Christmas toys

We got Hutson a cool geotrax train set this year for Christmas.  Santa set it up the night before so that it would be all ready to go when Hut got up.  He loved it!  He is sitting in the other room right now playing with it while I type this.  He loves that it is remote control.  A couple of the other big hits this year was his cowboy boots from Santa, the Handy Manny toolbox and tools, the pedal car and bike from Grandi and Grimpa and his very own arm chair from Grammy and Papa Clayton.

Hutson

Ok... so I know a lot of you are waiting for Christmas pictures.  I have been sorting through all 300 of them and I am looking for the best ones to post.  So here are a few of Hutson.  He is usually impossible to get to smile for the camera but I managed to get a few on Christmas eve, and one from Christmas morning.

Sporting a hat Aunt Lee made him.

More Wheelie pictures

Seriously this is the happiest baby ever.  He loves tummy time on my bed, and he is a total ham for the camera.  He has taken to talking and just gabs all day long.  We are a bit of a drool machine lately, I have had to have a bib on him so he doesn't soak his shirts.

Who Me?

Concentrating very hard on trying to scoot across the bed.

I did not pose him like this, he did this on his own.  What a cutie pie!

We are busy trying to get ready for Christmas and for Santa to come visit us.  Hutson doesn't really get it yet, whew.  But next year I think we will really have to do it up.

Christmas Cookies

I was testing out some new cookie cutters and a new sugar cookie recipe.  On Wednesday I am going to a cookie exchange and I like my cookies to have form and function so I decided to decorate a few and see how they turn out.  whew, I don't know that I can do 6 dozen of these.  I am thinking these are a little too labor intensive to decorate in the fashion that I would like, I may have to scrap this batch and go with a whole new cookie.  (of course when I say 'scratch' that means that jerry and Hut get some cookies to eat)

Happiest Baby in town

House update

I posted about a month ago some of the updates that we were doing at our house.  I thought I would share the results of all the hard work.

The cabinets were white and now they are grey.  It hides the dirt and food much better...

Just ignore all the crap on the counters.  I probably should have cleaned the counters off before I took the picture, but alas, I didn't.

Some of you will be very excited to know that we put in a walkway from the front door to the driveway.  NO more walking on the grass to get to the house.  Which also means no more grass in the house! yea

Sledding

While we were in Portland we went up to Mt Hood and went sledding.  It was the best time!  I haven't seen snow like that since we lived in Minnesota... so 15 or so years.  I think I had more fun than Easton, Emmy and Hutson combined.  Now I am all over Jerry about taking me skiing... I am gonna have to work that one for awhile I think.

Here are some pictures from Mt. Hood.

Here is Hut wearing snow pants that were several sizes too big for him.  Poor kid couldn't really even walk.

Cathy, Emersen and Easton getting all bundled up

Mt. Hood.  It was such a nice and sunny day up there.

Hut and Easton sliding down on their butts.

Jer and Hut

Portland

Ok so you guys and gals are going to get a bunch of posts at once, brace yourselves.

Here are a couple of the highlight pictures from Portland with Jerry's family.

Great Grandpa Fred and Wheeler

Hutson trying out some snow boots

Wheeler

Jer and Hut at the Park

Having fun with Grammy

Back Online

Ok people I am back.  I know it has been a long time since I posted.  We went to Portland for 12 days over Thanksgiving which was so much fun.  But mostly I haven't posted anything new because I didn't get a new card reader for my camera until today.  After the last post with no pictures I received some hate email that  said I shouldn't post unless I have pictures, I won't name names (ashley) but it wasn't nice.  So today with the new card reader and sorting through a months worth of photos we are back.

Hutson and Wheeler are doing great.  Wheeler is almost sitting up on his own and loves to just talk talk talk.  He smiles and giggles all the time, truly a happy baby.  Even when he was sick when we were in Oregon he just smiled the whole time.  Hutson's vocab has increased as well, he is starting to put words together like 'bye bye baby' and 'night night dada'.  He is constantly telling Wheeler bye bye,  I guess he wants him to go.  hmmmm.

Now we are just keeping busy getting ready for Christmas.

These two pictures were from Halloween.