I'm Back!!

Ok, so I have had numerous e mails regarding the fact that I am super delinquent in posting a new update! SORRY!!! It has been a CRAZZZZZYYYYYY few weeks in the Hughes household! Since I last posted Chris has gone out of town twice for a total of 9 days, I served on Jury Duty (oh whooppee!), Katherine got sick...three times, Katherine and I worked at the shop every single day, I had a Session meeting (which meant Daddy had to babysit), the Cici and Grandpa Hughes came down for a visit, we received the Jump-O-Lene (greatest toy EVER!) and UVa won THREE football games...yes you saw that correctly...THREE...IN A ROW...and two were ranked teams! I think I went to sleep and woke up in a dream...but it is apparently true! OH OH OH...and West Point won TWICE! Whoo hoo!!! The Hughes clan has been VERY happy these past few weeks! :)

Katherine is still growing like a weed and starting to talk a little more everyday. She now says "bye bye" and boy does she have the Southern Drawl going on! Guess she gets that from me. ;o) She also says bubble, hello, woof woof, no, more, CiCi, etc. I was beginning to get worried that the poor kiddo would never talk, but the past few days she has said something new almost everyday, so I guess she just wasn't ready to talk yet! :)

It is FREEZING cold here today, but that actually turned out to be a good thing. Katherine and I visited the Pumpkin Patch this morning with her Lab School buddies and her costume was perfect for the cold weather. She is a pumpkin this year and the costume is all fleece, so if it were a normal October day she would have sweated to death in it! :) She was quite cute if I do say so myself. There is a picture below...it's from my cell phone since we lost my camera, but at least you can get the idea what the lil pumpkin looked like! :) She also is OBSESSED with being outside. I pity the fool that tries to bring her inside for dinner...cause it is NOT pretty. I swear the neighbors are going to call Child Protection Services on us, and all we do is pick the poor child up and take her inside for dinner...by her screaming you would think that we were strangling her. Oh well! At least she isn't a couch potato! :) Her hair is getting longer, and just as curly as can be. It's starting to get a little darker, but still very much a blondy! :)

Well I guess that about sums up everything in the Hughes world. I'm hoping the next few weeks won't be as crazy, but you never can tell with us!

Until next time!

Katherine in the Jump-O-Lene

Katherine, the CiCi and Grandpa Hughes

Giving CiCi kisses

Katherine the Pumpkin at the Pumpkin Patch

Katherine the Pumpkin again

Happy October!

Ok, so I seem to be getting worse and worse about keeping this thing up to date! Yikes! We have been incredibly busy at the shop for the past few weeks as usual. Chris has won a bunch of jobs which all seem to be hitting at the same time, so that means work, work, work for the Hughes clan! :)

Katherine is growing like a weed still and we had another tooth pop through last week! Thank goodness, because it was a killer. We had quite a grump on our hands for a few days. She is officially out of her 12 month clothes and now fits pretty well into her 18 month outfits. There are still some pants/skirts that will fall completely off if she stands up, but the 12 month stuff does not fit at all. She stepped onto the scale a few days ago and it said 23 pounds! She is also getting taller, but we haven't managed to measure her in a while. She has started saying a few words like "bye, bye" and "bubble" but other than that she still refuses to use her words! I'm told to be patient, but I have a feeling that she will all of a sudden starting talking all the time and I will be wondering why I ever wanted her to talk in the first place! Ha! :) We went searching for a Christmas dress this past weekend, but no such luck. We did, however, find her Halloween costume...she's going to be a pumpkin! :) I will be sure to post pictures when she wears it. She definitely has preferences on shoes now as well. If I say that we need to put our shoes on, she will go and find which pair she wants to wear and you had better put those on...if you try her other pair there will be heck to pay! :) I don't know where she gets her opinionated personality from?! haha!

Chris and I had a date night this week thanks to my parents (Dad was watching Katherine so I could go to the dentist and they offered to just keep her for the night! How sweet! Thanks Mom and Dad!) and we went to see Fireproof the movie. I highly recommend it to everyone! It's a movie produced by a church in Georgia and the plot is about a couple going through a rough time and how they handle it. Definitely a great movie! It's only out in select theaters, so you may have to check your local area to see where it is playing if you are interested. Our Sunday School class recommended it and everyone that has seen it has said it was by far one of the greatest movies ever. We had fun! :)

I think that about sums up life in the Hughes household for now. Chris has a crazy couple of weeks planned, so it may be a bit before I write again.

OH! I almost forgot! We actually had a pretty terrific football weekend in the Hughes house as well! The Cavaliers stomped Maryland and the Black Knights (West Point) beat Tulane! Not sure how either of our teams managed these wins, but we'll take them! This might be the only good weekend we have for the rest of the season! :)

Here are some pictures of Miss Katherine in her new ladybug outfit that she wore to church this morning. Enjoy!




Modeling my new outfit...notice that I had already pulled the apple juice out of the pantry in the background...


My daddy and Me!

I love it when he hangs me upside down!

Do it again Daddy!!!!

Reading with Daddy.