Bolin visit!

The Bolins stayed with us for 2 days.  Matt has been staying with us a couple night out of the week, the rest of the time he works here and drives to his sister in laws house were Ashley and the boys are staying.  We are so excited they are moving back and are praying that soon they will get to sell their house in Iowa, live in a house in Gainesville that they own. 

25 Weeks

Before heading to go visit my parents for the week I had my November check up.  Baby Williams and Mommy are doing great!  Landon was super excited to hear his baby sister/brother's heartbeat.  He started dancing to it.  It cracked Dr Marichal up. 

I have also stopped with my morning sickness.  22 weeks was enough!  Plus I seem to not be getting the migraines I was getting and got the whole 2nd and 3rd  trimester with Landon.  I am praying that they stay away. 

Can't wait to meet you little one!

November visit to see Grandma and Grandpa Gorman

Landon and I drove up to visit with my parents.  I always worry a little making the drive by myself with Landon but he did great.  Unfortunately, we both were sick most of the time we were there. It was good timing going because Josh was hired at UF and he still had jobs lined up with his business so he was working over 40 hours that week.  It was nice to have help with Landon all day while I was sick.  Even though we were sick and Landon took a trip to the ER because of some breathing problems we had  fun visiting. 

Bubble time!

Landon was very spoiled at the ER.  They give a stuff animal and a ticket to the local aquarium to any child who checks in but Landon got 3! Plus a handful of cool Band-Aids and sticky hands.  Considering he was sick he had a great time!

Grandpa and Landon making the same silly face

Love you!

Some things I missed posting in Oct

Some things I just didn't get to post about...



Our small group had a little birthday for JP before we started one Friday night.

We added a few finishing touches to Landon's room.  Thanks Linda B for thinking of Landon and giving him the gecko.  I painted it so the colors go a little better with his room.  He loves it.  He also loves his little art wall display.

We finally have chicken eggs!  We ate, with the help of our small group, 4 of the red roosters.  They were pretty tasty.  We had a big "down with the mean red roosters" cook out with some of our friends.  Thanks everyone who came early and helped Josh with the de-feathering.  I didn't take any pictures because although I really enjoy eating chicken and really disliked those mean red roosters, the whole killing and cleaning them just is not for me.  Michelle and I stood back and made sure one children hurt themselves and supervised far far away.  Now we have 2 white ones (which I might add are very sweet), plus a friend of ours just recently gave of 3 brown chickens which are called Easter egg chicken due to the fact that they lay blue eggs.  We also found out we have a female duck so we are also getting duck eggs.  We typically get 3-5 eggs a day.

A couple of pictures are just of Landon and Zach playing since I now watch Zach regularly.



This second group of pictures is from out field trip to UF's bird guy.  Our friend Michelle arranged a  private tour for her and her boys, Landon and I and our friends the Blaszczyks.  It was very interesting seeing all the eggs of thousands and thousands of birds.  The stuffed dead birds was cool and a little strange at the same time.  The kids really enjoyed it.  Thanks Michelle for putting the tour together for us!

 I love this smile!!!!

Silly Boy!

UF Butterfly Fest

We went to the Butterfly Fest at UF.  It was a free event put on by University of Florida Museum of Natural History.  They released butterflies and had lots of booths to look at, make crafts, and buy things.  Aunt Jamiie and Uncle Jeremiah were in town for the weekend so Sally and they joined us.

On our way
We had Grandpa Williams' van which was great

Landon loves the big windows



They had lots of cool things to look at...

Birds

Shark attack!

Landon loved the butterflies.

and touch...

Baby Gator

and make...

Watching how to make the butterfly

The ladies making the ears were very nice!

Decorating his butterfly

We had a great time!

Fall Festivals and Halloween

Our sweet pumpkin

This year was lots of fun because Landon was old enough to get excited about dressing up and going to all the parties. Landon was a fire man this year. We also had a elephant costume that a friend had handed down but it was a true Florida fall so the elephant costume was to warm to make the cut.  Depending on how Landon grows and how cold next year is, we might try it again. 

I am trying out the college feature on Picasa.  It is pretty neat what you can do with it.  I had fun :)

Pumpkin Baked Yummies

When the temperature starts to drop a little it put me in the mood for baking.  Landon loves cooking so he has been helping me out a lot.  He LOVES baking, especially when I let him hand mix the dry ingredients. 
 We made several pumpkin recipes but mostly pumpkin banana bread.  Landon's favorite!


Duck Pond Fall Festival

I heard about a local Fall Festival that had free food and game for the kids so I thought it would be fun to take Landon.  I watch Zach now during the week and Kayla on Wednesday afternoons so I thought they would enjoy coming with us.  The kids had fun getting to dress up.  I help Kayla with some Rock Star glitter. Zach was a dragon or dinosaur (he changed his mind a couple of times when I asked).  Josh got off work just in time to go with us.  We had free dinner which was just hot dogs, chips, homemade cookies (they also had meat loaf which Josh had but none of the kids were interested in that... big surprise!).  They had lots of games with prizes to win and a bounce house. Landon's favorite was the bounce house.  The kids all had a lot of fun and filled up on way too much sugar, in my opinion- they handed out cookies layered in frosting like it was water at a summer out door event! Zach, Kayla and Landon left with a hand full of little toys from the games and smiles.

Harvest Fall Festival

We went to our church's Fall Festival.  Josh cooked the food while Landon and I enjoyed food, game booths and line dancing.

We had a great Halloween/ Fall season celebrating all the fun you can have getting dressed up, spending time with friends and eating pumpkin baked goods!

Buddies

Lets go to the circus!

I won 5 tickets for the circus.  It was super small and way out in the middle of no where.  We actually got lost looking for it but we did get there.  It was in Hawthorne off some small country road.  It was kinda funny because on the road there were more signs for the local church's fall festival than the circus.  We brought along Landon's friends Joshua and Nate.  It was fun and we stopped at a local burger place and had some of the best burger ever!

Josh wanted to ride the ponies so all the boys joined him.

Landon loved it.  He still to this day (almost 2 months now- I really need to stop being so behind on posting things) talks about riding a black pony, NOT a horse.  He will also tell you, Hold tight to horn.  Which is what I told him ONCE right before he got on.  This kid has an amazing memory!

Main enterance

The boys and me- sitting on the second row from the bottom

Ready for the show

The ring master

Hanging out with Daddy

It was very intense for Landon- he loved watching the girl with the hulu hoops

Hulu hoop girl

This little boy had some juggling skills

This was his older brother

The older brother did a Michael Jackson skit while juggling flaming pins

The lady with her ponys

The clown picked out a few "Strong Men" to help- turns out he just wanted to make them look silly

A table of men- they held it there for a while

Landon loved watching Daddy preform!

STRONG!

Flying "Strong" men- Josh is just a good sport!

Watching the little girl with Daddy

This little girl was pretty amazing!

Dad juggling his daughter while she did the hulu hoops

 

Last show was the ladies on her horse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a fun free night with the boys even if it was the tiniest circus I have ever seen.