Haak House Shenanigans

A few of my favorite Haak hOuse Shenanigans:

Karate

Hudson was promoted to an advanced white belt. 

This is the belt promotion ceremony.  Hudson was pretty excited!!!

One thing I love about karate is the character lessons at each class.  

Nunchux fun!  Sometimes it does hurt though!

Hannah loves to mimic brother.  I think she is doing her exercises...push ups I'm thinking:).

Hannah is a super snuggler!

Dentist Visits

Haircuts-Hudson only.
We are going to trim Hannah's long back curl at 3:).

Just like mommy?!

Writing, writing, writing!

Visits from Grandma and Grandpa!

Princess castles

Cleaning!

Sibling fun at Jump N Bounce

Art!

Hannah loves puzzles lately!  The more the better!

Sibling love

Dress up!
Super Hannah!

Happy Birthday Gigi & Daddy!

Valentine's Day 

Fiddle player Hud

Hannah loves to dance on the ottoman to her favorite songs.

Breakfast with Gigi:).

St. Patrick's Day fun

For St. Patrick's Day, we headed down town for our parade with my friend Rosie!  

Here are the girls:).

Now it was POURING.  I didn't know how it would go.  I had hoped that the rain would magically disappear by parade time.  I told the kids we could just see how it goes and if we needed to leave we could.  

Hud got to bring his bike and he was ecstatic!  We decorated it a bit and hit under the neighbors tent...until they asked us to leave:(.

Ready to go!  Well at least Hud was...

He was hard core biker!

Hannah eventually perked up...after her 3rd sucker.   

Moments later, she looked this...

Notice she didn't even finish her sucker:(.

This is how we looked in the parade!  It stopped raining exactly the time when the parade started!  It turned out to be a pretty nice day!

Our actual St. Patrick's Day included Bible study and some reading:).

Happy Belated St. Patty's Day!

Skiing

One of Hudson's Christmas gifts was ski lessons.  We had brought him up last year to see what he thought and he clearly wasn't ready.  We talked it up big this winter and he was ready!

First day and he was already carrying his skis!

He even wanted to fill out his name, himself!

Pops giving him a little help with his gloves before his first lesson!

He met with his Mighty Mites group.  They played a few games to get to know one another:).

Then it was time to see what each skier knew how to do.  

Here he is getting on his skis.

First attempt

Then he was put into Grant's group with a few other first timers.

Simon Says on skis, so cute!

Edgy Wedgy time!

Ironically Pops forgot his boots on the first day so daddy and Hannah got to come visit too!

Snow angel fun!

This is Hudson's review on his first day at lunch:

He kept asking if lunch was over and if he could ski more:).

By the afternoon he had already rode the chair lift!  He went up Chair 5, the beginner chair, but I was super impressed!

The next week he was all smiles again!

There were even a few foggy and windy days.  But Hud didn't mind, he was ready to ski!  We talked about how it's cold but true skiers ski in all conditions!  He was ready!

But there were quite a few sunny days as well!  The February/March skiing was really spring skiing.

I think this was his last day, or so I thought.  He had croup pretty bad but the snow was getting scarce so Jared and I let him ski b/c he was begging to!  After this lesson, they canceled his last lesson:(.
We were bummed but had a feeling it was coming.
Then that week, they pushed snow around to open it for Saturday/Sunday.  They had three chairs open: 5, 3, & 2.  We were impressed with Mt. Spokane's dedication and commitment!


Here he is skiing with his group:).

The last two lesson days, Jared took Hud for a few runs after class.  What a thrill it is to see my boys skiing together!

This is how bare the mountain was this year:(.  Sad ski season but Hud still managed to learn!

All in all it was a fabulous season!  We were so impressed with the Mt. Spokane ski instructors!  Hudson almost had one-on-one the whole time until he started skiing!  He loved going up and begged to go back outside every day at lunch, although in all fairness an hour is a long break:).  He can't wait to ski next year!  We will definitely be doing lessons again at Mt. Spokane again next year!  I can't wait to see what he can do next season!  So proud of you buddy!

