Brothers

Landon loves his baby brother Davis! It seems like more and more every day, Landon wants to hold him, talk to him, and play with him. Davis loves his big brother too. He sits on the floor and cranes his neck to try to see Landon, following him all around the room with his eyes. Here are a few shots of the two of them over the past couple of weeks.

Landon and Davis's first bath together. Can you see Davis smiling at Landon?

(P.S. Does anyone want to hurl their computer across the room at times when working with blogger, especially when uploading pictures? There has seriously got to be an easier way! All the extra spaces, the pictures always put at the beginning so you have to move them no matter where you had your cursor, no way to rotate your images once they're in there . . . if anyone has some tips, PLEASE let me know!!!)

Memorial Day (A Little Late)

Our Memorial Day weekend was not the most exciting of weekends, but it was nonetheless nice to just relax and be at home with Shane. On Saturday, we watched our friend's Brycen and Lori's kids while they went to Brycen's graduation from law school. Landon and Austin had fun looking out the window at the birds and squirrels that are always in our yard.

The weather ended up being pretty nice on Saturday, and we went on a walk along the Fanno Creek Trail in the afternoon. It's the bike trail that Shane rides his bike on to get to work. There are several playgrounds along the way, and Landon had a great time playing on one of them.

Shane and I had an Indiana Jones marathon, and watched the old Indiana Jones movies. I had never seen them before, and Shane wanted to go and see the new one, so I thought I should catch up a little and watch them. I especially enjoyed the last one. It was a nice relaxing weekend! We hope you had a good weekend too!

Mother's Day and Camille's Farewell

As the previous post indicated, we went to Ashland this weekend for Mother's Day and Cam's talk in church. It was a great weekend. Saturday morning, before the birthday party, Shane, Camille and I went to play tennis at Helman School. This was my first time playing tennis in a LONG time, since I hadn't played since the fall before I got pregnant, so over a year and a half. We played one versus two, switching it up each game so we all played a singles game and a doubles game. We each kept track of our individual scores. I started out good, and before long, I was ahead me 2, Camille 1, Shane 0. Things took a wrong turn from there though, and I ended up losing me 3, Camille 5, Shane 6. I guess I need to get out and play more now! You can't beat the view from there though! You look straight up at Mount Ashland, the same view you see looking up my parents' street. Gorgeous!

Saturday evening, after celebrating Landon's birthday, we went to Lithia Park for a hot dog roast at our usual spot. What can beat Lithia Park? I wish we had a Lithia Park in Beaverton!!! We went to the "island" to roast hot dogs by the fire pit, and enjoyed listening to the creek as we pigged out on hot dogs, chips, and brownies. Yum!

Sunday was a wonderful Mother's Day. Shane gave me a nice card with Landon's and Davis's hand prints on it, and some nice coloring by Landon. He got me The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd and some of my favorite peanut M&M's. At church, Camille gave a wonderful talk on the Christlike qualities necessary for missionary work and for motherhood. We had a great dinner of lasagna, green salad, french bread, and marionberry pie for dessert! Best of all, Shane let me take a nice long afternoon nap with no interruptions from baby or kids! What a great husband I have!

Here is a slide show with some more pictures of our weekend. (You can also move your mouse over the little person in the bottom left and click on the blue link to see the slideshow full screen.)

Happy Birthday Landon!

Today is Landon's 3rd birthday. I can't believe he is so old already!!! Friday night, we drove down to Ashland so we could be there for Camille's talk on Sunday and for Mother's Day. On Saturday, we celebrated Landon's birthday. Mom had macaroni and cheese for lunch (a Landon favorite) with Elmo plates and napkins. We then had cake and ice cream, and Landon opened all of his presents. He loved all of his gifts and was quite spoiled by both of his grandmas!

Davis even celebrated the day by rolling over! I put him on his stomach on the floor, walked away for a few seconds, and when I came back he was on his back. I asked Shane if he had turned him over but nope, Davis had done it himself. He even rolled over a few more times for us that day!

Here are a couple of pictures of Landon's fun day. I'll post some more later of his birthday and of our trip.

My Little Frenchman

As many of you know, the Morris family has always loved to eat French bread dipped in hot chocolate for breakfast. Recently, I have discovered that Landon likes it too! I had been eating this for breakfast for awhile with Landon when one day he asked if he could have some too. Since then, I have to hurry and eat a few pieces of bread before Landon finishes it all off!

Daily Exercises

Davis is now 2 1/2 months old. I can't believe how fast time flies by! Every day he is trying new things. He is especially interested in trying to roll over, and most of the time when I put him down on his back, I come back and find him in this position.


These next two pictures are during "tummy-time." You can tell in the first picture that he's working pretty hard to get his head up - he even has his tongue out to help him! In the second picture he even manages to pull off a little smile! Good work Davis!

A Blast

This weekend, we had my good friend Becky in town with her husband Gary and their two kids Andrew (3) and Hope (9 months). Becky and I have been great friends since the fifth grade, and we've been lucky to keep in touch since then! Friday, we drove out to to the tulip festival in Woodburn. It was a blast . . . wait, I better rephrase that - a blast of ice cold air!!! When we left Beaverton, it was cool, but not too bad. When we got there, it was SO windy. We were troopers, bundled up, and walked up a row of the to tulip field. However, when we turned around to head back, we had to walk straight into the ice-cold blaring wind. It was miserable for me, but unbearable for Landon. He was trying to keep his hood on, but the wind was whipping past us so fast that he couldn't. Before long, he was crying, and Davis decided to join in also. Luckily for Becky and Gary, Andrew was appartently oblivious to all of this, and he was running up and down the row, having the time of his life. In the end, I ended up heading back with Landon and Davis while they stayed a little longer for Andrew to play on the hay bales and the horse tire swings. Despite the crazy weather with everything from hail to sunshine, the rest of the weekend was quite pleasant. Andrew and Landon warmed up to each other after about a day, and they had a lot of fun playing together. We hope you come and visit us again soon Becky and Gary!