Our Jumping Off Place: labor day

Well, we had a big holiday weekend and just got back home late last night, which is why I am just now getting this posted. Hudson is doing much better with his cough - still hanging around a little bit, but much better than he was a week ago. We were worried about how he would do traveling all weekend - but he did great. Slept fine at night, no matter where we were and was a happy boy the whole weekend.
Friday night Papa and Binga (Jamie's parents) came and stayed with us and then on Saturday afternoon we drove out to Burdett for our nephew Jacob's 1st birthday party. Jamie thought it would be fun to ride his motorcycle out there. (He's always begging me to let him ride it to KC or Des Moines and I won't ever let him. I think it's too dangerous on such a long trip, but mostly I just can't imagine it would be fun to sit on that thing for 3 hours. But I finally gave in.) So Hudson and I rode with Papa and Binga and Jamie drove his bike. Should have remembered to put some sunscreen on cause he was pretty red by the time he got to Burdett. And he wishes he had a seat on his bike after sitting on the metal for 3 hours!
So Saturday night we went to the park for Jacob's party, then Sunday was Jamie's grandparents' 25th anniversay and we went to that party. Then Monday we all drove back to Sterling and spent the evening there at Jenni and Aaron's. Jamie had to go back home for work on Tuesday, but since I am now unemployed, I didn't have anywhere I had to be, so Hudson and I stayed in Sterling for the day. Christin had a volleyball game at the college last night and Jamie drove back up and we went to that. But I didn't take into consideration how loud it would be in the gym and Hudson kept getting scared, so he and Jamie went back to Jenni and Aaron's instead of watching the game. They won 1 of the games but lost the match, but already they look better than they did last year, so hopefully they'll have a better season than last year.

So Hudson met lots of his cousins and we had a good weekend with the family.

Here are some pics from our weekend:

Our handsome boy all dressed up for the anniversary party!

Hudson and his cousin Daniel. Daniel is 2 months older than Hudson, but not a whole lot bigger.

Jacob at his birthday party - Jacob is 9 months older than Hudson and a whole lot bigger! Not sure Hudson will ever be able to compete with his rolls!

Jacob got 2 tractors for his birthday and Hudson loved to look at the wheels on the tractors!

Jamie and Hudson in front of the post office in Burdett. We went on a walk Saturday night through town and Jamie asked me "Can you imagine growing up in a town like this?" After I reminded him that he did grow up in this town, he said he had meant could I imagine raising Hudson in a town like this. I told him that even though I am a 'homebody', I think I would go a little crazy having no where to go. He said - "Yeah, and you'd have to cook every night too!"