tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55032985753987711222024-03-05T21:32:44.969-08:00one-eyed wonderlyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.comBlogger713125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-86913883961915659662015-06-04T14:36:00.001-07:002015-06-05T14:36:44.080-07:00a few more from maysoooo despite all the high profile events in may, we had plenty of day to day goodness going on around here. a couple of the things i don't want to forget:<br />
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these boys are starting to play together so well, and i love coming into a room and finding them like this. so cute.<br />
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we still get out to the park every day, rain or shine. usually with friends.</div>
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mr. hudson is SO cute these days. his hair is super curly (especially right after a bath), he's talking in full sentences and he plays with / lines up his toys. he's also got a screech that can shatter glass and uses it about 100x a day when he doesn't get his way. </div>
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jack is the best big brother. i can always count on him to help me out with hudson (or tell me when his brother is doing something bad). he sounds out words all day long, is a master lego builder, and is pumped for kindergarten next year. he's so social and is friends with every kid in his preschool; we had a parent-teacher conference last week and i was so proud to hear how well he does with paying attention and following directions. the teachers' biggest concern was that he gets a little too loud in class when he's excited. :) </div>
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thanks to his love of <a href="http://www.lego.com/en-us/ninjago">ninjago</a>, he'd been dying to try out "karate" (we ended up going with tae kwon do). eight weeks of class was all he needed to know he didn't want to do it anymore. :) it was pretty cute while it lasted; he especially liked sparring. </div>
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one weekend we took the boys to meet friends at rigapalooza, our city's one-day event full of every type of truck you can think of -- and each one is open and available to climb inside. they were both in heaven. </div>
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lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-12090895803262962842015-06-04T14:36:00.000-07:002015-06-05T14:36:15.479-07:00crazy maythis past month was nuts. all good stuff, but so busy!!<br />
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let's start at the beginning. on may 1 i got on a plane all by myself and flew to denver for my cousin meghan's wedding! we spent most of the weekend up in fort collins, a cute little town i hadn't explored before, and then drove down to denver on saturday for the wedding at the temple. (the second wedding i'd attended at that temple! the first one was my roommate brittany's back in 2008.) we also got to drive around that neighborhood a bit and go see the hospital where jack was born, me & b's apartment from his MBA internship, and a few other stops along memory lane. and also have lunch at sweet tomatoes...WIN. it was really fun to be sans kids, sans husband, sans siblings, and just hang out with my parents. i loved visiting with extended family and being on my own schedule.<br />
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the weekend after denver was mother's day! this was of course not a stressful day. b did such a good job making me feel special and appreciated -- he made breakfast, dinner, organized gifts & cards from him & the boys, etc. i looove getting a day off on mother's day. :) </div>
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for being only my second camping trip ever, i'd say overall it was a success. we split meals with the davises so we cooked one breakfast and dinner, and they did the other. we had a really nice adjoining campsite at kalaloch, right on the beach, and got to drive / hike through the olympic national forest and hoh rainforest (with a side trip to forks, home of twilight) so that was cool. cons of the trip: raccoons and screaming kids the first night, not much sunshine, no naps. plus camping is just so much work! hauling in all that stuff just to try to create a comfortable home somewhere that isn't my home. it was fun though, and i loved giving the boys so much time to explore and adventure in the great outdoors. but i told b i'm good on camping until at least 2016. :) </div>
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so we came home from camping, did a bunch of laundry, unpacked, then packed again! i took the boys to arizona for my cousin jeremy's wedding. yes, another cousin wedding. i only have 4 cousins on my mom's side of the family and two of them happened to get married last month. i ended up being the only cousin to attend so i was glad i could be there to support, and it was really fun to see all of my extended family who i barely get to see. plus, bringing the boys was awesome because my grandparents and aunts and uncles hadn't even met hudson yet. </div>
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is this not the most massive wedding party you've ever seen?:</div>
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this is what jack wrote in the wedding guest book...probably the cutest freaking thing i've seen in my life:</div>
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he also hit it off right away with some of his third cousins twice removed (?) -- the kids of my second cousins (my mom's cousins). they were so cute running around together at the reception. </div>
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pretty picturesque spot for a wedding, don't you think? the venue was at the base of superstition mountain. once the sun went down it was a tolerable place. related: i DO quite love arizona sunsets.</div>
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and that's a wrap! we don't have any travel plans for a while and i'm <i>quite </i>looking forward to a nice, quiet summer at home. :) </div>
lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-3609952968631565312015-04-15T14:35:00.000-07:002015-06-05T14:35:43.023-07:00tulip festival 2015we've lived in seattle for four years now and every spring i see hoards of people caravaning up to the tulip festival in the skagit valley (about an hour from here). it never worked out with our schedule to go before, but last week was spring break and the weather was gorgeous so we decided to try it. my friend jolee (who was my coworker at the PR agency in LA sooo many years ago) just moved to sammamish of ALL places so i roped her into going too. i am so SO happy she's here now and can't wait for more of our adventures. it's so funny that seven years ago we were both newlyweds climbing the corporate ladder in LA and now we're stay-at-home moms in seattle with two kids each (plus a third on the way for her!).<br />
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anyway! we went to roosengart and it was beautiful. the kids loved running through the little windmill garden and then we made the loooong trek (like 2 miles at least) through the tulip fields. we heard only mild complaining from the preschoolers, which was quickly diffused with candy bribery, and then we went back to the main area for a picnic lunch. it was a great day.<br />
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<br />lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-76788024551045270602015-04-14T14:34:00.000-07:002015-06-05T14:35:11.678-07:00the epic hawaiian vacation failwell, it's been over a month, so i guess it's time to catch up on our hawaiian family vacation. we started planning last fall to head back to maui with the boys in tow, thinking it would be super fun to have a mellow family vacation in one of our very favorite places. even though it was expensive, and b told me the boys wouldn't even realize they were in hawaii, but hey -- WE would know we were in an awesome place, and i'm always excited to introduce my boys to new experiences. everything was booked and we were PUMPED, counting down since september.<br />
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we left on march 2 and that day couldn't have gone better. we were early to the airport, the boys kept entertained with the 8,000 activities i'd packed, hawaiian airlines serves a MEAL on its flights (the only US airline left to do so) and hudson even took a nap! we also scored with a free seat in our row, so all four of us had our own seats. i was mentally patting myself on the back the whole time -- this trip was going to be a piece of cake.<br />
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then, we landed. cue the suspenseful music. we were all warm right off the bat in 80 degree weather with our seattle-winter clothes, but hudson felt especially hot. we got our rental car and went to costco and he literally screamed his head off the entire time. my kids are high maintenance but not THAT crazy. i knew something was up. </div>
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we got to our condo which was baking in the late afternoon sun (with no a/c) and hudson was still screaming and we were all a little tense. it was past bedtime on the mainland so i dosed him with tylenol and put him to bed. b and jack went out to get supplies and started living aloha while i unpacked and we all settled down. </div>
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the next day we hit the beach for a little while before i decided to take hudson to the local urgent care. the island doctor (who was wearing sandals) prescribed him an antibiotic but when i gave it to him later that night, he threw it up and after that couldn't keep down anything, even water. the poor little guy was so sad and tired and kept asking "juice? juice?" but would just barf it up. </div>
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we got really good at watching early morning PBS shows, thanks to the 3 hour time difference and my sick kids being up at an ungodly hour (sesame street is on at 6 am FYI). as soon as the world was awake on wednesday, i called our pediatrician at home and she recommended finding a pediatrician (as opposed to urgent care) in hawaii. i did, got an appointment for a few hours later, and took hudson in. we had to wait foreverrrrr for a doctor -- i could hear a lot of scurrying outside our room, and thanks to my eavesdropping through the thin walls i discovered another patient was there with measles so they made them leave out the back door and quarantined the room next to me. LOL. luckily our vaccinations are up to date, and sick little hudson just slept in my arms the whole time anyway, so it wasn't a big deal. </div>
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the doctor finally came in and checked him out and we got him a chest x-ray -- diagnosis: killer ear infections and PNEUMONIA. (who even gets pneumonia? i've known like one other person my whole life.) hudson and jack had both had coughs before our trip and i guess it just morphed into pneumonia. they gave him an antibiotics shot to get things rolling and then put him on another one to be taken twice daily. which he hated. we got him to take it every day by letting him watch the <a href="http://www.minionsmovie.com/minions.html">minions trailer</a> on the ipad. </div>
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hudson slept a ton over the next two days, and when he was awake he coughed and sneezed literally NONSTOP. it was crazy to see his little body trying to work out all the bad stuff. by saturday a little bit of his personality had returned and we even got a smile out of him! having an almost-two-year-old around, even a healthy one, is still a lot of work though. mostly i felt like i was still in my regular mom-life routine, just in a different scenery -- not much of a restful vacation vibe going on. </div>
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MEANWHILE...while all this was going on, b and i traded off spending a lot of time with jack at the pool. jack looooved that pool, probably because half of it was three feet deep so he could still touch the bottom. (traditionally he has always hated water of any kind.) b taught him to snorkel and once he got the hang of that he was soooo into it. we kept making friends at the pool and everyone commented on how good of a swimmer he was. jack was also pretty friendly himself, swimming up to people and starting conversations even when b and i weren't in the pool. such a cute guy. </div>
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the day i took hudson to the doctor, it poured rain all day long. the next few days featured intermittent rain and crazy strong winds. not exactly perfect beach weather, which i guess was okay since we weren't really in a beach-going state. between hudson's frequent naps we still tried to get out and see the sights. i will say this: for a trip that definitely did NOT go as planned, we definitely ate well. crossed almost all the restaurants off our list and loved every minute of it. </div>
