Landon's 1st Birthday

Here we go, all finished!

First things first, I saw a balloon enter and I must play with it!
Landon sat for quite a while just starring up at the balloon on a stick!

This shot shows the balloon

This is the cake I made for Landon. My first attempt, and I must admit, I might just hire Shelley next year, though now we've talked and maybe we'll do it together.

The table of goodness.

Hailey and Landon loved that balloon!

Some happy guests! Uncle Casey and Auntie Emmy.

Playdon family photo!  That boy is going to outgrow Landon!

Opening presents!

Gee, I wonder what that could be? Landon is interested at the moment...

No way Daddy, get me off here!!

A fuzzy Elmo card!

Sadly, I had forgotten to get proper cake candles so a Partylite tealight would have to suffice!

Mmm, let me at it!

Wowza, that is sweeeeet!

Gooooeeeey!

Is my tongue orange?

Final messy shot

All clean after a bath. Sitting with both Grandmas!

A fantastic first birthday party and while it didn't last that long, we were all exhausted by the end. We used the entire next day to rest and recuperate!
Thanks to all who came, and sorry to those we could not invite due to our lack of space!

Sneak Peak of Landon's First Birthday

I haven't had time to finish these photos yet, so here are just a few to wet your taste buds.

Getting ready to open presents with Daddy

There's that tongue again, opening presents with Mommy

Hailey sure knows how to pose for photos!

That's right, dig in!

The first taste aftermath. It gets worse!

A hug for Great Grandma after a bath!

Bare bum time in his brand new toy box from Grandma and Grandpa Pearson, all the while, chewing on Melvin (named by Daddy) of the Little People Safari Jeep from Uncle Casey and Auntie Emmy.

I will try to get the rest up tomorrow.

Last of the Christmas Party Photos

Can't remember if I mentioned that Santa showed up to the Christmas Party. And here is Landon's reaction!

 Whoa, who are you?

No way Daddy, this guy is big, white, and hairy! Get me outta here!

This is NOT far enough away, I want to be WAY away!

Grandma is trying to show Landon that Santa is friendly!

Viewing Santa from the safety of Daddy's arms, a little ways away.

Daddy playing with Landon to chear him up.

Let's try this again...

Well, I wasn't too pleased with most of these photos but I did the best I could with Landon not sitting still for any of them! 



Our Professional Family Photo Shoot - Blogged!

Back in November, we had a photo shoot with Julie Korstrom.
She just blogged some of our photos on her blog. Here are a few, but go see her blog for more! I have deliberately not posted any (except the last one) that she has blogged so they are different!

It was a cold day, as you can tell by the colour of Landon's nose!

Poor Landon, at this point, he was COLD! and not very happy about it!

This one might be my favourite...

Hope you enjoyed!

Christmas Party (Pt 2)

A few more from Saturday!

Shawnie with Landon!

Here, Landon is opening his very first birthday gift ever!! It was really neat because both sets of Grandparents were there to witness this momentous occasion. Thanks to Christy for the gift!

Here's our guy with Christy and his new toy phone!!! Now will he stop wanting to play with our phones? Doubt it...

And yes, there are STILL more to come.

Christmas Party Sneak Peak!

Well I was hoping to have the Christmas Party photos done and edited by now, but my husband was struck by the organizing and cleaning bug. Let me tell you, that does not happen very often so when it does, I literally JUMP on it!

Tonight, we tackled reorganizing the laundry room. We got rid of tons of stuff (even some stuff-IES). Some of it, I had a hard time parting with, but others I was happy to see exit the doors! Oddly enough we had gotten a call from the Canadian Diabetes Association earlier this evening asking if we had anything to donate for pick up next week. I said yes because I can always scrounge something up. Quite convenient now that we have a few boxes of stuff to go to them! We can now finally walk into the laundry room without stepping over stuff, and we even have a whole empty shelf!! I should really post photos, but I didn't take any. Maybe tomorrow.

These are just a sneak peak of more to come. This was the annual Christmas Party hosted by Matt's Auntie CJ and Uncle John. They always have a wonderful spread of food which I really should have gotten a photo of this year as it was quite something!

This is Matt's dad with Landon. He's not actually mad, and to Matt he doesn't even look mad, though to me he really does.

Landon with Grandma (Matt's mom).

The view from the deck. Auntie CJ and Uncle John literally live in a house on the beach!

Landon with his Aunt Sarah.

Poor Landon didn't get any naps this day so this photo pretty much sums it up for him. He was SO TIRED!!!

Not to worry, there are many more excellent photos to come. So thankful for Aunt C's huge and numerous windows that provide such good lighting for photos.

Also, in case you haven't received your Christmas card yet, (of course you haven't, I haven't sent ANY out yet!!), not to worry, they are coming, I just need envelopes now!