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!

French Addi!

Just a fun post of my cute little girl. I have had this dress for a little while and I love it, but it never gets cool enough here for her to wear it. On Sunday the temperatures just radomly dropped to 69 degrees. It was so beautiful we loved it and Addi got to wear her fun french petticoat dress to church. She thought she was pretty hot stuff, she even came home and posed for a ton of Pictures that Ian took, I haven't gotten those from him yet, so you just have to settle for a quick snap shot that I took on our way out to church!

Package!!

We got a fun Halloween package from Grandma and Grandpa Larsen!!! Thank you so much it was so much fun and as always Addi was so excited to have a package. I loved all the new Halloween Decorations they look so good in our new house, thank you!!! Addi loves her new little play suitcase, she comes out of her room with new stuff packed in it all the time and says i'm ready to go to "Hidaho."

These are Jake favorite part of his night, while he studies in the den every night there are always about two to three frogs that join him on the windowsill. They like the light from the house because it attracts all the bugs and then they just sit there and soak up the light and eat their midnight snacks!!!! It is quite entertaining to watch, I think Jake gets distracted from his studies pretty easily!

New House!

We are just loving our new house, everyday it feels more and more like home. We have very friendly neighbors that are always coming by introducing themselves and letting us use their lawnmower's and our neighbor has a whole backyard full of chickens, that reminds me of my childhood!! We feel soo much more safe where we are now and we feel like we are much closer to everything, church, Jake's school, and the freeway! So we don't have the whole house finished quite yet but most of it. Bare with me there are a lot of pictures but it is for my mom she can't come see us until after Thanksgiving and she wanted lots of picture's so she could invision the lay out of the house. This is the front view of our house, it is chocolate brown stucko with a one car garage and we have the biggest tree in the front yard, it is nice to help keep the house cool, but it scares me during Hurricane season, if even one limb came down I think it could take out our entire house or at the least one of our cars.

This is our front room, it is pretty small but we don't have much stuff so it is perfect for us!


Our dining room, we were just glad it was big enough to fit our enormous table.
The Kitchen, you can't tell from the pictures, but we have pretty high ceilings and my cabinets go clear to the ceiling, it is awesome I have so much space that I still have empty cabinets but really bad because in each of them there are four shelves and I can barely reach the first shelf so I have to have a stool to get to any of my kitchen stuff!
Yes, I know I took a picture of a hall way, that seems really stupid but I spent a whole day painting this hallway by myself. I am proud of it, so back off!
One of our bathrooms I didn't take a picture of the other one because it really is so small I couldn't get a good picture of it.

This is Addi's room, I had fun decorating it because her last room was huge and it looked like I had thrown a toy bed in a huge room and I never even got around to doing anything to it so I really wanted to decorate this time, so it would feel more like home. We also have two other rooms but the Master Bedroom is painted a horrid shiny red and we still need to paint over it and do some decorating and the baby's room is still overtaken by empty boxes from our move and we still don't have a crib yet. So I will have to take pictures of those when I finish them.


This is our fun den it was supposed to be our fun music room but my piano didn't fit in here and before I knew it our fun extra room that I was so excited for turned into Jake's man cave and I don' t have a single thing in here! I love this room because it has windows around the whole room and Florida is so green it is pretty peaceful.

This is our backyard and our screened porch. Our backyard is huge but it doesn't have anything in it, but Addi still loves just to run in the free space anyway so that's good. Our porch needs some major cleaning but we loves it because in Florida we love to sit outside in December and January it is the nicest time of year to be outside!




Sorry for all the picture's but we just love our new place and know that is hard for people to come and see us so we wanted to share with all of you!

Catch up!!

It has been a long time since I have posted anything, we have been busy busy.......well Jake has. A couple of weeks ago, I had been having a rough couple of days and was being pretty homesick and so my Mom and Dad decided to, at the last minute, just whisk me home and take care of Addi and I. It was such a fun trip and it was so nice to get away and not have to think about or worry about anything but spending lots of time with my family! Thank you sooo much Mom and Dad you made my whole year! While we were there we didn't tell Jake's family we were coming, so we got to go and surprise each of them! It was also Terry's birthday and we were able to go on a great little family vacation to Island park! Both sides of the family spoiled and took great care of us. We are so very thankful for very loving families that do so much for us, thank you so much. While I was away Jake called me one day and said that at the last minute we were supposed to move into our house. We were planning on moving as soon as I got back, well my wonderful husband decided he was just going to do it all himself and have our house all moved into so that when we got back we would have a new home. He worked really hard and had to pack and move everything without me, thankfully we have a bunch of awesome friends that helped him and when we got home we were all moved in! I have been horrible with taking pictures I completely forgot to even bring my camera to Idaho with us and so I have no pictures from there.

