Unexpected visitors!

So the other day when we went to the bay, we found some really exotic, scary different looking sea shells and since we have been in the habit of collecting them, we decided we would bring them home. After I washed all the sand off of them, I set them in the sink to dry, and thought nothing else of them, until...I heard some banging in the kitchen. When I went to see what the noise was all about, I discovered hermit crabs in both sea shells. Well, since we didn't have time to take them back to the bay that night, we left them in the sink all night. This probably wasn't a good idea because we could hear them banging throughout the night, anyways, we took them back to the bay the next day. It was a fun visit with the hermit crabs, but we are glad they are now back where they belong.

These pictures don't do justice for how big the crabs actually were...they were Gigantic...I don't know how they managed to cram themselves inside a relatively small shell.

Boise vs. Southern Miss

This past Saturday, Jacob went to the Boise state vs. Ole Miss game with Tyler who is also from Boise. On the way to Mississippi they stopped at a restaurant called Wings and watched the Texas vs. Oklahoma game. What an awesome game, and congrats to Texas for pulling out the 'W'...."Hook 'em Horns!!! Boise state also won their game, so it was a great trip all around! Here are a few pictures of their adventure!

This is Jacob at Wings

Southern Miss stadium


Hatisburg...home of the Southern Miss stadium

These are pictures of the Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, Alabama...the Battleship is HUGE!

Moments

Here are just a few pictures from the last couple of weeks. Well, a little more than a few I guess. What can I say? I love pictures!

We went to the bay this evening and had a great time watching the fish jump and poking at the dead jellyfish.

Jacob and Addi watching the crane fish for food
Jacob teaching Addison all about the cardiovascular system.

More pictures of the beach!

Addison and Jaden playing in the sand, or in Addi's case, eating the sand.

Addison, trying to crawl and see the ducks from our porch. If you look close, these ducks aren't like any others...they have weird, red, knobby faces...but we love to feed them anyhow.

Addison is starting to get more hair, so we decided to have some fun in the bath with it.
The rest of these pictures are just cute pictures of Addison that I thought I would throw in there. She is growing up so fast, and has learned this week how to sign more and all done. She has also started pulling herself up. We are still working on crawling...she is sooo close!

My Sweet Addison

Since I am using my blog like a scrapbook and a journal, this is my moment to reflect back over the past nine months as I started my journey of motherhood. It is hard to believe that my sweet Addison is almost a year, and that she has accomplished so many milestones. She started life at 7 lbs. 2 ounces, and is now 16 lbs. 6 ounces, she is talking up a storm and has now learned to say "da-da". She knows a lot of signs like bath, water, eat, more, dog, bird, banana, juice, milk, all done, flower, sleep, cat, and ball. One of her favorite games to play is the chasing game, this is how we play...mommy or daddy will hold Addison while the other parent runs, jumps, or skips behind while smiling really big as we go around and around the small island in our kitchen. Addison laughs and laughs so hard some times that she has a hard time catching her breath, which in turn leads to the entire family rolling around on the floor with laughter. When she snuggles with me my heart just melts, and I can't help but give her a big squeeze back.

Now I have to share a story about Addison from this past Sunday. Jacob and I spoke in Sacrament Meeting, and in order to not distract from the meeting with snacks and toys and wiggles, we decided to sit on the front row instead of on the stand. When it was my time to give my talk, Addison watched me walk up to the podeum, and then proceeded to cheer me on with happy squeels and tons of clapping. I couldn't help but smile at her, and neither could the congregation. It was so nice to have a personal cheerleader cheering me on during my talk to calm my nerves. Addison has been such a blessing and a joy to have in my life, and I love her so much, and can't imagine what life was like without her.

I love you Addi girl!

Cupie Doll?

While running errands today, I recieved two comments (one at the grocery store and one at the Dr.) that Addison looked like a little cupie doll. I had recieved several comments before then as well that she looked like a cupie doll, so I decided to do a comparison...what do you think?

No Big News

We don't have any big news to report, just wanted to post a few glimpses into the simple life of the Langston's. The next few pictures are of our family home evening activity...we decorated halloween cookies (I know it was early) for Jordan because our theme was on missionary work, and so we thought we would send our missionary some cookies.

Addison couldn't help but get into the candy-corn.

Can you figure our what the middle cookies spell?

More Florida Adventures!

There is a lot to catch up on! We have had a blast ever since we arrived in Florida, we are taking advantage of these first few weeks of school before it gets to rigorous to see as many things as possible, and to just enjoy our new home! We hope you enjoy the pictures, and we hope that they will give anyone who was debating about visiting Florida, the extra push that they need...hahaha

These first pictures are of a fun miniature golf course that we went to. It was a lot of fun, but boy howdy was it hot! So after we played a round, we headed to the beach which was only 2 minutes away.

Our next adventure took place in Falling Waters state park (about 45 miles from Panama City). This is a beautiful park, and home of Florida's tallest waterfall. The picture doesn't show how deep it goes, but it is fairly large.

Addi loved the swings, and played there for a long time!

This next picture is not for the faint of heart. It is hard to see, but this is one of many gigantic spiders we saw at the state park. They were huge, about 2-3 inches long!!! Not only did we find huge spiders, but Jacob almost stepped on a snake, and after making our way to the swimming hole, we saw a sign that said, "Warning: Alligators, swim at your own risk"

A few days later we headed to The Caverns state park, just to find out that it was closed for the day, so instead we drove around and found some fun places in Marianna, Florida (about 50 miles from Panama City)

This was a beautiful park we found called Citizens Lodge where we had a picnic.

After we ate, we found a little boat dock that was covered with greenery...so pretty!

And there was no escaping a picture next to a big palm tree!

We found a trail at the park, and decided to take a walk where we discovered how many bugs Florida really had! This is a little lake, pond, swamp area that we found, and even though we were really hot, it wasn't a very inviting swimming hole.

Our last adventure for now, was a place called Gulf World, it is like a mini sea world. Oh, and don't worry, Addi isn't really being eaten by a shark:)

We saw lots of animals, including this sea lion who was posing for pictures

We even got to pet the sting rays...very slimy!

Addison loved the turtles, she wouldn't take her eyes off of them for anything.

The underwater stadium was fun too!

One of the great things about Gulf World is that a lot of the animals are at arms length away with no cages or fences or anything...you really get an upclose experience, as you will see in the next few pictures!

Can you believe it? Jacob is actually holding a real snake! For someone who jumps out of bed at night thinking there are snakes in the bed, this is a big accomplishment! In fact, this same night, Jacob woke up in the middle of the night, but this time in stead of jumping out of bed from fear, he said "Did you see that snake?" and then he proceeded to laugh. I think this experience has cured Jacob's deep down fear of snakes...Wahoo!!!

I even held it too, but from the look on my face, I think my fear of snakes is just going to be worse!

And Addison decided that she was just going to hold the snake in the souvenir shop

Just one last picture of cute little Addison on our way home from gulf world, she was eating some snacks when this picture was taken. I love her baby blues!