Blueberry pancake breakfast
Here comes the birthday boy...
Charming
Crawl tunnel fun or "tube" fun as Juliana would call it :)
Our master griller
Chase celebrating with some party favors
Landon playing with Dodgers chew toy. Don't worry it was clean.
Plaid men. Plaid shorts are the new thing I guess, because all the boys and men (aside from Cory) showed up in plaid shorts! We had to get a picture. Cory is hiding behind Ryan and holding Drew up. He usually does have a body, although you wouldn't be able tell that from this picture.
Landon and his new toy trucks!
Landon and Drew duking it out over the new trucks
Landon's mini cake
Getting ready to blow out the candles...
Yummm
Finally got a little messy
Well the day I've been dreading finally arrived. My itty bitty is a year old. The memories come flooding...the hospital, the easiest labor and delivery in the universe, kangaroo care, the sweet and tender, fresh from heaven infant...I could go on. Kyle recalled the moment Landon was born, he came out SCREAMING and won the award of the loudest cry our OB had ever heard from a baby she delivered. As soon as that screaming infant was handed over to me for the first time I softly said, "Hi baby." He immediately stopped crying. We shared a very tender moment. I fell in love. I still remember how warm he felt in my arms and how small and fragile he seemed, and I secretly loved that he cried whenever someone took him from my arms, but stopped as soon as he was given back to me. He was my momma's boy from that first moment!
Landon Guy,
Thank you for coming into our lives and joining our family. You have given us such joy and happiness. We never thought we could possibly feel this much love and elation in all of our posterity, but you have proven that the joy only grows. You are smart, sweet hearted, funny, energetic, and so so loving. We simply adore you and everything you do. We don't know what we did to have the privilege of being your parents, but we thank our gracious Father in Heaven daily for sending you to us and entrusting us with your beautiful spirit. We love to watch you when you sleep at night, and you constantly steal our hearts when you surprise us with a tender snuggle. We look forward to the future years and eternity with you!
With Great Love,
Your Parents
He's now a spunky, wiry, loving, snuggly and full of energy baby-toddler! We started his birthday with fresh blueberry pancakes (his fave) and lots of hugging, snuggling, and loving (my fave). Then we had some of our forever friends (pretty much the only "family" we have around these parts) over for some grilling and good times. We ate, opened presents, watched all the cute kids play together, then had cupcakes and ice cream. Landon daintily ate his version of the traditional "1st birthday, 3 layer mini cake" (2nd birthday too in Chase's case, but that's ending real fast). The boys are all partied out and are letting us have it tonight. We're thinking, "you're welcome too" and "definitely early bed time tonight". With that here are some pictures of today's events.
*Thanks Amy for being our official photographer. The pictures turned out great!
