The Larsen Family

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Christmas in Colorado

Finally getting around to post about Christmas! Better late than never!

We were finally able to go to Colorado to spend Christmas with Merrill's family. We haven't all been together at the same time for 3 1/2 years. The last time the whole family was together there were 2 grandkids. There are now 9, the oldest being 4 1/2. Crazy! I think most of us expected quite the craziness, but the kids all did really well, with less fussiness and fighting than expected.

Watching a movie with "Grandpa Clause"

One day we went to the Rec center to swim. Jarret and I had blast going down the slides.

I didn't have my camera out. Luckily Grandpa got a picture!

We also took a trip to Cabelas. Jarret loved the fish!

Cousins

Singing Christmas songs while the girls spinning in circles.

Darci as an Angel for the Christmas Nativity

Sweet little Navy

Hanging stockings

Getting Cookies ready for Santa

Setting out the cookies and a letter to Santa

That's a lot of Stockings

What did Santa leave in the stockings!!?!

Darci got an umbrella! She loved it, she's been asking for one for a while.

A gift for Merrill's parents from everyone. Family pictures that spell out "Larsen"

Daryn- Cutest little present ever!

Christmas Pies!!!

The day after Christmas, which was also the day we left, Darci woke up sick. She laid on the floor watching movies and puking all morning. Poor girl. Luckily after a nap she was feeling better and we were able to get our or 10pm flight home with now more puking.

Grandma and Grandpa with all their grandkids!

We got on the plane and Darci was upset that she couldn't sit right next to Daddy. The stewardess was right behind us and saw that Darci was upset, so she gave her this cute Christmas light neckless. So nice of her, Darci was super excited and she stopped fussing.

My cute little sleeping family!

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Halloween 2013

Carving pumpkins, when we started scooping the stuff out, Darci kept saying eww! So Jarret assumed that meant it smelled bad. So he kept plugging his nose saying "eww!"

These pumpkins are the result of our pumpkins we tossed out last year. There was one left that we didn't carve that sat on our porch until Christmas, so Merrill then carved a Christmas tree in it. Then dumped it in the compost pile. Sometime in the spring Merrill was mowing the lawn and went to dump the grass in the pile and notice a "squash plant" sticking out. He then dug it out of the pile and transplanted it in our tiny garden. And there it grew these 3 perfect pumpkins!

All ready for the trunk-or-treat. He did not want to put his costume on, I had to bribe him with a treat and tell him he couldn't go to the party until he put his costume on. After a fight with ripping a hole in the pants, we finally got it on and actually kept it on all night. :)

only got a few pictures, and not the greatest, but it works.

Didn't take this boy long to figure out what it was all about. he was a little shy, and only said "treat" when they weren't looking at him. but he was not shy about digging into those candy bowls when they held it out for him.

My little fairy princess. Her skirt lit up. There was a little button near her belly to turn it on. She thought it was the coolest thing that you just "push my belly and my lights turn on!"

When we were done walking around to all the cars, just went up to all the people walking around in hopes that they were passing out candy. He started to dig his hands into a couple kids candy buckets. He was having too much fun.

Halloween night I took the kids out around our neighborhood, along with my friend Heidi and her boys. Merrill wasn't feeling well, so he stayed home to pas out candy. Jarret was having a blast, although he keeps such a serious face. He had to walk by himself and not hold my hand. And there were 2 houses that had their lights on but never came to the door. For most houses the 2 older kids knocked and by the time the other 2 got there the door was open. But with these two houses Jarret actually got to knock on the door and kept knocking, or ringing the door bell, and when no one came to the door he started yelling/fussing "CANDY!! CANDY!!!" So of course I grab him and took off running away from the house. My crazy child demanding candy at a strangers door! :/

checking out the goods!

Friday, October 18, 2013

It's a Post!! A LONG Post!

So I haven't posted anything in a while. I haven't really been on blogger at all lately. Somehow just kind of keep forgetting about it. And instead of trying to make up for the last year, i'll just skip ahead to some pictures from the past couple months. Enjoy!