Sudson has a tooth! I can't believe it. Karl said this morning. Did you know Hudson has a tooth? I was like no he doesn't. He said yeah he does feel it. Sure enough there it was. It made me sad. He is growing up so fast. He isn't even six months old yet. Kartet didn't get a tooth until he was over nine months. I guess Sud will be our early bloomer. Although Hudson doesn't sit up on his own yet and Karter could do that when he was five months old. To Hudson's credit, he has a lot more to hold up than Karter ever did.

Another Christmas has come and gone. And wouldn't you know it I didn't take a single picture (sorry Grandma). It was nice and quiet around our house. We had dinner at my moms house on Christams Eve. It was just Shane, Sam, us and my mom. Sy and Marissa went to Oregon and Seth didn't come until the day after Christmas.
We have been telling Karter for a month that Santa was going to bring him some presents but that he was going to take his binky for a trade. Karter was fine with that and when you would ask him what was going to happen on Christmas he would say "no more dinky". So when we got home from my mom's we told him that Santa was going to come that night and we had to leave him his binky. I took his pacifier and put it in his stocking and then all @%$# broke loose. Karter started screaming "No my dink! No Danta my dink!" He grabbed his stocking from me and headed down the hall trying to dig it out. We tried some reasoning but failed. Finally Karl said to let him take it to bed and we would take it away in the morning. Christmas morning rolls around and we tell Karter that Santa has come and left him some presents. He looked at us covered his mouth and said "No my dink!" Hmm...who rules the roost around here.
Santa brought Karter an indoor trampoline. It's like those little exerciser ones but it has the net like the bigger trampolines. Karter loves the neighbors tramp so we thought he would be over joyed. But he just stood there looking at it. I guess wondering what it was doing in his living room. He loves it now and I'm glad he can burn some energy while being contained in a small area.
We did the usual rounds at the Grandma's houses and then had Christmas dinner with Karl's family. Nice and simple. And as much as I love the Christmas season I was glad to have it over with. All the decorations came down the day after and now the house looks empty, but clean.

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Karter has mastered the art of riding his rocking horse. It is hilarious!

Watch out Clark Griswald!

This house's lights are choreographed to a radio station. It's pretty cool.

We had an ugly sweater Christmas party with our friends Saturday night. It was lots of fun. Can you pick the boy and girl that won?

Chore Time

My mom, Karter, Hudson and I went to feed my mom's horses today. It was quite the adventure. My mom was trying to get the farm truck going and once it finally roared Karter said "yeeaah!" So we pile in the cab and my mom attempts to back up to the haystack (she sounds totally normal huh). After a couple of tries she gets there. So then I have to go and attempt to throw a hundred pound hay bale (did I spell that right) into the bed of the truck; and I am going to do this without getting dirty. Well if any of you can imagine me throwing hay...it's a pretty funny picture. I tried to sit on one bale and push another one into the truck but the truck was to high. So I had to push, tug and roll the bale in. But I made it in. Could you Vegas girls do that! We drive out to the pasture and my mom is calling out the window "Come boys". Are we feeding dogs or horses? Pretty soon Karter chimbs in his own version of come boys. They aren't coming so we drive a little farther. We start to get into a sticky situation and I tell my mom not to get us stuck. I'm not pushing and I don't want to have to walk. She decides to turn around so we don't get stuck; she turns the truck around, we get stuck. Go figure. My mom is rocking (a term that I didn't know the meaning of until last winter) the truck back and forth but we aren't moving. We don't say anything but know that the other is getting a little worried. My mom puts the car in drive and alas we move. Now we are hitting bumps like crazy. We are bouncing all over the cab. Then the ice breaker comes in. Karter starts clapping and saying "Ya bumps! Ya bumps!" My mom and I are dying laughing as we hop through the pasture. Oh the fun little munchkins add. We got the horses fed and Karter got to pet them and he would try to get them to eat out of his hands.
I didn't know we were going to feed horses or I would of taken my camera and I would of worn my snow shoes. BURR!!

Momma Update

My mom is doing wonderful. Eveything the doctors told us would be wrong is fine. She has made an amazing recovery. She remembers everything up to the morning of the accident. She doesn't remember the accident (thankfully) and she only remembers the last week of her hospital stay. I think that is a huge blessing from Heavenly Father that she does not have to remember all she went through. She had to have a day surgery this morning to remove the screws from her jaw. When they unwired her jaw her skin had already grown over the screws and she was to anxious to try and take them out. It was a quick 10 minute surgery. Everything went great.
She still panics but has a pretty good control over it. She takes medicine to help calm her. Her and Sam are going to move home tomorrow. I hope that she is not pushing herself to fast but I guess I have to cut the apron strings sometime. :)! I will probably go get her in the mornings and have Sam pick her up at my house after school so she is not alone all day. We'll see how it goes.
The bills are flowing in and they are amazing:
one month in ICU - $336,903.17
neuosurgeon for neck surgery - $24,000
life flight -$8,998
anesthesia - $5,000
dr visits while in ICU - $360 per day
We are still waiting for the bills from the last month in the hospital, the doctor bill for the trach and feeding tube and the doctor bill for her jaw surgery. I'm sure there will be others, those are just the ones we are aware of. Thank heavens for insurance.

We got family pictures done on Saturday. Yipee! We get the proofs back today and than it's Christmas card time.

I woke up to Karter crying last night so I went to see what was wrong. He was laying in front of his door on the floor, crying. I picked him up and put him in his bed but he was still screaming so I layed down with him. I fell asleep and woke up to find him MIA. I went looking for him and found him snuggled in bed with Karl (I guess mom wasn't good enough). I crawled in bed and asked Karter why he left me in there all by myself. He looked at me and said "No more sad momma." Silly kids.

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