Paul's 10 Year Reunion

The first weekend of October we headed up to Arizona for Paul's 10 year reunion! We arrived late Thursday night. On Friday, I hung out with Paul's mom and I made my usual stops at stores we don't have here in Vegas, stores such as Ikea and Hobby Lobby...I LOVE Hobby Lobby! Afterwards, we got our family pictures taken. I will post those once I get them! After pictures we went out to dinner then to the Homecoming game!

Here we are at the football game! Landon had a blast!

We were there with our friends Kim and Nate, and their daughters Ireland and Eden. Here's Landon and Ireland cheering at the game! They were so loud...but it sure was cute!

Landon clapping at the game!

At night time my brother came into town and stayed with us! It was great to have been able to see him! Landon loves his "guncle." The next morning we watched conference, then went out to lunch at Mango's, my favorite Mexican Restaurant in AZ! There, we met my brothers girlfriend, Katelyn. She's really nice! We like her! After all of the conference sessions we went to Paul's 10 year reunion! It was held at Dave and Busters in Tempe AZ. Here's a picture of us when we arrived!

Here's us there, having a good time. Paul enjoyed seeing his old high school friends!

Here's us and the Shaffer's!

We had a great time at the reunion. Afterwards, we pretty much went back to Paul's mom's house and went to bed! We were so tired! The next morning we watched the Sunday morning session of conference then we headed home! We had to get back early because Paul needed to study for a test! Our Arizona trip was fun! It's probably our last trip for a while! School is getting harder for Paul and he needs as much study time as he can get! We can't wait for him to be done with school!!!

We are...

Expecting baby #2!!!

We couldn't be happier! I found out just over 2 weeks ago that baby number 2 will be joining our family on or around June 6! I have already had a dr's appt to confirm everything and to test all of my hcg levels and progesterone levels, and everything is rising! I am soooooo excited! I have been really behind in the blogging world! I have tons of updating, but it'll have to wait! Life is really busy right now! One day when it slows down (yeah right haha!) I will get caught up! For now I just thought I'd share the news!

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Our little Boy is in Nursery!

About 3 Sundays ago, our little boy went to Nursery for the first time! He absolutely loves it, in fact he cries when it's time to leave. He's not quite 18 months yet, but the nursery workers in our ward let us put him in since he's so good. Here's a picture of him after church on his first day of nursery. He was worn out!

He's ready for his Sunday nap! He takes the best naps on Sundays!

Later that evening he started running a fever...102.8 to be exact, we almost had to take him to the ER, poor little guy. We gave him some tylenol, along with a little bit of OJ, he loved drinking from a big kid cup...that rarely happens though because he spills all over!

Here he is cuddling with daddy, He is a daddy's boy.

He loves to wear shoes! This is him in Paul's flip flops! Landon tears up all of the shoes everyday in our closet.

Here's Landon breaking it down one night!He was rocking out to the leap frog fridge magnet.

Last Sunday we had the Shaffers over for dinner. Our table only seats 4, so we put Landon and Ireland at the kiddie table. It was their first date =) They had a good time laughing at each other...so precious!

Landon is absolutely obsessed with technology, or should I say our iphones. Here he is talking to Paul's mom, he just kept saying "yeah, yeah" over and over again. We got a good chuckle out of him!

Here he is again. We recently moved into a new place! We just love it, except for the fact we get bad phone service. That's why Landon is sitting on the steps. We get service on the steps! I will soon post pics of the new place=)

Shoe Story

This little boy is OBSESSED with shoes! He always has to have them on no matter what! It's pretty cute! The other day I went to Ross because he was in need of new shoes. I grabbed some cute Polo slip ons for him, and some colorful high top Converse! They were super cute and a good price! I gave them to Landon to hold while I was shopping. I went to grab them from him, so they could be rung up...he started screaming, loudly! The girl rang them up really fast and gave them back to me to give to Landon. We then walkd to Target, Landon still had the shoes and was as happy as could be. Of course I had to take a picture of him! He was playing with the shoes by putting them on the snack tray on the stroller, and he was hugging them and putting them on his hands, and ears as if they were phones! He held the Polo ones the whole 30 minutes we were there...he dropped the converse about 15 minutes in to the trip, so I was able to take those from him. He held the Polo ones for the ride from Target to my parents hose, carried them in the house, and finally set them down so he could play with the doggies! Silly boy! I just thought I'd share that cute little story, plus I wanted to get it typed somewhere so I don't forget this cute little moment!

California for our four year anniversary

This past weekend we went to California for our four year anniversary. Our anniversary was on August 20, but we had a lot going on with Paul's school schedule and moving, that we waited to celebrate last weekend! We got a room at the Ritz Carlton, Laguna Beach! The best part is...the room was free! Paul's boss from his job he just got done working paid for it! The beach was right behind the hotel...we had a balcony that looked out to the pool, it was beautiful! Here are pictures from our trip!

Here's Landon in his pack n' play our first night there. He's playing peek a boo with the curtains! What a cute kid!

Here's us after room service brought us some sparkling cider.

Landon again =)

The next morning, we went to the beach. Here's Landon walking down the hall if the hotel, he loved carrying his pail.

He turned around to look at us to make sure we were coming!

Daddy and Landon making sandcastles at the beach.

Landon checking out the water...he hated it...it was FREEZING!!!

Family shot!

Look at those cute little sand covered feet.

Here's daddy and Landon, this is the view from the hotel.