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over the weekend, jack's cough and demeanor started getting worse too. i took hudson in for a check up on monday (he had improved, but not enough, so they started him on a new round of antibiotics) and brought jack along -- they had me get him checked in, did the full inspection + xray and found pneumonia in him too. yay, more antibiotics. (if you ever need a good pediatrician in maui, i have gotten to know this one reeeeal well.)</div>
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tuesday was our last full day and it was PERFECT. it dawned sunny and calm, we headed to the beach and set up our umbrella in a great spot. we spent the morning there, then the afternoon at the pool while hudson slept. we played on the putting green and watched the sunset (one of the only good cloudless sunsets of the trip). nine days seemed long for a vacation but i'm so, so glad we stayed long enough to get one great day like that after everything that happened. as we sat on the beach, i told b, "see, isn't this nice? THIS is what i envisioned for the entire trip."</div>
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and wednesday (another rainy day) we flew home. a couple weeks ago i made a shutterfly book about our trip, and after going through all the photos i had to remind myself that this vacation wasn't as perfect as all the photos appear. ha. i mean, when you see things like this, doesn't it LOOK like we had a great time??</div>
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so anyway. we definitely had a few key learnings on this trip. A) if a vacation involves a human between the ages of 1-4 years, it will not be a "vacation" -- it will be a "trip." B) always be aware of the possibility of poor weather and poor health messing up your plans -- hopefully not at the same time. C) i need another vacation to recover from this one. preferably with no one to take care of besides myself. D) my family (and my marriage) is stronger after surviving this adventure. time is already dulling the not-so-nice memories from hawaii and i'm glad we'll have this crazy trip to look back on as an example of how our little family pulled through and stayed optimistic when things were NOT going our way. E) i still stand by my belief in traveling as a family and sharing new experiences with my kids. i'm glad we went to hawaii, i'm glad we can always look back at these photos, i'm glad even if the boys don't remember it i always will. but it will be a looong while before a toddler is invited on a family vacation. :) </div>
lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-39370820430244748002015-02-04T14:33:00.000-08:002015-06-05T14:34:11.798-07:00day in the life: february 2015it's been a while since i've done one of these daily routine posts but i really love tracking what our little life is like and figured we were due for another one. we've been working on kindergarten registration (after MUCH thought, deliberation and prayer since jack has a summer birthday and we had long considered holding him back a year but ultimately decided he's ready to go at age 5) and i've slowly been realizing that my "normal" life, the only parenting life i've ever known, with no real schedule and no specific, mandatory activities each day will be OVER starting in september. that's sad. so here we go -- life right now.<br />
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the boys typically wake up around 7 am and have traditionally been my alarm clock, but recently this has changed. i've been dying for a little more control over my chaotic mornings (i remember reading a quote once that said "whoever gets up first is in charge of the day" and nowhere have i found that more true than in being a mama to two little boys) so i set my alarm for 6:15 and read my scriptures, a general conference talk or two, and <strike>fall back to sleep</strike> shower before the minions wake up. it feels SO good to be dressed and ready to take on the day as soon as those boys are up -- not to mention getting that little spiritual boost in, because i will never get it anywhere else in my day.</div>
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everyone has cereal for breakfast and i try to read the newspaper. i do morning chores (clean up breakfast, unload the dishwasher, start laundry, etc.) and the boys play in the playroom, but there is ALWAYS a "mommy, will you play with me?" from jack that causes me to feel both guilty and irritated. i usually end up in the playroom after that, playing legos or reading books out loud or cleaning up toys. i used to not really mind playing with them but in recent months it's gotten a little boring and i can never be counted on for very long before getting distracted and doing something else. this is conflicting because A) i was a really good, hands-on babysitter as a teenager so i feel like playing with kids is an important, valuable activity where i can show love and attention, but B) i'm the mom! i've got a zillion other things to do, and besides isn't this why we had more than one kid? can't wait for hudson to be old enough to really play with jack and then i won't feel as bad when i ditch playtime. </div>
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most days i get them dressed after that and we're out of the house around 10, either to run an errand or do an activity or have a playdate. i just started taking hudson (and jack) to library story time once a week, something i did religiously with jack as a toddler and figured i should do for huddy too. jack is also in a sports class through the city on friday mornings. </div>
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we come home and have lunch, another area i struggle with (i'm not very creative when it comes to mealtime but even i know they shouldn't have dinosaur chicken nuggets EVERY day). then, monday wednesday friday jack has preschool from 12:30 - 3 pm. he looooves it and i love it too! i try to drop him off a couple minutes early so i can rush home and put hudson down for as long a nap as possible (i have to wake the poor kid up almost every day to go pick jack up). three afternoons a week is my break! my favorite. i usually have some project i'm working on, or emails to respond to, or stuff for church to do, but since i'm not freelancing anymore there's rarely a feeling of urgency and that is really nice. i just really love the alone time and revel in a peaceful house.</div>
