Date Night

Clint and I went out to celebrate his birthday tonight. We had a DELICIOUS dinner at Joe DiMaggio's.
Clint loved his Filet Oscar and sauteed mushrooms. We had so much fun having a fancy night out together. Lane was at some friend's house playing with their two kids while we ate. After dinner we went to pick him up and stopped to get ice cream together at McDonald's on our way home.
I think it was the highlight of the night for all of us!

An Apple Today

Laners and I made a little trip to the grocery store this afternoon. Lane is to the age now that he knows the foods I am getting in the produce section, the place where we get all of his favorite foods. He usually cries for a banana, but today it was an apple. I figured what would it hurt if I let him eat on an apple while we shopped? So, I gave him one and he pulled the little sticker off of it. I thought, ok, he just wants to hold it. Then, I looked down and he took a tiny little mouse bite. It was so cute. He took a few more little nibbles and I got down to business, grocery list business that is. The next time I looked down, a few isles later, Lane had attacked the apple! There was hardly any skin left on it and he was covered in apple pulp and juice!!! I was so mad I didn't have my camera with me to capture the moment that I took a few pictures as soon as we got home. Yes, he was still working on that apple!

I'm sure he's thinking "Mom, this is the best apple ever, thanks for letting me have it."
"Mom quit taking pictures and let me eat my apple!"

When he finally gave the apple up this is what was left. I should have taken a picture of a whole apple with this one to get the full effect. I think he did pretty good for his first ever attempt at a whole apple.

There and Back

For the second trip in a row, Bartlesville, Oklahoma was blanketed with snow. This time - just over six inches, and this time - it all fell while we were there. It was amazing to see the snowfall, at least until I had to start shoveling it (see photos from Steph's last post). There is no doubt that Laners loves the snow. Um, at least until his gloves, pants and jacket are soaked. Snow = fun, uber-cold hands and bottom = so not fun.


During this trip, we also celebrated my (Clint) 35th birthday. This marks the start of the five-month period each year where I have a younger wife. However, Steph informed me that she will not be joining me on this venture into the mid-to-upper 30s. She is fine right where she is, age-wise.

The birthday celebration began that morning with a huge breakfast, followed with a mid-day nap, then an early dinner which included a new personal favorite (and that of Tonto, Pochohantas and Sacajewea), Indian Tacos. Althought I wonder how they deep-friend their bread and if they used seperate salad bowls. Food and sleep make for a great birthday. We capped the evening off with a game of Chicken Foot, dominos for the adacemically supperior. However, they let me play anyway.



Back at the ranch, Round Rock Ranch (our subdivision), Lane made the leap from the high chair to a booster seat at the table. Freedom, Independance and more leverage for throwing food on the floor. For our little boy, he has arrived. Heck, if he is going to eat as much a most adults, he might as well eat at the same table.
Well, I guess that is all for this entry.

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The Big Return

Clint excitedly woke up this morning to shovel off a driveway covered in freshly fallen snow. We wanted to get everything ready for Grampy to come home today.
We made a banner for the garage.Murphy was ready with lots of welcome home kisses for Grampy. We had a big celebratory family dinner tonight. Lane was so excited he wanted to get an early start on dinner. He climbed up in a chair as my sister was setting the table. She got him some raw veggies to munch on while he waited for everyone to come join him.
It has snowed so much today that Clint had to clear the driveway off again this evening. He got to use a neighbor's snow blower, I think it might have been the highlight of his day!

Up and At 'Em!

Last night we drove up to Bville to surprise Grampy & Grammy. Every time I've called to check in on my Dad, at least twice a day, he's told me "he sure wished Lane was here". We had planned to come up this weekend, but Northern OK is supposed to get between 6-12 inches of snow tonight and tomorrow so we came up last night to miss the storm. We got into town about 1 a.m. and headed straight to the hospital to see Grampy. I think he was glad to see Lane! This morning we came up to see Grampy and he was eating ice chips with a spoon. Lane saw him, the ice, and the spoon and had to have his own.

Now for a report on our patient: Grampy is doing great! He's sat up most of the day, he's made 5 laps around his floor, ate his first meal of solid foods for lunch, and found out he gets to go home tomorrow morning! He is still has some pain, but he is doing great. We are very happy he has done so well. Thank you for all for your prayers!

Grampy!

Hey Daddy, we are praying for you today! We are praying for you, the doctors and nurses in the operating room, and our friends and family waiting for you in the waiting room. We are confident that surgery will go well and you will be up and raring to go very soon. I do have one request though, please don't let the pain meds go to your head like Mom does. A girl can only handle one crazy parent.

Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. 1 John 5:14-15

My sweet Dad is having surgery to remove prostate cancer today at 8:30 am. He will be in surgery for about an hour and a half and will recover in the hospital for 3-5 days.

Pedernales Falls

Saturday we went to Pedernales Falls for a day trip. This was our first hiking trip with Lane, and he did great!

Me and the kids before we began our adventure. Lane got to do lots of rock climbing.

And some splashing, he loved the splashing!

Clint couldn't resist showing Lane how to throw rocks into the water.

Lane had so much fun throwing rocks.

We did lots of hiking. When Lane got tired he got a free ride on Dad's shoulders.

Before we left the falls area Lane walked to beach to get down to the water. He was so cute!

When he finally made it back down to the water he sat down to throw rocks one last time.

On our way out of the park we decided to check out one more trail. The path was steep and I was pooped so we sat and let Lane and Murph play in a little amphitheater area.

Lane had so much fun walking Murph!
I wonder what his favorite thing of the day was?