Brielle's Blessing

We blessed Brielle on Sunday when she was six days, some people thought we were crazy but we blessed Addi when she was only a week old and my sister-in-law had made her dress to fit and I really wanted to use that dress again and my mom was in town so it was nice to have some family there!

This is our fun little Christmas present this year. Isn't she so cute?

My two little girls, Addi is such a good big sister!!

Brielle Lynn Larsen

We welcomed Brielle Lynn into our little family, yesterday at 6:17 pm after only 5 hours of labor. She was 7 lbs. 6 oz. and 19 1/2 inches long. She is a spitting image of her daddy and is a very alert little baby! Addi is already loving being a big sister and is going to be a big help to her mom!

She has her daddy's nose for sure!!!
Brielle and I are doing wonderfully and can't wait to get out of the hospital, I hate being couped up! We miss everyone especially now that we have this beautiful little girl that we wish you could all meet, she is just perfect!! We are very proud parents and think that little girls are awesome!

Thanksgiving

We had such a wonderful Thanksgiving. It was such a beautiful day we decided to have our Thanksgiving dinner outside. We had a wonderful dinner everything was amazing and we had lots and lots of food!!

Addi loves our new house for the backyard (which she calls the garden) and this is one of our plants that is growing in our backyard, Addi loves to play with the leaves and they as big as her!!
Thanksgiving night we went down to UCF to see their light show, it was a small show but it was fun to kick off the Holiday season and get Addi excited for Christmas!

The Baby's Room

I promised my mom as soon as I finished the baby's room I would post some pictures. When you're pregnant with your first kid everyone is so very cautious to make sure and not get anything too gender oriented so that you can use it for every kid whether it be a boy or girl. Well I was the same way with Addi and then we moved clear out to Florida, so of course none of my baby things came with me. So when we found out that I was pregnant with another girl and we needed to get all new stuff, my husband told me that we couldn't afford to purchase anything new. So I went crazy on craigslist and garage sales and I decided that since it was all cheap things that we wouldn't take with us when we moved I was going to go all out girly!! I also decided I wasn't going to settle for a modge-podged room with random things all over. So even though I had to buy all used I went crazy making things myself and repainting everything in site. The crib was $30 and an ugly light honey and was pretty banged up, so it got a fresh paint job. The lettering was free from my mom's Cricut, the curtains were $10.

I sewed and quilted the crib quilt and bought all my fabric on sale for $12. The bumper, sheet and bed skirt were $25.

These dressers were going to be thrown out by a couple in our ward, so we took them off of their hands and they got a fresh paint job as well to match the crib. The paint for the dressers, crib and the walls totaled $30.
The rocking chair and cedar chest I already had. The baskets on top of the dressers were $5 and the rug was $20
So my grand total for a brand new baby's room starting from scratch was $132. I love garage sales and craigslist!

My little model

I know that you are probably getting tired of all the posed shots of Addi, but our friend Ian is such a good photographer and he brings his camera with him everywhere and he loves taking pics of Addi all the time, so he gives us all these shots and they are always just breath taking that I just can't help but share them!

So I hate putting this first picture up, because I feel huge but I'm due in three weeks so I guess I should be huge, but I think that it is a cute picture of the rest of my family!

Oh and she sure knows how to pose and she always can ham it up for Ian but whenever I try to take a picture of her she won't even look at the camera!


So just a few fun pics of my beautiful little girl and hopefully soon I will be able to get some shots of our new little girl as soon as she decides when she wants to make her grand debut!!! We are pretty excited and I'm pretty uncomfortable and ready for her to come whenever she decides she is ready!!

Grandma Terry came to visit!!

So, this week was so exciting Jake's mom came to visit for Addi's birthday and we have just been having fun and running her all over the place. I hope we didn't wear her out too much!! We took her to our favorite place to visit in Florida, St. Augustine! We had a lot of fun we went to the Fort and walked around and then went to the Lightner Museum and toured and saw all the fun 17th and 18th century stuff and then we headed out to walk on the beach and it was pretty chilly so we didn't stay too long there.

We also went to Disney World the day after Terry arrived, it was a lot of fun but of course unbearably hot! We hit the Animal Kingdom, Magic Kingdom, and Epcot, so of course we were all pretty pooped by the end of the day, especially Terry and Jake since they had to push both Addi and me all around the park!

Addi had so much fun playing and spending time with her Grandma Terry, whenever I would come around to see what was up Addi would say "please will you leave, Mommy" she just wanted all the quality time as possible with her Grandma.
We had so much fun, and we were so grateful that Grandma Terry came to visit. Of course she spoiled us all rotten! Thank you Terry, for everything you did for us we enjoyed ever last moment, and hope you will come back soon and maybe bring Rick with you as well!! We love you and hope you had a safe trip home.

Halloween!!

Sorry, we have had an full week and I'm just now getting to posting Halloween. Addi had so much fun and was the cutest little witch ever!! In the morning we took off to the Winter Park Fall Festival where Addi got to trick or treat around to all the businesses, and it was sweltering hot!!! We burnt out quick and went home and had some lunch and cooled off and then ventured off to Rollins to the Halloween Howl to meet Addi's best friend Lucy so they could enjoy Halloween together! We didn't last very long there either it was just way too hot!! It was a new thing for us to have to cut Halloween so short because of mid 90 degree weather!!! It is just not supposed to be that hot for Halloween!! Addi still enjoyed it anyways and got enough melted candy to keep her happy for a while!!

Happy Birthday, Addi!!

It was a very Happy Birthday yesterday for my cute little girl, she had so much fun and was so happy for her Grandma Terry to be here with her. We took her out shopping during the day for some clothes and shoes and then when her daddy got home from work we had a pizza party and opened presents. She got spoiled rotten and had more presents than any one little girl should have. She has lots of people that love her and she misses everyone, Thank you for all the fun presents she loved it all.

She had been begging for a bike for her birthday, so mom and dad broke down and bought her one!


Her Grandma and Grandpa Larsen bought her the cutest little Dora tent, she loves it!
So I made Addi go on a scavenger hunt to find her present from her mom and dad, this was right at the end when she found her bike she was pretty excited!

Party!!

So Addi won't be officially 3 until Thursday, but with all the hustle and bustle with Holiday plans we had a fun birthday party for her with all her friends Saturday! She had so much fun and was definitely loving every last bit of attention! Her Grandma Terry is coming for a visit on Tuesday so we will still have a fun family party on Thursday for her but she has made so many friends here in Florida we just couldn't leave them out! Addi got way too many gifts but she absolutely loves them and has been playing all day with all of them!

We had lots of fun food!



She is definitely her fathers child she had to give everyone a hug and thank you after every present she opened! We were happy that she was so grateful, her Oma would be proud!

She got a little passionate with her thank you for her friend Nathan!!
We wanted to get a picture of all the friends at her party, we got most of the girls, but the boys didn't want to be apart of all that girly action!

It was a lot of fun and now Addi can't wait for her Grandma Terry to come so she can go to Disney, the beach and have another party!