feeling wintery

We may have been the only ones out walking this morning in the just above freezing temperatures, but it made the hot chocolate really good. He was serious about it too. After I gave it to him he promptly said "now go away."

I never did this??

So I just realized I never blogged about this! My brother Lance is getting married! Katie has really been in the family forever. They've dated for years. Really longer than Brent and I. In fact I can't remember if its longer than Matt and Robyn or not. Needless to say we're thril led to have her be a Hutchison soon. They'll get married in Oxford in May and probably live some where between birmingham and tuscaloosa. Yeah for lance and katie!! Oh and how typical of Alabama to have a pose in front of an Alabama flag. Roll Tide!
3 posts today. i know im pretty much amazing.

i love my new house!

So this was the view I woke up to this morning. well actually this....but still
pretty right?

a glimpse out the front window

and finally our house in the snow. snow + new house makes me happy.

In the kitchen

I feel like its been a while since I blogged. I feel guilty not for not blogging but for being disappointed every time I find a minute to waste time and check blogger only to see that I have no blog updates. I expect others to update without doing it myself. Ahh....well. Jackson is wasting his life watching tv in the other room, Brent just set up my desk/internet, and I was just feeling inspired.

So Jackson loves to help in the kitchen. These are from the old house but I thought they were cute enough they deserved to be shown. mashing the bananas for muffins

this is seriously how i found him when i left him with the bowl. so cute.

We're closing today!!

Wish me and my poor little overactive nerves luck!

We're a long way from done

but this makes me happy. boxes all the same size neatly labeled with their white labels. i love it. thanks gma dee!

my halloween

or lack thereof.

So I feel a little anti-blogger. Bloggers love all things Halloween! I mean a lot of you really get into it! You decorate, carve amazing pumpkins, cook fancy meals, etc. I am impressed, really I am. I was the kid though who refused to help decorate pumpkins cause i thought the guts were just too gross to get over, much less all the fake eyeball blah-di-blah stuff.

We had a ton of fun this year though. We went to Boo at the Zoo, halloween at the park, and trick or treated in the neighborhood. All of those times Jackson was dressed up as an adorable lion. the cutest. i just forgot to take a picture for proof. (i've talked to my mom no less than 5 times since then promising to post pictures of him in his costume b/c i didn't have the courage to tell her I forgot. shhh....)

Actually though my favorite thing of the whole event was watching Jackson go through his candy. He'd pull one piece out of a time, ask me what it was, and was just thrilled with each treat. He went through his candy individually, without asking to open it, carefully examining each piece, asking what it was like, who in the family liked that kind the most, and counting how many of that kind he got at least 3 times. It was so fun to watch. What candy finally broke him that he just had to eat first? The first one was that black or orange wrapped candy that they only sell at halloween and then a peppermint. yeah. he's even too young to know that chocolate is the best stuff in there!
watching him made me resent greedy teenagers even more.
i was a greedy teenager for too long.