For Paige...

This past year at school, I got to work with a sweet gal, Paige. I also got to see her on Wednesdays when she led the 9th grade girls small group and I did all the other gals. She always tried speaking to the littles at church, but they were always a little shy and didn't really talk to her. But, as the year went on, Hudson warmed up and would hug and speak to her. At the end of the school year, she said she wanted to come and visit us. I told Hudson and he asked every day for at least the first two weeks of summer if Miss Paige was coming today. Sometime in July, we finally nailed down the day she would come. The night before, Hudson went potty and came back and told me that he had prayed for Miss Paige. When I asked him what he prayed, he said that God would protect her and she would get to our house the next day! Sweetness! She stayed with us a few hours, played a fish game with the boys and just fellowshiped with us a while...we tried pictures at the end...Walker was kinda done! :)

Summer

We have been having a busy summer at the Dudish house! Tony and I went to youth camp with our youth from church and left the littles with my parents for the week. We had a great time and so did the kiddies. Although, when we returned Finley let it be know and quite loudly that she was not happy that I had left her for so long. She was then attached to me for the next week...which I actually spent back in Commerce with my parents because the day after we brought the kids home, the upstairs A/C went out...so off we went. Our compressor ended up being broken and so we replaced the entire unit which is now bigger and works a lot better than the old one that we've had to fix each summer since moving into this house!

Last week, the kids and I went up to my new classroom to work for a few hours and the kids had a blast playing in the housekeeping area of the room. I took a snack and they were all happy!

Tony's sweet sister and her husband, Lori and Justin took Tony and I on a last hoorah?? before summer is over. We left Sunday morning at 8 and drove to Savannah, had lunch, walked around, napped, had dinner...at the Crab Shack (best crab legs I've ever had) and spent the night at a sweet hotel across from River Street. We all got up early the next morning and drove to Tybee Island and spent a few hours on the beach...then back to the hotel to shower and pack before check out time. We walked around a little more, ate lunch at Uncle Bubba's-Paula Deen's brother...super yummy food! Then we headed back home to meet our littles who had spent another night with grandmama! We had a great time with Lori and Justin and are so thankful that they took us along on their trip! Thank you, Lori and Justin!

Summer fun

At the end of last summer, I found a fun Safari pool on clearance at Target. I was super excited about the great deal! I pulled it out today and started blowing it up. After it took 15 minutes to blow up the zebra slide, I kinda thought that I wasn't going to blow up the entire thing. I called Lori and asked if Justin had a hand held pump. He came over and it took about 20 minutes to pump with the hand held thing...seriously, I would've passed out trying to blow the entire pool up. The boys were so excited, they could not wait to get in. So, thanks to our Uncle Justin, we were able to play in our pool! And...as much as the boys loved it, Finley was not quite as enthusiastic about the baby pool. You can't tell in the picture, but she was letting me know she did not like it!

Hello Blog...

So, for some reason I've totally been neglecting this little blog. It's not that we haven't been doing anything, b/c we sure have. One of my main reasons for blog neglect is mere survival. I have been in survival mode for a few months. I've been a little under the weather...b/c we will be welcoming a sweet fourth Dudish baby in November, and well, as with all the Dudish babies, they kinda wreck me for a while. I haven't been as sick as I was with Finley, but sick none-the-less. I'm starting to feel better, and looking forward to a hot summer. We are all thrilled about welcoming another little into our family. We'll find out in a few weeks if this babe will be a brother or sister for our other littles.

Out of the mouths of my babes!

A few sweet and funny things have been said by my littles in the last few days. Walker and Hudson were playing Hide and seek the other morning. Hudson was hiding, Walker was trying to find him. I heard him upstairs yell out for Hudson..."come out, come out forever you are!" How precious is that! In another conversation with Walker, he was asking me if I was a "big" person. I asked him to clarify. He said are you big or little like me and Hudson. So, I proceeded to tell him that I am in fact a big person and he and Hudson are little people. He jumped off the sofa, held his hands up in the air, then declared that he was not little any more, he grew and now he was HUGE! I wish I could type it the sweet way he said it!One night a few weeks ago, Tony was putting Hudson to bed and Hudson was smelling his arm. He then said "I smell like Jesus." And then, that sweet boy said, "because Jesus made me!" I am not even kidding...how awesome is that?!!

And just because she is saying some things...Miss Finley says VERY clearly...night, night, bye, bye, da da, mama, even bevo. She also says something over and over and I just know it means something, I just haven't figure out what, b/c it really doesn't sound like a real word, just a bunch of sounds put together. I love the talking!

Sweet Walker turns 3!

Walker turned 3 last Sunday and we had his "train" birthday party last Saturday morning. Then, we had cousin Kylin's first birthday party in the afternoon. Easter Sunday was Walker's actual birthday. We went to the early service, then to Aunt Lori and Uncle Justin's, hunted eggs and ate with family. Here are some pictures of Walker's birthday party!

Finley is 1

Our sweet baby girl turned one on March 10. I cannot believe that it has been an entire year since our baby girl was born. She is absolutely the sweetest little thing. Her brothers adore her, she smiles, hugs and offers us lots of love. When she hugs, she makes this sweet little sound like she just loves soooo much! She is also a tough one! Those brothers of her get a little too rough sometimes and she usually just rolls with it. She is crawling and getting into everything, especially the kitchen cabinets. She is pulling up on everything and she will walk with us holding her hands, or behind her little stroller. I don't have her stats yet, I'll post those later...she is a big girl, though! She really is such a joy and we have loved every minute of this first year with her! Here are some pictures from her first birthday party and some that Justin took for some 1 year shots!