Groceries

So lately I have been spending more and more for groceries I know it's probably due to my increasingly larger family and a new house so it seems like every time I go to the store I have to pick up something else for the house but even so I'm kinda excited to read this book to see if they offer any new ideas for my shopping to keep my grocery bill down!! Check it out!

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Fort Worth Zoo

We took off for a little family time last weekend and took the girls to the zoo. We had soo much fun and the girls were in heaven! Brielle loved all the animals and had no fear whatsoever! The Fort Worth Zoo was amazing one of the best zoo's we have ever been to. They had zebras, giraffes, elephants, rhinos, bears, lions, tigers, gators, cougars, leopards and everything else you can think of! We really enjoyed it and will be going back very soon! We are enjoying Texas so far but since we are still in a hotel we still feel like we are on vacation. We close on our house Monday, finally, and then our stuff will be arriving the Friday after Thanksgiving. We will definitely be excited to finally be settled and moved in!

Happy Halloween!!

Of Course once again because of the move our Halloween Festivities had to start early this year! We carved pumpkins last Monday for Family Home Evening. Addi for the first time actually cleaned out her pumpkin, she is always very dainty and doesn't want to get her hands dirty, but we told her if she wanted to carve she had to clean out the inside, so she did it! Addi's is on the far right she knew exactly what she wanted and instructed dad exactly how it should be done to get the perfect face! Our neighbor Adam's pumpkin is next to Addi's and then mine is the far left and Jake's is next to mine!!

We went to the wards party and Trunk or Treat, thankfully they had it early so we were able to go to it before we left! Addi wanted to be Hello Kitty for Halloween and since they didn't have any costumes that I could find we made what we had work and while I was making ears we decided Miss Brie Brie would be a black cat as well, Pierce got a hand-me-down Tigger Costume from Mr. Milo!! They all were sure cute!
So surprised that make-up stayed on Brielle that long!
Cute little girls!!
Best Friends, Addi and Brielle are sure going to miss Isabelle and Anya!

Hello Kitty
Black Cat
Tigger
The kids were very intrigued with something!! Mr. Milo had a matching skeleton costume as his baby sister Pyper, wish I could have gotten a picture of them together they were so cute!



We had a great Halloween, we are so sad to be leaving all of our great friends, We miss everyone so much already!

Happy Birthday, Beautiful girl!!

My Baby girl turned five today, She is such a beautiful little girl and although I like to complain that my children never listen to me and are naughty, she really is a very good little girl!! Such a wonderful helper and getting to be so grown up and she never stops talking, I think she believes that she has to voice every little thought that comes into her brain or she might explode, but sometimes the things that come out of her mouth just crack us up!! She has gotten to be so grown up she understands and loves the gospel and tries so hard to share it with others!! She has been going to a Presbyterian preschool and she tells me everyday that she always sings "I Love to see the Temple" and "Follow the Prophet" to her teacher and her friends!! We have lately been trying to teach her the concept of time, she has a hard time grasping that Grandma doesn't come for six more days or that we won't be going to the party until tonight or school doesn't start until morning and so on and so forth!! Jake and I always laugh because, for example we will say "Addi for your birthday we are going to Disney with your friend Isabelle!" and she says "Today?" and I will reply "no, tomorrow", her "tomorrow today", me " no tomorrow in the morning", her "in the morning tomorrow today!" I guess she thinks tomorrow is somewhere in the future and she needs a time limit on it! She loves to help me cook dinner and to clean out the dishwasher (score, I hate cleaning out the dishwasher, I blame my mother, the dishwasher for many years was my job after school!!) We unfortunately are smack dab in the middle of moving to Texas during her birthday so last Thursday we celebrated her birthday, she went to her last day of school and I brought in cupcakes and then when we picked her up from school we took her to Disney World and met her friend Isabelle, it was a lot of fun to be able to go to Disney one last time before we move. We all had a fun time. She simply is just a wonderful little girl, that I love and wouldn't trade for anything in this world!! Happy Birthday my little miss, I love you so much!

