Alaura moving up to Young Womans!!!

This past Sunday, Alaura graduated from Primary and is moving up into Young Woman's!!! It's a big milestone for her and we can't believe she's already in young womans!!!



























Also, in addition to graduating from Primary, Alaura's worked very hard to finish her Faith in God award, which requires her to do several faith/testimony promoting things like memorizing articles of Faith and studying topics like "Standing for Truth" in the topical guide and writing and preparing her own talk. As part of Faith in God, she also worked very hard at developing her talents and serving others. There's too many things to list but we are so proud of her and I hope you have a chance to ask her sometime what she did to earn that award.

If you are curious to learn more about Faith in God requirements, you can look here: http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=e59c5f74db46c010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=6459991a83d20110VgnVCM100000176f620a____

Sub Zero Mountain Morning

They say that freezing temperatures make very clear photos because all the moisture falls to the earth (or to a lower warmer elevation) when it freezes leaving you with clear crisp and vivid colors. I think that is what happened this morning. Notice the Eagle next to Mt Rainier (okay actually that was a crow...but who would have known the difference).

Daniel's Birthday!!!

Daniel turned 5 today!!! Happy Birthday Daniel!!!

Big Sis

Alaura is the big sister in the family, and she certainly lives up to it. The other day, on her own initiative she approached Karah and I about wanting to help her brothers and sistes clean their rooms. She talked it over with them and decided that the older kids should combine bedrooms with the younger kids to help train them to clean their rooms. I know this was a big sacrifice for Alaura, but she wanted to do it because she saw a need. So we spent Monday evening, reshuffling all the bedrooms and I must say I think Alaura was inspired.

Alaura is a great leader for all her brothers and sisters and really helps create some fun family times together for everyone.

Hunter earned his arrow of Light today!!!

Hunter earned the most prestigious badge in cub scouting tonight, the Arrow of Light. This is the one badge that he can wear on his Boy Scout uniform and throughout his life. The Arrow of Light also has an age cap of 11 years old after which boys cannot earn it any longer. Hunter earned his Arrow of Light 5 months early, enabling him to start focusing on Boy Scouts early and preparing for all the campouts, survival excercises, and high adventure activities. Way to go Hunter!!!

Excerpt of AoL ceremony

Pencil drawing of Rhiannon

Little Angel

I woke up at 5:30AM to get ready for work and make a lunch and when I opened the refrigerator, this is what I saw...a nice big brown sack lunch that was thoughtfully prepared and even had my name on it. Thanks Rhiannon!!!

Future Idol contestant: Daniel

Daniel was practicing his guitar solo last night.

Landoe Girls at Thanksgiving

November Sunrise Poem

At the break of day when thoughts awake

The Son light shines across the mind

and gives me a moment to see and thank

my Lord and Master, Advocate kind

He bids me upward, cheers my soul

Binds me up and makes me whole

He shines a light forth that all may see

The grand plan laid for eternity

Where we can grow in joy and love

Through Him and with Father up above

His loving way lights up our path

and shows us they way to live as he hath

Landoe's carry the world...and a pic with Cosmo the Cougar

Fun optical illusion at the Museum of Flight.

Kids had a chance to meet Cosmo while the BYU Cougars were in town. They stopped by the Museum of flight where we met Cosmo, watched BYU football reruns, and Cosmo commercials...and there was food.

Fall Spheres

Took this picture of the moon at 7:30 AM today, then photoshopped it a little to make it look darker. That's the only way to keep the exposure in check on a night moon. Still learning.

Pure, unaltered genious. Now I understand why the grape farmers take so much pride in their grapes. We have a strong harvest coming this year and I expect we should reach our goal of 80 lbs of grapes or about 6 gallons of conchord grape juice!

Spooner Pumkin Farm

Landoe's picked out pumkns out at Spooner's Farm this year. It was a beautiful fall day to create good memories. Mary, Zach, Grama, and the cousins were all together. It was a good time.

Here's a picture of my two pumkin princesses, Rhiannon, and Alaura.

Here's a video clip of the cousins having rubber duck races.

