Butt first!

Twenty years ago, on our first-year anniversary and Father's Day,

Landon insisted on coming into this world butt first.

He's been doing everything since then the hard way too,
just kidding, sort of. 
Here's the doctor pulling him butt first out of my belly since he wouldn't fit the other way!

He was precious and adorable of course!
The cutest and smartest baby ever born!

He has demonstrated a need for speed from a young age.........

We thought for a while that he might be a quarterback in the NFL

and watch him on TV someday.....

Or a famous rock star in a band...........

A handsome rock star!

Or maybe a professional lifeguard and WSI.......

Thought at one point he might not make it at all

after a burst appendix, but he survived!

For a while we thought he might take off around the world on his bike......

But here's where you will find him most of the time now,

reading, studying, learning, growing in wisdom and knowledge.

I took the photo above from outside his window,

he didn't know I was there. 

If you want to see what is on his mind these days check out his blog at

http://landonoakes.blogspot.com/

but be ready to exercise your brain. :)

Raising this young man has been a ride for Bill and I,

thrilling, humbling, scary, joyful, exasperating,

interesting (meaning never a dull moment),

a wonderful, stressful, prayerful adventure! 

We are oh so proud of the person he is becoming

and blessed to call him son.

Love you, Landon!