One Landes Place

Here are some pictures of Matt and his little helper cleaning up his aunt's yard in Rosenberg after Ike left. We ran out of things to do so I let her have all the Tupperware she wanted!

Friday night was eerie. Matt and I put Sarabeth to bed around 8 and settled in for the storm. The windows were boarded so there was not much to look at. I woke up several times during the night to the sound of the wind and rain pounding on the roof. I peeked out one of the small windows we left uncovered and I could see all the trees laying sideways on the ground from the wind. We have tons of tall pines in our area and I could see them blowing so far over that I thought they would snap any minute. I eventually fell asleep around 10 and woke up around 12 when the electricity went out. It was so black in our house, I couldn't see anything. I kept taking my flashlight and checking on Sarabeth in the other room. I wanted so bad to move her in bed with us, but I knew that would make for an even longer night. Saturday morning we woke and watched out the one window as the storm continued. The pine tree in the yard across the street had snapped in half into the street and all the n...

Well I made it out of the hospital this morning, just in time to make a last minute run to Kroger(actually my sweet mother-in-law braved the lines at Kroger while I sat in the car) and came home to boarded up windows and the news of Ike on our front door step. I went to high school with a guy named Ike, he was huge-a linebacker on our football team. Just like this storm coming in, everyone was scared of him. Matt and Rigo are outside now getting the house ready for us to "shelter in place". What a crappy way to spend our weekend. I feel like do do by the way. This is going to be an adventure I'm sure. Thanks for your prayers for patience and that I will rest, so far I've tried to clean the kitchen and put laundry away. I think those are both off the list of my things to do for recovery. Go away Ike! We don't like you. Little miss Sarabeth has no idea what's going on around here.

Ok, so I'm having my tonsils out tomorrow (pray for my husband) so there will probably be no blog update for a while so I'm piling it on today! I'm sure no one will be too sad since the only person who reads this (my mom in law) will be here taking care of us for a week. On to the good stuff... So after 6 ear infections, it was time. Sarabeth had tubes put in last week :( The surgery took all of 5 minutes. The prep part took longer! The hard part was not being able to feed miss priss when she woke up at 5:00am for our trip to the appointment. She did well considering I fed her at 11:00 pm the night before. She's usually up at 6:30 like clockwork ready for her morning cup of joe (or bottle). After about 2 hours of waiting the nurse came, grabbed her up and took her back. Matt left to get breakfast for us and before he got back, they were done! We waited in the recovery area for about an hour and Sarabeth finally went to sleep. When they first brought her to us s...

The Landes family has been quite busy the last few weeks and it looks like it's not going to end for a while! Matt is busy working 2 jobs and I'm trying to work 2 but motherhood seems to be taking over my real estate lately. However, it's been so nice to have my own computer tech! Sarabeth turned 10 months old on Labor Day. She's doing so many funny things now, I just love this stage! Things she can do: Patty-cake Wave bye bye Mimic noises Play peek-a-boo Play chase Here are some pictures from the last few weeks: Here we are enjoying the Olympics. Sarabeth really loved the gymnastics the best! We celebrated Matt's birthday on the 13th, complete with a homemade cake. I surprised him with Ilumina , he's been wanting it for months! This is an every night routine. When Matt gets home, he throws all the pillows in the floor and he and Sarabeth have a ball! She loves to be chased and to hide. Sarabeth LOVES books. Anytime the house gets quiet, I can find her a...