Later that night, we continued the festivities at home with a game of name that tune. This was actually a sly way on Karah's part to get us to practice for a Sunday musical number for which we greatly needed practice.

Mt Rainier

Here's the view from the backyard on 9/27/2008.

Snakes & Birds

Here's just a few things Landoes were up to on Saturday. Hunter found a snake in the wood pile.




Meanwhile, Karah was decorating for the 2008 Annual Relief Society broadcast & dinner. Decorations included "the bird of paradise" folded napkins and a sign in Chinese characters.








We think this sign either means "Sisterhood" or "girls of the hood" in Chinese, either way it worked.

Kid's say the funniest things series continued...

Hunter helped load 4 chords of wood today and single handedly weed eated the entire front bank facing the road. There were two separate ladies that drove by and complimented Hunter on his work ethic, (both happened while he was loading wood into a trailer). I told Hunter, "Wow, that's two people today that have said you are a very hard worker. Why do you think they are saying that?" I taunted. Then Hunter in his own brand of humility said, "Dad, it's not about me... it's about the muscles I've got. They are saying that because they see my muscles."

What a humble guy :-).

Sept 18th - I come home and go strait to the refrigerator for a snack to find that there are magnets all over the refridgerator with Daniel's baseball picture. Daniel comes up and says, "There's a lot of me on there!"

Sept 18th - Then I go to the stove to cook up some sausage and Daniel wraps his arms around one of my legs and says, "Dad, I miss you too much". Man I love that little guy.

Cooking in Grandma Dickson's kitchen

Kids had an opportunity to bake some goodies in Grandma Dickson's kitchen. You know holidays are around the corner when the kids are cooking in Grandma Dickson's kitchen. You also understand why kids always call it "Grama's house" instead of "Grampa's house."

Kids say the funniest things

When I rode in to the driveway today, Hunter said, "Dad I can smell your sweat from here" (he must have been down wind. "Oh I'm sorry do I stink?" to which he replied, "No you don't stink. Sweat is the smell of Vitory". And that is one of the latest Hunterisms.

"Sweat is the smell of victory" -Hunter Landoe.

I told Hunter that was one of the most profound things I have ever heard him say. So he marched upstairs and shared his wisdom with the rest of the family "Sweat is the smell of victory everyone". Karah said, "That's nice Hunter, I want to start seeing some victory in that bedroom of yours -right now!!!"

Hunterisms continued...

Journal Entry 4/25/2008: Hunter declared yesterday, "I want to be a scuba-diverologist." I asked him what a scuba-diverologist does and he replied, "They do research of sea animals and fish."

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Journal Entry 3/21/2008: I told the boys that we will be doing our first campout of 2008 at Buck Creek. Daniel burst out laughing in a loud giggly laugh and said, "Dad, you can't say that word!"

"What word?" I said.

"Butt Creep."

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Journal Entry 3/21/2008: Tonight Daniel made gun shapes out of both his hands and pointed them outward and said, "Hey baby, how you doin' !!!". Where does he get this stuff?

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Journal Entry 3/21/2008: Karah said she would make Daniel a necklace to which Daniel replied, "I'm gonna make a necklace for you...and for my girl." Then he looked down with his eyes slanted and poked his tongue into the side of his cheek. It was the cutest bashful expression.

Fourth of July pics

Spent the day up at Dicksons lighting off mega balls, lady fingers, and a bunch of other ill-eagle fireworks. The kids also took a ride in Grampa's freedom truck. He blew is old fashioned horn a bunch so the neighbors could hear. Fun stuff. Didn't bring the camera but Grama took a few pics attached here.

Landoe Cowboys and girls

Landoe's finally did one of those Cowboy western themed photo shoots. The lady told us to look serious. So this was the result. From left front we have, Hunter Landoe, Sarah Underwood , and Leah Underwood. From middle left, Karah Landoe, Brittnay Landoe, Leslie Landoe, Mary Underwood, Daniel Landoe, Rhiannon Landoe. From Back left, Alaura Landoe, Joel Landoe, Mark Landoe, Jim Landoe, Zach Underwood, & David Landoe.