I have been doing lots of unpacking, putting my house in order and a little painting (which I suggest never try to paint by yourself, no latter, while 7 months pregnant, I have never been so sore in my life, i'm laying on the couch unable to move) so I will post some pictures of the new house soon I just need to get a little more things in order. We are loving our new house though we have a huge covered porch (which is a must in florida), a very big fenced in backyard, and a garage, oh a garage I never new that such a tiny thing would be the best luxury in life!!! The only downfall to our house is that the entire house is tiled, yes bedrooms and all, it has been a huge challenge to keep clean and it is not the most comfortable thing to kneel on for your morning and evening prayers, just little things you don't think about. When we first came home Addi wouldn't play with her toys or anything, I thought that maybe it was because she was adjusting to the new house but then last saturday we broke down and went out a bought a big rug for our living room and the minute we put it down Addi had her shoes kicked off, bringing out all her toys and laying down literally making snow angels in the carpet, she was so happy for some comfy carpet to sit down and play on, it looks like we are going to need a few more of those rugs so that our daughter can feel a little more at home!

Jake is now started back up again at school and once again is realizing that he is taking on way too much!! I try to tell him every year that he is packing on too much of a work load but he never believes me until it is too late. Thankfully he is only taking 12 credits this semester, but he is also still working for Disney about 20-25 hours a week plus drive time which takes him away a lot longer, he was elected again as co-class president and then he has also taken on a Consulting Project for the pro golfer Annika Sorenstam, he will be helping to create a marketing plan for her golf academy. It is a lot for him to take on all at once but we are hoping that all of these little things he is doing will help for us to stand out when it comes time to find a job in a jobless economy! I know he is working hard but sometimes it's hard to be a supportive wife when it makes for pretty lonely days and night. Last night I asked Addi what she wanted for dinner and she told me no, we can't eat, we have to wait for daddy and she stuck to her guns she refused to eat without her daddy. Needless to say she fell asleep waiting and didn't have any dinner that night. We really look forward to Sunday's so that we can atleast have one day out of the week to spend together!

Miss little Addisyn is growing up way too fast and is becoming quite the little priss! She loves to go out to the backyard and pick flowers for her mom, she also is coloring and drawing all day long and of course loves to watch movies and lots of them. I know that I shouldn't let her watch as much as I do but sometimes the days seem longer every day and I just don't know how to entertain her while I work on some of my other projects, so I guess the movie's can stay for now. She already misses her Grandparents and is let down a little every time she sees what looks like any of their cars, but she is loving being home again and her and her daddy have developed quite the little bond. Every time her dad leaves she tells him not to go and has to give him big hugs and kisses atleast twice before he can leave. It is so great for me to see, sometimes I forget what a wonderful bond us stay at home mom's get to form with our kids, that I realize sometimes the dad's feel a little left out sometimes. Addi is getting more and more excited to have a baby sister while we are slowly starting to set up the baby's room, eventhough she wasn't too excited to have to give up her rocking chair. She kept telling me that it was in the wrong room and she wanted me to help her move it back into her room and I told her that she needed to give it to the baby and she just kept crying and saying but it's my chair! We have lately been putting her in that chair for time outs you would think she would be more than happy to get rid of that chair, but no I guess it will be a little more of a challenge to have two kids than I think! Addi's birthday is also coming up soon and she knows it, she has been planning what she wants to do and she is very excited for a birthday cake and has told me and jake many times that she needs a birhtday hat! So it will be an exciting birthday for her this year! Well that is what we have been up to lately, sorry it is kind of a boring post, no pictures, just letting every one know what our life in Florida is like!

Randomness!!!

I was told by someone (mother) that I was in dyer need of a new post. Thanks to her I am always motivated to keep atleast one post every week or two or I know that I will be pestered until I do!! Just kidding, Mom! Anyways since I don't really have anything to post I just picked some fun pictures. These first are of Addi and her best friends! Yes she thinks that they are her own personal friends and no one else's so sorry all kids out there these friends are taken. As well they should be with Jake being able to get into the Disney parks for free and Addi is still under three so she gets in free as well and me well i'm not so lucky, so Jake takes Addi almost every weekend for an hour or two and they have to visit these guys EVERYTIME! So like I said before I think my daughter earns the right to "Best Friend" status, she is a very dedicated friend!

My Daughter has the BIGGEST brown eyes ever, just like her daddy!

My friends and I threw a Baby shower for one of our friends and so it gave me an excuse to get out my Cake making box that I haven't gotten out for a very long time. It was so much fun to make a Baby shower cake I've only ever done Wedding Cakes so it was a lot of fun to be able to get creative. I was making the baby with fondant one night while Jake and I were hanging out and I had all the limbs and body parts just hanging out on the table drying and Jake said he was going to take a close up picture of the dismembered baby and put it on the birth announcements when our baby is born and tell everyone that she didn't come out quite exactly how we expected but we will love her just the same!!

This is my "show off picture" I might just be a mom bragging and proud of her daughter but this morning Addi was sitting on the couch drawing with her magna-doodle and then came bringing it to me and said she drew a picture of Daddy. I was floored I have never seen her draw like this, usually it is just scribbles and lines, but no she drew this all by herself. I think it is pretty awesome for a two and a half year old but like I said it may just be a proud mom talking!!