Thursday, August 29, 2013

Ten on Tuesday





 1. Locke actually fell asleep on his own like this, and no Kennedy, i didn't photoshop the grapes in. 



 2. This little guy love to feel the texture of foods! everything i give him is squished and smashed and THEN eaten (if he still can...) Its really fun to watch him, but interesting to clean up...

A RARE moment. I sat in silence watching them for like 20 min. It
was amazing. It was my mommy therapy. Serenity Now!!
3. Locke pointed out a "cresent moon" to Lane yesterday. The kid is a genius. I love educational cartoons! haha, he's not like that because of my handiwork!


4. Jones and dad. Eating breakfast at 11:00. Every. Single. Day. Jones doesn't even like me anymore i swear! ( and neither does Locke?? Lane was headed into Roosevelt for parts and i decided to come too, but Locke didn't think that was a good idea AT ALL. He basicially had a meltdown when i got in the car. yikes! 

Lane can't sit down at the table without these kids suffocating him.
5. The hot water heater went out this week. It was shocking how much laundry and dishes we accumulated in 3 days! haha i just got caught up! 



6. This guy is Mr. Independant. He tries SO HARD to get dressed everyday, but dad always has to help him eventually (evidently i'm not allowed to, remember my kids don't like me right now?? haha...so frustrating!)




7. Jones is so offended everytime Lane takes his work hat off. Ha, he is relentless at making Lane put it back on! 





8. Last week i showed Locke how to make a fort out of couch cushions...and he's basically lived in it ever since! He loves to tell me whether to make him a "square" or "triangle" fort. The kid has shapes and colors down like a boss, but letters are another story...(everything is D??)


9. We had a big rainstorm roll in, and Lane and I thought it would be fun to show Locke all the crazy lightning. We sat at the front window watching it, and when I looked down at Locke he had a big fat lip and was on the verge of tears! He was so afraid of the lightning hitting the house! haha, it was so cute!


10. We took the kids to see "Planes" last week and had quite an adventure! Within five minutes Locke had fallen into his chair, and it folded up around him. It got his head stuck, and i wasn't sure if we were going to get it out!! haha luckily Lane got it unstuck after a few minutes. At one point a plane is travelling through a tunnel trying to beat the train thats coming in, and the music was loud and the plane was yelling....and apparently so was Locke, because the music and yelling cut off suddenly and Locke was still screaming! haha he was afraid the plane wouldn't make it! it was seriously halarious. Jones refused to sit, and made one of us sit at the back holding him the whole time. Ugh. we proably won't go again for awhile....

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Baby Stetson!!

Stetson Dustin Larsen
7.3lbs 21 inches 
August 26 2013
1:02 pm

Stetson with Grandma Larsen


Stetson with his daddy (Lane's brother)








This little guy is the 6th grandkid for Nolan and Vicki (Lanes parents) and 5th boy in a row! our family is in need of some girls now! but we love our wolf pack of boys, and we can't wait for him to get old enough to run around with all of them! Congradulations Dusty and Rachelle on your first little boy, he is so precious and we already love him to pieces! 

Friday, August 16, 2013

8 months of Phone Pictures!

I managed to get half-way organized this week with my pictures! Here are the only salvagable ones off my phone, looks like i didn't realize how blurry most of them were...anyways these are from anywhere and everywhere in the last 8 months. (seriously i hate cleaning the pictures off my phone.)

First time in a "big" carseat and enjoying every second of being able to actually watch the DVD player, instead of just listening!! 



Lanes ability to bottle feed one while shoving another in the face has always impressed me...

I made-over the our RS bulletin board....(our theme is first observe, then serve) (and i ended up changing the "clubs" section, to "groups". apparently clubs are necessarily allowed in church??) 


A rare custom order i did for a friend with twin girls...sigh. lucky girl...

Lockes knees on a regular basis.

We found a new desolate road for our daily walk. With trees on either side, its just georgous!!

ha, typical sight mid-aftertnoon. Bottle hanging from mouth, still in pjs, and a shoe missing. 


