not much to tell...

we've got 9 days until we fly into ri:) other than that not too much excitement on this coast.
very excited to never live in port angeles WA EVER again!! that makes for a VERY happy girl!
getting to the point were i just want to move already! our house is in complete & total chaos which for those of you who know me ... DRIVES ME UP THE WALL!!! i like clean, tidy, ORDERLY.... i don't do mess very well.
we're getting our tenants mail in addition to ours which is great & i'm glad that we can do that for them since it makes it SO much easier but.... that adds to the clutter uggghhh:)
well this is probably my last west coast post (unless something earthshateringly-yeah it's a word- monumental happens in the next week)

Another Oscar Worthy Performance

here's another video - Landon can't wait to meet everyone... only 2 weeks left. hard to believe!

ps. look @ all the hair he has now... it is very unruly:)

much more interesting...

pictures of our new home in Newburyport. our furniture is going to look SOOO good in this house... don't you think?? I am beyond excited for that kitchen!!! OHHH my - GORGEOUS!!! so now that you've all gotten a sneak peak... i know you're all planning a visit to the new marland residence!! WOOT WOOT!!

april already

i've got a little one on my lap as i try to type this post... it might be a short one:)

i can't believe that it is april already! we fly home in exactly one month!!! so exciting - let the count down begin.

we have been very busy here. trying to keep up with a certain someone who is ON THE MOVE! he's unstoppable & investigating *getting into* everything. we also have a cold epidemic - so it's been snot snot & more snot around here! and LOADS of drool - not sure what that's about.

no pictures to share right now... so that's it for now. i guess i just wanted to let you all know that we are alive and well -barely.

why no posts?

the start of our day... nice and clean

landon then goes on to DESTROY the house... please note that he doesn't actually play w/ his toys!

you may be wondering why i haven't updated the blog in what feels like forever. no, it is not because i wanted to leave our oscar worthy video up so you could all keep viewing it:) but i did want to make sure you all noticed his pearly whites!! he's got A LOT of them & they make his smile SUPER cute - as if it could be any cuter:)

well... the reason i haven't posted in a while is because i have NO pictures to post. BECAUSE... the baby is CRAWLING like mad! so 1. i can't get a good shot because he isn't still for long enough! 2. i have no time to do much else besides making sure he's out of angies water bowl & picking up after the mass destruction that occurs with a mobile child! WOO i am worn out!!

here are some pictures of a normal day @ the marland residence (well... actually up there are the pictures... i'll have this whole thing mastered someday but for now i have no idea how to get the pictures where i actually want them to be!)

Landon Says Hi!

I don't know why we didn't do this a WHILE ago ... but here's the dude in action. & me... no makeup, hair not done & being my dorky self:) xoxox

Landon James

To DIE for!!! Look at that cute little face! Oh Bubba!!














Landon & his new bestest friend - Moxy the Ugly Doll.

Another to DIE for:)... I see you mama.

Blueberry coma... yumm

Cheerio... what Cheerio

Landons new trick... just done for the first time today on the ottoman. he has been pulling himself up in his crib for a couple of weeks now.

One of the MANY reasons why I love him...

Hello hun,
It's 11:11 PM, I couldn't sleep because I was thinking of your hearing issue. You can thank "HOUSE" for this. On the last episode, there was a guy who had ringing in his ears, the doctor laid him down and turned his head to the side and told him "it should be fine now, you just had a calcium deposit floating around in the inner ear". So I wanted to look it up. Don't think it's that simple either. But here you go...

I found that OTOSCLEROSIS is build up of calcium on the stapes, which is just inside the ear drum so it can't be seen.
- It occurs in mostly women around the age of 30 or sometimes before.
- It is sometimes genetic- It gets worse when women are pregnant and may not go away.
- It's tough to hear high pitch or normal conversations, you tend to hear better in noisy surroundings.
- Many people experience "tinitis" or ringing in the ears.

There is a couple options for it. Hearing aids, surgery to fix the stape. There may be side effects but only in limited patients, like 1% or something.

http://www.hearinginfo.org/diseasesdisorders/otosclerosis.htm

This all sounds very familiar... Thought you might like to know my late night findings. Maybe we can get this checked again either here or back home. I should be a doctor, damn. Love you and hope you had a good night.

MOOWAH. LOVE ME

Not much...

is happening here. I have a few pictures that are waiting to be uploaded onto the computer & then they will make their appearance here on the blog!

We are excited to be coming home! I will be getting some packing materials this week & beginning the process of packing our most important possessions. mostly scrapbooks & photos things that are irreplaceable as the packing guys f*ed up our wedding album in the last move & i'm not taking any chances this time. fool me once...

Hard to believe that we are so close to moving back east. There was a point in time when it felt as if it would never happen & now here we are! WOW!

Landon is getting soooo close to crawling! It's so funny to watch him progress more and more each day... before long i won't be able to sit for more than a second and i am not so excited for that day:(

That's all for now - pictures to come.

I'm coming home!

Well we're all coming home. BUT... Landon & I are coming home a little bit before daddy.
Our flight is booked... and we fly home May 2nd.
It's a 7 hour 2omin. flight - the shortest one we could find on southwest who is having their $99 flights (SWEET.. although w/ taxes it sooo is not $99 but whatevs).
I am HOPPING & PRAYING that the flight goes well. Landon has been very wiggly lately & I'm pretty sure it will get worse over the next 2 months.... what am i getting myself into??? But it's worth it because we will be home FOR GOOD!!! Can't wait to see all your smiling faces:) (not because we'll be there - but just because we only have happy smiley friends & family:))

Baby Blues!

