Christmas Dance

Just a fun little Christmas song and dance we thought we would do for all of you! We'll post some pictures this weekend of Landon and our house all decorated for Christmas. Have a great week!

Thanksgiving Part II

Thanksgiving in Downs

Saturday morning, my good friend, Angie, came to visit and meet Landon! Angie and I have been friends since we were four years old, or maybe even earlier! I know you can't tell in this picture, but she is pregnant with twins and due in May! I can't wait to meet her babies!

Right after our visit with Angie and her mom, we headed to Downs for the Bruce family Thanksgiving. Jeremy, Cindy and Adelin hosted this year, which worked out perfectly for us so that we could just stay there Saturday night and be a little closer for our drive home on Sunday.

Here are a couple pictures of Landon and Adelin playing. We don't have many pictures of them really close because Landon LOVES his cousin and tends to be a little too aggressive with her. I'm pretty sure she is terrified of him. Hopefully that changes soon and we can get some better pics at Christmas. I can't wait to watch these two adorable babies grow up together!

Aunt Cindy, Great Granny and Ade reading a book

Adelin and Landon watching each other eat dinner...so cute!

Landon playing

Ade was very nice and shared all of her things/toys with Landon. This is Landon borrowing Adelin's little chair.

We have a couple of cute videos from our visit to Illinois that we will post soon, so keep checking for updates! Have a great week!

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!

Our Great Pumpkin

Happy Halloween!! Look at our cute little pumpkin. We took Landon trick or treating to a few friends' houses, and down our street to see a couple neighbors. Hopefully everyone got tons of candy and the Great Pumpkin brought you lots of presents :) We took a few of these pictures last weekend when it was sunny and warm...good thing because it was a little chilly and windy today. The pumpkin costume was Matt's for his first Halloween made by his Grandma, and has been worn by many in his family since.

Look at those cute shoes

Our little pumpkin posing with the real pumpkins

Landon outside tonight with the pumpkin we carved for him. Below - the pumpkin lit up in the dark

Now it's on to the next holiday, and colder weather. We got Landon a pair of snow pants this week. They are 12 months, so a little too long!