Larsen's Celebrate!

My Mommy's side of the family had two celebrations here in the beginning of November.  The first one was watching our baby Lexi get blessed at church.  It's kind of neat because Aunt Angie and Uncle CJ go to our same church building just a different time!

We walked from the church. Everyone thought we were silly!

Grandma and Grandpa Great were able to come

We also had birthday cake for Uncle Marty after Mommy and Daddy went and watched the new James Bond movie "Skyfall".  Lucky!

Aunt Angie might not love this picture but it's such a happy picture!

Look at how our family's grown!
Uncle CJ and Lexi not pictured :)

You will frequently find Cara chomping away at cereal.
It's almost all she eats now.

Kidnapping!

Mommy did something almost unforgivable!  She went to Disneyland without us AGAIN!  However, we decided it was a good cause and I forgave her.  Mostly because she promised to take me back again soon!

Mommy kidnapped one of her dear friends, Sarah, for her 30th birthday.  Sarah was the whole reason Mommy went to Disneyland on Leap Day with a bunch of other women.  Sarah loves Disneyland and she bought an annual pass and had only been able to use TWO days so far.  She kept complaining to Mommy but Mommy was already planning her kidnapping and it made it very hard to look into sad eyes pleading to go.

So Mommy and another friend, Cami, got the car already and had the other bestie, Julia, secretly pack a bag and obtain her pass.  They went to her house, she was told to grab shoes, her wallet, and go get in the car.  Then her kids and mom and Julia yelled "You're going to DISNEYLAND!" and she screamed, cried, hyperventilated and then proceeded to have an amazing 24 hours.  Mommy found out about extra birthday magic that we didn't know happened at Disneyland.  It was WONDERFUL.  Some of the Christmas decorations were up and Sarah and Cami had never been to Cars Land.

If you happen to be heading to Disneyland for a birthday, give Mommy a call.  She'll let you in on the birthday magic secret!

(Really the photo quality on the picture of a picture are terrible, but we had to show that we went on all the big rides!)

Happy Halloween!

We had a great Halloween.  (Even though the date on this blog reflects it being posted on Halloween, it was actually posted over a week late. That's how awesome of a Halloween it was...Mommy was just too overwhelmed to post it!)

We carved pumpkins at NOON on Halloween.
Cuttin it pretty close!

My preschool performed two little songs for our Moms and Dads while dressed up in our awesome costumes.

And then we had so much fun at our church's Trunk or Treat and Chili dinner.  We got tons of candy!

Our favorite part might have been handing out treats.  Observe:

Okay actually blogger is being very strange about us uploading our heckling video.  That's right.  We kind of heckled trick or treaters.  Or rather we were trying to get them to come stop at our house.  It was quite hilarious!  We'll try again later!

Then we hit up Grandma and Grandpa's neighborhood for a couple of full size candy bars!  Good eatins'!  Of course we actually traded in 3 lbs of candy for $3 from our dentist but we kept the best pieces for ourselves!

Oh yes and I almost forgot! On the Monday before Halloween, I got to go see the Odyssey Dance Company perform Thriller! out at Tuachan.  It was a Mommy-Daughter date and I loved it.  At first I was afraid it would be scary but when the first number was Michael Jackson's "Thriller" I turned to Mommy and said "This isn't scary, this is silly!" And then laughed maniacally through the number.

We actually knew one of the zombies.  It was Mommy's friend Lainie's daughter! Scary huh?

Trip up to the Frosty North or for candy and cake....

We spent the weekend up in Salt Lake City playing with our Preslar cousins.  We love them so.  We spent all of Thursday slicking up the house (so that Mommy could come home to no chores) and packing our bags.  To be honest, we get almost as excited to go to SLC as we do to Disneyland and it's MUCH cheaper and a shorter drive!

We actually did more coloring than cleaning....

It was so cold though.  Oh it was so cold.  We spent our first night and morning with Oma and Apa enjoying their fire.  I might have freaked Daddy out a little when I woke up however!  I woke up startled and looked at the foot of my bed which was in Apa's solarium and exclaimed:

"Oh! It's gone!"

Daddy: "What's gone?"

Me: "The white face with no nose and no mouth and black eyes." (said very calmly and matter of fact)

Daddy: "Huh.  Was it there before?"

