My Bubba

I'm a little behind on my blog lately.  February and March seemed to be busy months for us.  Now it's catch up time. 

Back in February, we finally convinced Boston to get a hair cut.  For me, it was getting a little out of control.  When he heard his cousin Charlie cut off his hair, finally, he agreed to do it (although he doesn't look too happy about it). 

The spikes were finally back.  Oh I really did miss that clean look!

Boston also celebrated 100 days of kindergarten. 

They were told me make a shirt with 100 things on it. 

 Boston chose to stamp sports stuff on an ORANGE tee (this has been his favorite color for a couple years).

 He also came home in February with another school fundraiser.  I'm so not in love with fundraisers and usually toss them to the side. 

 But those dang BOOSTERTHON people...

  They were to ask for donations per lap and then how ever many laps they ran, that's how much someone would end up donating.  Those Boosterthon people sure did something to pump those kids up because Boston came home DAILY asking to call family and friends for donations.  I finally caved and told him we could ask JUST family. 

And with every donation came a prize....

The pledges were set and the day finally came for Boston to run. 

 Hudson and I went up to the school to watch him run and see how many laps he would run. 

We spotted one of his football buddies, Cameron ready to run too.

 Boston did GREAT.  He was so determined and SO pumped for this thing.  It cracked me up but also made me proud of his determination. 

He ran 48 laps.

Thanks so much to our family who offered to donate and raise money for the school's new play ground equipment (and for making this little boy SUPER happy).

By the way, I'm glad this thing is OVER.

 Even a week after the Boosterthon, Boston still wanted to sport his prizes.  I can't believe we let him even go to dinner this night looking like a 1980's workout instructor, but we did. 

It was too priceless.

 One of Boston's favorite things to do lately is practice tricks on his Razor. 

 On a side note, RAZOR'S ARE SO FUN!  Yes, I do get on a ride every time we are outside...and compete with my 5 year old with our new tricks.

 And I can't end this post without posting this picture. 

I told Kent we needed to walk through the new American Girl store to show him how grateful he should be to just have sons at the moment. 

We turned around to find Boston and saw this:

He'll kill us one day.

Love that boy.

Fat Tuesday/Valentines Day

Fat Tuesday and Valentines day were just a day a part this year. 

Our Mardi Gras celebration was pretty low key (I had other things to plan and worry about and this one snuck up on me).  The boys wore green in celebration and my mom pulled through again this year and sent us a YUMMY king cake.  The boys didn't want to wait until after our southern, jambalaya dinner to have somee so we cut into it for snack time.  The last TWO years, totally NOT rigged, Boston has bit into the baby.  Pretty sure if this continues and next year when Hudson starts noticing this trend, we might have a battle on our hands.  We completed our night with some of our FAVORITE jambalaya.  Its one meal that the WHOLE family just devours (and Boston asks for more to have in his lunch the next day).  Such a rare thing in our house. 

HAPPY MARDI GRAS!

 Valentines Day. 

Oh Valentines Day. 

This year, I continued a tradition I started LAST year and I'm thinking NEXT year we will do things differently.  Starting February 1st, every morning the boys woke up to a little surprise in their Valentine's mailboxes.  For some reason, this ended up being a big stress and cost WAY more then I had ever anticipated it to this year.  Boston loves tradition this but next year, somehow we have GOT to scale it back. 

Why is it so hard to come up with cheap, GOOD, BOY goodies that won't be thrown away in a week? 

On Valentine's Day, I heart attacked Kent AND the boys.  I made our Valentine's breakfast, red (pink) heart pancakes, and made a fun valentine's themed lunch for Boston to take to school. 

 You can't have Valentine's day without giving out cute Valentine's (thanks pinterest).  Boston decided on these since we are a "bug" family (and I liked it since it was one less sweet).  I also finally tasted GIGI's cupcakes and thought we should suck up to the teacher and get her a YUMMY red velvet cupcake.

 All of us joined Boston for his school's Valentine's day party

 We have had talks with Boston about how he always needs to stand up for his little brother and basically be "his brother's keeper" in life.  This day in particular Boston did just that the WHOLE time.  I know this may not last forever but he was SO proud to have Hudson there.  He shared his food, introduced Hudson to his friends and even asked his friends to share some candy with his little bro. 

Made this momma smile.

This year it was my turn to plan Valentine's Day (we rotate planning anniversary and valentine's).  I made Kent a "favorite things" basket and since Kent has never had a massage, I surprised him with a couples massage that night.

  I decided after that experience that we have GOT to schedule massages more often. 

 They are divine. 

Kent and I were talking later at dinner about how we have now celebrated NINE Valentine's Days together.  NINE!

Crazy how time flies.

It was also NINE years ago that Kent and I had our first kiss...

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!