Thanksgiving Part I

Landon did very well on the car ride to Illinois for Thanksgiving, as well as the car ride home. He basically slept the entire time both ways and then slept through both nights as well. He was a great traveler.

On Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, my high school friends came over to my parents house. We used to go out to the bars, but now we are old and a lot of us have kids. I'm usually pretty good about taking pictures, but I didn't take any this year except for the one below with Meghan and Landon's girlfriend, Chloe. I can't believe we forgot to take a group picture. This might be the first time in like 10 or 11 years that we don't have a group photo of all of us together.

Thursday morning we headed to Sherman for Thanksgiving with Matt's family. We were much better at taking pictures there as you will see below. Enjoy!

Landon with his girlfriend, in his Thanksgiving pajamas

Landon with his Thanksgiving bib

Landon ate jello, green bean casserole, noodles, peas and sweet potatoes for his first Thanksgiving meal....what a big boy!

Cousins Nathan and Sophia playing so well together...what a cute picture!

Mommy and Landon

Nathan making Landon laugh

Great Grandma Sherline

Cousin Tyler

Grandpa and Grandma Sherline with the grandkids and great grandkid

Great Uncle Chuck and Landon playing in the mirror

Landon loved Great Uncle Tim's facial hair

Our sweet little boy....look at those teeth!

Aunt Cara

Great Grandpa McQuality and Great Aunt Marcia came to visit on Friday

Great Aunt Marcia

Lexi also came to visit us on Friday. I can't believe how grown up she is!

We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving too. Stay tuned for Thanksgiving Part II with the Bruce side!

A Week of Pictures

Here's a few pictures of Landon from the past week. It's still been pretty warm here mid 50's and we haven't had any of the rain, so Landon has gotten to go for a couple walks and stay away from his winter coat. We're looking forward to coming back to Illinois on Tuesday night for Landon's 1st Thanksgiving! What a year to be thankful for!!

Sporting his Uggs to keep those little feet warm!

Landon loves to crawl thru his exersaucer instead of around it

Our 8-month old!

Landon is 8 months old today! He rarely sits still anymore, as you will see in the video. Enjoy!

Busy Week

We have been busy this past week. Monday and Tuesday, Matt was in Florida for work and I had parent/teacher conferences. Thursday, Landon got his second flu shot and his third Hepatitis B shot. Thursday night, I had a Dodgeball Tournament at school. Yesterday, we headed to Pennsylvania to go to Ikea and to an outlet mall since it was so nice outside. Landon was excellent all day and slept the whole two hours in the car both ways. We got a ton of Christmas shopping done (and even some birthday shopping for Landon while we were at Ikea) so it was very productive. My friend, Megan, met us at the outlet mall and then I went with her to her sister's house in Pa. for a purse party and Matt and Landon headed home. Today, we ran some errands and Matt put up the Christmas lights since it was so nice out. It was 28 degrees on Friday morning when I dropped Landon off at the baby-sitter. It got to about 50 degrees by Friday afternoon. However, the weekend was beautiful. It was 67 degrees yesterday and sunny, and today it was 72 degrees and sunny. I wish the weather would just stay like this. It is supposed to be pretty warm throughout the week, but then I'm sure winter will be back. Landon will be 8 months old already on Wednesday! Be sure to check out the video at the bottom of him laughing at Matt...it is hilarious! Enjoy the new pictures and have a great week everyone!