Q1 of Hudson's Life is in the Books

Life has been AMAZING with Hud! It seems like every day he is doing something cuter that tops what he did the day before. I also believe he has done more traveling than any child in the first three months. Emily has been the most amazing momma with him... I on the other hand am still learning. One thing we have learned about Hudson is he loves watching TV. He will sit in front of the tv and watch football for hours. Problem with that is he loves Baylor... our 3 month year old is already thinking of putting in his letter of intent to one of the most expensive schools in Texas.... great!


This week we went to Disney World... before anyone says out loud the thought your thinking, "you took your 3 month year old to Disney World!?!?!", know that he was amazingly awesome! In fact he had a great time! Hudson loved the Peter Pan ride at Magic Kingdom.


As long as he had his monkey blanket, he was loving life the entire time!


Disney World was a blast, we all had a good time!

He is here!

Hudson Dean Saller is here! He is the most beautiful little boy ever! It's pretty easy to write about him right now because he is sound asleep right next to me. His first month has been very eventful and very exciting!

He was born on September 19, 2011. 7 lbs 11 oz and 19 inches long. It was definitely an exciting day. We were supposed to go in the hospital that Sunday at 10:00pm for Emily to begin the inducement. At 9:00pm we get a call that says there are no empty rooms and they will call us the next morning... what a bummer! It was pretty difficult to sleep that night because we were so tired! The next morning I wake up and come out into the living room to watch TV. At this time we still have not heard from the hospital, until all of a sudden Emily walks outside and says.... I'm not sure but I think my water just broke! That is when the fun began... Mia (Emily's Mom), G (My Mom) and Papi (My Dad) hung out at the hospital for 14 hours of total "excitement"! Emily rocked! She did very well, and everything went very smooth.


The first month has been pretty eventful! For the first week and a half Mia stayed with us to help out. She was AMAZING and such a blessing to have at the house to help! Emily's Dad and sisters came to visit that week as well. It was a fun and exciting week and Hudson loved it! He is such a happy baby!


When Hudson was not even two weeks old we packed up and went to Austin for Jacob's, Emily's brothers wedding. It was a great weekend as well! Hudson did awesome on the drive and throughout the entire weekend. Best part about it was that most of Emily's family got to meet him and spend some time with him.

The next week, my mom came to visit for a week. Same deal, it was a lot of fun and Mom was a huge help! It is so nice to have parents who want to help and be there. Emily and I have mentioned multiple times how blessed we feel.

That weekend we went to Dallas so that Hudson could meet Mom-mom and Grandad and bunch of people on my side of the family! Hudson is turning into an amazing traveler!

Hudson has gotten real into the Rangers with Emily and I. He even dresses the part to watch the games!


This is a funny story. Emily had Bible study one morning and when she woke up to take the dogs outside it was cold so she decided to dress Hudson really warm (which actually I think she was going more for cute then warm). When it was time to leave for Bible study she goes outside and it was 75 degrees. Yes, I definitely gave her a hard time for that one!

Counting Down the Days

Less than 2 months until Hudson Dean comes into the world...
Less than 2 weeks until Emily stops for working for the time being...

It's crazy how much God can change your life away from what you thought was "the" plan. Emily and I are getting so excited to see what he has in store for us over the next few months. I have found that with Hudson on the way and adding to Emily and I getting married last year and then all of the new and amazing changes that have happened in our lives that my prayer time, my thoughts, my worries, and the things that Emily and I are excited about are 100% completely different every day! Not gonna lie... it does help having an amazing spouse to go through life changes with!

This summer has been exciting! We went to Colorado for the 4th of July for Emmy Jo and Garrets wedding! It was a lot of fun and good for Emily because she got to have a good long weekend with her college girl friends!

We then left for a 11 day vacation to the north east United States. Emily and I left on a Thursday and went to Boston by ourselves for 2 days. It was amazing! Emily and I had so much fun together just the two of us. We have made a committment to each other to do as much as possible this summer just the two of us before our life does a 360 in September. We went to Fenway Park on Thursday night and saw the Red Sox play the Orioles.


