#WordlessWednesday and the Pearl Ann

In the last couple of years, my grandparent's both passed away. First my grandmother and then last year, my grandfather. Growing up, my parent's used to take us kids, out on my grandparent's boat. I have fond memories of fishing and crabbing, and sleeping in the back.

Me, my brother and sister 

out on the San Juan Islands with the Pearl Ann in the background

The boat is a 1955 Bryant wood boat, that in it's time was just gorgeous. Now it needs some work. The motor doesn't work anymore and the wood needs sanded and perhaps updated in a few places that's it's a bit soft. Nobody in the family wanted to mess with the boat and they were talking about scrapping it so I jumped on the opportunity. Yes it needs work, but my husband has been wanting a project for awhile anyways so I think it's a win win. I just couldn't let this boat get scrapped. It's beautiful. We took some pics yesterday and i'm looking forward to seeing what it looks like and actually taking it out in the future! I can't wait to see Gideon spend a couple of days out in the water on it.

The Pearl Ann

Gideon wanted to show me his silly face :)

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We had a super busy weekend, this last weekend. Saturday was Gideon's birthday party (post to come) and Sunday we went sledding/tubing at Snoqualmie Pass. Of course Sunday morning I wake up to Gideon crawling into bed with me and passing out. This is very unusual for him so I should have assumed something was wrong then but I was enjoying cuddling with him while he was letting me. After he rolled over a bit later I realized he had a fever... I checked and it was 100.7 :( I am a firm believer in letting a fever do it's job and fight off the sickness, and Gideon still really wanted to go sledding, so we decided we'd still go. He ate breakfast, not a lot, but he did eat, and there was no vomiting so I thought we'd be ok. As we were walking out the door, I checked his temp again and it had gone up to 101.7... I was a little more hesitant to bring him now but decided we already had tickets, might as well go. We'll be out in the cold so maybe that'll help to lower it.

When we first got there, Gideon was doing ok. You could tell he didn't feel well but he was wanting to participate. By the end of our 2 hours though he just sat inside his tube and was "ducking down" as he said. When we left, his fever had gone back down below 101 and he perked back up some when he ate a sandwich. Overall, it was fun, but I wish Gideon hadn't been sick. On the bright side, at least he didn't wake up sick on Saturday because we would have had to cancel his party :/

Smiles to start with

With Auntie - not looking very happy. lol.

Poor kiddo. This was at the end of our day

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Yesterday was Gideon's 5th birthday. I actually have a great Pirate Booty giveaway going on to celebrate. Last night we had a little mini celebration, just the two of us. I sang Happy Birthday to him and he was so excited. He also had a gift to open which i'm also going to include the video as well. As a back story on the video, Gideon had this toy dinosaur from Dinosaur Train, "Ned", that he got for Christmas 2011. A couple of days before Christmas 2012, he snapped off Ned's neck. Normally when he breaks a toy, it goes in the trash if I can't fix it and it's usually not that big of a deal. For whatever reason, Ned was different. He cried uncontrollably  and ended up having to just lay with me on the couch while I tried to calm him down. For a good 20 min at least; he was really upset. Then he started talking about Santa getting him Ned for Christmas. I explained to him that Santa probably already has all of his gifts since it's so close to Christmas but we'll see. I honestly thought he'd end up moving on like normal and forgetting about it. But nope, that was not the case. He kept talking about Ned to everyone. Any time someone asked him about Christmas he'd respond "no new Ned". First day back to school after New Years, his bus driver asked how his Christmas was and the first thing out of his mouth was "no new Ned". My dad called on the way home from Cubbies last night and asked what Gideon wanted, his answer again was a "new Ned". When we got home we had our little "celebration" and I knew that I needed to video record him opening the present.

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I posted this on my Facebook the other day, but he is worthy of a re-share on this Wordless Wednesdsay. This is what a real man snowman looks like!

*Thanks to Brittney and her hubby Brandin for making this. They are currently stationed in Dongducheon, South Korea.

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Gideon got a hedgehog! It was supposed to be for his birthday on the 15th but when i'm the only one here, well, it's hard to hide things when you have to pick them up too. I almost did it, but he saw her at the last minute..

And yes, i'm aware some of the pics are a little blurry. But you try taking a picture of this thing that is still scared and hiding in it's bed. lol 

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I keep seeing all of these blogs doing Wordless Wednesdays. I take a ton of pictures on a normal basis so I thought it would be a cute idea to start on Kinda Crunchy Mama as well! So here's my week in pictures, enjoy!

Gideon playing with his new tool set with his Uncles

Playing Rock 'em Sock 'em with Auntie

Opening presents, Christmas morning

Lots of wrapping paper

"Speed Shoes! Like a Cheetah!"

Getting lazy with opening

Figuring out his 'puter

Playing with Legos

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

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