Baby Nursery-Help!

I have no idea why, but this time I am stressing out about how to decorate the new baby's nursery. With Sarabeth, we didn't have a lot of options since we were in a smaller place and would be moving within 2 months after she was born. I didn't do much in her room, we didn't even put up her crib until we moved. This time we have plenty of space and are planning on staying put for a while. So here lies the dilemma. What should I do for crib bedding. We want something bright, not muted-which is hard to find in boy's bedding. Most everything is tan and light blue, blah. We originally thought we would do an outdoors theme, but couldn't find anything that we liked. We then decided on some cute sports themed bedding. Matt played college football and his dad was his coach so football runs in the blood around here. We thought it would be fun to decorate with Matt's jerseys and some of his dad's football paraphernalia from his coaching days. Then I found this cute bedding and thought if we did this, we could do whatever theme we wanted since it's neutral! My thought was a fishing/outdoor cabin theme. Help! Now I can't decide and I want to nail down something so I can start looking for things to decorate with. What do you think?

More Fun on The Farm

Matt and I took a quick trip to Arkansas this weekend to visit his mom and dad. His dad finished round 5 of his chemo and radiation treatments and had scans done on Monday to see how the cancer has been effected. No more cancer activity in the brain, lungs or lymph system, however they did find a spot on his liver that they started radiation on immediately. We are still praying for complete healing and more energy for him during his treatments.

The weather was awesome while we were there so we spent as much time outside as possible. We took Sarabeth on a walk and Ma took her on several golf cart rides.



Eating s'mores for lunch!

Sarabeth still learning how to cross the cattle guard without falling in.
Sarabeth found a lady bug and would not let it get away. She finally dropped it and it's wing broke and later it died. Poor lady bug!

MHR-Special Edition

The last few months around the Landes home have been kinda funky. We've been faced with some challenges and big decisions that have left us just tired. Anyway, a few weeks ago I came home to a sparkling kitchen and this:If you aren't sure what you are seeing, it is a note from my hubby along with some home made construction paper flowers-melt my heart. Click on the note to enlarge so you can read it. It was the sweetest thing in the world. I think Matt finally realizes that it's the little things he does that make the biggest impact on my heart. This is just one of the many.

On Our Way To Normalcy

Things around here are starting to get back to normal somewhat. I feel so bad that I haven't documented much about this pregnancy but who really wants to see belly pictures of what was leftover from the last one combined with all the other glamorous things that came along with that. I do have an ultrasound picture of our baby Landes #2. This was at 8 weeks. Unless you are a mom, you probably don't recognize the baby in this picture but it's there! It was actually more interesting this go around, knowing what I was looking at. We are still as excited this time as we were the last, just much busier and we forget sometimes that come March we will have 2 kiddos!I'm just not going to overwhelm myself or you with a million posts about our summer. I'll just highlight a few and then get on with the new stuff and try to keep up.

A little goofing off

A dip in the pool via the slide

4th of July fireworks with Daddy

A little bathroom reading

Sampling the red velvet batter

Some bovine spectating

Ma's front porch

Sharing cupcakes with daddy
Dinner "date" with daddy
A little R&R on mommy and daddy's bed

Our summer has been filled with many birthday parties play dates, trips to the park, road trips to family's and some days just laying around in our pj's all day.

We are gearing up for the fall and will be moving into a bigger place in a few weeks. We look forward to having more space for Sarabeth and the new baby.

Part II

Ok for the sake of not doing it at all, I had to finally upload my Sea World and Alamo pictures to picassa. I kept thinking I was going to sit down and blog about our trip, but the fact that I had to go through our one million pictures to find a few to post was driving me crazy. So...I will post a few with the blog that I will write sometime tonight since my daughter wants me to "caya" (color) with her right now. In the meantime you can checkout our awesome photography from the Alamo and Riverwalk here.

*I hope you all read that last line with a bit of sarcasm. By no means do I want you to think that we think we are awesome photographers....I mean unless you really do. Again, sarcasm.

My Husband Rocks-Friday

It looks like busy is the new norm around here. Matt and I have been running around crazy so far this summer with mini vacations and work. He is working on a big project in The Heights right now and it is sucking up all of his time! He's up at 5 and home at midnight on some nights. I don't see how he functions and manages to still make time for his family. Sarabeth just adores her daddy and anytime she sees him, I have to pry her off. Yesterday was crunch time for Matt since he was meeting with his Heights client today. He had been glued to the computer all day and at one point I came into the office and left without him even seeing me. I reminded him later that I had a fundraiser to go to at 5 and he was going to have Sarabeth for the night. I knew it was the worst timing and that he was going to be stressed to the max. He handled it well and set Sarabeth up in his office with a little movie corner complete with her own "carpet sample" pallet to lounge on. I left and didn't get home until 11 last night. He never called and when I got home, Sarabeth was fast asleep. Some days I wonder how I function on little sleep and taking care of my girl. My husband really showed me up this week, and I am proud of him. My husband rocks!

Sarabeth and Daddy watching the fireworks on the 4th

Summer Rewind Part 1

I know it's the middle of the summer, but our vacations are already done! The heat is just to brutal to enjoy anything outside around here and we can't afford to go anywhere cold, although I would love to!

A few weeks ago for Fathers Day, we traveled to Arkansas to see Matt's dad along with Matt's 2 brothers and their families. It was cool for us all to be together since we usually only get to do this at the holidays. The kiddos had a ball swimming and playing outside. I really hope Sarabeth will remember these trips to Ma and Pa's with her cousins. It's so fun to see them all playing together. I'm so thankful that our family makes an effort to get together even though we live miles apart.

Yes, that would be my kid riding the arm of the chair like a bucking bull.

Cousins in undies playing in the pool


Next up...Sea World and Alamo