Me: "Yeah, I woke up in the middle of the night when it was dark and it was at the end of my bed." (again very matter of fact)

Daddy: "You mean outside?"

Me: "No.  I mean inside by my bed." (again no fear...)

We then grabbed our gear and spent the rest of the weekend causing mayhem and mischief with Aunt Rachel, Uncle Troy, Chase, Romney and Emma.  It was so delightful.  We attended their Halloween Carnival in our full costumes this year and got candy...

Uncle Troy must have a much better non blurry picture of this

The next day Cara and I dragged our parents to "Boo at The Zoo" which was trick or treating at the zoo.  They had no idea and were ASTOUNDED at the parking problems.  We were also not dressed in our costumes but we still managed to get a lot of candy and see the animals.

Cara was at least festively dressed!

Then we ran back to the Preslars and helped Aunt Rachel get ready for Chase's birthday party.  He turned 10!  We mostly helped by taking Emma up the zoo for our second trip and keeping her out of the way during bowling...

Look at our adorable triplets...I'm pretty sure more than one
person thought they were.

We also got to see a special dance by the sea lions!
Guess which one?
(Hint..that's a boy and a girl...)

We joined the craziness of the remainder of a birthday party back at the house and ate so much cake and frosting.  Okay actually just Mommy and Daddy...so much.

We also got to eat more cake and frosting on Sunday when we had a family get together for Chase again!  So much sugar was ingested.  Again mostly by Mommy.  We didn't take a whole lot of pictures but it was a great little jaunt up north.

And just as a side note...we might be trying this next year.  Look at these costumes?!

October stuff

Mommy finally plugged her phone into the computer for the first time in maybe TWO weeks! So here are some things that didn't make it off her phone and onto their proper posts or things that she forgot to mention! (There are a lot of pictures....wow!)

I wrote this envelope on my own.  It was addressed to
"Lainee who does waxes"
Can you see it?

I've gotten into coloring really intense geometric shapes at church

What would we do without Grandma in our lives?

We are trying to get on AFV announcing "Tom Bergeron"
Mommy accidentally took a picture instead of recording a video!

Lexi is starting to give us big smiles.  We love to hold her.
Although in this picture I kinda look like I'm forcing my smile!

Impossible to get a good pic of us all holding still

Mommy taunted all the "in laws" with this picture by text message
when we took our epic lake trip!

Mommy had a fun "What Witches Want" night out with her friends!

Our first encounter with a llama!

She was really nervous and kept running in circles!

The pig races are one of our favorite parts of Staheli Farm!
This was the list of this year's contenders!

Silliness!

Cara refused to be in the picture.  It's okay.  We've never
done them before anyway!

Do you like my Halloween make up that I'm rocking?

Staheli Farm

We took our annual outing to Staheli Farm today!  It's worthy of mentioning because we took the time to dress up in our Halloween costumes for a photo shoot.  AND that's worthy of mentioning because of my costume this year:

I am Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas.  And I LOVE my costume.  I got so many compliments on it today.  And I owe it all to Mommy and our friend, Sarah.  Mommy spent four hours hot glueing my wig together and Sarah spent FIVE hours finding fabric remnants in her workshop/garage and surging them all together.  The dress is fabulous and unbelievably durable.  Again I LOVE IT.  And I got so many compliments walking around the farm.

Cara looks so fetching in this beautiful red hooded cape that we almost had her be Red Riding Hood, but then she also pulls of a beautiful villainess in her dark black dress that we went for that instead!

We had fun taking pictures...we aren't exactly great at posing but Mommy managed to get enough for photo overloads!

Our pumpkins!

Epic Lake Trip

Last week we made the decision NOT to go to Lake Powell with Grandma and Grandpa.  It was the first year that Cara and I were invited to go because neither of us were in diapers!  However, Mommy looked at the weather and said "No thank you!"  And we're glad she did.  The others still went and did a lot of sitting in tents while it rained and thundered and lightninged.

Of course THIS weekend it's been beautiful.  Oh the irony.  So Grandpa invited us all to go out for an afternoon and Sand Hollow even though the water is starting to be a wee bit nippy.  I never actually got in.  And it turned out to be a "blood relation" only trip.  No spouses.  Us grandkids were allowed to tag along because we are "blood"!

Mommy couldn't decide which picture she liked more...so you get two versions.. one with sunglasses, one without!