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!

Memorial Day Vacation!!

Jake had an off Friday that fell on the same weekend as memorial day so we had a long 4 day weekend and we didn't want to waste it sitting at home so we decided to take a little mini vacation with our next door neighbors, The Smith's!! We had so much fun we got a cheap hotel for one night and we drove out to Siesta Key, which was named the best beach in the U.S. this year, it was gorgous and the girls loved it!!

We played and did a lot of relaxing!!


That night after we cleaned up at the hotel we went out for a quick Mexican Dinner!!


The next day we headed out for another beach day and our friends the Webb's came out and met us and Brielle had a lot of fun playing (or torturing don't know which!!!) with her good friend Milo. Our little Brielle, as you all may know has A LOT of attitude which is very apparent in this picture!!
Milo doesn't usually appreciate the surprise attack hugs!!!
We had so much fun and enjoyed getting away for a little mini vacation, now we are just counting down the days til we get to go home to Idaho for my Baby brothers wedding!!!!! Only 4 more day!!!! Idaho here we come!!

My squealer!!

Just thought this would be a cute video for the Grandparents!! Last night Jake decided he was going to watch the Documentary "Oceans" made by Disney. The girls loved it suprisingly and Brielle was so animated about it I couldn't tell if she was scared of all the fish and creatures in the Ocean or if she was just very intrigued!!

Easters

We had such an amazing easter this year, Amanda and our new niece Claire came to visit and we just ate her up. She is soo precious and got the most kissable little chubby cheeks!! Addi loved helping in every way and Brielle just liked to play with her little toes she thought it was so funny!

We had a small little easter egg hunt in our back yard with just the girls. Addi loved looking for her basket! Brielle thought all the easter eggs were balls and she loved finding them and then just throwing them again, that is until she realized there was candy in them, then the claws came out she threw an egg foil and all in her mouth and ran to gather all the eggs before her sister could.


We had to buy Brielle her own little Soccer ball for easter, ever since her sister started playing soccer, Brielle spends the whole game devising a plan to get past us onto that field to get a hold of that soccer ball, hopefully this will keep her occupied!!
We also got three easter packages with all the funnest toys including a cute Donald duck that walks and yells at you when you pick him up, the girls fight over who gets to pick him up!! Thank you Grandma Terry and Oma, you always send the best packages with the best candy ever.Now all we have been doing is devouring every last bit of chocolate in site, me mostly, it turns out that seven months pregnant and way too much chocolate in the house does not end well!! Look at that cute little face chomping down on candy!!!

Enjoying Spring!!

We are loving every minute of our spring already, Jake finally let me get cable a few weeks ago and I probably shouldn't let my kids watch TV 24/7 but the girls and especially me are loving the wonderful new discovery of Disney and Nickelodeon!!! As you can tell we love our lazy mornings watching TV especially when our buddy Milo comes to hang out while his mom is at school!!

Addi just started soccer, last week was her first practice and she was so excited!! She has her first game tomorrow which should be pretty entertaining but she loves it and loves being able to play on the same team as her best friend Isabelle!!

Of course just a few cute pictures of my little monkey, this girl has spunk!! She constantly has us on our toes! She has learned to climb everything, she climbs onto my tall table, countertops, the bookshelf and the very back of the toilets, she climbs up to the windows and stands in the window sills, and she has already learned to climb in and out of her crib! We can't keep her down she will climb anything in sight!
But she is still so very cute, I guess thats what gives me the patience from day to day.......