All The Bells, 2007

Landoe's had a fun Christmas for 2007. We attended four family Christmas parties. The Dickson Christmas party had over 100 people in attendance. Wow!!!

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Video Clips: All the kids, Daniel

November Sunrise

I rolled out of bed on November 19th, peaked through the blinds and saw the most beautiful sunrise. I rushed out to the back yard, half asleep and not very smart on digital photography and snapped -this.

Long Beach

One of our family traditions is to try and get out to Long Beach or Cannon Beach at least once per year. This picture was taken at Long Beach, WA. On this trip, all of the kids had a chance to learn how to skim board. We also rented a Six person Quad-cycle and pedaled all around Seaside, Oregon. Fun trip.

Rope Swing

One of the memorable things about St Louis was that I had rigged up a giant rope swing in the back yard of the house. Almost every day, the kids would ride on the rope swing. It was a big hit in the neighborhood too.

Nauvoo

One of the benefits of living in St Louis was that we were just 2.5 hour drive away from Nauvoo, Il, which has a lot of historical significant to our church. On this particular trip, Rex Dickson and I wanted to look inside the Temple to see the new construction. Temple staff reminded us that the Lord's house is for doing work...not just for site seeing. So we did some seallings and then poked our noses around on our way out. Fun.

St Louis Arch

We moved to St Louis, MO just after Daniel was born. This picture is of the kids standing on the steps that lead up to the base of the St Louis Arch. Many of the kids childhood friends are in St Louis. St Louis is also where we purchased our first home.

Baby Daniel - Texas Baby

Daniel was born in Texas, and so that makes him our one Tay-xan. Not enough space to talk about Daniel. He is unique and independant personality from all the other kids. He doesn't take any flak from anybody. He's a tough and righteous little kid. At his birth, his siblings were ages 4, 5 & 6.

Halloween -Texas style

I think it was about 80 degrees on this Texas Halloween day. Fun experience and fun ward. Hunter is fireman, Alaura is an angel, and Rhiannon is a bunny.

Disney Land-oe

This was a fun trip. Our brother-in-law, John Pope had some connections that enabled us to stay in a Hotel overlooking much of the park. This was a fun and memorable trip.

The early days

The kids loved living in BYU. We lived right across from the BYU creamery where Uncle Mark would take them for ice-cream every Friday. They always looked forward to that.

Landoe Family Blog kick off

This picture is one of our first family pictures we ever took. We were living in Provo, Utah at the time. The day was frosty cold and Alaura's nose was visibly pink. This marks a time of great optimism and opportunity for the Landoe Family. Joel was attending BYU and Karah was just beginning to play piano as part of the Temple Square concert series, which entailed playing at the Conference Center and JSMB on alternating weekends for our church. The kids were enrolled in ballet, baseball, and pre-school.