New Year's Eve Conversation...

Dada:  Landon, do you want to go to Notre Dame?
Landon:  Yes
Dada:  Well, you'll have to get a scholarship because it's about $80,000 a year
Landon:  Ok
Dada:  Good, that's why dada bought you those flash cards for Christmas
Landon:  Yes
Dada:  What's 1+1
Landon:  2

Yep - he's SO getting a scholarship to Notre Dame...nevermind that 2 is his favorite number since that's how old he's about to be and we knew he'd get it right.  He's a baby genius.  Happy New Year!

Kansas Christmas 2010

We spent the last half of the first week of December in Kansas...we go the same time every year so the boys can hunt and we celebrate Christmas early while we're there.  We always have a great time visiting with everyone in Kansas and Landon enjoys being center stage!  Jim got* 3 deer this year and one was a ginormous 8 point buck (*got sounds so much nicer than killed...especially since I prefer to pretend the deer meat comes from the store :) )

Landon has sort of caught on to the present part of Christmas this year and had so much fun unwrapping all of his!  He's at such a fun age and we are enjoying each and every minute we have with him.  I can't believe our baby will be two in less than a month!  Here are a few pictures from our fun trip!

Mr Bed Head with the cute grin!

Molly the dog.

Great Papa and Landon warming their hands.

Gotta warm those ears up!

Landon thought Great Papa's ears needed warming.

Next, Great Papa needed a kiss!  This melts my heart! :) 

Going to see how the boys did on their hunt!

How'd you do boys? 

Wow Dad!  That's a good one!

High Five!

Blow em up!

Vrrroooom!

Dada and Momma

The trains a coming!  Landon loved the train!

They even "chooo chooo'ed" for him!

Dada and Uncle Chris - Dada is silly and can't take a normal picture!

Great Papa, this vrooom vrooom is so much fun.  I hope Santa brings me one that's my size!

Hi Mama!  Whatchu cookin' in there?

Aunt Lindy brought me some popsicles!  She's my new fave.

Me and my favorite Mama making divinity...it's a tradition and she makes the BEST there is!

I like our matching hats Great Papa!

YAY!  A present for me!

I love my Great Mama!

We had so much fun and can't wait to go back in May!

First Christmas in our new home.

We love our new home and we've had so much fun decorating for Christmas this year...especially because Landon understands what's going on more this year and he's having so much fun!  I want to share a few pictures of our decorations this year...mainly because this is sort of like my journal and photo album all in one and I want to remember our first Christmas in our new home.

Our new nativity advent calendar.  I think you're technically supposed to add the pieces to the tree each day...it didn't come with instructions so I decided to do it this way.

Landon's nativity scene.  His Nana and Papa give him a new piece every year.

Landon made this ornament at school and we think it's the perfect addition to our tree!

Awesome picture frame our friend Amy made us...we love it!

Boy bathroom decor.

Landon also made this at school and we love it!

Hank the Elf on a Shelf.

Frosty the Snow Man sings and Landon thinks he's pretty cool!

Olympic Games...Holiday Style

Landon has a new favorite pastime...jumping up on chairs, spinning and landing on his hiney.
He's pretty good too and I'll be if there were ever an Olympic sport as such he'd stomp the competition!  Sunday night as I was working on obsessing over our late Christmas card Jim gave Landon his bubble bath.  Right as I was finishing up (using pictures I had taken just a few hours before) Landon came running into the front room in his cute Christmas pjs, jumped up on a chair and started practicing for his Olympic debut...so, since I had my camera handy I snapped a few pictures.  Wouldn't you know it one of those turned out to be the main picture on our card - and he's not really smiling in the picture.  He's telling me how a bird goes and as it turns out"tweet tweet" produces our guy's cute crooked grin...and we love the crooked grin!

Okay mom, I'm about to go!

Mid-jump post turn!

and the landing!

This is so fun mommy!  (note...it scares me to death every time he does it -  so this Olympic game will be short lived!)

Nailed the dismount!  

Yep, this grin gets me outta trouble on a daily basis.

Tweet Tweet!

Merry Christmas from the Battreals!

Here is the Battreal Christmas Card for 2010!!  I'm VERY late in getting these printed this year and I hope those that go out in the mail will make it by Christmas!  I didn't order as many this year as I usually do - next year I'll look at my list before I place my order...and I might actually get it done on time next year...maybe.

Landon was NOT a fan of Santa this year!  He cried and cried when his mean ol' momma made him sit on his lap.  The only time he stopped crying was when Santa had this book - but you can tell he's still not too sure about the big guy!  Since this picture was taken Landon has at least learned to point out Santa and he even says "Ho Ho Ho!" when we ask him how Santa goes!

Merry Christmas everyone! We hope you all have a wonderful holiday season!