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tuesdays and thursdays, jack doesn't have preschool. he usually plays with our neighbor, joey, or stays home with me and we do an educational activity. he is starting to read and it is SO exciting. we've made a little flip book of words he can read and there's gotta be at least 25 in there. i love hearing him sound words out and discover words all over the house and city. so we do lots of phonics stuff, and i'm trying to build in more math (this week we're working on identifying currency) which is hard for me because that doesn't come naturally to my literary-focused brain. </div>
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anyway, after hudson wakes up and/or we pick jack up from preschool, it's free time until dinner. if the weather is nice we usually play outside, buuuuut this is SEATTLE so we hardly ever get that. most days jack will play with joey or we'll play legos. when they days are realllly dragging on, we face time my mom or have a dance party with our wireless speaker which has been the greatest gift ever received. </div>
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around 5 i start dinner, sometimes the boys get to watch an episode of ninjago (jack is OBSESSED) and i feed them around 5:30. b is usually home by 6:30, we eat and i put hudson to bed (around 6:30) while b cleans up the kitchen. we read to jack and he gets to play quietly in his room or read books to himself until he's tired and ready for bed (usually around 7:30-8) -- i don't care what he does as long as i don't have to be in there. :) mama is off the clock! b and i trade off going to the gym most nights, or i'll have book club or a church meeting etc. my favorite nights are when we just hang out and watch a movie or catch up on TV (my favorite shows right now are brooklyn 99, blackish and parks and rec...and survivor when it comes back). i've been trying to read more because i literally have a stack of 10+ books that interest me, but i also try to be in bed by 11 so i usually run out of time. </div>
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there you have it, our current routine. i love these two little monkeys and i'm so glad i get to be home with them every day. even though it is exhausting and redundant and feels <i>SO </i>much less quantifiably rewarding than my day job ever was...i'm starting to realize these days will go quick, and i'm happy to be able to enjoy them now. </div>
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it's funny; i didn't send a christmas card letter / update with our cards this year because i felt like nothing noteworthy had happened to us. there were no new babies or moves for the wells family in 2014 -- we're still in the same sammamish house, still have two kids, still work the same jobs, didn't take an epic trip. but even though 2014 wasn't particularly noteworthy as far as life changes goes, there was still a lot of living going on! </div>
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this was the year i finally decided to really quit my PR work (at least for the time being) instead of making myself crazy trying to straddle two worlds. b got a promotion at work (yay b!) and is now working strictly on european-made video games, which means he travels overseas every other month or so. husdon finally started walking, finally got teeth, and is doing a bunch of awesome stuff (playing catch, talking, playing make-believe with his toys). jack is in his second year of preschool and loving life -- he's obsessed with legos, his neighbor friends and reading books -- and it's amazing to watch him starting to learn to read and think about the world. he asks the best questions and i love watching his little brain at work. </div>
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my life is crazy and chaotic and exhausting but i think this was the year i finally came to terms with all that -- yes it's insanity over here a lot, but this is just a phase. my life is pretty awesome, most of our dramatic moments are not emergencies, and i'm lucky to be home with my cute boys every day. i think i'm finally able (sort of) to roll with the punches, try to be patient, and keep a schedule and a calm, clean house for my family. it feels good to be a mama. </div>
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we kicked off christmas festivities by picking out our first live tree at swansons nursery. (we've had a fake tree our whole marriage, which we bought with wedding gift cards from target for our first christmas:) i still prefer the fake tree but this was a super fun activity -- besides picking up our custom-fit tree, we got to see reindeer, a miniature christmas train, and santa! i wasn't sure what to expect with santa since jack has gone completely postal every time we've tried to put him on santa's lap, but both boys were all (timid) smiles for santa and we got a killer pic. nailed it!<br />
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we decorated that bad boy the first monday in december, one of our fave traditions. i absolutely love reminiscing over each ornament, remembering what it represents or where we got it -- and i looove seeing our tree all lit up against our big living room window. </div>
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for even more december fun, grandma and grandpa came to visit us in december too! we had a blast showing them all of our favorite seattle christmas activities, like the boat parade. we also tried something new -- lunch at the rotating restaurant at the top of the space needle, which was SO fun. it was all decked out for christmas, the food was delish and it was way more fun that just walking around the <strike>freezing </strike>observation deck. i highly recommend!</div>
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after they left we still had time to squeeze in a few other traditions. the festival of the nativities in bellevue is always so amazing -- and this year kids got to dress up! jack, em and lexi were adorable. </div>
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jack's preschool hosted a special winter art night where we made these cool mixed media snowman paintings. it was really fun to spend a couple hours with just me and my big boy. i love how his painting turned out and i plan to hang it on my wall every christmas. :) </div>
