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

The better looking 2/3rd's of our Family

Here are a few cute pictures of my dear wife and my dear baby Adah, all dressed up for church this Sunday. This dress came compliments of Grandma Patti and is VERY cute :) She also has a few others that as she wears we'll maybe try to post some pictures of those as well. Adah is starting to like church quite a bit. She likes to say hi to people there. She's taken to saying to just about everyone she sees in the grocery store as well. It's pretty cute hearing her little voice say "Hi". She actually says "Hello" sometimes too which is really dang cute. Among her other accomplishments, she now knows what a doggie says as well as a kitty.


She's getting to be pretty smart, and says quite a few words, and is starting to put them together. Among her individual words she now says are: Mama, Dada, Pop (which is Grandpa Ackermans name), dog, hi, hello, baby, ball (which is sometimes bop), meow, ruff, @!#* (which is the sound she makes whenever shes pooing in her pants, tooting, or if we ask her "what a poo poo says), and her favorite word/phrase, "what's that?" 'What's that' usually means she wants whatever it is she's pointing at, but its still cute. The other day she said "what's that dog" while pointing at the Ackermans dog. And today we were playing ball and she pointed at me holding the ball and said "Dada ball". So that was cute.

Anyway, that's about all of the cute things that have happened lately, we'll try to keep this updated regularly so that our 4 or 5 some odd regular readers aren't disappointed :)

Lanny out

Adah's Valentine Message

Just wanted to post a cute video of our baby girl Adah. You'll hear in here that she knows the answer to the question of "What does a poo-poo say?". Pretty cute :) You can definitely tell she has my DNA.

Lanny

And You Thought Valentine's Day Sucks When You're Single...

Today we discovered we were overdrawn in our bank account. That was dumb. That also meant our Valentine's Day plans were shot. No romantic evening out on the town, hand-in-hand, as we'd (okay I'd) been picturing it for weeks.

So we had to wing it.

You know how everyone talks about spontaneity being the spice of life...the simple times are the best times...and all that kind of stuff?

Well they're wrong.

First we decided to watch Across the Universe because it had arrived from our Netflix queue. We thought, "What could be more fun on a Valentine's Day night than a little Julie Taymor action?"

Yeah, it basically sucked.

Then we thought, "Well--maybe we can watch Lost instead. Who doesn't love some mystical island loving?" So we called my parents to TiVo it. And when we got there, it had failed to record.

That sucked too.

Finally, to cap a desperately romantic evening, we came home and popped in the old standby--Star Trek: Voyager. And you know what? Star Trek is always there for you. Always teaching you right and wrong...how to live by the Prime Directive...show kindness to foreign aliens...and all that good stuff. It's the one constant in a world of chaos.

Kind of like a true Valentine.

Now maybe we'll go make Adah Part II.

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone.


P.S. Lanny asked me to include the following disclaimer: ALL of Valentine's Day didn't suck, because Lanny made us a delicious curry dish with freshly steamed asparagus. It was yummy--but such a detail didn't exactly fit the theme of today's post.

Posted by: Katie