random snippets

just cleaning out my cell phone photos, per usual. here are a bunch of photos that have nothing to do with each other. :)

one month to the date of our head & the heart date, we went back to the paramount to see the lion king. it was b's first time (i had seen it once a loooong time ago) and we both loved it. so fun to have a good date night with this guy, he's the best. also i love his beard.

nothing much here, just the fact that hudson is adorable. (this is pre-tooth, obv.) i don't know how both my boys got such blue eyes but i am quite happy about it. moving on. 

this is one of last week's instagram photos and i love it. sums up their little relationship so well -- jack loves to make huddy laugh, and hudson is pretty much obsessed with everything he does. 

a couple weeks ago we got together with my friends alex & christine -- we have SIX boys between us. christine was one of my roommates at BYU and i met alex when our husbands were in business school together (and then she moved to seattle too, hooray!). they were mission companions together. now the three of us get together as much as we can. i love our little crew of boys. 

and finally, just me and my boys at church. one of my new year's resolutions was to take a picture of the boys every sunday. so far i have done it exactly three times, but hey. at least it's something. this day i got in the photo too. i sure love those monkeys. 

that's all, until the next phone dump! 

lyndsey update

this blog has clearly become a journal of jack & hudson, but i guess i have some of my own stuff going on too. :) once upon a time all of my posts were just about ME...and that feels like an eternity ago. but i found some photos on my phone of fun stuff i've been doing, so i thought i'd share that too. for posterity's sake, of course. ha.

i've been really into sending mail lately thanks to the #write_on challenge. addressing envelopes is one of my favorite things. and if you like to send mail too, maybe you want to send a card or two to my cards for cancer card drive? please please please do it. 

in other hand-lettering news, last month a friend asked me to make little food labels for a party. i love how they turned out! i know my writing is not the best, especially compared to some people, but i really really like to write stuff. hire me to do your christmas cards this year. ;)

seattle bloggers unite (the blogger networking group i founded when we moved to washington) is alive and well after taking a six month hiatus. lisette helped plan a spring social and it turned out to be so much fun. i love bonding with my fellow social networkers -- and can't wait for our next meetups, a cupcake decorating class in may and a letterpress workshop in july! (here's lots more about the meetup, but this is a picture of one of the food tags i made for the party.)

i've also been writing baby & kid product reviews for miscfinds4u, and i've been writing a PR column for wellyoked.com for the past couple months. i'm not doing much of any PR work right now but i'm tentatively planning to teach a workshop in utah in june, and might team up with my mom to start doing a mother-daughter blogger seminar. and, this week kicks off my half-marathon training for the seattle rock & roll half (i'm totally dreading all the time it will take!). whew! so there you go -- my very minimal nothing-to-do-with-child-rearing life at the moment.

hudson's firsts

huddy had a big week this week! he's the cutest, by the way. so happy and independent and laid back -- jack was a pretty happy baby, but he was (is) definitely more high maintenance than hudson. not sure if that's just different personalities or if it happened because i don't have time to give hudson my undivided attention like i did for jack, but it's an interesting shift for sure.

i posted this picture on instagram a few days ago with a caption that mentioned how he has zero teeth at nine months old...and literally two days later one of his bottom teeth popped through!

we had super nice weather this week and spent a lot of time at the park. the park is NO GOOD for a crawler. all he wants to do is get dirty and eat wood chips...i'm dreading summer, let's hope he starts walking soon. anyway, he got to try out his first swing and he loooved it. (another difference from big brother, who cried the first time he went in a swing. ;)

it was spring break this week (and i was kicking myself ALL WEEK for not booking tickets to california when i had the chance) so we tried to get out and do some fun stuff. we went to the zoo with our favorite field trip friends, the wingers, and it was hudson's first time! this is the only documentation i have that he was actually there. ha.

jack & the boys:

then, yesterday was hudson's first visit to the gym child care. i am always hesitant to leave small children there (germs, ugh) but b was out of town and i wanted to go to body pump. when i left, hudson was in a walker and jack had taken a knee right next to him. the workers all told me that jack stayed with him the whole time and played with him. sweet brothers! <3 p="">

we love this cute guy! can't wait to see what he does next. 

jack + emery

jack met his friend emery our first sunday ever in washington, when we were in the same ward in issaquah and they were just a year old, and they've been buddies ever since. (here's an old post about them -- i can't even believe how tiny they were.) (their third musketeer friend, rose, moved away last year and we still miss her. sorry, jen, this post might make you sad.) jack & em stayed friends even after we moved across town, and as of last month we're in the same ward again! these two couldn't be happier about it.

i've collected a bunch of photos of them over the past few months -- jack & emery are hilarious together. now that they're sunbeams together in primary, i get at least three comments every sunday about how rowdy they are. ha. they just love each other, what can i say?

they've been taking a preschooler sports class together the past few months, and it has been completely entertaining to watch. they greet each other with a hug at the start of every class and usually run drills holding hands. (insert laughing-with-tears emoji face here.)

little buddies. i can't wait to watch them grow up even more.