A Daddy and Daughter Hike!

Howdy ya'll. Today, me and Adah went on a hike (probably around 4 miles round trip) from our house up to a place called "First Dam" in Logan. We have a cool backpack that makes it so I can just strap Adah to my back and we're on our way!



There is a cool trail by our house that walks along a canal. It is nice and shady! This is the trail we took to get up to First Dam. It goes most of the way there.




This is a picture of Adah at First Dam. We had a nice little lunch of dried cranberries, granola bars, and water (from a Nalgene bottle of course). She is looking at a bunch of ducks that are out in this reservoir.





The ducks that I was telling you about. There was a TON. We tried feeding them a little bit. But there were seagulls flying around too, and they would always swoop in and steal it from the ducks before they could get it, so we stopped feeding them because seagulls are gross birds :)




Just a cute picture of Adah playing at First Dam after we ate. She had a lot of fun playing and didn't want to go home. Probably because it was a 2 mile walk (I didn't really want to either!).




Adah didn't quite make it home without falling to sleep. She slept like that for about the last 20 minutes of our hike, it was pretty cute :)

Anyway, that is all about our fun adventure! Hope you all enjoy the pictures. Now that it is warm enough to go outside, hopefully we can start posting a little more often about the life and adventures of our family!

Spring Time in Logan! (almost)

We finally got up to VERY close to 70 degrees today. Adah went outside and had a fun time walking around and getting some sun. She's pretty pale, so she needs it :)

Anyway, it's supposed to drop back down to the 40's on Wednesday and snow some more. @!*%. I need Spring!! At least we have a darn cute kid. And I'm (this is Lanny btw) out of school now for the summer, so that is radical badical!

NBA Commercial featuring "The Rachel's"

Hey, for those of you who worked with SITI company at Utah State, you'll appreciate this commercial. If you listen closely, you'll notice this is a song by The Rachels off of their "Systems/Layers" soundtrack! COool stuff! And go Jazz!!

Moscow

Just a quick post with some exciting news. I was accepted to the MFA Graduate acting program at the University of Idaho just recently, and also got a teaching assistantship which is going to pay for all of my tuition as well as a little extra spending money, so yay!

We're pretty excited about it. Not that Idaho isn't basically Utah, but it is still cool since we've never lived out of state. At least not until we move to Bulgaria after I graduate. :)

It's officially Spring Time!

As you can see, Spring is in full swing in Logan. This is a park that is across the street from our home. Very nice :) It WAS actually warm enough to take Adah out though, so even though everything is still dead she enjoyed being out of doors.

We went and threw some rocks in a little stream nearby, and then she went and walked through all these dead leaves and things, so that was pretty fun.


We also went to visit my brother Andrew this last weekend, and Adah got to see Wells, who she has only seen once since he was out of the hospital, so that was a lot of fun too. Andrew and Sophie babysat Adah while me and Katie went out for the evening. They said that Adah tried to poke Wells in the eyes a few times, and smack him with the remote control, but besides that she was pretty good.

My brother Andrew also lives in the exact same student living complex that my parents did when I was a kid, so that is pretty cool. This is a picture of myself as a baby, as well as my baby Adah on the very same play area (both one year old, but obviously these were taken a few years apart!)












And last but not least, we also recorded a little video of baby Adah with her cousin Wells. So enjoy this as well :)

Adah's New Starring Role

Here is yet another stirring video of our baby. This time, it features Adah in a commanding performance as...Adah...demonstrating remarkable skills such as--you know--walking...and showing off her pretty princess dress...and telling us all what doggies and kitties say.

Also co-starring Lanny Langston as himself.

Cinema has never been this good.

My famous radio spot

So, a funny thing happened today. There is a political radio talk show called "For the People" that myself and Katie listen to quite a bit here in Logan, and I've actually called a few times because I tend to get really riled up about things (politics mainly), and can't help myself. Anyway, on the way home from watching a Jazz game this evening, we were listening to the radio station that plays "For the people" when a radio spot came on advertising the program, and had audio clips of things a couple of callers had said on the air; and I was one of the clips!! :) It was way funny. It was from a call in I had made about Mike Huckabee where I said something to the effect that:

"Mike Huckabee reminds me of a gossip queen who is constantly saying 'well, I don't want to say anything bad about this person, but.....'"

And that is really it. It was just funny to hear myself on the radio.

Next thing you know I'm going to have my own talk show where I make quippy remarks like that for a living! I'd probably have at least as many listeners as readers of our blog :)

Lanny out