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and then it was finally christmas! we got fast food for dinner on christmas eve and looked at christmas lights, then my mom read the boys christmas stories over facetime, we left cookies for santa and it was bedtime. b always says "jack will never go to sleep on christmas eve!" but without fail it's always the easiest bedtime of the year around here. :) he's out like a light when he knows santa won't come till we're asleep. </div>
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santa brought jack a bike (which he has only rode one time to date...legos are apparently way more exciting) and hudson a rocking chair from opa wells. :) </div>
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lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-46590433378469952342014-12-01T14:26:00.000-08:002015-06-05T14:26:58.988-07:00the easiest thanksgivingthis year marked our first year staying home for thanksgiving. (last year was the first year staying home for christmas, this year thanksgiving. we are so boring. but i really love not dealing with all the travel stress, and being able to make our own traditions!) we figured it would be just the four of us and loved my MIL's idea of going out to eat last year, so we made reservations instead of a turkey and it was awesome.<br />
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we all went to the gym on thanksgiving morning, then got ready and hung around the house. (jack and i built some minecraft legos; the box said they're for ages 8+ and it was hard even for me.) then we got in the car and drove to seattle! it had been raining all week but just barely stopped that afternoon -- we even saw the sun peeking out, but it was WINDY and cold.<br />
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we had dinner at cutter's and it was delish. the restaurant was perfect -- just noisy enough that our kids weren't an embarrassment, and we lucked out with a table right next to the window overlooking the bay. our four-course thanksgiving meal wasn't too bad either. see -- restaurants do it just like home!<br />
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another couple from our ward ended up joining us; they're canadian and thought our whole thanksgiving thing was amusing. it was so fun to have them with us too -- felt more festive to be with friends. hudson pounded the turkey, jack wouldn't touch it. we had pumpkin pie for dessert and headed home for the seahawks game. a perfect thanksgiving with my little family. </div>
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<br />lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-6083623805822472332014-11-26T14:23:00.000-08:002015-06-05T14:26:23.225-07:00more october funlots more good stuff happened in october! the first weekend was general conference, my favorite time of year, but b left for europe halfway through. it's always an adventure finding ways to keep these boys (and myself) occupied while he's gone -- especially on weekends! we took a sunday field trip to the temple. :)<br />
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we also got to tour our local fire station. and there were enough nice days of weather left that i got to hook up the bike trailer and take the boys for a ride. i get desperate for exercise time when b's gone and i can't go to the gym!</div>
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hudson is the cutest little cheeser. he finally started walking in october, hooray! love looking down and seeing this little sidekick. he's also VERY into football and wants to wear the utah helmet all the time. </div>
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love this early morning sunrise. sometimes it's the only time we see evidence of the sun the whole day, but it's worth it!</div>
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we loooove fall in seattle!</div>
lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-6157305726820792892014-11-24T14:21:00.000-08:002015-06-05T14:23:37.249-07:00halloween 2014october has to be one of my most favorite times of the year. the leaves change into the most GORGEOUS colors around here, it starts feeling like fall (without being <i>too </i>cold or rainy yet), it's our anniversary and we've got all the festive fun of halloween. here's a look at our halloween fun in 2014.<br />
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we put up our decorations on october 1. i don't have a ton of interior decorations, just a few that the boys love to help me set up -- but this year (thanks to pinterest) i decided our front door needed some spooky stuff too. jack and joey helped me put up this monster face and it was a hit with everyone who came to the door that month.<br />
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we headed to jubilee farm one afternoon for our traditional family pumpkin patch outing (though next year i think we'll stick to the one right down the street and buy pumpkins from safeway because holy crap what a rip off!). we all had fun tromping through the mud to find the perfect pumpkin. and going for a hay ride of course. </div>
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i always try to make some fun, festive food for halloween -- whipped up these graveyard pudding cups for a halloween party jack attended at allie's house. i also made my favorite mummy hot dogs for his preschool party, and ghost pancakes for halloween morning. that night for dinner we got cheap boo-rritos from chipotle cause i was all crafted out. ;)</div>
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we had a ward trunk or treat on the 30th, and then it was fiiiinally halloween. (i feel like we always have SO many halloween activities before the actual day arrives. at least the boys get lots of chances to dress up...though, let's be honest, jack has been wearing his spiderman costume daily since we bought it in may. the cost per wear on that thing has got to be in the negatives by now.) </div>
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jack & em / hudson and his fellow babies / h being very serious about his candy / jack and the winger boys:</div>
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finally it was really halloween. we started the day with a "pumpkin palooza" and potluck at preschool. </div>
