The Lambson Life

We really are still alive!!

2010-05-30T19:35:00.000-07:00

I'm finally finding some time to update our blog. In my last post I showed everyone some things we were doing to survive winter and a couple months later I feel like I need to do a similar post. IS SPRING OR SUMMER EVER GOING TO GET HERE???!!! If I see snow in June I swear we're gonna move to Phoenix. Anyway, here what the Lambson family has been up to latley.

We spent Easter weekend up in Island Park at my uncles cabin and it was really fun. My parents went up the day before us and there was no snow and beautiful.....the next morning we arrived to over a foot of fresh snow and we got stuck in their drive-way. But it is a nice cabin and we had fun.
Luke had fun playing in the snow. It was the most snow he's ever seen and we really wish we had brought a sled.... oh well!

Also this spring, we signed Luke up for Campfire soccer! We quickly learned that this sport is not for him. I had to keep reminding myself that he's only 3 years old and can't expect to much, but all the other 3 year olds weren't running around putting the cones on his head!!! But toward the end he was starting to get the hang of it and the cones lost their appeal.

Then I came home from work and Lane had let Luke make dinner for me.......the results are seen below. Yummy...who wants some?

Now for the highlight of Luke's life........ we went to Heber City and had "A Day Out With Thomas!"

He had so much fun!!! Anyone who knows Luke probably knows the extent of his love for Thomas and his friends. So when I found out they did this in Heber I knew we had to do it. We didn't tell him until the day of to avoid him asking us every 20 minutes if today was the day.

So we bought him a cute little conductors hat and had our day out with Thomas. There were like 500 other boys his age running around with that same little conductors hat on and it gets you a little paranoid about where your kid is. I just kept thinking, what would I say to the security guy......he's 3 years old, wearing a thomas shirt, and a conductors hat! But we managed not to lose him :)

He wanted the the conductor to punch his tickets like the conductor on Polar Express. And since we've been home he's been making his own train tickets and got my hole punch and pretends to be the conductor, it's cute!

All a board....the train ride was kinda short but Luke didn't care. They had a lot of other activities and of course all kinds of Thomas crap for the kids to beg their parents for. Our little family had a great time and anything that makes my boy that happy I'm sure we will do again!

So that's what we've been up to. I hope my next post is full of pictures of us camping, fishing, swimming, and anything outdoors. If not Phoenix here we come.

Some of our winter activities!!!

2010-02-19T20:52:00.001-08:00

I think most moms would agree that it is much more fun to post pictures and talk about your kids than of yourself. So as result you get lots of pictures of Luke. Of course I'm always the one taking the pictures so I'm never in them. Anyway, we offically have spring fever so we've been doing our best to survive this winter. We really don't have any winter hobbies (unless building snowmen and shoveling sidewalks is a hobby). So here's a few thing things Luke has been doing to stay entertained.
Riding his bike in the house naked.............why naked you ask?? Not sure, just happened and I grabbed the camera. But he's obviuosly loving the freedom!

Yet, another naked picture......it started with him just dipping his feet in the sink and ended up naked and making a mess. He gets away with alot if you can't tell!

On this next picture I cannot figure out how to rotate the picture but hopefully you'll still enjoy Luke's efforts in learning to dress himself. He was still in his PJ's and wanted to go to the store and I said no not yet because your still in your PJ's. So he went in his room and tried his hardest and came up with this super hot outfit. Yes that is underwear on top and a t-shirt with his legs through the arm holes. We sat out in the hall and spyed on him and just laughed and laughed and then of course finally helped him!

And of course no kids winter is complete without building a snowman!

And we managed to sneak in a trip to Phoenix in January. Lane had a doctors appointment and his sister and brother live there too. You'd think going in Phoenix in January would help with our spring fever, but it wasn't exactly warm like I wanted it to be. We still had a good time!! It rained like crazy the first 2 days we were their. Luke loved playing in all the water that pooled up at the park.

The weather did straighten up a little and Luke got to play outside and ride his bike around the neighborhood (yes we hauled his bike all the way down there).

