The Dudo Family

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Landon's 4th Birthday!

For Landon's 4th birthday we wanted to do something special as a family of four. After Christmas we felt like Landon didn't need any new toys so we thought providing him with a trip would be extra special. We looked into Omaha and Lincoln, but there really wasn't any type of concert or show that he would enjoy. So…we decided to surprise him with a trip to Kearney for the Storm Hockey game. The morning of his birthday he opened up his only present, a Storm Hockey shirt and the tickets!

Mikki helped Landon celebrate his birthday on the actual day at daycare. They had blue cupcakes!

Aunt Erica sent him pizza and breadsticks for supper that evening!

Landon has one of the sweetest friends. Monroe picked out two puzzles for him, a football one and a dinosaur one. He has loved putting them together.

Happy Birthday to our sweet and loving 4 year old!

Landon was pretty excited for the hockey game. When we first got there a man in our section bought a whole bag of cowbells for the kids. We'll just say we were a noisy bunch!

The kids LOVED staying in a hotel. This obviously was the next day before they went swimming.

We decided to stay in Kearney that night at the Holiday Inn. They have such an awesome, kid friendly facility so Kurtis and Landon got to swim a couple hours prior to check out. I forgot Avery and my swimsuit so we just got to watch. It was so nice that Landon could go on the slides and play in the pool by himself.

Kurtis was able to take Landon on one of the bigger slides. He even went down it a couple times by himself!

After swimming we headed to Skeeter Barnes for lunch; however, Landon was EXHAUSTED! He ended up sleeping in the booth as the rest of us ate lunch. My parents had planned on taking him to the Big Apple to play games to celebrate. We were a little worried about taking him as he was so tired but he was a trooper and snapped out of it pretty quickly.

Overall, I think Landon had a memorable birthday! It was fun to spend it as a family!

Basketball season

Landon and I headed to Aurora to watch one of my brother's basketball games with my parents.

It is so fun to watch my brother coach. He has built such a strong relationship with each one of these boys and it can definitely be seen on the court.

Landon getting in on some of the action.

After halftime my brother asked Landon to sit on the bench with the team. Landon was on cloud 9! He absolutely loved it!

Landon loves going to Aurora for games because after they are over he gets to hang out and play on the court for awhile.

Scott and his sweet little girl!

We are so proud of my brother this season as they only lost one game the entire season! That's awesome!

Saturday, February 7, 2015

Snow Day

Prior to these pictures it was in the 50's and 60's the week before. I even wore sandals one day to school it was so nice. However, winter was not done spreading the love. We ended up getting probably a foot of snow which cancelled school on Monday and then again on Wednesday.

Let's just say we enjoyed our time in our pi's, spent lots of time playing, made cookies and caught up on homework.

(Living room destroyed)

Kurtis and Landon built a snowman Tuesday after school. Then him and Landon went sledding Wednesday when he got home from work. (You can tell who always takes the pictures as Kurtis didn't come home with even one)

Cocco Puffs and a baby carrot for a nose!

Uh oh!

Avery helping me tweak my lesson plans for the week after missing two days.

Photo Dump

A bunch of random pics on my phone!

The kids had all Christmas break to get sick yet Landon decided to come down with Influenza A the weekend I had to go back to school. He had the basic runny nose and cough a few days prior so I didn't think anything of it. Then the night of the 3rd he woke up with a fever and ended up getting sick in the middle of the night. (That evening before going to bed I read an article on Facebook about a little girl that had died in Iowa from the flu) So then of course I started to panic. Kurtis took him to Immediate Care the next day and waited for 2 hours to find out that he did indeed have Influenza A. Luckily we caught it soon enough that he was only out of commission for 4 days. We were prepared though and got Tamaflu for the entire family. Bad news is though, Kurtis' insurance was having issues so we ended up paying over $700 for 4 prescriptions. At that time we really didn't care as we didn't all want to catch it and be out of work for a week. Our insurance did get it figured out and we ended up only paying $100. So thankful for insurance!

It's crazy watching your baby girl play with her own baby.

We headed to the Fausett's house to watch the National Championship game!

Mikki was closed a random Thursday-Friday so the kids stayed at my Grandparent's house with my mom. Kurtis and I were kid free so we went on a date to Olive Garden and then out to the Chocolate Bar for dessert!

I recruited another thirty-one consultant and headed to Kearney to help her with her launch party. Look at these adorable cookies she had made.

Daddy daughter time playing video games. :) Avery was sick so she was enjoying the cuddles more than anything.

If Influenza wasn't enough, Landon decided to get the stomach flu which he then passed onto Avery, then me and Kurtis had a slight touch of it.

My dishwasher helper!

Mommy and Me day at preschool.

We listened to a devotional, decorated a picture frame, ate muffins and checked out the book fair.

Such a fun day with just Landon!

New Years!

For New Year's Eve we actually had no plans this year. We felt really lame, but yet enjoyed our time home as a family. We decided to have a little dance party.