Lost Tooth

The other day Gabby was watching out the window for Adam to come home from work. While awaiting his arrival, she tripped and hit her mouth on the end table in our living room. She got a bloody nose, knocked out her front tooth and swallowed it . The screaming lasted for a while, but when she finally calmed down and realized what had happened, she was very excited that the Tooth Fairy would be visiting her that night. Lydia has been very anxious to start loosing her own teeth and so greatly encouraged the celebrating of the lost tooth. Gabby loved all the attention. She now is very happy about the lost tooth, and tells every person that we come in contact with. She says "hey, remember that I have a loose tooth?" Then we have to explain what happened, and tell her that her tooth is not loose, but "lost".

Swimming Pool????

Here in El Paso, there is almost nothing but sand. As far as the eye can see, there is sand. The home we bought does not have a finished back yard, and we haven't quite gotten around to doing it ourselves. (we will as soon as our tax refund arrives). In the meantime, the kids are dying to play in their pool!!! But with all the sand and dirt, we haven't allowed them to play in the pool to save ourselves, (mostly me) a huge muddy mess to clean up. However, the other day we discovered them in their bathing suits, in the yard, with the cooler full of water, "swimming". It's not a big cooler and there was not much room for them, but they had the time of their lives.
(cute side story): We heard the girls arguing and so Adam went out to see what all the fuss was about. When he got there, he heard the girls saying a prayer together to help them be nice to each other, so that they wouldn't have to get out of their "pool". How cute is that?

Baby # 4 On it's Way!!!

We are pleased announce that baby number four is up and coming! We are excited to be expecting this new addition to our family. The girls keep telling me that they want another sister. Gabby asks me every five minutes "you have a baby girl in there?" Now that we have at least one of each, Adam and I could care less as long as it's healthy. In fact, Adam has decided that we will not find out what this one is until it is born. We did that with Lydia, and it was fine then. But we found out with the other two, and now I think the suspense might kill me. However, it does make the delivery room a lot more intense and so I will look forward to that.

We are finally settled in El Paso, and got our computer up and running yesterday, so now I can resume blogging and email, (and still trying to figure out what all the fuss is about facebook and twittering). Come on, do we really need more forms of communication to complicate our world? Anyway, we would love to hear from all y'all and catch up. I feel like we've been out of the loop for sooooo long.

Hotel Life? Not That Bad

Our family is officially in El Paso, yet still homeless. We are living in the "Quality Inn and Suites" and we have been here almost a month. The bank set a closing date for out house for the 11th of March, but as you know it is past that, and we have not heard any news yet from them. Our Realtor tells us to just plan on living in the house that we have put an offer on, but the bank hasn't even "officially" excepted our offer and so we're feeling very up in the air. Actually I feel fine and we are in a nice, 2 bedroom 2 bathroom suite and so I am not in a hurry, but Adam is feeling very anxious. So for his sake, if anybody feels like offering a prayer for us that would be great!

Anyway, we LOVE El Paso! I am sooo Surprised! But I love it here! I love the weather! I am so glad to be out of humidity!!!! I hated that swamp muggy feeling all the time. I am so glad to have the wonderful warmth of Texas, but back in the desert! I love it. Plus there are palm trees everywhere. It makes me feel like I'm in California, but it's still as cheap as Texas. I'm not kidding. I have made no secret that Texas was not my favorite place to be. In fact I would go as far as to say that I was on the verge of hate. So when we found out that we were moving here to El Paso, my heart sank. But I am telling you now that I don't ever want to leave! I LOVE the house that we have chosen, I love the branch that we are in, the members are fabulous here, and I love the warm beautiful weather and all the palm trees. It's like living on vacation. There is so much to do here, but the area that we are in still feels like small town. Anyway, I'm happy to report that we finally feel like we're home and where we're supposed to be!!!

Moving Complications

So we are supposed to be moving to El Paso last week, but we have had complications. Adam's boss at the job in Waco gave him a last minute assignment ti inspect and fix all the automatic doors. He told Adam that he would not be able to move until it was done. In the meantime, I was on my way to El Paso and then up to Utah for my sister's wedding. Adam is still in Waco and will now miss my sister's wedding because he is not allowed to leave. Sad huh? Needless to say that this has been a major bummer for our family. We have never been apart this long before, and I am very homesick for him.

The kids and I are now in Utah. We found a house in El Paso while we were there, but it is going to take about 6 weeks for it to close, and so now we are technically homeless for 45 days. So it looks like the kids and I will be staying here in Utah until our house goes through, which means that it will be FOREVER until we see Adam again. I do not like our family being apart this much. The cool thing is, there are so many forms of communication; phone calls, texting, email and (thanks to the Workmans) the web-cam. We get to talk to each other several times throughout the day. So that is a comfort. Anyway, that is the update of the Hudson Family.

Afternoon at the Park

The other day the weather was so nice, so Adam and I took the kids to the park to play. I am loving Texas in the Fall/Winter. Today it is 72 degrees, and tomorrow it will be 75. Perfect. Anyway, just thought you might like to see some pictures of our adventure. I seriously have the cutest baby boy. I have never seen a cuter one :0)



I have no idea who these other girls are. Lydia makes BFF's everywhere we go. It's a gift she has. She played with these girls the entire time, and so they are in her picture.

Long Time No See

So it's been forever since I posted. We went to Utah for Thanksgiving. We have been looking forward to this trip since we moved to Texas! We couldn't believe it was finally here, and we were actually on our way there. We drove straight through the night on the way up there. We were just so excited to see everyone that we didn't think we could wait in a hotel overnight. So straight through we went and we seriously almost drove our poor kids insane with the time in the car. But we made it. Actually we went a day early and surprised everyone. It was so fun. I could barley contain myself. I felt like a little kid at Christmas. Sometimes I would just have to laugh out loud to release some of my giddy energy. I LOVE surprises!!! We had the most fun there. Mostly we just visited and played catch up with old friends and family members. I was sooooo good to see everyone. We had so much fun, it was hard to leave.
Anyway, that is where we have been and then getting resettled back into life. Posting will resume right away. Thanks Mom and Dad for such a fun trip!!! Mom and Dad Hudson, we really missed you and wished that you had been able to come. We love both of our families so much! I have the most wonderful parents in the world, and I couldn't have asked for a better family to have married into. We feel so much love from both sides of our families. That was one of the things that I was most grateful for at this Thanksgiving. We can't wait to see y'all again.