Well there's your update of a few things we're doing to survive the remaining months of winter!

Another year gone!

2009-12-31T15:25:00.000-08:00

Well, we survived another Christmas!!! And that's saying something for this little family because the last 3 Christmas's have involved Lane either being in the hospital, having surgeries, or recovering from surgery. So were happy to report that besides some mild colds we escaped the major crap this year. We did however have plenty going on. My family was pretty low key this year but the entire Lambson crew managed to pile into the Lambson Look-out (Lane's parents house) for some good times!! This was our attempted at a family picture.
We had so much fun doing the Christmas thing, soaking at Lava, hookie-bobbing, playing Rock Band, and Luke loved playing with his cousins. Christmas was so fun with Luke this year, what a perfect age for him to take it all in. He of course got a bunch of Thomas stuff, a crane, a new sled, a toy gun, and much much more.

I think Lane was more excited to start target practice then Luke was to get the gun. Actually he's been having a lot of fun with it running around shooting stuff, especially the dog!

Every Saturday in December the railroad opened their model train set up to the public. So guess where we were every Saturday in December?? That's right playing with trains! It's actually pretty cool and Luke of course was mesmerized by it.

And below is a picture of Luke trying to eat a ginger bread train. We went to a ginger bread house festival and I thought Luke would like it but soon found that it was torture for a 3 year old to be told over and over to keep his hands off and that he couldn't eat ANYTHING!

Hopefully all of our friends and loved ones had a great Christmas and New Year! This past year has been full of trials in our family but we are truly blessed. It's like all the crappy things that happen all work out so there not so crappy. Hopefully that make sense!

2009-11-05T09:09:00.000-08:00

Well, we FINALLY got some family pictures and as promised here they are.....I love them!

2009-10-31T20:45:00.000-07:00

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!!

We got way too much candy for 1 kid.....I geuss mom and dad will have to help with that!!!

Finally pictures of our bathroom!

2009-10-17T19:08:00.000-07:00

Our bathroom remodeling project has been a typical Lane and Jenny project. We start it, then get it to the point we can function with it, and then spend months putting the final touches on it. But it's finally at a point where I can post some pictures. I looked everywhere for my before pictures and couldn't find them. But trust me when I say we did this house a huge favor by bringing it out of the 1970's. It had wild striped wallpaper, golden floral linoleum, and yellow paisley counter tops. I couldn't find my before pictures but do still have small samples of the old floor and counter tops.....scary I know!!

So our bathroom project has had several phases to it. Phase 1 was Lane tiling the floor a couple years ago. I just couldn't stand that gross floor any longer. Phase 2 has been the big one which included getting a new vanity and counter tops. And phase 3 is yet to come, we still need to tile the shower and probably get a new bath tub. But for now we just close the shower curtain and pretend it's all finished! We had a lot of help from my dad and Lanes dad with all this and probably couldn't have done it without them. So big thanks to them!!
I did my best to take good pictures but found that to be hard in a long skinny bathroom, but here you go.....

My huge new vanity with tons of storage.....love it!

I really like the shower curtain I found!! And it looks good with my back splash too!

So there it is. I love my new bathroom and can't believe we waited so long to remodel it. Every time we do a project like this I always wonder why in the world we wanted to buy an older house and not new construction. Oh well!

2009-10-11T10:35:00.000-07:00

I'm finally getting around to posting something new on our blog. I know it's been forever and I'm now realizing that I probably never should have started a blog because I'm just not good at keeping it updated. Oh well, just be happy to see something new every few months.
Our summer is now gone. It went by so fast and we didn't get to do a lot of the things that we wanted to due to Lane's recovery, but here's a little bit of what we've been up too.
Luke had his 3rd birthday!! We went camping and celebrated with family up in the mountains. I really love this age because he's my little man and is learning so much so fast. But its also hard to watch him grow up so fast because he'll most likely be our only child and its just hard to lose my baby. But I'll get over it because there's nothing I can do about it. But here's a pic from my little mans birthday party.

Then, over Labor Day we went camping down by Bear Lake. We had fun going to the Ice Cave and then swimming all day at Bear Lake. Luke's cousins were there and he had a blast playing in the sand, flying kites, and of course swimming.

