Williams family: Family time

On Thursday last week Landon and I spent most of the day with Jessica. She took me out to lunch and then we searched all over the mall for the perfect dress. Jessica is going to a Military Ball in North Carolina. She is double dating with Jon (her brother and one of his friends and his sister. Jon is brought Jessica a ticket to fly up there and spend a few days and then he is going to drive her back down to Gainesville and spend the weekend with us. After lots of searching we found the perfect dress for Jess. It is a red dress and she bought sparkly silver shoes to match the beading on the dress. This was Landon’s first day out of the house for more than 3 hours and his first time on an elevator.

Friday after I finished tutoring and Josh finished working we left for the panhandle to visit Landon’s grandparents. Driving with a baby is very different than drive with just the two of us or our furries. Instead of the drive being 4 hours it was closer to 5 hours. Landon did really well for his long drive. He slept half the way. We stopped twice to feed him.

Saturday we spent mostly with my family. One of the coolest things that happened on Saturday was Josh and I were playing with Landon when he woke up and he laughed at us. I love being a parent!! We spent some time around the house. We went out for lunch to Harry T’s in Destin, FL. Landon got to see the ocean and the bay for the first time. At the restaurant they were playing the Gator game on all the TVs. It was really cool because a lot of the locals go there, decorate the place and watch the game. Josh had a UF shirt on and as soon as we walked in a guy came up to him, treated him like a long time friend, invited us to join them at the reserved tables, and gave us all “beat the Cats” stickers. Even with a large amount of noise Landon did great. He slept most of dinner and wanted to be held the rest of the time. After lunch we went to a couple of stores shopping. The evening was spent mostly with Josh helping Jamiie and Jeremiah with there presentations they were giving with Josh on Sunday.

Sunday morning Josh, Jeremiah and Jamiie gave their Thailand mission trip report. Everyone at church met Landon for the first time. I think Landon finally became over stimulated with all the people and being in a different place because shortly after the report was done Landon started fussing and was fussy for most of the service. After service Josh looked at the standing ride lawn mower Niceville Christian Church donated to Josh and Bryan’s business. It was a real blessing that they are donating it to them. No one there wants that big of a lawn mower and it is more difficult to use. Someone donated it to them. It could cost several hundreds of dollars for the mower. It will a great help to Josh’s work. We went out after Josh checking out the lawn mower and us pack to eat with the Williams and Johnson’s.

On our way home, we stopped in Tallassee to visit my brother Adam. He works for Florida University in the engineering department. Landon was able to meet his Uncle for the first time. Unfortunately because we left so late we weren’t able to spend much time with him. We talked a little and got some pictures. Hopefully Adam will be able to come and visit soon.