Kansas Trip 2012

On November 5th Deb, Emma, Gabe, Conrad and I 

decided to drive to Kansas for Lileigh's adoption.

Her adoption was scheduled for Tuesday, Nov 6th at 10:30am

in St. Francis, Kansas (their home town).

We left after Conrad's first feeding (around 4:00am) and drove almost straight

through to a town about an hour out from St. Francis because we were

surprising them:)

Emma was so helpful in the car!

Conrad just started fitting in regular newborn (8-10lbs) outfits this week! 

Before he had to wear the smaller newborn outfits (5-7lb size)

Funny pics in the car!! 

how much longer mom?!

I need to go!!!

Eating breakfast at the hotel the morning before the adoption:

Conrad in his special adoption shirt:)

Nana made special shirts for all of us to wear. They said:

"We are family, Lileigh Landers" and then our relation to

Lileigh....(i.e. Aunt Emma, Nana, Uncle Gabe)

Walking in to the adoption-Becca was completely surprised!!

This is Jordan's mom (Nana) with Becca (Jordan's oldest sister) and Becca's

youngest: Jackson and Lileigh -who was being adopted today!

Keeping Jackson company during the adoption:)

Such a neat thing to witness:

The Landers Family, now a family of 6!

Me and Con (4 weeks old:)

All of us after the adoption was complete!

I love his baseball outfits:)

Started using the wubbanub this week

Adoption party that night at their house:

Lileigh Grace:

She was18 months old at the time of adoption. 

They got her through the foster care system, from the hospital, when she was born 14 weeks early.

They did a great job taking care of her and she is thriving now:)

Conrad got his first real bath tonight!! He loved it so much, especially with Grace and

Emma helping:)

Jordan was watching via face time:

Another picture of him in the bath. It was so cute!!

Taking a nap the next day with me:)

Grace playing with the big kids!

Becca and Conrad!

Trip to McDonald's -pretty exciting around here!! :)

He's pretty excited about his 1st trip to McDonalds....

candid conrad.

Jeff's Birthday!! He's 37

Conrad on his heap of laundry....

Nana and her craziness......

Jayce and Gabe making up raps...hehe

Watching funny videos on the iPhone 

this little wig came free with Madagascar 3...

hello!

Becca let me borrow this awesome pouch from Kangaroo Korner. It is no longer

available, so I am so grateful! He loves to snuggle up with me:)

I'm so grateful I went on the trip because that was the last week I was on a NEW

antibiotic....and it made Conrad really gassy and fussy-especially at night. It was
miserable, I felt so bad for him. I'm glad to be done with all the medicine!!

Funny video of Conrad just sleeping/chillin...

Year 2 Med School & 5 Year Anniversary

I'm playing catch up from August/Sept..so here it goes:

When the 2nd year of Medical school started, there was a fair at UTMB for all the

newbies coming in for their 1st year. Jordan is on leadership for Hands and Feet Medical

Missions group, and they had a booth at the Welcome Weekend. As you can see from the

pictures, the guys on leadership are.....what's the word? oh yea. weird. haha! I'm 

just kidding, they are a lot of fun=)

 Jordan and Jason hiding behind the booth b/c they're tired of talking to people.

Notice instead of candy, they decided to give out 'Turkey Bacon'....there were only

2 pieces left! It was a hit! =)

 Jordan and I TRYING to take a picture.

From left we have Jordan's friends: T.J., Brazos, Me & Jordan of course, then Josh.

finally got them to leave the photog!

me and Ansley-Ms. P.A. fabulous!!

(I'm going to skip Kelsey's rehearsal dinner and wedding and do that in a separate post)

The day AFTER the wedding on Sept 3rd, we left for our vacay in MEXICO!!! =)

We got to go with our good friends, Taylor and Josh. We had such a blast-it 

was a MUCH needed vacation that went by all too fast, but it was awesome.

First day in the pools!

finally getting to read something other than medical books.

view from our balcony!

Our room had an amazing bathroom, this is the view from the jacuzzi out 

to the balcony. SO NICE=) we loved it! thanks bookit.com!

dinner was so fun every night. all inclusive is the best!

We got to go to this amazingly fun XTREME park!

It had miles of trails that were all zip lining WAYYY up in the air!

It was scary at first, but once you took the first jump, the rest was so fun!

we had to climb all these towers, to then zip line off!

WAY scarier than a roller coaster!

on one they let us go together. I love jordan's face here. lol.

We got to wear helmets. so funny.

some of the zip lines went down and into a fresh water cave! 

good things my camera's waterproof b/c I did not see that one coming!

and some of them had water slides in between!!! =)

At this park you could also take rides on dune buggy's! Jordan got a little

out of control on one of the turns and we had to hitch hike after that. LOL. don't worry, it 

isn't as bad as it sounds, its a closed park. ha. the people behind us were also in dune buggy's.

And the last 2 things we did I didn't take pictures of b/c it was completely in the water and I 

didn't want to test my camera....But what we did was a wooden kayak through underwater

freshwater caves, it was so fun!

And the last one was swimming through the same kind of caves.=)

It was a BLAST! but, man, were we exhausted!! haha.

dinner that night.

we stayed on the beach the next day... 

nice hat josh.

dinner the last night. we didn't want to leave!=)

the SOMS (Spouses of Medical Students) group is BACK in session!

We have some new additions this year=)

We meet once a month at the Sunflower Cafe, I love meeting with these girls

and getting to know them better=)

From left:

Whitney, Amanda, Cayla,