Randoms

I love this picture. This is Doug's idea of babysitting.

On the way home from Utah we stopped in Nebraska for the night and took Landon swimming for the first time. He loved it.

Grandma Carol got these cute scrubs for all the grandkids for Christmas.

White Elephant

I retract my statement about having no pictures from the White Elephant party. My sister in law Jess was kind enough to send me one that she took. As you can see we are both stoked about our awesome gifts. And I find it funny that Landon's head is placed so perfectly by the squirrel's rear end.

Christmas Festivities!

Doug's Sister Jessica made this awesome beanie/beard for Landon. I think it makes him look older. What do you think?

About to open presents with the Laters.

Landon's first time meeting Santa was a total success. He got a sweet football toy for sitting on his lap.

This is where Landon spent a large chunk of his vacation... In aunt Jenny's arms, which was a huge help when Doug and I needed a break. The other time was divided amongst the other family members.

This is my favorite decoration at my parent's house. My mom made all of our stockings and I think they are so cute. If only I was good at stuff like this we might have homemade stockings too. All of the girl's stockings have our spouse's name sprouting from a letter in our names and my brother's wives names are across the top. Very creative my mother is.

These stockings belong to the grandkids and are on the opposite side of the banister. Landon's and baby girl Ludlow's stockings were the new additions this year.

The grandkids did the nativity scene for us at the Clark Christmas party. As you can see Landon played his part very well as baby Jesus wrapped in red and white striped swaddling clothes.

Shepard Sadie (second from the left) has the most serious of faces as she plays her part. This little niece of mine is so funny and so full of energy. This pic makes me laugh every time I see it.

We got to ride on the Polar Express with the whole Later family complete with hot chocolate, a cookie, and a bell given to us by Santa Claus

We also had a great White Elephant party with the Clark siblings and spouses. Am I sad to say that my camera died and I have no pictures to show for it. Some of the gifts given were placenta shampoo, a hat that had a hand on top (that flipped the bird with the touch of a button), elk meat and mustard pickles from the year 2000 to name a few. Doug and I gave a homemade red dickie, and some ridiculous lingerie that has been floating around my parents house since my wedding. I was the proud recipient of a squirrel calendar and Doug got a live pet rat courtesy of my brother Adam. Luckily my 1 year old nephew Alex and the rat were friends at first sight and so my sister Sarah decided to give the pet rat a good home so that we didn't have to. Thanks Sarah and Brady I hope the rat doesn't stink up your brand new house!

Landon's Blessing Day

For Christmas break We headed back to Utah to visit our families. While we were there we were able to bless little Landon (on Dec 18th) in the comfort of Grandma and Grandpa Clark's house. Doug gave a wonderful blessing, and it was awesome to have most of our family there to celebrate with us.

The three of us after the blessing.
Landon had been in enough pictures by this point. Of course it's the picture that mom is holding him in when he starts to cry.
My boys
The Later ClanThe Clark Fam

1 Month Old!

Our little man is a month old! Time is moving to fast already. I just want him to stay little forever.I love his Christmas pjs. The reindeer on the feet are my favorite part.
Hangin out in his car seat.
Have you ever seen a baby with this much hair. I love it but it's starting to look a bit mulletlike. He needs a haircut already. But we have fun attempting to style that mop.

Future D.O.

Some of the faculty at Doug's school caught wind that Doug and I had a baby boy. So they got a book and this cute onesie for him. He's going to be just like his daddy someday :)
I thought this picture was cute. This is also Doug's attempt at No Shave November. To bad he doesn't grow enough on the sides of his face for a nice Decembeard.

Thanksgiving At Children's Mercy Hospital

Unfortunately we spent most of Landon's first Thanksgiving in the hospital. On Tuesday morning (the 22nd) he woke up with a high fever and that landed us in the ER. The poor little guy had to have his blood drawn along with a urine culture and a spinal tap. The doctors had to stick his poor little back 7 different times to finally get a sample. I was in the room for the first 3 attempts and I was crying along with him. It was so hard to listen to him scream. Thank goodness I wasn't there for the other 4 tries. Once all that was done we anxiously waited for a diagnosis. The doctors told us that they couldn't rule out bacterial meningitis because of his spinal tap culture. This scared us to death, but luckily the next day they came in with the good news that he had viral meningitis and we would be able to go home the next day. So we were discharged from the hospital in the afternoon on Thanksgiving. It was a little late for us to cook our own Thanksgiving feast but thanks to our awesome neighbors we had a delicious meal brought to our house.
There was one funny moment during our stay. Doug got up with Landon in the middle of the night to feed him and he guzzled 5 oz of milk in record time. Doug tried to get a burp out of the little one and instantly found himself covered in a waterfall of regurgitated milk. You could hear the milk splatter all over the floor. I had to literally cover my mouth so that I wouldn't laugh. And unfortunately for my poor husband he had on the only scrubs and socks he had brought to the hospital. When we woke up to go to school his socks were super crusty and he had baby vomit all over him. Welcome to fatherhood Douglas!