After the beach we got cleaned up, then headed out to Lake Elsinore to go to the Pottery Barn outlet...surprisingly I left empty handed, this has never happened before! Then we went to the Children's Place outlet...I got Landon 4 Polo's and a pair of jeans for $15! Then we went to Old Navy, and everything was 40% off...can't beat that! So, we shopped! Those are the only good stores there, (besides Gap) so it was a short trip! We then headed to Fashion Is;and at Newport Beach. We ate dinner at Cheesecake Factory. Afterwards we wanted to take Landon on the carasol but it was closed, along with every other store! So we walked around. Here's Landon and Paul at the fountain...Landon loved it!

After dinner we headed back to the hotel, and on our way back, we stopped at Red Mango and had some dessert. When we got back to the hotel, we went swimming. We were the only ones in the pool. The water was warm...Landon loved it! He was so cute in the pool, I'm so mad at myself for not bringing my camera to the pool! After the pool, we got Landon ready for bed, and I finally got Paul to watch 17 Again with me...the funniest line is in that movie, "I think our hands just made a baby." Haha! We had check out at 12, here's us before check out.

We then headed back to Newport. We walked around the Newport Beach temple before going to church. I told Landon to say "cheese" and this is what he did! He is so funny!

Family shot!

Here's Landon playing in the fountain...I know they aren't meant to be played inn, but he really wanted in!

Here he is again...I got his cute shoes in the pic...I just had to!

After the temple, we went to church at 1pm...not thinking about what wards usually start at 1pm. We were sitting for a while before I noticed, there were no kids there, and there was older people, and people who looked slightly older than us...it was a singles ward! Haha! Landon was so noisy, we left right after the sacrament. We then went to California Pizza Kitchen at Fashion Island for lunch. Everything was open so we took Landon to the Toy Boat, a cute toy shop! Here's him playing with a Thomas the Train table set. His shirt is sooo dirty! I forgot to pack a bib! Oops!

We then took him to the pet store so he could see the dogs! He LOVES doggies! Then he went on the carasoul! He had a lot of fun on it! Here he is pointing at all of the other carasoul animals.

And looking at mommy=)

What a fun trip! It was nice to get away for the weekend!

Busy! Busy!

I feel like we have been so busy lately, hence why this blog has not been updated in so long! Here are some pictures of everything we've had going on lately!

On July 3, Landon had his 15 month appointment! He was in the 10-25% for everything except for his head...his head was in the 25-50%. He did so good with his shot. He wined for a quick second. We started clapping for him after his shot, and he clapped too!

Our Fourth of July was fun! We did a lot, but at the same time, it was really relaxing. We started the morning off by going to our ward breakfast.

After the breakfast, we headed to a parade in Boulder City, but we got there just as it ended, so we had our own water fight in the street. We came home and watched a movie and played croquet. Afterwards, we had a BBQ, then headed to downtown Henderson to watch the fireworks. We were with my mom and brother, our friend Adam, and our friends Kim and Nate, their 2 little girls, and Kim's family. This is a picture of Landon and Eden...how precious!

My family! We missed my dad this fourth of July because he was in Iraq for work.

Our friends...the kids loved the fireworks!

After the fireworks, we went to Kim's parents house for more fireworks.

On July 6, Nate threw Kim a surprise birthday party, so we went to that! It was at the coolest house! If you lived there, you'd never be bored! This is a picture of Paul and Landon crawling their way to a secret hiding spot! I was down below taking the pics.

This was a cool swing/ chair that was in the middle of the living room! Landon loved swinging in it!

Here is Landon and Ireland jumping together on a mini trampoline.

This picture is really fuzzy because Paul took it on his phone, but it was a rock climbing wall, in the house!

Here's Landon after church one day! His hair is kind of crazy!

The weekend of July 17, we headed to Arizona for a few days to visit Paul's family. Our first day there, Paul's mom took us to the lake. We had bought Landon a life jacket and he hated it! It was a little bit too big, luckily Paul's mom had a smaller one! He still hated it though! The lake was fun! We got tan, Paul wakeboarded, I tried wakeboarding, but I couldn't get up! Haha!

While we were in AZ, we also decided to give Landon a little hair cut! It was his first hair cut, given by his Aunt Havy. Not much got cut off...I just love his little curls!

On July 20, (we were still in AZ) we had lots of fun! Our day started off by going to see Hannah Montana The Movie, at the dollar theatre...my poor hubby, I made him go, and I had already seen it before! After the movie, we went to the Mesa Temple and the visitor's center there. This is a picture of Landon listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He liked the headphones!

Our little boy loves music!!!

Here's Daddy and Landon looking at the Christus statue...Landon kept saying Che-sus...which I''m guessing is Jesus. He says Che-sus to every white statue he sees! It's so adorable.

Then my hubby surprised me with American Idol tickets!!! It was a lot of fun! I felt bad for Kris Allen though, the way the concert was done, it seemed more like Adam won and not him...poor guy! Danny was my favorite though!

Here's Landon enjoying a day at the park! He is a fan of slides!

Here is Landon with the craziest bed head! I had to get a pic of it and share it with all of you=)

Paul is now back in school. He's in his second year at Touro University. We've got a long road ahead of us, but we are excited for it! As for me, I've been a crafting machine! I'm always working on something new! Landon is getting so big and so smart! He can point to his belly button and says "booy booy" and his nose and says "nose". Landon is also now saying; ball, doggie, book, balloon, yellow, blue, juice, shoes, "Chesus" which is Jesus, daddy, mommy, hi, bye, night night, no no, eye, bubble, and eat! He tells me when he want to eat, it's so cute! He calls his binky a mi mi! He's obsessed with shoes! He's pulled out lots of our shoes and put them on, including my heels. Silly boy! We love him so much and the joy that he brings to us! We really are blessed=)