Saturday in Moscow

Hey everyone! It's Saturday morning, and we've just returned from the local Farmer's Market with some delicious fruits and vegetables. We're going to have a BBQ later while we watch the BYU game :) Anyway, below are a few cute little tidbits of Adah and also us. The video is of our living room and kitchen area of our apartment, as well as some cute Adah stuff. And then there are also a few pictures of Adah on my scooter, as well as us at the Farmer's market today. Things are going really well for us here. I said this in my last post, but I'll say it again cause it is cool, but I was cast as the lead in our production of "Rabbit Hole" which is way radical. It goes up the first week in December.

As far as family stuff, we're starting to make friends in our ward which is a lot of fun. We had dinner with a couple last week, and we have dates to hang out with some other people as well. We're going to have people over next week for "Bad Mormon Movie Sunday". Where we watch a bad Mormon movie (heaven knows there are plenty!!). We'll probably watch "Passage to Zarahemla" because it is supposed to be awful!

If you need any tips on bad movies to watch, just ask us and we'll point you in the right direction. We also sometimes have "Bad Evangelical Movie Sunday", so you can also get pointers on some of those.

But, things are really good. Adah is just the sweetest little girl there ever was, although she is definitely getting to be a little mischevious. My Dad (Grandpa Langston) said he could tell she had that streak when she was like 12 months old, and its starting to be pretty apparent he was right. I've got a pretty wise Dad! Adah is also getting pretty old. She turns two in November, so that is CRAZY!!! Anyhow, enjoy the pictures below. We love you all and make sure and stay in touch and make lots of nice comments on our blog cause we love to hear from everybody!



P.S. You may notice Adah has slightly short bangs in some of these pictures. I tried to cut her bangs cause they were always in her eyes, but I did a bad job. I thought maybe I'd inherited Grandma Patti's DNA for cutting hair, but I was wrong :)

We're in Moscow!/ Our first post in MONTHS!

Sorry it's taken so long to make a post since we've been here in Moscow, and in a super duper long time in general! BUT, better late then never, so enjoy.

As far and Katie and Lanny news, we're both settling in nicely. Katie's business is going really well, and it is nice that she is able to be at home with Adah. I started school this week, and am teaching two sections of Public Speaking which is cool, AND it is paying for my school. But, best of all, I found out this week that I have already been cast as the lead in a show up here!!! Woot! I'll be playing Howie in the play "Rabbit Hole", which some of you may remember cause my wife was in it earlier this year.

Anyway, here is some pictures so you can kind of see where we are. First and foremost, this is our house. We live in the bottom of it, but it is a LOT bigger than our last apartment which is really nice! Our old apartment was 2 bed 1 bath and had about 800 sq. ft. of space. This one is 3 bd. 1 1/2 bath and about 1400 sq. ft with a really really big living room and kitchen area. We were even able to have just a workout room which is cool.



This is Adah out back of our house. Our backyard connects directly to this enormous field that is pretty fun for Adah to go run around in and get some exercise and stuff like that.



Adah has really started to enjoy flowers. This is her trying to pick some. When we were out in the yard today she was walking around and really excitedly yelling "flar, flar, flar, flar, flar....!!!" (that's how she says it). Besides that, she's talking a lot now in general. She is getting really good at identifying things by pictures and what not. Some of our favorites are "salami", "pickle", "caterpillar", "sooo pretty" (which she says if she wants to wear a certain outfit), "brush teeth", "yogurt" (she eats 2 or 3 a day right now and would eat more if we didn't curb it a little) and many other fun things. She probably says 100 to 150 or so words maybe.



Just another really cute little picture of Adah in a fall outfit. It's been raining and cold about 50% of the time since we've been here so we're not wearing many summer clothes for now.


Anyway, that's about all for now. We'll try and do a lot better about posting things since we're far away from everyone now. Love you all!

Langston Look-alike Meter

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Free pedigree charts

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. :)