we all ate soup, it was off to the sled hill and snowmobile trail. We tied sleds to the back of the snowmobiles and pulled them down the trail.

That is Barrett in the very back with the black goggles.

This is Krista and I in the back sled. Nobody told us that we needed to wear goggles or something on our faces. We had snow and freezing cold wind blowing in our faces the whole time, we couldn't even open our eyes to see where we were going, but I guess that just made it more exciting and scary! We had two sleds on that time, and the back one gets even more snow and gets whipped around even more. We had icicles coming off our faces when we were done, but we laughed the whole time.

This is me on the sled hill.

My hottie husband.

Kellie (Jade in the background)

Russ looking cool just before falling into a snowbank :)

My dad, Russ, Jade, Nick

Caden

Krista

Crazy Ryan. This hill was straight down.

After sledding and eating more food, we all played Bingo.

Some of the Bingo players.

There were many wonderful prizes to be won in this Bingo game, such as this beauty.