Its begining to look a lot like Christmas!

Landon had a advent calendar to help count down the day until Christmas.  This is a Gorman family tradition that I remember very well and have always been fond of.  I think I was just as excited for Landon to get one from Grandpa and Grandma Gorman as he was to eat the chocolate or as he says "choc-choc."


Thanks Grandpa and Grandma Gorman!

The much looked forward to Chocolate Advent Calendar

Here is a video of Landon opening one of the day on the calendar.



I have picked up several Christmas children's books over the years and Landon has been given some.  This year Landon really loved reading them.  We almost always read at least 2 books in the afternoon and 2-3 at night and at least one of those books was a Christmas book these last couple of weeks.  We got in a good share of Christmas book reading!  Some of the titles we read were- I Spy Christmas, The Gift of Christmas, The Three Miracles, Is Santa Here Yet?, The Little Drummer Boy, The Story of Christmas, and list goes on.
Also Landon, Zach and I had fun making a couple of Christmas crafts.  Unfortunately one of crafts didn't turn out. I bought the little stain glass paint ornaments.  We each painted one and the boys did a super job.  During nap time, I went to check on them and for some reason all the paint cracked and blew off when I picked them up. We were all really sad. Maybe we will try again next year.



Here are a couple of the projects we did.

Santa Advent Calendar and the Angel who send the Good News of our Savior's birth

This year I put up all of our decorations since we moved in to the house.  The first year we still had boxes every where and the second year I was too tied up with a little boy, staff infection of my own, and all the holiday traveling to most of the decorations.  It was fun especially because Landon was so excited every time I put out something new.  His favorite I think were the Christmas lights.  He loves them!! He also really liked having some decorations in his room.  I am afraid what he will do when I take them down (which will be the day after Josh's birthday, New Year's day per request of Josh- which I don't mind I am always kind of sad when I take them down ).


 My boys hanging their special ornaments.

Landon and Lighting McQueen

Josh and Sponge Bob Square Pants

Christmas at the Williams 2010

Landon's Room (Almost finished)

We have been SLOWLY working on completing Landon's room.  We have waited to find things for free or on sale (maybe things needed a coat of paint and some times so other little fixes)  so it takes a while.  Here are the pictures so far. 

Helping Daddy paint the GREEN wall

This is the one wall that I think is completely finished.

Landon has 3 yellow walls and the one green wall.  We bought this dresser and another one for $20.  This one was really dirty and a weird olive green color with contact paper over parts of it in a green wood grain.  It looks pretty bad.  With some sanding, two coats of paint( that we already had) and new painted pull handles (they came off another dresser we had gotten free but was falling apart). 

This is the fabric for Landon's curtains.  I have only finished one so far.

One of my favorite things about Landon's room is that he loves it so much.  He sees anything that is a bright green or a soft yellow and he says, "match Landon wall."  He calls his room the bug bed room. I found the fabric on sale at Jo-Ann's when they were going out of business.  As well as the fabric for the curtains.  Landon really loved being able to paint the walls with Daddy.  I think he helped on each of the walls, but the green one is his favorite.