back to durham

So Thanksgiving has come and gone and I am so amazed that this year is almost over...CRAZY. My family was here for turkey day and i had such a good time. It was so nice being w/ family for a holiday. Its been a while. We had some good food, leah and landon took some photos together-cute, and i got a break b/c nana and papa were here to play w/ landon. My mom was actually here for like 2 weeks...she looked after landon lots...thankfully! she did so great and landon adores her...So THANK YOU nana!!!!!

unlike my super sister in law, i have done no shopping...in fact not sure i'll be doing a lot of shopping this year (although i love to buy/give gifts)unfortunately, financially, just cant do it this year b/c of buying the house and then next year b/c we'll already be living off one salary as it is...so sorry to all, i'll make up for it in a couple years..haha. Will will get a kiss and a "happy holiday, i love you" and landon will of course get some presents--its his 1st hanukah and xmas..he has to get presents from mommy and daddy...

Speaking of landon...this kid amazes me...and exhausts me. He is still crawling around-just getting faster now. He pulls to stand on EVERYTHING, including our dog Cooper. (he's such a good dog by the way, he just lets landon play all over him, pulling his hair and such, and not even a wimper out of cooper, just lots of licks..)He also walks using this push toy--by HIMSELF. crazy i know but he pulls up and off he goes....i'm in big trouble! He's so cute though, he smiles and shows how proud he is of what he's doing...he's still doing great with eating..we've started cheerios and puffs and actually just today we gave him some diced peaches...he loves his finger foods so far...he'll occassionaly get one in his mouth by himself, but he mostly will pick on up and then as he goes for the mouth the "puff" is misaimed..but he tries so hard, then i help him out a little. Still not sleeping the best, but he's getting better.. we'll keep praying for that night he just keeps on sleeping.

about the title. We're going to durham this weekend. we found out we had to have our choices regarding the house in by dec. 6th..um hello its almost the 1st and we just found out a few days ago--nice. so we were lucky and both got off this weekend and away we go friday morning. this is going to be the fun part though...=) it'll be cool that we can see the progress on the house as well..more pics to share..not just mud.

this month, thus this year will be gone before i know it......