Our Missionary Night RS activity back in june i think??

Jones discovering new places.

Meeting up with Ken to eat at the "gormet grilled cheese" place. Dericious.

Trying to copy the talented Olivia below...

amazing!! i tried too, but it was actually too embarassing to document.

the nightly round of kickball we were able to join in at skyes house.
Gracie's nightly stretching routine to try and get the "scorpion" move down. If she gets it she'll be the only one in her dance building able to do it! 

working on kens wedding quilt! it was a complete surprise to her, it consisted of all the handprints she did of the orphans in ecuador she served with right after high school. 

ha, and our makeshift sewing table, a piece of drywall over my old kitchen cabinets! 

There is no way i could have finished it without this amazing lady, Nancy Labrum!! she is basicially my second mother and the sweetest person ive ever met. That quilt tried to put me in an early grave so i was glad to have her by my side helping out, she is a veteren quilter! 

They are always excited when dad comes tromping through the door. 


Kens bridal shower, it turned out great! we ate a ton of food and opened some fun and risque presents! 
Apparently my crafting skills don't transfer to tissue paper wedding dresses...(Skye and I tried our best on kennedy, but it was downright pitiful.)

Grandpa has basically been begging Locke to start Muttin Bustin. It seems a bit scary as a mom, but i know Nolan would be down-right proud of the little guy. 

A few headbands for Olivia Ross's baby shower. 

At the shower Locke couldn't get enough of this little wood swing. Future backyard project?? 

Ha, I see pinterest-inspired projects everywhere! i've seen this one a bunch online, its always fun to see it in real life! 

oh those baby lips. I love their squishyness.

Pictures of a butterfly found on a walk one morning, I also got some halarious video from that morning documenting Jones's first big bug discovery. 


My attempt at getting a family picture for fathers day. 

What are you thinking little man?? 

Front page of kennedy's guest book, it turned into a huge project! But i loved doing it so much i couldn't stop, and now i've got the "scrappin" bug.

Another RS activity, an Ice Cream Social where we had ice cream with a bazillion toppings and played speed dating games. 


The kids were amazing when i let them out of the car to watch this guy cut up a log for kennedy's centerpieces with a chainsaw. It was the beginning of what turned out to be a very long day of wedding planning and execution. This was on my way to Skyes where i thought i had a couple of fun decorating projects to do. Turns out Mom and I didn't end up sleeping for the next week...


Chris staining the wood at 1 in the morning...

My moment of paralyzing fear when 2 days before the wedding i put the centerpieces together and found they looked pitiful and chintzy. Thankfully we were surrounded by thrift stores and 20 bucks and two hours later they looked MUCH better. 

Kennedy had no idea we had the Ecuador hand-print quilt for her, so she decided to whip one up two days before the wedding. This was the night before, and after finishing everything else up i grabbed skyes sewing machine and decided to help her. Somehow we finished the top, wrapped it in a blanket and tied it with a ribbon so it looked finished. haha, oh my it was so insane. 

Dad trying to be supportive on the couch, but he couldn't ever last past ten o'clock! 

Finally at the night of the reception. Lane came out and the boys refused to leave his side! 

Kennedy and Chris got married the next morning in Manti. It was such a beautiful sealing, i wish i had the opportunity to attend them more often. 





Jones eating a cupcake from a RS event the night before...my kids always benefit from my need to over-prepare food. 

Sharing is still an issue.

The day we brought home our two kittens. Both remain unnamed, and one has already been run over by the hay truck. 


A rare night of shopping with dad, we had plans to go at night (notice the kids pjs) so Lane could sit in the car with the sleeping babes and i could shop in peace. But instead they were little hellions fueled by the jerking/racing games Lane played the whole time. Does anything go according to plan with kids???

Jones, refuses to sit in his high chair when Lane comes in for breakfast. 

Locke and his naked behind while potty training, which was so easy with him, it was shocking! only a handful of accidents, and none at night! What a champ!!