Happy Birthday Pretty!

Happy Birthday today to my favorite person EVER. He makes me super crazy sometimes but I'm sure that I return the favor frequently. This year Nicholas turns the big 3-0 so I wanted to do something a little more special than I have in the past. I decided to throw him a small party this past weekend at our friend's house complete with Buffalo Wild Wings (I'm so glad the new one opened in Citrus Heights because I was truly preparing to go to Reno to get them...they're the best wings EVER.) and rootbeer. I found some awesome beer mugs at the Dollar Store that I etched with the last intial of everyone that came and of course also scored a sweet pin the treasure on the map game.

We had a lot of fun stuffing ourselves with wings and just getting to spend time with our friends. We are so glad that everyone was able to come and celebrate with us.

Here are a few other pictures from the night including Nick opening presents and blowing out his candle. Oh and in case you were wondering what to do with about a 100 wing bones, you can spell out awesome messages with them. Gross? Yes. Awesome? A little bit.

Thanks again everyone and happy birthday babe.

Air Show!

One thing that we love about Rancho Cordova is that Air Show is so close to us. In years past we have just listened to the jets fly by our apartment and watch from right outside. This year Nick bought tickets so that we could actually go to Mather, check out all the airplanes, jets and helicopters as well as have front row seats to the show. Nick especially loves helicopters and I love Jelly Bellys so here are a couple of pictures reflecting our loves.

Besides seeing the cool displays we also enjoyed a Merlinos, the actual show and getting our own LiveCopter from the KCRA booth for Sienna. The guy handing them out must have really loved us because he was ONLY giving them out to actual children, but made an exception for us.

We loved that guy too, so we took our only picture together in front of the real LiveCopter 3...

We had a lot of fun checking everything out and talking to some cool people. We did however also learn somethings that we will definitely have to remember for next year: Bring an umbrella for shade, wear sunscreen and no matter how close you live paying the ten dollars to park is worth it over the long walk.

Crafty.

Nick got the chance to go to Shasta with his scouts this last weekend, leaving me at home by myself for four days. I'm glad that he ended up having a great time jumping off house boats, jet skiing, wakeboarding, seeing the sundial bridge, visiting the caverns and touring the dam but I was pretty bored without him. However, on Friday night I decided to go over to Erin's house, also husbandless, to see if she couldn't help me get in touch with my inner crafty-ness. I decided to buy some onesies for Sienna and spruce them up a little. Below are some pictures of the finished products.

I'm pretty proud of myself. I'm not going to lie, I had a lot of help from Erin who did all the sewing and cut out the stencils on her circut for me, but I did all the cutting, fabric choices and actual stenciling. Now to wait and see how cute Sienna will actually look in them :)

She's a Girl.

Nick and I had our ultrasound on the fifteenth and we're excited to find out that we are having a girl. At first Nick was much more excited than I was, but I'm warming up to the idea. We still don't have a place to put her but we do have some of the essentials and a name. Her name is going to be Sienna Kate Hudson. Kate, as in Katie my sister not the actress.

She is starting to become more active or just bigger so I can feel her more often. She does not like to be poked and is already proving to be a little stubborn like her mom.

We had a ton of fun with some of our friends this weekend up in Tahoe, and while my camera battery died, Erin was gracious enough to get a picture of Nick and I. Since she's so wonderful, as promised, here is the most recent picture of the belly and the shrinking husband (15 pounds in two weeks).

Tahoe 2010/Week 21

YW Sleepover

This past weekend my YW class was in charge of the Young Women combined activity and decided to have a sleepover at Sister Harlow's house. (Thanks!) It was a very eventful, fun night. We went to the park, played games as well as did girly things like painting toenails and facials. We had one mishap in the shape of a bedroom door that was accidently closed while it was still locked. Unfortunately even after youtubing how to pick a lock and a little bit of our own ideas the door still had to be opened by a locksmith the next day. It was so much fun getting a chance to ge to know not only the girls better but also the women that I work with in the YW program. Here's a few picture highlights from the party.

Stay tuned later this week for not only a recent pregnancy picture but to find out if this crazy baby is a boy or a girl. We find out on Thursday!

Things I Heard at Work Part 2

This first one needs a short preface. Three year old boy in my class is SUPPOSED to be transfering small plastic penguins from a bowl with water in it to a dry bowl. I see that he is taking the penguins out of the water one at a time, dabbing them with a sponge and placing them on the table. I walk over to check out the situation a little...

Boy: (to penguins) Don't worry...Don't worry...I got it.
Me: Hey....how come you're cleaning the penguins?
B: They have gross, sticky black stuff all over them.
Me: Oh! Are you saving the penguins?
B: ...Somebody has to!


Four year old boy: I saw a really, really big, huge, tall guy when I went to San Francisco. Don't worry I'll show you when it's bring a tall man to school day.

And now for the best one...

*Retold to me by her mother...

Three year old girl: Mom, I spy something that is black and can turn into a boy.
Mom: Ummm....
Girl: LUCIFER! (At this point mom is very concerned)...you know Cinderella's cat.

I love my job....

Memorial Day Weekend

For Memorial Day weekend we went down to Santa Cruz for our mostly annual Busath Camping Trip. It rained a little bit on the way down so we decided to wait a couple of days before braving the beach, but that didn't stop us from visiting the tide pools with sweatshirts. It's probably my favorite thing to do when we are down there and while we didn't see too much variety as far as the ocean life it was still fun to go and check them out. Katie found the one starfish, Lucas found a crab while the mussells and sea anemones were hard to miss.

On Saturday we headed down to the beach and had the best beach day that I can remember. The wind wasn't too bad, it was sunny and about 70 degrees...perfect.

Sunday was our last day there and we took the hike down through the redwoods, including Sam walking boot and all! This is the best hike ever because there's ice cream at the bottom, it's mostly downhill and we don't hike back, we drive. The ice cream was even from the shop that has my name so of course it was especially delicious. We even got to see what we decided was the first tree EVER...planted by Adam and everything.

The rest of the pictures are just some fun ones from around the camp site including Nick's homemade donuts and roasted bananas with peanut butter and chocolate chips.

We had so much fun camping and then continued our fun by having a BBQ at the Esslinger house on Memorial Day. We were excited to get in our Esslinger fix since they weren't able to come camping with us this year. Unfortunately, I didn't take pictures but if you know Andi you can check some out on her blog. Hopefully everyone else had a great weekend too!