Happy 3rd Birthday Hudson

He woke up and exclaimed "Its's my Birfday," and I ask how old are you, He says "I'm free."

Well not quite yet little man but its hard to argue with you. I am having a hard time not admiring your birthday shiner and those stitches in your fat lip and wondering how you have survived three years Danger Dude. I truly believe God makes all the bad ones really cute to ensure their survival and you fit the mold. Love you buddy don't grow up to fast.

Mama the day before you were born.Just seconds old.The very first time Mama got to see you. It was love at first site. You were the sweetest thing.Your Dot Dog cake for your 2nd birthday.The cakes Hannah and Mama made you for your 2nd birthday.

Schools out

Today we took advantage of Florida and went to the beach. Kids were out of school today thanks to our Veterans and we made the most of it. There really is something to be said for making sand castles in November. Hannah couldn't wait to flaunt her bikini and Hudson never bothered taking off his shirt. I had two engineers who made sure their sand castle plans were carried out to their exact specifications or Hudson would stomp them and make us start over, all the while I got to provide the free labor. After our triumphant feats of sand engineering we finished with a picnic in the park. Veterans Day was a success........ Thank You for Your Sacrifices!

Frick or Freat

Scooby Dooby Do where are you, you got some place to be now.....

Mystery Inc. rocked Halloween on the loop. Hannah and Hudson had a blast. Hudson kept saying, "Hawoween is fun" all night and we had a hard time keeping up with Hannah. We solicited help from our friend Ms. Francis to man the door and hand out the goods while we trick or treated the loop. Halloween is a blast on our loop, the road closes and it is nothing but kids and families pulling wagons up and down the streets and sidewalks hitting up the houses who set up shop in the drive ways. The kids were proud of their bounty

Halloween Week

This was an Extremely busy week in the Phelps household. Hannah's schools Red Ribbon week matched up with Hudson's costume parades. Hannah got to dress up everyday with themes of Hat day, Hawaiian day, Favorite book day, Favorite team day, and PJ day. This is the first time in Hudson's life that he got to dominate the picture taking priority. Since Hudson attends Pre-K 5 days he got two parties and two parades, hence the two costumes and the lack of Hannah's themed pictures. Let me tell you, the parade of the two year old class is the closest thing I can imagine of what herding cats actually looks like. It was cute and he loved it.

Happy Birthday Baby Adam

This past weekend I talked Angela, my sister, into allowing me to have baby Adam over for the weekend with out her. I was super pumped to say the least. I was not the only one either. Hannah, Hudson, and Josh were excited too. I have to be honest with you guys. I was most excited about taking him out in public and people thinking he was my little boy. He looks more like me than my own kids.

As most of you know we were lucky to have him and Ang live with us for the first 4 months of his life. He screamed his face off the whole time. Well things have changed my friends. He is the easiest, sweetest, and laid back almost 1 year old I have ever encountered. By the way he is sort of a trader, he followed Josh around the house wanting him to pick him up all the time. I think he might be Josh's favorite nephew now. Here are a few pictures of his visit. I can't wait to give his mama a break again. She is so great with him and I am super proud of the mama she has turned in to.

Look at him walking now!

Dinner Table conversation

Last night we were sitting at the dinner table eating and asking Hannah and Hudson questions about school. The conversation led into a question about Hannah's teacher, Mrs. Kelly, who happens to not accept any nonsense in class. We asked her who gets in trouble in class for acting up. Of course like a true Canary she starts to tell us who the regular offenders are. Our curiosity gets the better of us and we start to ask about her friends, the ones we know, if Mrs. Kelly had to get on to them. So we ask about, Mia, and Joey and she tells us that they are good. When we ask about her friend Chloe, who lives one street over, she responds emphatically.


"Oh no, she's 6, she might beat you up."


I still remember when one more year got you that much street credit, whatever happened to that?

I really miss Fall

Down here in the deep south they are calling for our first cold front, now don't go and feel sorry for us just yet. Our day time highs are going to settle in the mid 80's, but the best news is we will get down to the upper 50's overnight. It's time to give our A/C a break for a few nights!

That cooler air just reminds me how much we miss fall. Fall is a season we don't really experience here. It's always been my favorite time of year. There is something about changing leaves and crisp cool nights. We got to experience fall for the first time in years this September in Connecticut. We took an afternoon trip through Lancaster county in Pa. on our way to a playoff series and it felt incredible to drive through the countryside with the windows down. The leaves were starting to turn and the air at night was just enough to shed the summer shorts and put on Jeans. We took our time and drove through the Pennsylvania farm country until one barn just happened to stop us. We happened to find the farmer in the garden and asked him if we could take pictures, he looked at us a little funny after hearing our request, but I'm sure after he noticed our Florida plates he shrugged us off with an understanding.

How I spent my summer!

I sat down today and happened to click on the link to our blog knowing all to well nothing new was on it, when I noticed the date of the last blog. Six months is a long time between posts. A lot can happen in Six months.

A person can lose 5 teeth and have two rise up in their place in six months. One's vocabulary can radically expand, not to mention one's shoe size.

Point being that there is much to catch up on, and I plan to start filling in the blanks.

Since April 16th our family has split our time between Connecticut and Florida with a brief stop in Columbus, Ohio. This was the first summer that we were not together as a family for the seasons entirety, which brought about new challenges and lots of Skype. We visited many small cities in the upper north east, Places like York and Lancaster, Pa. As well as places like Long Island and New York City. We got to visit old friends in Toledo, and make new ones in Bridgeport. Needless to say we were never in the same place for long. We were constantly traveling and had many mini explorations like our good friends pig farm and taking an afternoon in Amish country.

We had milestones for our young family also, Hannah started Kindergarten and Hudson is off to pre-school. Hannah was obviously required to do so, but starting Hudson was required for the mental health of his parents.

Like I said, there is much to fill you in on.

Daddy leaves tomorrow!

So Josh leaves tomorrow to go play baseball again! Hannah decided to hide a letter in his suitcase. This is the sweetest letter ever. I was teary eyed reading it. Hope you guys enjoy and realize what a sweet sensitive little girl I have. I am proud of her and love her to death. She makes me proud to be her mommy. It is a picture of her and Josh holding hands! Look how much better her body is than Josh's! That girl has curves for a stick figure! Got to love it!

Towboy Town AKA Tombstone

So as some of you may know Josh was released by the Rockies on Friday morning. So we decided to take advantage of the day off and head down to Tombstone on Saturday morning. We had a really great time. Here are some pictures of our day.