All Ready for Christmas!

Since none of you ever get to see our house at Christmas time, we thought we would share a few pictures of it all decorated and ready for Christmas. Following the house pictures, we have posted some pictures of Landon all ready for the holidays in his various Christmas outfits as well. Have a great week!

For those of you who do not know Spanish, this pillow Landon is holding says, "My First Christmas." It is from Grandma Bruce and I think she bought it for Matt and I for our First Christmas, but didn't realize what exactly it said, so we have had it for a couple years just waiting to use it!

Videos

Landon turned 9 months old Friday! Here are a couple videos of him recently. The first one is of him crawling up the stairs, which is one of his new favorite things. The second one is Landon pushing a toy around the house. Walking behind things or holding onto our hands and walking is also another favorite of his. He is getting so big! Enjoy!

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!