Field Trip

Hudson's elementary school's philosophy is more hands which includes more field trips than!  His January field trip was up to Mt. Spokane for some snow shoeing!  Apparently Summit owns their own set of snow shoes and this is an annual field trip.  I was excited to tag along this year!  I rode the bus up to the mountain with the kids.  Kindergartener's are too funny!

Thumbs up dude!

First, Mrs. Termath had to explain the directions and expectations.  We were with a first grade group as well.  They were our leaders:).

The hike was all uphill.  Ugh.  Not feeling super well and needing to eat more food but I couldn't, my energy was low. Plus these adorable kindergartners keep losing their snow shoes so there was a lot of picking kids up, putting on snow shoes over and over again.  I was exhausted!

Here we were with a little break.  This is one of Hud's classmates and friend's son:).

Getting Hudson to smile normal that day was a test!

Hiking up the trail!
It has been a low snow year but the trail had plenty for us to hike up.

For some reason, Hudson took it upon himself to race this friend and got VERY UPSET if he was behind him.  The trail was narrow so these two were like running up the trail.  I trudged along and kept up best I could.

Mommy and Hud pic

That smile!

Since the hike was uphill, the way back was downhill...HORAY!  Hudson was running in his snow shoes the whole day down.  Aww to have that energy again:).  

We ate lunch at the Selkirk Lodge.  I never even knew lodge was up there for cross country skiers, snow shoes, snow mobiles, it was nice and big enough for our whole group:).    The kids were very tired by the end of the lunch.  The bus ride home seemed like an eternity and they were getting restless.  Hudson still wanted Gigi and Gpa to pick him up so I headed home early.

We had plans to go out to eat for Jared's birthday as a family but I came up and found Hud doing this

So I let him sleep for a bit.  Then I woke him up so he could sleep that night and we snuggled and watched a movie.  He did end up with a mild fever.  Poor little guy.

Just another sick weekend in the Haak House this winter.

I'm so glad I've had the opportunity to take part of his friend trips this year.  It's funny to watch him in his school environment:).  He's a bit silly and such a boy.  I love it!  I had a great time connecting with other parents in the class and meeting his buddies.  So fun to be in kindergarten!

Haak House News

That's right, baby #3 is due in mid-July!  

Hudson and Hannah are thrilled although I guess I used the wrong terminology with Hudson and said I was "pregnant."  He didn't fully understand what that meant which I learned a week or so later, lol!  Hudson wants a boy, Hannah wants a girl.  Hudson has also decided he wants 2 boys and 2 girls, then he bumped it up to 10 kids.  Wow, ok slow down buddy!  Needless to say there is a bit of excitement here!

We truly thought we were done with 2 but God had other plans.  Jared has this fabulous new job where he doesn't travel and he's home every night and morning to help wit the kids.  Then God laid a desire for just 1 more and a little bigger family.  

  This pregnancy started off great!  I was working out until 7 or 8 weeks and then I started to feel very sick again.  I then took a month off from the gym and could barely eat, resulting in more weight loss.  The doctors are monitoring me every 2 weeks.  I'm trying to eat, it just hurts.  It feels like the flu and when you eat too soon after the flu, it just doesn't sit well.  That's everything I eat.  I can eat spaghetti one night and the next day it hurts me.  It's quite obnoxious.  I can however eat Skittles and Starbursts on an empty stomach or anytime throughout the day.  The doc said that's because I need the glucose/sugar.  If I had to compare pregnancies, I'd say it's much close to Hannah's pregnancy than Huddy's.  

We are choosing to not find out the gender this round.  Boy or girl, we are set!  If it is a girl, which is my guess based on my pregnancy or I'm just getting older..., I am thrilled Hannah will have a sister!  If it's a boy, Hud would get a brother!  Either way we are so excited!  God has the best timing!

While sometimes the logistics of 3 makes me worry, we are so excited for this new addition!