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then headed to microsoft to show off costumes in a horde of other people. we didn't stay long. ;) </div>
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and THEN after dinner we went trick or treating. hudson sat in the stroller but desperately wanted to join the big boys. we went around our neighborhood (about 12 houses) with our neighbors, the bedells -- it was the perfect length of time for my dudes. jack b, jack w and joey (a storm trooper, spiderman, and ninja respectively) were the cutest things i have ever seen, running from house to house whooping with joy over their candy-filled buckets. </div>
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then it was home for one piece of candy, kid bedtimes, and hocus pocus for me and b. a perfect halloween!</div>
lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-49435496193229671292014-10-01T14:20:00.000-07:002015-06-05T14:21:12.575-07:00california 2014the day after labor day, the boys and i headed to california! it was a busy trip -- we packed in a lot of activities and a LOT of sunshine from those 95 degree days. we almost melted. ;)<br />
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grammie took us on all sorts of field trips, from the LA natural history museum to irvine park to ride ponies. the boys also had a blast just playing with all of her cool toys and riding bikes down the driveway for hours on end.<br />
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such a fun, recharging trip -- i always feel so good after getting some time in the california homeland.<br />
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<br />lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-58670250664495787842014-10-01T14:19:00.000-07:002015-06-05T14:19:49.073-07:00summer odds & endsuncle grant & aunt whitney came to visit us in august! whitney had never been to seattle and we always LOVE hosting my brother, so we had fun showing them around town. jack's crush on aunt whitney is still holding strong, btw. :)<br />
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our friend rose came back to visit us, all the way from california! these kiddos are so cute. jack used to be outnumbered back when he, rose & emery were just babies together -- but now that there are two little sisters in the mix, he's toootally the low man on the totem pole. can't wait till hudson can help pull the man-weight around here. </div>
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lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-14351040012003861282014-10-01T14:18:00.000-07:002015-06-05T14:18:38.049-07:00outdoors in augusttime to catch up! august was a fun-filled month for us -- summer in seattle is truly the BEST time of year, and we took full advantage of the gorgeous weather to get outside as much as possible.<br />
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the first thing we checked off our summer bucket list: a family hike! we picked an easy, kid-friendly mini hike up to franklin falls, loaded hudson into our hiking backpack and were off. everyone loved it and we only had to stop for a snack break twice. :)<br />
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then, we REALLY crossed something off the bucket list by taking our very first family camping trip. i had never officially been camping before and was pretty hesitant to try it, but b was gung-ho and outfitted us over the past year with all the gear we could ever want or need. we drove up to deception pass, a beautiful spot on whidbey island, and set up camp on a thursday afternoon. </div>
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it was so much fun. the boys LOVED our campsite -- jack jumping off rocks and exploring the woods, hudson crawling through the dirt. ;) we cooked dinner over our campfire and walked along the beach. and then.....it was nighttime. let's just say that the whole night part of our trip pretty much sucked. none of us slept, and b & i both ended up sharing our sleeping bags with a kid. other than the night, camping was awesome! we got up bright and early the next morning for a couple more hikes, had breakfast and packed up to go home. </div>
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end verdict: i liked the whole experience way more than anticipated, and poor b came home swearing to never camp again until our kids are way older. overall, totally worth it and i have such good memories from our little family outing. </div>
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the boys and i also got in one final berry picking day over at a farm in bellevue. it was huge, with rows and rows of blueberry bushes -- jack loved racing down the aisles with his little friend. i think it's so cool that i can teach my kids where their food comes from at such an early age. </div>
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<br />lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-80794700516371182482014-07-23T14:17:00.000-07:002015-06-05T14:17:26.275-07:00#mondaybeachdayi am trying to stick to a routine this summer (more about that <a href="http://www.miscfinds4u.com/blog/2014/06/30/things-kids-seattle-summer-routines/">here</a>) and i set a goal in june that we'd hit the beach at least once a week. so far i've done it! between lake sammamish, lake washington and the puget sound there are tons of beaches to check out within 30 minutes of our home, so yes i will gladly take advantage of that opportunity.<br />
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i've got my beach routine down to a science -- we leave right after hudson's morning nap, bring a picnic lunch and our gear, and come home in time for afternoon nap. that gives us a good four hours to dig in the sand, swim in the water, and usually play on the playground. (most of the beaches we go to have a nice play area right next to the sand.) jack traditionally HATES water but has really warmed up to swimming in the lake -- i think he feels more comfortable if he can touch the bottom. my least favorite part of beach days is dealing with hudson -- he crawls around and gets super dirty, but is too little to do much else. once he starts walking i think our beach trips will be perfect.<br />
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lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-4866475634938259992014-07-23T14:15:00.000-07:002015-06-05T14:16:26.119-07:00the birthdays 2014on july 12, jack turned 4 and i turned 30! a big day in the wells house, per usual. my typical rule is that i don't throw jack's party on the 12th since it is MY birthday too, but since it fell on a saturday this year i figured what the heck. i only had one major meltdown (the morning of the parties) and other than that it was pretty good. :)<br />
