Landry and Her Strawberry Cake!!

Well Toby came over to celebrate Landry's birthday.  Kelly was supposed to bring Scout, but she flaked......SHOCKER!!!  Anyway, I made Landry a HOMEMADE, yes I said HOMEMADE from scratch Strawberry Birthday Cake.  She loved it.  She got a Dora Bug Car, too!

Happy Birthday to our Baby Girl!

Copy and paste this for flashback!!!  http://www.poeticexposure.com/landry

I've also included pictures of Landry's first real bubble bath.  She wasn't so sure about the bubbles.  Wouldn't move for a really long time!

Landry is ONE Today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stay tuned there will be cake eating today!!!

Landry Walking on Christmas Night

This is what happened last night after

the hussle and bussle of the day......

See everybody, I really can walk! 

OK, I have no idea how to edit and I know this is long.

She really gets moving about 5 minutes in.....

Landry's First Christmas

Landry's first Christmas was full of excitement, including the official pouting and stomping of the feet when Toby didn't get what he asked for from Santa. Santa wrote the boys a letter to share their presents this year, but it didn't go over to well. The boys got Rockband and a PSP. They got a few other things from Santa, too. A dart board, etc.

Landry got a Laugh & Learn Kitchen/family room. She seems to enjoy it. She also got a drum kit complete with a tambourine.

We got the boys NFL shirts that were customized with their names. They thought it was pretty cool.

Grandpa, Nana, Memaw, and Gary all came over for Christmas lunch. The pecan pie actually cooked this time unlike at Thanksgiving. It was a good day.

We went the Grandma and Papa's on Christmas Eve. Landry went right to Uncle Dennis and stayed with him the whole time. As far as everyone else, she still won't go to them.

The night was completed with Landry walking all over the place. I'm going to figure out how to upload video sometime today so you can all see!

Christmas at Dad's

We had Christmas at dad's house yesterday. Everyone was there except Chris and Sarah. He promised her he would take her home to Washington for Christmas this year. We had a good time. Landry is walking somewhat so we tried to make her show off, but she wasn't much in the mood. She's going through "Stranger Danger" right now and won't have anything to do with anyone she does not recognize.

Nana made Landry a really cute sweater with built in mittens and hat. She didn't mind wearing it at all! Dad and Anne are coming to our house on Christmas day so we'll have the boys Christmas then.

It was Kevin and Becky's last Christmas home for a while as they will be leaving to start their adventure in China on January 5th. I was fine til we had to come home, then the water works started. I'm getting all mushy in my old age.

Hope you all have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Toby's First Band Concert

Toby had his first band concert last Thursday night.  I was dreading it as I remember how horrible our band was the first year I started.  I was amazed at how good they sounded.  I was really impressed.  I thought they sounded better than the 7th grade band.   

He's playing percussion right now, but he has no rhythm, so he'll be dropping band in the spring and taking private lessons on the clarinet.  Then he will audition for the band in May for next year.

Tag......

I'm it. I've been tagged by Tara with the 8's list!

Eight TV Shows I Watch
House
NCIS (yes we are old farts)
Fringe
Lost
Criminal Minds
DEXTER - MY FAVORITE
Grey's Anatomy (I'm pretty much off the wagon on this one)
Desperate Housewives - over this one, too. I skip through to see Susan

Eight Favorite Restaurants (Bet I don't have 8, this will be a stretch)
Spaghetti Warehouse
Uncle Julio's
Mama's Daughters' Diner
Cracker Barrel
Cotton Patch
Herrera's
Campizi's
Chik-Fil-A

Eight Things I look forward to/wish for:
Landry's First Christmas
Coming home every night to my family
Going to Italy with Brian
Taking the entire family back to Hawaii
Toby starting 7th grade so he can play sports
Finally finishing college - 3 classes to go - woo hoo!!!!
Getting out of so much debt (yeah right)
Being able to sleep past 7:30 am again!

Eight Things that Happened Today or Yesterday
Picked Landry up from Ms. Vera's
Worked
Checked the college website again to see if my art grade was posted
Talked to Terra
Took drugs and went to bed
Was on Monday/Tues midnight, but this counts, piled in the closet with the baby when the tornado sirens went off at almost midnight
Took a bath in peace
sat in traffic

Eight Things I CANNOT Do:
Cook
Clean
Pick-up after myself (says Brian)
Whistle
Draw
Say Roy
Ride a bike
Ski

Ok, I'm done.....Tag you are it

Landry's First Visit to Santa Claus

So we piled in the car today to take Landry to her first visist and experience with Santa.  2 of Santa's reindeer were there, too, Donner and Blitzen.  We had to wait in line about a hour, but she did really well.  She watched the reindeer.  We were pleasantly surprised that she did not cry why I set her on Santa's lap.  It took her a couple of minutes to realize where she was and then the tears came, but it wasn't a scream thank goodness!

The boys told Santa they didn't know what they wanted for Christmas.  I guess Santa will just have to guess this year!

Princess Landry and Her Crown

Landry's First Thanksgiving

Well, Landry enjoyed her first Thanksgiving, although her brothers were not here to share it with her.  She was dressed in her Dallas Cowboy outfit to watch the "big game" with her daddy.  Dad, Anne, Memaw, Gary, Terra and Matt came to our house this year.  It made it a lot easier on us keeping us from dragging around all the baby crap!

Landry tried all the food, but her favorite by far was the fresh cranberry sauce.  I put all her food in a bowl and she dumped it on her tray and dabbled at it.  She had turkey, stuffing, mac & cheese, cranberry sauce, rolls, and some key lime pie.

Later that night we watched as Matt almost had a coronary yelling at the TV as Texas A&M was slaughtered by the Texas Longhorns.  I thought Brian got upset at the Cowboys sucking, whew......he's an angel compared to Matt!  Just kidding, he wasn't that bad!

Terra and I played with Landry in her play room and TB decided to put her in her toy box to play and then took lots of pictures of her in it......

On Friday, she took a long, long nap......she was exhausted from all the eating and football on Thursday I guess.......this is how she woke up!   FUNNY ISN'T IT!!

On Saturday, Landry and I went Christmas shopping at Wal-Mart.  It was dead, no one was there.  We got all the shopping done and then came home and put up the Christmas tree.  Landry loved all the lights.

On Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I took some pictures of Landry in her Aggies dress. Enjoy the pics from our Thanksgiving Weekend! I can't believe she's going to be ONE in less than a month :-(