What a sad dreary day!

See you later dear friends. We love you lots and lots!!!

I have TONS of pictures of these two from little bitty babies till now, but I dont have them on this computer so Ill have to post more later!!! These are just the more recent.

Landon and Ila are two year old soul mates. Landons bday is July 31st and Ilas is August 1st and they have always just been so close, the little twins!!! Everytime they are together I think that this must be what its like for people who have twins. :O) such a blast!!! We will miss yall so much, but we are glad you are moving somewhere we can visit.

So In the last few months I have experienced all the "negatives" of military life I ever want to experience. As you already know Noah left for Iraq at the beginning of Feb. and now I have lost one of my dearest friends to the military life too. There family left for their new life and adventure in Alaska. MY HOME STATE!!! Im a tad bit jealous Ill admit, but mostly just totally excited for them and the fact that my family is still in Alaska and we try to get up there once every two years, (maybe now we will have to make it more). It was a bitter sweet goodbye! I am so excited for their new life but so sad to see them go. It was really a family affair this time aroung, Landon lost his very best friend and I lost mine and Noah lost one of his, tis the military way I suppose.

When they left we all cried. Landon stood on the front porch tears streaming down his face waving goodbye and crying very hard, which of course made me cry even more. All day yesterday he was mopeing around the house and kept telling me he was very sad. The weather even agreed that it was not a happy day, its been dreary for the past two days, I suppose we are all in "mourning" over the loss of our friends.

Mommy....

Hold me for just two more minutes!!!
Landon has been on the bartoring kick he asks for a few more minutes of everything. Tonight before bed I was holding him and rocking back and forth and he asked for two more minutes about 5 times, and of course it was just so sweet I had to hold him for a few more minutes, he was just so fragile and tiny sounding. He is so lonely since Noah left and wants tons and tons of love, so I give him the love he needs and he gives me all the love I need. :O) I love my boys so much its so nice to have such good kids especially in this hard time while Noah is gone.

I love this gosple

Landon gets so excited when Sunday rolls around and its time for church. Almost every morning he asks me "Church Sunday?" and I have to tell him how many more days its will be till its time for church, so you can imagine how excited he gets when the answer to his question is tommorow morning or yes today. He is estatic. I am so glad he loves church so much and loves his nursery teachers, I really could not ask for better teachers for my son, they are great!

On the way home from church today Landon tells me. "Mom tell me something." So I asked him what kind of something he wanted me to tell him, "Something about Jesus." So we talked about Easter and what its all about. I told him about Jesus dieing on the cross and much to my surprise, he started crying. "Mommy thats so sad. Why they do that?" So we talked about that and I told him not to be sad because Jesus was resurrected (we worked on that word too) on the third day. "Oh mom, he all better? he not hurt any more, they not be mean to him?" yes honey he is all better, so we talked a bit more about that and he just kept telling me, "Thats so sad, but he all better." And then we talked about how Jesus is our brother. "No he not, Braddoc Landons brother. Jesus not my brother." So I explained to him as best I could what that meant and I think it sunk in best it could for a two and a half year old. "Jesus, mommy, daddy, braddoc, landons brother, all them!"

Tonight we had a fireside for our word at church and someone said something about the Holy Ghost and Landon started saying, (and continued saying the rest of the night.) "Mom hurry up and get out of here before the Holy Ghost gets us, ahhhhh ghost." (I was laughing so hard I had to cover my mouth and hide my head the first time he said it. I suppose I need to work understanding the Holy Ghost.)

Just some things I dont want to forget

I am no longer mommy to Landon I am now just mom. It was a sad sad day for me when I graduated from mommy to mom. I thought I had several more years of mommy left. I still get it every now and then but mostly when he really really wants something or he is telling me in his sweetest voice that he loves me.

Barbeque sauce: Landons way of saying it=Poo sauce

his new word is REALLY= Iam really really hungery, really! Its really messy in hear! That is a really big mess, really clean it up! I am really super thirsty! I really mean it mom!
lots and lots of really!

Latest Landon Shananagins

Landon has been working on a lot of prohects lately. Building things and organizing things, he has really been doing excellent work.

Transporting his tools in his back pack and his elephant train, its sure hard work. Organizing my flowers and his Shrek figurines. I have found this site many times.

Always lining up his cars and telling me "Awwwww mommy its so beautiful, take a picture!!" while balling his hands up and putting them in front of his mouth in pure excitment. He is just such a happy go lucky kid and everything is just so exciting, so easy to please.

More of his house!

My house!!! He builds this one a lot and then runs through it like a maze and tells me he built me a house and that its beautiful.

He finished out banisters for us too, this was a massive project undertaking that had to be redone several times, but thanks to the expertise of Landon after about a week it was finally done. I think though that he has decided that he needed to redo it again because he has been working away up there again with his blocks and tools

Such a fun boy! Keeps me busy and entertained!