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jack had a dinosaur birthday party! i did a couple fun crafty things for it, like these spray painted dinosaur jars and a dino footprint sign, but it was pretty low key. (at least by pinterest standards -- do NOT search "dinosaur parties" on pinterest unless you want your head to explode.) the biggest hit was letting the kids hammer away at tiny plastic dinos frozen in giant ice cubes. we had a pinata, played some games, ate cake and ended at the park. jack said he loved it, and still talks about his party, so i guess i did my job!<br />
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we cleaned up the party, went out to dinner, and then it was MY party time. :) since i was turning the big 3-0, we decided to go a little bigger than normal -- i felt a little silly, but hey, we never do stuff like this so why not? we rented a limo and invited four of our favorite couples to come along for dessert at elliott's on the pier and an improv show at pike place market. (yes, they made me get up on stage.) it was SO fun and we got home at 1 am, reminding me that i am definitely 30 and not able to stay up that late. haha. </div>
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it was a perfect birthday and i'm so lucky that b was fully supportive of both those crazy parties -- he always wants to make july 12th a special day for me AND jack, and he totally came through. yay for birthdays!lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-44100483804314621652014-07-23T14:14:00.000-07:002015-06-05T14:14:50.190-07:004th of julythe fourth of july is always my favorite holiday and this year did not disappoint. b & jack spent the morning at the skate park while i prepped a few festive dishes and listened to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ttDUGM-1mU&feature=youtu.be">neil diamond</a>; after lunch we headed over to our friends' pool to hang out for the day. from THERE we changed clothes and went to lake sammamish to a beautiful beachside bbq. we left that around 9 pm to put the boys to bed (it doesn't get dark here until 10 pm and there was NO WAY these two little dudes were going to make it that late) and listened to our local fireworks show from inside our house. it was a perfect seattle holiday with my little family -- and about 100 friends. :)<br />
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<br />lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-31975451272945184532014-07-22T14:13:00.000-07:002015-06-05T14:14:09.922-07:00more june stuffjust to recap the highlights from last month. we sold my beloved honda accord (THAT is a crazy story in itself but i will spare you the gruesome details) and while my parents were in town we bought a toyota highlander! i was so glad my mom was here to watch the boys because we ended up sitting in a car dealership for like 5 hours and that would NOT have been conducive to children.<br />
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anyway here's the new ride. she's a beaut!<br />
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then, that next day, i ran my third half marathon! this was the second time i'd run the seattle rock & roll marathon and my time was better than before by five whole minutes...but still, TWO minutes over my goal time. i was not happy. :( it is a scenic course through downtown seattle, along lake washington, past the sports stadiums and up a big freaking hill (or three) at the end. brutal. oh well -- at least i had fun. my friend jessica ran it too so it was nice to have a friend to hang with at the starting line. we didn't run together but ended up crossing the finish just 30 seconds apart!<br />
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<br />lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-15882439256809029662014-07-03T14:12:00.000-07:002015-06-05T14:12:36.608-07:00hudson is 1!this cute boy turned ONE on june 18! it's true what they say about things going faster with the second kid -- i feel like he was just barely born and now he's already been here for a year.<br />
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we celebrated his actual birthday with shots (sorry, buddy) and a little family party at home. he was so excited about his birthday balloons, not so much about his party hat (which lasted three minutes for these photos and then was never worn again).<br />
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this guy is the cutest, wildest one year old ever. he's into <i>everything</i>, always climbing onto something or getting himself stuck somewhere he can't get out. i delight in seeing what he picks up on -- he folds his arms for prayer whenever we sit down at the table, he holds cell phones up to his ear and combs his hair with a baby comb, he very clearly shakes his head for no and points for yes. he just barely started saying "eese" when he sees something he wants, too, which i think means "please" and it's just too adorable. he does sound effects whenever a toy or animal catches his eye, and learned how to drive himself forward on our fire truck push toy. hudson is obsesssssed with b, and with jack to a slightly smaller extent. he's getting his four front teeth but has a giant gap between them. we love this boy!<br />
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then, that weekend, my parents came to visit and we threw him a real birthday party! i made some pretty hilarious decorations (you can see more of the party <a href="http://www.miscfinds4u.com/blog/2014/06/24/stress-free-birthday-parties/">over here</a>), we opened a few presents and he got another cupcake. it was a fun and simple day.<br />
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lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-8264865916434486732014-07-02T14:10:00.000-07:002015-06-05T14:11:29.352-07:00utah in junewhew! june was SO CRAZY. obviously, since i'm still trying to catch my breath and it is currently july 2. haha. it was just one big thing after another -- so much fun, but so chaotic.<br />
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june 5 was jack's last day of preschool. he LOVED school this year, loved his classmates and most of all loved teacher robyn. at the end of may, we found out she had decided to retire and wouldn't be coming back in the fall -- a heartbreaker. we were sad to see her go, but i'm excited to see who replaces her for next year.<br />
