Socks, a movie, and awesome neighbors!!!

I hope everyone had an awesome weekend! We did a little bit of everything this weekend...Braydon had a couple of his friends come over to help change the brakes on my car and I am happy to report that they did a very good job!! I made them lunch for a thank you which they were thankful for. :)

That afternoon we went for a walk with Landon in the stroller. I've been housesitting for a neighbor and I needed to go check her mail. Since our mailboxes are at the front of our neighborhood, we thought it would be a nice walk there and back. Braydon brought his keys to check our mail at the same time...kill two birds with one stone, right? Anyways, we got down to the mailbox and checked the mail. Landon wanted to take the keys out of the large mailboxes that packages come in, so Braydon gave him his keys instead so we could head back. Landon was satisfied with that and he was shaking the keys and playing with them as we made our way back up the street. As we passed one of the sewers that drains the street, we hear the keys fall, followed by another clinking sound. Braydon and I both looked down, looked at each other, and said "did that just happen?". Braydon tried to lift the drain but to no avail. One of the neighbors happened to be walking by with his dog and inquired as to what happened. After he found out about the keys falling down the sewer, he told us that he could help cause he's always chasing after his dogs toys that go down there. First off, why you would care if your dog toy went down the sewer?? Second, the fact that this guy wants to go down into a nasty sewer to retreive his dogs nasty sewer toy is just gross!! Anyways, I'm only realizing that as I'm writing this cause at the moment we were just happy that someone knew how to open the lid. He went to his house, got a screwdriver, and in that amount of time we had a couple of other people around us that were wondering what we were doing. When the sewer-dog-toy-man got back, he snapped the end of his screwdriver off but still ended up getting the lid open. When the lid came off another guy that had just pulled up claimed that he was the smallest out of all the guys (which he wasn't) and went down there to retrieve our keys. We got our keys back and we didn't even have to go down there and get them!! However, we learned a very valuable lesson....never give a two year old your keys...ever!!! With all joking aside, we were thankful for their help and we're so happy that we have such awesome neighbors!!!

That night, one of Braydon's bosses at work was having a movie night in his backyard for his son's birthday, so we went over there and watched Veggie Tales on the side of his house. It was actually a nice set up with movie popcorn and candies. We brought a blanket, laid it out on the grass and tried to entertain Landon with some toys since he wasn't interested in the singing vegetables. :)

We had a lazy day full of chores and hanging out today.

Last week we had fun with Landon at PT. He worked really hard on crawling for us, but was quickly over that. Penny asked him if he wanted to go for a walk and he quickly replied with his little "uh-huh!". So he walked to the elevator, got on, and then walked up a ramp (all by himself with only a few catches from Penny) and onto another elevator to go back down to the therapy rooms to get a sticker for himself!!! We were so happy with how far he walked and Penny was overjoyed with how far he walk by himself. She said she feels like he will walk again, but could possibly have some trouble with running. I told her that was fine with me, we could find him a sport to play that didn't involve running. :) Of course now that Penny has said that, watch Landon prove her wrong! ...Which I'm sure Penny would love!!!!!


I've included some pictures of Landon that I took a couple of days ago. He woke up from his nap and wanted to bring his Mickey Mouse downstairs with him. I was trying to get him to show me Mickey and take his picture...but he didn't really understand why I was asking him that. :) The picture came out kind of cute though. I want everyone to take note of the yellow socks he's wearing. Those socks were from when we were still in Denver at the Swedish Medical Center. One of our nurses gave us an extra pair of them because they have the skid-proof sticky stuff on the bottom. She told us (with a smile) that we could take them for when Landon was walking again....Well, Wanda, if you are reading this, your socks have come in handy! ;)


Well, we have a busy week ahead. My mom is coming to visit on Wednesday to see Landon...Braydon and I are just an extra bonus! :) She'll be here until next Tuesday so I'll include some pictures from her visit the next time. :)

We found out the closing date for our house will be September 29th!!! We're excited, nervous, stressed and overwhelmed all at the same time. I just keep telling myself that this will be the last time we have to deal with moving out of military housing for a long time...if ever again! :) The house has drywall up and the siding has been completed. Braydon and I are going to go there tomorrow and take some pictures so everyone can see. We're super stoked!!!!!!