The Lamprechts in Louisville

The Lamprechts came to visit the day after Christmas.  Mindy and I went shopping for a few hours and it was  a lot of fun shopping without any children.  Then we allowed the boys to go frisbee golfing one day and out to play tennis the next.  We also played a lot of wii, tennis especially, and Jace and I beat Mindy and Logan of course! :)  Then one day we all went to the park with the kids and it was a lot of fun.  The weather was perfect and sunny as you can tell from the pictures.  The kids all had fun chasing each other around.

Mindy and Tulie

Oliver, Logan, and Sawyer

Oliver and Landon

Landon

Landon wanting to be just like his daddy!

Another picture of Landon and daddy having fun and bonding.  We love the little guy even though he can be quite the handful.  Even though it was from a couple weeks earlier I thought I would throw it in here.

Christmastime at Mark and Krystal's

Before Christmas we went to visit Jace's brother Jordan and Stephanie for a few days and we had a lot of fun watching movies and playing games in Quincy, Illinois and then we went to visit Mark and Krystal in Kirksville for a few days.  On Christmas Eve we went sledding for Landon's first time in Kirksville.  It was cold, but a lot of fun.  Landon acts comatose in the cold and just stands there; it is pretty funny.  It is great seeing Dylan, Ashlynn, Logan, and Emmalynn get so big and capable.  Below is Dylan, Logan, and Krystal.

Ashlynn

Dylan

Emmalyn, Mark, and Logan

Jace and Landon

Later that night we hung out with Mark, Krystal, and Krystal's brother LW and his girlfriend and played mad gab and then played rock band.  Krystal and I got some quality while wrapping presents and got done just in time to see Mark try the one man rockband at about 2:30 in the morning.  He got through about 55% of the song.  Not bad!

Christmas Morning

Last year at Christmas time Landon was only a few months old so we were excited for this year and seeing his reaction.  I think he had more fun with all the kids enthusiastic and ripping into the presents.  We took a few presents for Landon to open up there and opened up the rest later that day when we got home.  Below is Logan opening up a football from Dylan (I think).

Ok, I know I look like crap, but it was Christmas morning, no makeup!  At least Landon looks cute enjoying his new toy.

Landon enjoying playing with Logan's new toy truck, look at that expression he loves it.  And a basketball hoop to start practicing young.  He actually likes to climb through it and carry it around, until he gets stuck in it and needs help.  Emmie looks cute in her pajamas in the background.  Somehow I didn't get that many pictures of the other kids, but needless to say we had a blast that morning.  And when we left Dylan and dad were busy playing a new wii light saber game.  We had a lot of fun being with family for Christmas and we thank them for putting up with us for a few days.

The Louisville Museum Tour

With everyone here we went to several museums around town.  Here is a bit of the fun we had over the couple of days after Thanksgiving.

Kentucky Derby Museum

You can't come to Louisville without visiting the famous Churchill Downs.

In the first picture they are leading a horse around the paddock before they race so you can look at all the horses and decide which one you want to win or bet on!  The second picture is of Oliver with a replica of the roses they put on the winner, thus the run for the roses.  In the group picture it is Dad, Mindy, Jordan, and Jayden.  If you look closely you can see all the crazy derby hats behind everyone in the case.  

First riding the horse Landon, Tulie, and Oliver.  Everyone was trying to ride the horse in the correct jockey position.  It is definitely harder than it looks!  I think Jace might be in pain.  Mom looks like a pro though.

Louisville Science Center

We all had fun running through all the floors.  We loved the animal exhibits the most.  Somehow we only got pictures of our family.  But most of us were there having fun, trying to make a bubble around ourselves.

Landon in the cockpit of a rocket or something.  Don't worry the bear won't eat us it is stuffed.  It sure is big though!

Frazier Historical Museum

Even us Kentuckians had not been to this museum and I think it was the best one we have ever been to.  It was an amazing museum the third floor was all English history with knights, wars, and suits of armor.  The second floor was all American history with guns and gunslingers.  If you are ever in Louisville definitely make this a stop.

Our family with a medieval knight behind us.  Jace and his mom with a union soldier behind them.  Oh how the times have changed throughout history.

Thanksgiving 2008

  You've never had a full house until you've had 10 people and 6 kids in one house for 3 1/2 days!  But even packed in we had a blast or maybe it was because we were all so close that we had so much fun.  Here's all of us all dressed up for Kourtney's blessing.

Here is the happy couple and the beautiful little Kourtney after her blessing.

The Thanksgiving spread, it sure was delicious.

Bath time sure is fun with all those kids.  At least the kids had fun splashing around.

What to do for fun with all those kids?  Because let's face it, the boys are just big kids.  Let's see we played the wii...

We played in the bounce a round...

We had campfires with plenty of smores...

And we just hung out...

Here is a great picture of Jace's and my family.  We sure owe Mindy for all these great family photos.  She took so many great ones I couldn't really decide what to use for the blog.

Corn Maze and More Landon

November 1, 2008

We went to Huber Farms in Indiana and played on the toys and went through the corn maze.  It wasn't exactly like the ones back home, but we had a lot of fun playing around. Landon loved watching the ducks in the pond there.  Then we bought some apples and ate some fried chicken and called it a day.

Landon loving his tonka truck and being like mom and dad on the phone.  Now he makes his dad hook the dog leash and pull him around in circles for at least 15 minutes every night.  In fact that is what they are doing right now as I write this!

November 16, 2008

I bought this toy for Landon at the store, I just couldn't resist and after showing him once or twice he definitely got the hang of it.  He also could take 4 or 5 steps, but then he would fall over and just crawl to wherever he was going.  About 3 weeks before he could only walk about one step before falling over.  About a week after this he started walking all the time.  Oh, and it was our seventh anniversary.  We must be getting old to be married that long!

Halloween

October 17th, 2008

We went to the zoo where they have a halloween party and they have the whole place decorated for trick or treating and many fairytale creatures and superhero characters join you.  It was a lot of fun and the weather was beautiful.

Wow, Superman is holding me!

October 25th

The ward halloween party can be described by hot dogs, runway walk, and trick or treating.  It is always a lot of fun to go room to room trick or treating and everyone decorates a room and let me tell you some of the rooms were over the top!

Our family, I dressed as if I still lived in the eighties.  It's a shame you can't really see the blue eyeliner and eyeshadow.  I actually ended up loving the lime green legwarmers, I almost wore them on a normal day.  J/K 

Landon is either a dragon or a dinosaur, we never really figured it out.  He's just whatever he wants it to be later on!

We finally got around to carving the pumpkin the day before halloween and as you can tell Landon loved it.