Luke also started preschool. He's so funny now whenever we walk by those flowers he tells me that he doesn't want me to take his pictures today. I think he gets tired of me following him around with a camera.

Well there's a brief update for everyone. We got family pictures last week. My goal is to post a few of those before the end of the year. Lane has been feeling pretty good latley. Although I wonder if he's just faking it so I'll let him go hunting. October and November are always his healthiest time of year...LOL.

A look at our summer!!!

2009-07-23T21:25:00.000-07:00

Although our summer has been full of surgeries and recovering from surgeries we've managed to sneak some fun in too. Lane seems to be getting better everyday and continues to regain his strength, energy, and use of his elbow. His kidney still gives him grief now and then but nothing compared to before surgery. So here's a look at some of the fun things we've been up to so far this summer. Swimming at Ross Park....what a stud!

We took Luke fishing at Devil's Creek Reservoir and he loved, loved, loved it. However we didn't catch any fish. Explaining this to a 2 year old is not easy. "Why?" "Why?" "Why mommy?" "I want to catch a fish" We hope to go again soon and actually catch something!

Luke riding a horse at a family reunion....yeehaw

I absolutely love this picture. His face says it all!! We were playing in the gutters after a big summer storm. Can't wait for another one to roll through so we can do it again.

We went camping down by Soda Springs over the 4th of July.

We hope to have some more fun together as a family before the rest of summer gets away from us. Luke's birthday is on August 4th and I really don't want my baby to turn 3, if there was a way for me to stop it I would.

Where do I begin???

2009-06-17T19:13:00.000-07:00

I really do have an excuse for my lack of blogging. First our lives have been far from simple the last little while as you'll soon see. And I've been having trouble loading my pictures onto my computer but I think I might have that problem fixed. Who wants to read a blog with no pictures, not me. So let's start with Memorial Day weekend.... My family went camping up in the middle of somewhere north of here. My parents took Luke with them and then I joined them for 1 night. It was a nice get away and if would ever stop raining I'd like to get out and camp some more.

I have a picture of me when I was little in my grandparents motor home bath tub and I couldn't help but re-create it. I promise he had sun screen on.

And this next picture is my niece, Kirianna, and the picture is just too funny not to share. She was really digging for some gold. I plan on saving this picture for future blackmail!

Now for the not so funny stuff....Most of you know of Lane's ongoing health issues. But I'll give a re-cap for those who don't. He has Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) which for the past year and a half have cause a lot a pain, discomfort, and just feeling like crap most the time. He's had more kidney stones than we can count and several surgeries, procedures, test, and medications to try and help. He will ultimatley need to have a kidney transplant, like his father and 2 aunts have had (its genetic). The problem being he still has a lot of his function so a transplant is a ways off, yet his left kidney almost constantly gives him grief. They've tried draining cyst and cutting the nerves to the kidney so he won't feel pain, but nothing has really helped. So we had another procedure scheduled to go in and drain a bunch of cyst to relieve pressure(his kidneys are 3 times the size they should be). A couple hours into surgery, the doctor calls me and said he thought we should just take the kidney out because it looked bad and wasn't really able to do as much as he had planned. Finally, 6 hours of surgery and a couple of blood transfusions later, my poor hubby has one less kidney and yet another scar to add to the collection.

I dig guys with scars. Hopefully this will help with that issue. But his elbow is a whole other issue. He has a arthritic condition that affects his joints. He's had both hips replaced and multiple elbow surgeries. Well, his elbow surgery he had back in December didn't work so he's back in Arizona at the Mayo Clinic having an elbow replacement this week. I stayed home to work (someone's gotta keep insurance on that boy). So far so good with both these surgeries but he has a lot of recovering and therapy ahead of him. Hopefully we will regain some normalcy in our lives and Lane can be more comfortable.

Luke and I made it to Hogel Zoo when we were in SLC for the kidney surgery. It would have been more fun with Dad there, but we still had a good time!

And of course I have to post a picture of my sweet Luke. He getting so big and so smart!

