LANDON'S FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!

I can't believe it but today is Landon's first birthday! It just doesn't feel like a year since I had him. Sometimes I think I could do labor again. Here is that story for anyone interested. I am not ready to be pregnant again. I'm still recovering from the first time. We have had such a fun year watching him grow and lean so many new things. He is such an amazing blessing in our lives and we couldn't ask for a better child.








We decided to celebrate his birthday yesterday since Keith now works at night. We went up to my parents for dinner and dessert. He just loves being around family and has so much fun with everyone. It is so cute to see him get excited when he sees people he knows. He loved the cupcake and made a good mess. He had so much fun so it was worth it. After dinner we gave him presents. He got clothes, shoes, books, a bath set and toys. He absolutely loved the books he got. He just sat there opening them and saying something that all of us couldn't understand.

Today was just a low key day we hung out this morning before Keith had to go to work. We kept calling him birthday boy and he would get so excited and start laughing. This afternoon my friend from work took some family pictures for us. (The last ones we took were bridals... somethings have changed...) Landon was good for awhile and then he just got bored. After I got him some food and we came home and played and he went to bed around 7. No very exciting for him but he is only one and he was just happy to play all day.

Landon is getting taller and taller. He is mostly in 18 month clothes because he is so tall but he is so skinny that they fall off his little bum. He thinks it is funny when we are chasing him around trying to get his pants back where they should be. Landon just learned how to do down the stairs so he is very excited about that. He is also drinking milk now and if he is not done when the milk and it is gone he will go to the fridge and yell at us until we come get more for him.

Landon loves being where we are and doing what we are doing. He loves to help in the kitchen and watch things in the oven. He loves watching the Bosch mix things. He is into everything tries to figure out how everything works. Once he figures it out we are in trouble.. He recently figured out the toilets and so we had to put locks on the toilets. However his absolute favorite thing is the brooms and mop. He carried them around everywhere even though they are twice as tall as him.

We learned quickly that Landon is not a good restaurant patron. Once he could babble and starting being more aware of everything, going out anywhere became a task. We took him out a few times and he would scream and yell at people to get them to look at him. Then he started throwing food at people and wiggling around until he got out of his seat. It is hard to not get mad when he is laughing at everything his is doing. Now we get stuff to go or just get a babysitter because we cannot take him anywhere. I guess no kid can be perfect.

Other than things with Landon our life has been crazy. Keith took a part time job from 10 pm- 9 am so we can start saving for a house again and getting completely out of debt. On top of that he is now working at his main job from about 1-9:30 p.m. His work hired some temps for a later shift and they needed someone at night to help out so Keith was offered that job. It was a pay raise so he accepted it even though the hours are not ideal. It is hard not having here at night but we do get him here in the morning and Landon loves playing with his dad.

I am still working two days at the hospital and then I am also doing eighteen credits at school. I go once a week to the BYU Salt Lake Center once a week and have four classes. It is a long ten hour day but you have to do what you can when you are a mother. I also have two online classes that I am also taking. The plan is to be done by June at the latest. It will be a crazy few months but then I will be done with my undergrad and can just take a break for awhile. The hardest thing about it all is really just time management. It is a struggle to decide when to spend time with family and when to do homework but I'm slowly figuring all that out. I just tell myself the end is near and then there will be more time for family.

Landon is basically the most exciting thing in our life right now. There isn't much time for anything else. Thus I haven't had much time to blog... Maybe when school is done I'll get back to the food blogging... At least I hope so...