Adah's first camping adventure!

Well, it's only been 4 months since we last updated our blog, that isn't too bad I guess :) This is mostly for my brother Todd who checks my blog all the time despite the fact that he is let down. I love you Toddy!

Anyway, last night was Adah's first camp out ever. We went to Spring Valley Resevoir, which is about 15 miles outside of Moscow. It has a really pretty little lake that is actually quite warm to swim in, so we swam a little bit in the evening, or rather, I swam and Adah and Katie stayed on the beach cause Adah is deathly afraid of water. But, here is a picture of the lake and area. It is really pretty!


Picture of us with camp all set up, sitting around the camp fire. We even got Adah a cute little camping chair of her own which she liked a lot. And although it isn't pictured, she had a princess sleeping bag courtesy of Grandma Patti that kept her nice and warm!


Adah's radical camping outfit. Complete with camo shirt and cap. Luckily she is really precious so she doesn't look like a boy!


Adah getting wasted and eating Doritos™ with our friend April Strawn.


The next morning, she survived! She even slept quite well surprisingly. She zonked right out.


Anywho, that is all. Hope anyone who sees this enjoys the pictures. Love you all and miss you lots!

Hey everybody!  Thought we would post a few new pictures of Adah since we haven't done that in a while.  She is almost two and a half now, and still as cute as a bugs ear :)  Adah and I went to the park today, so I took a few pictures of her playing and such, so enjoy!

Well, it's been a while since we updated the blog, quite a while actually :)  Not a whole lot of news to report as things are basically still the same.  Adah is getting more and more cute everyday and I thought some little videos would be fun instead of the regular pictures that are posted.  So ENJOY! Make sure and watch the top one first as they are kind of a continuation of each other. As a P.S. Adah chose the outfit she is wearing which is why she looks so nice in a t-shirt without pants and boots! We love you all!

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My friend Richie inspired me to start a weight loss blog since this is one of my big goals for the new year!  You can see it here

I think this will be a great way to keep myself accountable, so feel free to leave any remarks there you like to help keep me going :)  Also, if you want to start your own blog, send me the link and I'll add you to my post and we can get a little chain going! Yay!

Lanny out

Adah getting into the spirit of Christmas!

So this won't be a super long post, it's just a funny story accompanied by a cute picture!  This is what happened.

On the evening of December 16th, as I was putting our daughter to bed, she became VERY distressed, and started hysterically crying and yelling, "Mary! Mary! Please! Waaaaaa!!!! Mary!... etc... etc..." Now, there are a few possible Mary's she could have been crying for, so I will begin with narrowing down the list of who she may have been crying for.

1) Grandma Ackerman, who is named Mary

2) Her Cousin Mary, aged 5 (a good choice due to the close proximity of age)

3) Great Grandma Langston, also a Mary

4) Herself, who's middle name is Mary

5) And finally, The Virgin Mary

Any guesses?  If you guessed The Virgin Mary, you are CORRECT!  Here is why:  this week we had a ward Christmas party with white elephant gifts.  The gift our family received is about a 12" tall candle shaped like the Virgin Mary.  Adah has really taken to carrying this around with her and playing with it as well as her Little Mermaid Barbie, who knew that The Little Mermaid and The Virgin Mary could be Bff's? Obviously Adah did! :)  Anyway, as I was putting her down

 for the night, I put The Virgin Mary candle on her shelf, and she wanted to have nothing to do with it, and so cried her way into allowing me to let her snuggle it tonight.  So, as you will see in the picture below, she is sleeping with both the Virgin Mary and Ariel.  Pretty sweet. Gotta love the chilluns!

And on an unintentionally sacrilegious side note, as I was helping Adah pray tonight, I said "Thanks for letting me (speaking for Adah here) sleep with The Virgin Mary".  Sometimes I'm an unintentionally funny Dad, even if my real life Dad thinks I'm intentionally unfunny :)  

And on a happy note, we get to see lots of you in just a week or so! YAYAYAY!!

"Rabbit Hole", starring myself!

Last Thursday I opened "Rabbit Hole" at the University of Idaho.  It is my first semester up here and also my first show, and has been a really great experience!  I feel really blessed that I have such a good role my first semester here, as everywhere else I've been it seems like you have to "pay dues" before you get cast in stuff :)  

The cast I'm working with is really great.  The gal who is playing my wife, Crystal Munoz-Tesch is a lot of fun, and is about the only other Mormon in the department in general, so it was funny we got cast as the married couple.  We're both married in real life though, so I guess they figured we knew how to be married!  And just as a funny side-story/coincidence, we share the same anniversary (August 11th), although in different years. 

Anyway, I included a few of the pictures from the show for your viewing pleasure.  We close the show this Saturday, and I'll be sad to see it go (although my wife and daughter will be happy to have their husband and dad back I think!).  I haven't enjoyed working on a show this much in a long time, or working with a group of people this much either I have to admit!  I really enjoy it here, and I'm learning a ton and have grown a LOT as an actor, and although I'm not supposed to say this because it sounds cocky, I do a really good job in this play. :)  

Me and Crystal (or Howie and Becca)

Howie and Becca

In the background is Lauren Fins, a professor (although not in the theatre dept) at the U of I who plays Nat.  GREAT actress! Also, if I look skinnier, its cause I am ;)

The entire cast, including understudies.  On the back row (left to right) Daniel Gerber as Jason, Lauren Fins as Nat, Jessie Taylor as Izzy, Rose Fredson as Izzy's understudy, Jordan (don't know his last name!) as Jason's understudy, and on the front Crystal Munoz-Tesch as Becca, and I, Lanny Langston as Howie.

Thanksgiving away from home!

So, Katie and I had our first Thanksgiving away from either of our homes yesterday, and it was a LOT of fun! We had 12 people over, people from our ward as well as from the theatre department. There was much delicious food and lots of fun :) Me and Katie made the Turkey, and it actually turned out really good (thanks Dad!). Other yummy things we had were stuffing, freshly made rolls, mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, corn casserole, ham, yams, apple pie, banana cream pie, coconut cream pie, pumpkin pie.... and maybe some other stuff too! It was all SO good! Adah had a lot of fun too. We let her drink soda, and she drank about 3 or 4 cups worth of cream soda and got pretty wired up on all the sugar. The picture below is her dipping her barbie into her soda, I think she was surprised I busted her :)


A sample of what we had to eat. These were actually the leftovers, yay for Thanksgiving!

One of our friends had a fancy whipping cream dispenser that used Co2 gas for the pressure. Our friend April squeezed the trigger a little too hard and there was an explosion :)

Adah with our friend Matt, who kind of looks a tiny bit like my brother Todd.

Me carving the Turkey! It's a lot harder than it looks.