Fenway was AMAZING!!!!! It is a baseball fans dream.. all of the history and the atmosphere. That Friday morning Emily and I went back to Fenway and took a full tour. It was really neat hearing about the history of the Red Sox and Fenway Park.

The rest of that day we just toured Boston. My 30 week, at the time, prego wife was a champ... or in her words she was clutch! We walked a long way and saw a lot of things and she just chugged along! Even though I just think she was determined because she knew the end of the day was going to be made up of food from Quincy Market!!!


Saturday morning we rented a car at the airport where we met the rest of Emily's family and drove to Lake Winnipesaukee NH. We spent a week there with Emily's grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. It was a blast. We fished, we ate, kayaked (definitely a funny story there that envolved me flipping the kayak and almost dying), we jet skid, tubed behind a boat, hiked, had a ping pong and horseshoe tournament, ate some more, explored the city, slept and then ate some more.

Emily had fun because her and Hudson got all sorts of attention!


The whole fam in NH!!!


Last Sunday, Emily had her first Baby Shower!!!! We had a couples shower at Brad and Mindy's house with our friends from First Baptist. It was amazing. They did so much for us. Shannon cooked some amazing food and everyone gave us some nice gifts. We have been so blessed to have this group of friends during our first year or marriage! It has been such a God send...

Lots of Change

As you can see from picture number one, things in mine and Emily's life have changed drastically. We are not sure exactly how it happened but Emily is now pregnant. For some reason in pre-marital counseling they told you it could happen but didn't go into much detail. All jokes aside, we are pumped. Emily is going to be an amazing mom. We're still trying to figure out how I am going to do.

So our first anniversary is this weekend. I definitely hit it out of the park when it came to first anniversary gifts. However, everyones first response is good luck trying to top that one every year. The way I look at it is now Emily has to think of ways to top me.


Other than that things are going well. Over the past couple of months we actually have gotten to spend a lot of time with family. We visited Emily's family in Pilot Point, went back to Dallas to celebrate Mom-mom and Grandads 70th birthdays, as well as to watch my mom and "sister" Emily run in a half marathon. Basically just preparing our lives for the huge change coming in September.

Denver is doing good as well!!!

February

February was good month! Emily and I went with my parents to Steamboat Spring Colorado. It was an awesome trip! Only one problem...


Besides that we had an AWESOME time! We skied and explored the city of Steamboat. There was a winter carnival going on. One event they did involved pulling kids in skis behind a horse going about 50 mphs.



When Emily goes on vacation she likes to do one thing....



The trip was great! We had a lot of fun with my parents and definitely want to repeat that trip! We also went to Austin for the Austin City Marathon. It was a fun weekend as well. Especially for me since I didn't have to suffer through the half marathon run! Emily, her mom and her sister trained for a couple of months and did really well!




Life I said... February was a great month! Especially since I didn't have to run 13.1 miles!!!!!!!!!

Christmas Traditions

Christmas #1 has come and gone... It was awesome! This year for us it was not about starting new traditions but about starting OUR traditions.

Tradition #1 - Emily grew up always having an artificial tree, I grew up always having a real Christmas tree. Round 1 goes to Matt. Not only did we have a real Christmas tree but we went to the tree farm, picked it out and cut it down ourselves. We had a blast, we went to a tree farm just north of Katy. We were definitely not the norm considering most people had 5 to 10 year old kids running around. But we definitely didn't care, we had a blast.



Tradition #2... Emily did the tree decoratng, hints why it looks awesome! I tried and lasted about 5 mins.



Tradition #3... Decorate the house with Christmas lights. This was not a tradition that we did growing up, but Emily did. It was fun... We bought an AWESOME wreath at Home Depot that is hanging in the front window.



Tradition #4... Sending out Christmas cards. Note to guys who aren't married yet... when you get married and have your first Christmas together THIS IS A BIG DEAL! We went back or forth with this one. Well, I guess it was more like Emily wanted to and my thoughts were "no one looks at those things." End result = Emily put them together and they were great! What did I learn from this? Christmas cards are a big deal!

Christmas #1 = SUCCESS!!!