Thanks to those who have helped, supported, and prayed for us during this difficult time. I can't imagine my life without the love and support of friends and family. We are truly blessed.

2009-05-08T21:06:00.000-07:00

So you only get to have a sneak peek at my bathroom project because it's not done yet. You'll have to wait for the true before and after pictures until I paint, get the back splash up, and of course redecorate. We have a bad habit of starting projects but never finishing them, but I refuse to let that happen here.
Here's a few pictures from my parents birthday dinner at Ruby Tuesdays. Their birthdays are a few days apart so that makes it easy for me to remember.

We bought a cake at Costco and I think there was more frosting than cake....yuck.

We made them reenacted their wedding cake scene.....Happy birthday Mom and Dad!!!

We took Luke to Bartz Field for his first kite flying experience and he loved it. I just love the picture below, he's so sweet!

And of course, there's nothing like coming home from work to find Luke outside in his underwear playing on the swing set with Lane!!!

Fun with finger-paints!!!

2009-04-21T20:35:00.000-07:00

It's kinda sad when the most exciting thing going on in our lives is finger-painting, but it's true. Or maybe its the only thing recently worth taking pictures of. Regardless, here's the footage of Luke's artistic afternoon. He absolutely loved every minute of it!

The picture below is my favorite...

He was trying to get paint on Dad and thought it was so funny.

And of course a bath was necessary after all that fun. He thought it was pretty funny that his water was green.

I recommend this activity to anyone daring enough to take on the mess. Next, week we're getting new cabinets and counter tops in our bathroom. I'm way excited to finally be bringing my poor bathroom out of the 1970's. So watch for my before and after pics!!!

Our week

2009-04-13T22:53:00.000-07:00

Of course we spent most of our weekend celebrating Easter. We went to an egg hunt at Caldwell Park and then went out to the Lambson Lookout (Lane's parents) and had another egg hunt and treasure hunt. Luke and his cousins had a great time running all over the mountain looking for eggs and clues. Now that Luke is older, I can let him run free out there. Last summer he loved climbing around in the mountains but still needed supervision. We would take his shoes off to keep him from getting very far. Anyway, he was out playing with his cousins and I went to check on him and found him with his pants down around his ankles. He had already gone #1 and was working on #2. He could have cared less that he had an audience. So we had to have a talk about how only go potty outside if we're camping. But, we had an enjoyable Easter weekend and I was so happy the weather wasn't somewhat decent. Now here are our pictures of our Easter festivities.

Then on Friday Luke's daycare went on a field trip to the rodeo to see the animals and tractors. He tried so hard to say rodeo right but it just kept coming out "radio," so cute. So I got off work early so I could go with him and I'm glad I did. They got to run around in the dirt and watch themselves up on the big screen. They loved it and it was kind of cool being there when there weren't any crowds. Luke goes to daycare 2 days a week (we call it school), and he loves it! We'll probably pull him out for the summer but I hope he won't be to bored t home. It's none stop fun when he's at school. Anyway, here's some pictures from his field trip to the "radio."

uh-oh mommy!!!

2009-04-05T15:43:00.000-07:00

2009-04-05T15:33:00.000-07:00

Our week has been pretty uneventful, with the exception of Luke thinking it was his birthday when I told him we were having "pancakes" for breakfast. That and Luke has been doing pretty good with his potty training, but I heard him in the bathroom by himself laughing his head off. My first thought was-- great he's unrolling the toilet paper AGAIN. So I entered the bathroom and immediately turned around and went to grab the camera. At least he's happy right?

Let's blog already.....

2009-04-05T14:52:00.000-07:00

Latley, I've found myself following several different blogs and began thinking that my time would be better spent creating my own family's blog. So here we go. During our almost 9 years of marriage, we have experienced many ups and downs together. We've had our fair share of trials but through our faith and support from friends and family we have survived and grown from all of our life experiences(that's what we call bad luck). So I'm going to give this blogging thing a whirl and we'll see how it goes. I'm not sure if our lives are exciting enough to follow, but that's for you to determine.