Well here is the cutie himself. Landon James and those to die for baby blues. He was just playing with his toys before bedtime and decided to makes some cute faces for the camera. What a silly little boy, but you gotta love those eyes.

Landon

Landon is now brushing his teeth (well we actually do the brushing) with toothpaste! He LOVES it... we use the silly strawberry kind & he seriously thinks it's desert:) Which makes it much easier to get the toothbrush in the mouth!
On another note he is also eating TONS of new foods. This am it was boca sausage & egg yolk (he can't have whites yet) & I had to take a picture - doesn't the egg look like a lobster claw?? I DID NOT do that on purpose:)
We hope you all have a fun filled weekend. Not sure what our plans our but I think there is a little momma time in the works! I have to get some scrap booking done. My craft space looks like a bomb went off & it's been like that for over a month (thank goodness it's hidden in the corner:)) Also to be done... housework - last minute touch ups & maybe a little PACKING!!! SOOOOO EXCITING!

Whistler/Blackcomb

We had tons of fun!! I got back up on the skis... not an easy task since the last time i was on them I broke my leg. We got off the chairlift & I literally FROZE... didn't think i could possibly move never mind ski down this BIG ol' mt. I was absolutely paralyzed w/ fear. it felt like minutes of standing there but a few seconds later we were off! i only got one run in from the tippy top of the mt. down - took me 1 hour since i was being SUPER cautious!! & slow. poor luke stuck it out w/ me:) we only had about 5 hours since landon was w/ a babysitter (who came to our condo - so cool) and i had to feed him - didn't bring the pump (that wasn't too smart of me). we even had a nice little lunch date just luke & i! it was good to see davin & he got along great w/ Landon:)
Landon mastered a few new tricks... waving hi & clapping:) too cute! also he had a lot of "real people" food!!! and loved every bite!! He was a great traveler - the 8 hour ride in the car was a bit of a challenge for him but some how we all managed! wish we could have stayed longer & i could have gotten a little more skiing in but I was also REALLY glad to be back home yesterday! all in all ... REALLY good trip!

OMG...

I don't know how this could have happened, I totally forgot to inform all of you in the blog world that we FINALLY got our orders!!! I guess in the pure & utter excitement/joy I got a little overwhelmed & spaced out a little.
WE GOT OUR ORDERS!!! AND WE WILL BE MOVING BACK TO THE EAST COAST!!!! AND WE WILL BE STATIONED AT OUR FIRST PICK THIS TIME!!!! AND THAT IS.... MERRIMACK RIVER!!!! About 2 hours from RI! Needless to say we are BEYOND excited:) Landon & Angie are excited too... they just don't know it yet:)
PS check below - I did 2 updates today:)

Sick

again. We are ALL sick this time:( I think I got this cold first (I'm blaming it on the gym... seems fitting since my first week back was not ideal) then I passed it on to the babe & then we were hoping & praying that daddy didn't get it since we are going on a little ol' vacation next week... then daddy got it:(
It only seems to be really horribly bad for about 4 days so he should be better by this thursday - when we head off to pick up UNCLE DAVIN!!! and head up to WHISTLER!!! SWEET!!! Can't wait. I haven't skied since I broke my leg but I'm hoping to get back on the sticks @ least for one day:)

More Landon

Where is that toy...

Mom... I got it

Rockin' the HAWK!!

Happy Valentine's Day... a little late

Just a few new ones

Landon chewing on his *clean* diaper:)

You can really see the peach fuzz hair in this pic:)

Landon in his *super cool* new hat from Auntie Jenny:)

I love this hat... the strings untied look like dreads... he reminds me of Bob Marley:)

Welcome Back

Just wanted to recap my first visit back to the gym in 2009. I waited until mid Feb. to avoid all the new years resolution people... not sure it was worth the wait!

1. My first stop @ the gym *every time* is the elliptical. Well... I'm picky... I like the nice new ones:) what can I say - you ALL know it I am HIGH MAINTENANCE! So there was a old lady on a nice new one who had been on since 9:30 (it was 10:00 when I got there) and we all know you can only stay on for 1/2 hour! Well... she gets off & I think good ... she's done... I wait for 5 minutes (I didn't see where she went when she got off but she left her stuff on the elliptical) standing @ the sign up board like a freekin' idiot waiting for this lady to erase her name... well 5 minutes later she walks back into the gym & hops back on the elliptical... apparently she left to go to the BATHROOM!!!! Then hoped back on for another 1/2 hour!!!!! BITCH!!!

2. I take myself over to a CRAPPY OLD elliptical. I'm on it for maybe 10 min. when this girl hops on the one next to mine. She is apparently PSYCHOTIC because the whole time she is Talking to herself & SCREAMING WOO HOO!!!! AWKWARD!!!

3.I go to pick Landon up from the daycare area & he was left in the exersorser (jumpy thing) THE WHOLE FREEKIN TIME I WAS IN THE GYM!!!!!!!!!! He had tears (fresh ones) on his poor little face... I think the girl had JUST picked him up as I walked in the door!!! His eyes were all glazed over - the poor kid was EXHAUSTED!!! Well at least we both got our workouts!!!

I think this may make it a little difficult to return... I'll give it one more chance! I AM SUPER PISSED OFF THOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok.. the rant is over... for now:)

What we've been doing while daddy's been working

Some pictures for your viewing pleasure!

Landon... fast asleep. He is ALL over the place before he goes down for his nap - then he just passes out wherever... I love the foot sticking through the slats:)

I think we are getting a little bit too BIG for the baby tub:)

Cute little frogger after his bath!

Ok... we had to get rid of the naked shots... I don't want the wrong kinda people checking out Landon's but crack:) ya know!