Let's Luau!

HaPpY 1st BiRtHdAy LaNdOn!

For Landon's first birthday party, we had a big Luau in our back yard! We had it decorated so good that sometimes I actually thought I was on the beach! Not really, but it looked great! I didn't get very many pictures of all the great Luau decorations, but hopefully you can imagine you are at your own Luau on the beach!

Here is all the food!

We had a little kiddie pool set up and we put a bunch of Luau rubber duckies in it and let them float around so the kiddies could play with them.

We decorated the waterfall, that Jared worked so hard on, fo soooo long (I'm glad he's done) with a Luau theme kit. It is used fish net draped along the fence, with starfish, sea shells, crabs and seahorses randomly placed on it. The left over crabs and lobsters were placed in the falls!

Some of our guests enjoying themselves. I say some because I know some of you would have my head if I put your picture on here!

We even had a special Luau dancer that did the hula on the beach!

Gifts! Landon did okay with this part, until he got his broom then I unwrapped the rest of them.

THE BROOM! Cake time! Landon wasn't real interested in playing in the cake, but we gave it another try. (He wasn't interested in my last post either) He pretty much just ate the Gold Fish crackers off the top of it.Some more of our decorations.
We had a HUGE authentic sand pile in the drive way to give an even stronger sense of being at the beach!

There were Hula girls greeting people at the door.

All in all, we had a great time. I really enjoyed hosting the big Luau party and I certainly hope the guests had as much fun. Thank you all for coming and for the great gifts you gave Landon. He loves them all. Everyday I am cleaning and re-cleaning the living room from his new toys!

A special thanks to:

Ziggosluau.com

for all the great decorations that supplied us with endless fun!

Pineview

We spent last week up at Pineview Resivoir. Here are a few of the pictures of all the fun we had!

Landon got a new car seat before we left and this is how excited he was, to be in it, when I was fitting it to him.

I think we need a bigger car if we plan to go on trips like this more often!

Our first meal at Pineview and Landon is feeding himself.

On the beach

Landon's cousin, Hallie eating a cookie!

Landon had his 1st birthday while we were there so Jare got him this cute cake and we all sang to him!

He wasn't real excited to eat his own big piece of cake! That's about as messy as he got, maybe a little messier, not much.

We went out on T&L's boat.

This is a picture of Heather, Kylee, Landon and me on the raft behind the boat. I think we went max 0.5 MPH. The kids enjoyed it though!

This is one of my best friends surfing! Way to go H-T!

This is Landon at the end of the boat outing,-(you can tell Lanny is done) with his cute cousins Kylee and Abby.

We had a great time and we are very excited for next year!

Happy 4th of July!

We started our day, as usual, eating breakfast. Landon still had his mo-hawk from the night before because I actually put a little gel in it. I decided after breakfast we would give him his first hair cut! That was an adventure in itself! I showed Landon the clippers (turned on) and let him hold them before I did anything. He was intrigued with them, but the second I started to cut his hair, he was not having it! It's a good thing he was in his chair and couldn't go anywhere. I went so fast that I'm sure I missed a few strands, but overall he looks like a little boy! (It's about time huh? His hair was getting so long, I just didn't dare cut it-afraid I'd mess up or something!)

Let me remind you of my last post, as we watched the parade last weekend, Landon hated the loud noises and firecrackers. He cried. On the 3rd of July, we attended the South Salt Lake City fireworks at Granite High School. Something we do every year. Landon didn't seem to have a problem with the fireworks last year.... that's probably because he was still in my belly and the loud noises were muffled. This year however, he screamed and cried in the beginning, then Jare cradled him and he fell asleep and slept through the rest of the show. What a difference from his first reaction to the loud noises.

Then on the 4th, Landon and I went to a BBQ at my sister's, where they lit fireworks in their street for us to watch.

This is Landon watching a smoke bomb!

This is Landon watching a small twisting thing with popping sounds at the end. When we got to the popping sounds at the end, it scared him so bad we went in the house and there we spent the rest of the evening.

RuNNinG FuN!

Landon and I ran our first 5K race together! It was the South Salt Lake Navajo Hogan annual 5K run/walk. I was a little nervous to be running the whole thing pushing him, but it wasn't bad at all. We ran the whole thing and had a lot of support from my Mom and Dad, twice along the route. He loved every minute of it! We/I took first place female in my age category- way to go me!(I hate to mention, that this race was the smallest I've ever seen- so it's no wonder I placed) Anyway, we had a great time and afterwards my Mom and Dad set up some chairs for us to watch the parade(4th of July celebration on the 28th of June). Landon DID NOT like the parade. He hated all the loud noises from the trucks and the fireworks. He cried a few times and we ended up standing in the back, while our seats went empty. I don't know how he will do with the fireworks, but we are going to attempt it anyway!