He got the job....

8 VERY long months in Arizona.
Countless hours interning.
Working 2 & sometimes 3 jobs at a time.
1 1/2 years of data entry.
Months proving he was up for the job, even working a few 19 hour days.
Have FINALLY paid off :)

My husband started his new job today, as an official Audio Engineer

Congrats babe! I am so proud of you!!!

Reactive Airways

Reactive Airways.
Hard to breath.
Coughing every time you play/run/laugh to hard.
Asthma.
Whatever you want to call it, it stinks.

We had Hudson's 15 month check up this week. You may remember at his 12 month visit they gave him an inhaler to use. Well it worked for the most part, but it was more of a "rescue" type in haler. Can you imagine trying to get a toddler to breath in his air treatments while coughing, and trying to calm him down when all he wants to do is keep playing? This is NOT an easy task.

Hudson got a virus a couple weeks ago. Fever. Cough. Runny Nose. The normal stuff. We took him in to the Doctors though just in case because we had had 2 seperate friends babies be hospitalized within 2 weeks prior. One with Bronchialitis and one with pneumonia. So I was a nervous wreck. It turned out just a virus thank goodness. 2 1/2 weeks later though he is still runny nose and his cough that he gets whenever he runs around or laughs to hard had gotten worse. So worse he would throw up EVERY TIME and it took a good 30 min to calm him down. No Bueno.

After talking with his doctor we concluded Hudson has re-active airways. He is to young for it to be "asthma" but basically they are the same thing. The doc said that viruses are the #1 trigger for re-active airways. Then in return the re-active air ways make it harder to fight the virus and it lasts longer. We have decided to put Hudson on steroids for 5 days to bring down the initial swelling in his lungs. Then he will have a daily medicine (singular) used as preventative medicine. He will still have his inhaler if he needs it. In a month we go back in and if Hudson isn't able to run around without coughing there are other medicines we can try that are a little stronger. I'm not sure how long he will be on the daily medicine. At least for the foreseeable future. Hopefully it will be something he grows out of.

After Hudson's 12 month appointment I was talking with my mom and found out that not only did my little sister have to have an inhaler (I don't remember the technical name, but basically exercise induced asthma & I can't believe I had forgotten about this!) but also my dad had Bronchial Asthma up into his teens. He couldn't play basketball for very long with out having to sit out and rest his lungs and take his inhaler. So the genetics along with his NICU stay both contributed and he was bound to get something like this.

I hate it. I know, its like I am having a little pitty party and things could be much much much worse, but I don't care! It is so not fair that my little guy can't even run around his room for more then 5-10 minutes with out coughing. I don't like seeing him struggle. I wish he could just run and play like he want to oh so badly.

My fingers are crossed that this medicine will work and he will be able to be a normal active toddler in no time!

I just love this little man to pieces.

Our NEW Home....before

So we have been living in our home just over 2 months now. We love it so much. There have been a few hiccups along the way though. You may remember that there was a mole in the back yard when we moved in. After talking to one of our new neighbors it looks like the old owners were so upset with the bank and wanted to destroy the yard and was hoping it would go to foreclosure. (we bought it as a short sell). This all makes sense now. The yard was trashed, hadn't been watered in over 8 months. There are weeds everywhere. Also, last week we wanted to turn the water on for the sprinklers...low and behold they packed the box with dirt. We still don't know how were gonna get all the dirt out to turn the sprinklers on. Im afraid they will be broken too. For now, we will just turn the hose on and use a cheep sprinkler from walmart. Were slowly getting the yard looking better. We got a new dandelion killer that we are gonna use this weekend. At this point I would just prefer a green lawn over a yellow one!

Since we moved in we have done lots and lots of painting, cleaning carpets and a few new appliances. But before I post those I would like to show you what are house looked like the day we got our keys!

Our home is a tri-level. There is 3 bedrooms. 2 bathrooms. and an un-finished basement. 

 This is the view right when you walk in the front door. This is the main living room.

 Just to the left of the door.

 Looking from inside the living room. The front door is just to the right. The stairs lead up to the bedrooms and bathrooms. 

 This is the kitchen/eat in. Our table is in front of the bay window.

 Our kitchen. I LOVE the island :))

 Looking from the island. The family room is just a few steps down from the kitchen.

The family room. there are 3 doors on the right side. A closet, the garage & basement.

 Back Doors.

Our backyard and patio covered in snow. 

 The garage. We love the built in shelves!

 The basement...they left a bunch of crap.

Other side of basement. 

 Now heading back upstairs.

 This is the full hall bath. Hudsons bathroom.

 Spare bedroom

 Currently used as storage.

 This is Hudsons room! I promise its lots cuter now ;)

Hudsons room looking from window. 

 This is our Master bedroom. Im in love with the window seat.

 This is our bathroom and closet is to the left.

 Our bathroom. I wish it had a bathtub....but its ok. The shower is just fine.

Our Awesome walk in closet.

Pics, Celebration & Fever

 Very Top: Keira at band practice, Hudson's Easter loot,
& having fun at the park!
Top: Hudson loving on the water, His Easter day outfit, and some cousin lovin

 Hudson Got inked!, My little bunny man, and me after the Color Me RAD 5k!

Top: Date night with the Hubbs, @ the Jazz game, and little man loves to scooter!

 Top: Lunch for Hudson, Lunch for mommy & Cousin Movie night
Bottom: Cute Ella Mae, Hudson with is breathing treatments, and my trip to forks!

Top: Hudson's room, Sick Station for poor lil man last week, and Brotherly Love

 this is our view on our nightly walks

 So, im still trying to figure out the instagram-dumping process :) I kinda messed up tonight, and for the life of me it wouldn't let me text before the pictures. I have been off the internet for far too long! But tonight is a great night, after about 2 1/2 months, and a darn internet. company that messed up my installation we FINALLY  have internet. YAY! However, these pics are us the last few weeks.

While, life as of late is pretty great! I have caught a nasty nasty fever and I fear it will not be going away any time soon. BABY FEVER.

 The Husband laughs every time I mention it, and reminds me that Hudson is equal to at least 3.5 children. & that were going to Disney Land in October (this will be my first time! soo excited :D) and he apparently refuses to have a pregnant wife in Disney Land, go figure. I just can't help it though, Hudson is just dying to be a big brother ;) I keep trying to teach Hudson to say brother, and he is getting really close to it being understandable.

 Next up I need to post about Hudson being a 15 month old TODDLER! but tonight, is just a little HO-RAH for internet & me coming back into blogging full force!

Also, see my new header up at the top?! while im having trouble, how do I get it centered? and Possibly bigger? It isn't working for me, so any advice would be greatly appreciated.