Like Father, Like Son

Shane is a toothpick man. Some of you may already know this, but after most dinners, he gets a toothpick from the cupboard and chews on it for awhile. Most of the time, Landon wants to follow right along with him. Here is a picture of the two of them tonight with their toothpicks after dinner.

Shane tried to play Hot, Cold with him tonight, hiding his little duck in the house and then directing him to the duck. Landon didn't quite catch on. He kept saying, "Daddy, no, I'm not cold!" When Shane told him, "Landon, you're getting close. Your back is hot!" He put his hands on his back, confused, and said, "No Daddy, I'm not hot!" He did finally find the duck though. Now Landon is hiding his duck himself, then he walks around the living room saying, "Little ducky. Where are you?" He then responds in his"duck" voice, "I'm right here. Come find me," and searches until he finds the duck he himself hid moments ago.

Finally, our last picture is of Shane and Landon dressing up like "mommy." Landon has a football in his shirt and Shane has a balloon. Hey, if they want to be the pregnant ones next time, that's fine with me!

My Old Navy Bargain Shopping

One of Shane's favorite websites to visit is slickdeals.net. After being married to him for a few years, I am now becoming quite a regular at visiting the slickdeals website myself. The other day, I saw that Old Navy was having a clearance sale, so I decided to go and check it out. Boy did I get some good deals! The store was a mess, but after a little searching, I found some great deals:
Scarf: $16.99 Regularly. I paid $1.49.
Jeans for new baby: $12.99. I paid $2.99
Pants for baby: $12.99. I paid $3.99
PJ's for Landon (the long sleeved ones, with pant bottoms) - $14.50. I paid $3.50.
Pants for Shane: $24.50. I paid $5.99.
So, the sales go on unti tomorrow. If your willing to brave the crowds and the mess, you should go and check it out! Oh, and I also ordered some of those energy efficient light bulbs for $.98 from Lowe's., and I just bought one last weekend for $5! What great deals!

The Results are in!

Sunday night, the polls closed, and it looks like are top three contenders for the baby's name are:

James (17 votes)

Tanner (17 votes)

Davis (16 votes)

We have narrowed it down to these three names, but we haven't made our final decision yet. We'll keep you updated!

Yesterday, while I was doing laundry, Landon came riding in with the empty laundry basket on his head. He thought he was pretty funny!

Later that evening, I was cutting Shane's hair. Landon was waiting for his turn to get his haircut. We thought he was being pretty quiet, and when we looked over, he was just chilling on the couch like this, with his hands above his head, waiting his turn. He hadn't sat that still all day!

Help!

So Shane and I are having a really hard time deciding on a name for the little baby boy that will be arriving in a month. We put a poll on the side for you to vote on your favorites. You can choose up to three names, and you have until next Sunday, January 13th, to vote. We could use any help we can get!

Joyeux Epiphanie!

Today we celebrated Epiphany, or the arrival of the three wisemen to see the baby Jesus. I made a galette des rois, or a buttery, cookie-like cake and we put a feve of the baby Jesus inside. Landon found the baby Jesus in his piece of cake, so he was the king! He wore the crown around for a little bit, but then he said he was done being king and took his crown off.

Our Merry Christmas!

For Christmas this year, we had a great time visiting with both of our families. We flew to Utah on December 17th after Shane got off work. Landon was so excited to fly on the airplane. We hadn't been on an airplane since last Christmas, so he didn't remember flying. He sat in his seat and looked out the window, anxious for us to take off. As we gained speed and started into the air, he exclaimed, "Woah! We go fast Mommy!" He was entertained most of the flight by just looking out the window. It was one of our greatest flights ever with Landon!

Landon at the Treehouse Museum

We all spent a great week in Utah with Shane's family. Landon had fun going to the Treehouse museum with Grandma and Grandpa, seeing the lights at Christmas village, and most of all, building a huge snowman with his dad and Uncle Kelly! We also we lucky enough to visit with some other friends and family. My favorite teachers at North Ogden had a nice lunch for us when we came to visit, and we had two wonderful family parties with both the Malan aunts, uncles, and cousins one night and the Brewer family the other night. We wish we lived closer to see them more often!

We left Saturday morning to drive to Idaho Falls for Grandpa Landon's 80th birthday party. It was so much fun to celebrate Grandpa's birthday, and to see some of my cousins I had not seen for years! We even got to go to the Landon family Christmas party, a party we haven't been to since Grandma and Grandpa's 50th anniversary in 1999.

The next morning, we woke up early to drive back to Ashland. It was a long drive, but fortunately the roads were fairly clear, and we made it in good time. We were all excited to get back to Ashland to celebrate our first Christmas together since before David's mission. We had fun with my dollar-store birthday party Christmas Eve morning, our "variety" show Christmas Eve night which included a Morris Night Before Christmas, by yours truly, Jingle Bells by Landon, and even a Lip Sync to BAckstreet Boys by David!!! We most of all enjoyed just relaxing and talking together. On Thursday, we all got in the car (again) and drove up to Portland to stay at our house. It was fun to show the in-laws around Portland, and to show all the family our new house. We wish they could have stayed longer than one day! After they left, we drove down with Mom and Dad, David and Camille to Ashland to stay for the New Year. Shane rented a Nintendo Wii, and we had fun bowling, and playing tennis and baseball on the Wii. We also played 10,000, and Shane had an amazing comeback to win the game! It was a great New Years!

Landon dressed as a shepherd for our Nativity.

Landon bowling.

We are sad to have the holiday ending, but so glad we were able to see and visit with so many family and friends. When we got home, we especially loved to read all of the cards and see all the pictures from our family and friends! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

There are so many fun pictures of our trip! Here are a couple slideshows you can watch of our vacation to see some more! (If you want to be able to get back to our blog easily after watching the slideshow, hold down the CTRL key while clicking on the slideshow link.)

Christmas in Utah


Christmas and New Years in Oregon

December 1st Snow

This post is a little late, but December 1st, we watched Landon's friend Jackson for the weekend. They had a lot of fun playing together and only a few minor "that's mine," "that's mine" incidents! The highlight of the weekend was when it started snowing Saturday morning. They two boys weren't content with just looking out the window, so I took some video of them running around in the backyard with the snowflakes. Click here to see the video.