Best Friends

Still Catching Up...
While in Washington I got to visit with one of my best friends, Kathleen, and her cute family. We have not seen each other in 3 years so it was great to visit again and let the kids play... after all Aidan and Mia do have an arranged marriage.

Brinn was IN LOVE with Ella...

Aidan and Mia spent their time playing "Temple" and "Marriage" and no this was not instigated by us although made us very proud!


Lance and David played "Daddy Daycare" while Kathleen and I hit up New Moon...

Kathleen, Lance, and kids...

Brinn and Maddi playing house...

Aidan and Mia playing "trick-or-treat"

Aidan and Mia dancing (Love the action shot!) In fact all 4 kids joined in on the fun and still weeks later my kids will chant, "Go Mia, go Mia, it's your birthday." or "Go Maddi, Go Maddi, GO."

What a fun time! Thanks again for letting us stay. Hopefully it won't be another 3 years before we can see each other again!

AIDAN AND TONY HAWK...

We got passes to Six Flags this year for Christmas and Aidan went the other day with my family. He is now tall enough to ride some of the big rides and my brother recorded his first ride on Tony Hawk. It's pretty funny!

Washington

What a blogging slacker I have been lately! Time to get going...

So here are like a hundred pictures from our trip to Washington....


Morisa and Tami, the birthday girls...

David and Alan Jr. sporting their manly beards...

David and Jeff...

Aidan and his cousin Miranda...

Taking time for a little time with Dad...

Game nights with the family...

Three little cousins: Brinn, Tayvin, and Jayah. It's funny because Tayvin is 6 months younger than Brinn and tall, Jayah is 6 months older than Brinn and short, and Brinn is right in the middle and average which makes them all about the same height.

Thanksgiving Dinner...

Proof that I was actually there too. David and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary while there and got to enjoy a night out with just the two of us!

Here is where a picture of David, Robert, and Derek went that I just erased... I will add it soon!


And finally, Aidan and Mekhi!

Thanks Tami for letting us stay with you. It was so fun to catch up with everyone and let the kids spend time with their cousins. I have more pictures taken with Grandma and Grandpa but my computer is not cooperating. Oh well... it's a good start!

Not Sure...

I was not sure what to title this post... Let's see... I thought about

Christmas Came Early for the Larson's or
I might be crazy!!! or
David said "Are you sure?"... I said "No, but let's do it anyways."

I think all would be fitting for this day! I have tonz of pics from our trip but I am going to show you what we did today first.

We set up our Christmas Tree... Tipped over on Aidan... Luckily before the decos were on... Christmas Tree Done!


David's mom was in town and we each opened a gift from her and David's Dad before she went home. We actually opened them with his Dad watching from Ukraine on Skype. That was fun!


Thanks Lynda for such a fun time, all the gifts, but mostly for being a great grandma and mom.


We traded in this paper dog of Aidan's for...


this guy... It is an early gift for the kids for Christmas. Aidan named him Pretzel. We decided after all the months of Aidan praying for a dog the time had come for his prayers to be answered. He is a 12 week puppy that weights 22lbs so he is going to be a big guy! He is the sweetest thing, clam, gentle, good with the kids...

We are so excited to welcome him into our family and yet when I think about the other little guy joining our family in a few months I do think I might be crazy. I think if we can get him potty trained it will help a lot!




Merry Early Christmas from us to you!

I'm Back...

I'm back from Vacation with pics and new posts coming soon... I promise!

Cleaning Boy...

Every time I ask Aidan to clean he goes and puts on some crazy accessories...

I think we should call him "Super Cleaner"

Self Portrait... BY AIDAN

Halloween!

The little "Queen Bee"

Buzz Lightyear to the rescue.

These two LOVED Halloween...

With some of our favorite people... at Chuy's where else?



The reward for all their hard work...

... 12 pounds of candy later. While walking down the last street Aidan said "I am almost out of steps." So were we!

And for the first time but definantly not the last we heard the line "I don't want Brinny's pile (of candy) with mine." Remember how you used to come home and sort your candy into piles and then even make trades. Oh the good old days!