Addi's First Day of School

So Addi had her first day of School last Monday! She was soo excited to finally be able to go to school and let me tell you she wasn't the only one!! I was very anxious for her to start as well. We took her to pick out her clothes for school and it was the first time she has ever got to pick things out herself and then go into a dressing room and try it all on and model it for her dad! She had a blast and she picked out her shirt, pants and her shoes. I'm sure it was a fairly warm outfit for Florida, but she just had to wear it! Her Grandma Terry also sent her some new school clothes that she was so excited to wear the rest of the week as well (no pictures of those, sorry, I guess that's what happens when you have three kids!). She loves school and her teacher Miss Stephanie and she says she is meeting lots of new friends although she can't remember any of their names!!

Of course I can't have a post without a few pictures of my other kids! Mr. Pierce is getting so big already!! Look at those chubby cheeks that are forming!! I've never had a chunky baby maybe my Pierce will be the first!!
And of course my ball of Fire!! She screams every morning I drop Addi off at school and she realizes she isn't going too, but when we get home she is in Heaven, she doesn't have to fight to play with her toys, or fight for attention and she loves that she gets out of the house atleast two times a day, once to take Addi to school and once to pick her up. Brielle just loves to go anywhere as long as we are going!!
My cute kids cuddling together before Church!!

Pierce's Blessing

Yesterday was a bitter sweet day, we had the wonderful opportunity to bless our precious little boy, but it felt a little bit lonely since we weren't able to have any family with us, which was sad but it still was a special day. Jake did a wonderful job with the blessing and Pierce was absolutely so precious and seemed so angelic!! Both the girls sat quiet and folded their arms and everything was just perfect! Pierce was so handsome in white and he was so quiet and content!

We are two very proud parents, we love our kids so much and wished that we could have shared such a wonderful day with all of our family, we missed you all!!

Introducing!!!!!

We welcomed the newest little addition to the Larsen Family on July 27th

Pierce Von Larsen, he was 7 lbs 14 oz. and 21 inches long.

This cute little man came into this world fast and furious. My contractions didn't start until 3:30 that afternoon but they started hard and 3-4 min. apart, I called Jake at work around 3:45 and said that he needed to come home from work, but after I hung up with him the contractions where unbearable and speeding up so my mom called Jake and told him to meet us at the Hospital and she shoved me and the girls in the car. We got to the hospital and finally got all checked in and into a room about 4:30 and I knew that our little Pierce was on his way and I was trying to get the nurse to hurry up and get me an epidural because I was scared to death to have a baby with nothing. I had the sweetest nurse that checked me and said I was at a nine and she was trying so hard to get me an epidural when all the other nurses were telling her it wasn't going to happen. Jake finally got to the hospital around 4:50 (thank goodness there wasn't traffic), and right then I realized that baby was coming epidural or not. Pierce was born all natural at 5:03, we were glad he at least decided to wait for his dad to get there!!

He looks just like his dad!! It is so fun to have a little boy!!!
The girls just love him and just fight over who gets to hold him, even our little firecracker Brielle just begs to hold him and is so gentle and great with him!! Who would've thought?


We are in absolute heaven with our little guy and he so far has been a pretty good little baby!

Our Summer Vacation!!

We had a wonderful summer vacation back in Idaho!! My little brothers wedding was beautiful and so special! The girls loved getting all dressed up and Addi loved seeing Janelle come out in her beautiful wedding dress and she still can't stop talking about when she gets married!

We had almost all the grandkids together the only one missing was our little miss Lily. The cousins loved being able to spend lots of time playing together.
Of course Addi and Corgin are always glued together and love to play together!
The wedding turned out beautiful and it was so fun to all be together!
Of course we had to do some boating on Grandpa's boat while we were there, Addi loved to ride and drive the boat and she like riding the tube until it got just a bit bumpy and then she decided it was a little scary.


Did a little bit of swimming in Grandma's hot tub!Then we went on a mini trip with Rick and Terry to American Falls to visit Amanda and Ryan and to see the Shoshone falls, they were so full and just beautiful.
The girls loved to play on the grass in Idaho because the grass in Florida is just not real grass and not very comfy to wrestle on!



We did a lot of hanging out and just enjoying being with family. Brielle loved her Grandpa Rick!!




We had a blast and are so thankful for everything that all of our families did to make it such a wonderful vacation home!