Merry Christmas!

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! We have spent the past week and a half at Shane's parents' house in Ogden. We have had a great time, keeping busy visiting friends and family. We arrived Friday, December 15th, and I spent the night with Jake and Stacey, then spent the next day wedding dress shopping with Becky. It was so much fun! Of course, she looked beautiful in everything, so it will be interesting to see which dress she chooses. That Saturday night, Shane and I went to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert, with Sissel as the guest singer. She is Norwegian, and Shane has several of her CD's, so we of course had to attened. And boy were we glad we did. It was amazing! It was by far the best concert I have been to in my entire life!

The rest of our vacation has been filled with family parties, friend parties and get-togethers, and of course some last minute shopping. We are glad that we were able to see so many of our friends and family. We have missed living closer to them!

Our Christmas Eve was a little bit different that usual. Landon had been sick with a cold/cough for a few days, with a slight fever as well, but he hadn't seemed too affected by it until he woke up from his nap on Sunday. He was feverish, fussy, and kept pulling at his ear and crying. We took him in to an urgent care clinic, where after two hours we finally left with a prescription for his cold and one for his ear infection. Unfortunately, it was almost 7:00 by then, and after stopping at five different pharmacies on our way home with no luck, finally headed home and started calling around to find one open on Christmas Eve on a Sunday night. There was a 24-hour Walgreens in Layton, so we hurriedly ate some dinner, left Landon with his grandparents to get ready for bed, and drove out to Layton. We got home just after 9:00.

Fortunately, Landon was feeling much better yesterday, and we had a wonderful Christmas. Landon figured out pretty quickly that the wrapped presents contained fun toys for him to play with, and he soon was excited to open the next one and see what other fun toy he got. He especially liked his new train set and his race track to shoot his cars down (and balls!). We spent the rest of the day at Shane's Grandma Brewer's enjoying vising with lots of family while there.

We love all of you and hope you also had a wonderful Christmas this year! We hope we get to see those of you soon that we didn't get to see this Christmas! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Jingle Bell Rock

We haven't posted for awhile on here, so I thought I would put something on tonight. Above is a picture of Landon with all of his cars lined up on the couch. He sure likes cars! After dinner tonight, Shane and I had a fun time watching Landon dance in the living room to Christmas music. He was pretty into it. He was jumping, spinning, and rocking back and forth. When the first song ended and went to the next one, he said, "no dat one," then "anoder one," until I found a song that he liked again. It was pretty funny. Shane took some video of it, so I will try to put that on our website tomorrow.
We have been doing well here in Portland besides that. The weather has been beautiful the past few days - sunny and in the mid 40's. Landon enjoyed walking around outside today, playing in the dirt and picking up leaves. He seems to be learning new words everyday. He says "pease" all of the time now when he wants something, and everytime we leave the house, he points to the wreath on our front door and says "weath." Aunt Becky was especially excited today when he repeated me saying "Beck" to her!
We had a fun time over Thanksgiving visiting my parents in Ashland. It was my first time home for Thanksgiving with them in ten years! Landon had a great time being spoiled by his grandparents and his Aunt Camille. Here is a picture of him with Shane's hat on backwards in my parents' kitchen.