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we had an ice cream party on the last day, said goodbye to everyone and then hopped on a plane to salt lake city! (me and the boys, that is -- b had to stay home to work. wah wah.)<br />
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we stayed at my in-laws and PACKED in the fun. one day we went to the newly reopened aquarium which jack adored of course -- he's really into ocean-related things right now. i'd argue the SLC aquarium might even top our seattle one (which is weird, since we live on the ocean, while salt lake is a thousand miles away from it) but their walk-through shark tank and live penguins took the cake.<br />
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we also took a trip to my alma mater! it feels so good to walk around and reminisce about the good old days there; i have nothing but good memories from BYU. although it does feel weird to be there with my two children, ha. (this is jack complaining about the bright sun...oy, seattle kids.)</div>
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while on campus, we discovered the bean museum had just reopened after a lengthy renovation. we spontaneously decided to visit and i was so glad we did! i vaguely remember the museum from visiting once or twice in college (it's right next door to my dorms, which have now been torn down :( so sad!) -- it was pretty musty, dark, and green-carpeted. the green carpet is still there but the addition is beautiful and both my boys LOVED it. (hudson became very animated at each animal, pointing and reaching for them while he squealed. it was really cute.)</div>
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exceptttt for the upstairs, the "predator and prey" room. lots of animals depicted hunting / killing / eating each other -- a little too traumatic for this almost-4-year-old. here's jack demonstrating his scary bear-attacking-a-moose face:</div>
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mother's day also marked the first time that jack sang in church! this is actually the second time the primary has sung since he's been old enough to participate, but he refused to go up the first time so mother's day was it. he was so freaking cute up there. and why yes, i did pull my phone out to snap a picture from my pew. no shame. </div>
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this picture is especially heartbreaking because i just got an email on friday that our beloved teacher robyn is retiring after 14 years at the preschool! ummm...crap. </div>
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lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-44082847302153012014-04-15T15:00:00.000-07:002014-04-15T15:00:07.542-07:00random snippetsjust cleaning out my cell phone photos, per usual. here are a bunch of photos that have nothing to do with each other. :)<br />
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one month to the date of our <a href="http://elldub.blogspot.com/2014/03/concert-date.html">head & the heart date</a>, 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.<br />
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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. </div>
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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. </div>
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lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-60702655153794652262014-04-14T15:00:00.000-07:002014-04-14T15:00:05.224-07:00lyndsey updatethis 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.<br />
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i've been really into sending mail lately thanks to the <a href="http://www.thestationeryplace.com/2014/03/30-days-of-mail-writeon-with-egg-press.html">#write_on challenge</a>. 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 <a href="http://www.thestationeryplace.com/2014/04/writeon-for-good-cause-cards-for-cancer.html">cards for cancer card drive</a>? <span style="font-size: xx-small;">please please please do it. </span><br />
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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. ;)<br />
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seattle bloggers unite (the blogger networking group i founded when we moved to washington) is alive and well after taking a six month hiatus. <a href="http://lisettewoltermckinley.com/">lisette</a> 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 <a href="http://www.thestationeryplace.com/2014/03/seattle-bloggers-unite-spring-social.html">lots more</a> about the meetup, but this is a picture of one of the food tags i made for the party.)<br />
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i've also been writing <a href="http://www.miscfinds4u.com/blog/author/lyndsey/">baby & kid product reviews</a> for miscfinds4u, and i've been writing <a href="http://wellyoked.com/blog/author/lyndsey/">a PR column</a> 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.lyndseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488687458645293946noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5503298575398771122.post-21080850754740836512014-04-13T21:58:00.001-07:002014-04-13T21:58:24.692-07:00hudson's firstshuddy 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.<br />
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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!<br />
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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. ;)<br />
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this octopus was totally swimming around his tank -- it was so cool to watch:</div>
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true to form, jack was squeamish about touching anything...until he saw jacob & ian doing it. if they're in, he's in. hooray for peer pressure ;)</div>
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little boys are so much fun. i loved watching them interact and run around all morning. before we left, we headed out onto the pier for a picnic lunch in the (cold) sunshine and watched boats and the great wheel. it was a perfect morning and i'm so glad we have fun friends to share our adventures.<br />
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