The Pretty Lady Turns One

This little miss priss turned one year old yesterday. I won't go into how fast this year has gone, but it really has. I can't say much more than we just love her to pieces and really can't imagine our family without her. She is at such a fun stage right now...so sweet and smiley and loves everyone. She is working on her walking and loves to be 'walked' around the house or walk behind her little rolly walker thing. She says 'uh oh' when she drops something and follows Steve around saying Da Da and me around saying Ma. I am pretty sure she is saying Davis, too. (you all know I don't really care if she walks as long as she talks a lot!). She really is the sweetest most fun little girl. We are so glad that she is a part of our family and had so much fun celebrating her birthday today. (Yesterday was a super busy day so I told Davis her birthday was today and we celebrated all day!).

Her 12 months stats were: Weight 18 lbs 13 oz (15th percentile); Height 28 inches (18th percentile).




Kicking back with Daddy while the grown ups ate some dinner.

She showed a little more interest in opening presents than she did at Christmas but all the kids got so excited about it that I think she was a little overwhelmed...lets just say she got lots of help from her friends, cousins, and especially her brother!

This is only the second time that she has had sugar (the first was without my knowledge, thanks Jed!) so lets just say she really enjoyed her cupcake. She ate almost every bit!

I think she liked it!

We love our pretty girl!

All Dressed Up

These kiddos looked so cute dressed up for church the day after Christmas so I had to get some shots of them...hard to get a good one of all 3...this was the best I could do.

Christmas Morning

Christmas this year has been so so fun... this is the first year that Davis has really understood what it was all about and it made it so much fun for me. I couldn't get enough of it with him! We had a great time doing our advent calendar every day and reading tons of Christmas stories and doing fun activities. Christmas morning did not dissapoint and Santa was pretty good to the kids. It was super fun to have the Wright's with us on Christmas day, too.

Opening stockings...

Emery enjoying a little Christmas morning milk.

Grant on his new bike. He walked right to it and knew it was for him.

Davis loves geotrax and Santa found a great deal on Craigslist for the entire 'geo town'. Our toyroom has been completely taken over by geotown and he loves it. Steve has spent a lot of time putting them together!

Davis really got the idea of opening presents and since Emery wouldn't open hers, Davis got to. The problem was then he thought he could open everyone's presents! He was a little hard to keep under control and helped a few people out with their gifts. At least he was excited!

Emery could have cared less about opening presents, but she did like her new (to her) toys. I'll admit, Santa did find some toys that used to be Davis' and wrapped them up for her. Enjoy not having to buy more gifts while we can, right?!

Grant didn't care too much about opening presents, either!

The rest of our Christmas day included yummy breakfast and dinner and playing lots of fun games and staying up late! Good times!

Christmas Eve

We had a fabulous Christmas Eve at Jenny and Keith's and the Wright's got to experience Christmas Eve Larsen style. I didn't take great pictures, but here are a few...

Aunt Chelli trying to dress a wiggly shepherd.
Aunt Christie and Ms. Ems.

The Shepherds eating their sheep. I don't think I have ever read that part of the nativity...

Grant was an amazing angel...

John played us some Christmas carols (he did such a good job, especially with everyone singing) and had a little extra help from Grant.

Eva has a monopoly on the part of Mary, at least for a couple more years.

What I didn't get a picture of was the amazing dinner and most of the adults...but it was super good and the adults had fun, too!

The Santa Picture

This was the shot we got before Emery started screaming....

Thanks to The Chatterbox (my work) for a fun breakfast with Santa.

Davis also saw Santa at his preschool, so by the time our ward party rolled around and we wanted him to sit on Santa's lap again he was totally over it. His quote: 'I have to tell Santa again what I want? I already told him 2 times!!'. I thought that was pretty funny. He does have a point...

Gingerbread House Party

We had such a fun time decorating gingerbread houses with fun friends. Okay, to be honest, despite what you see in this picture, I got a little carried away and didn't really let anyone help me build our family house! Last year we made a house out of graham crackers and it was so ugly and I hated having it in my kitchen all of December, so I was determined to have a cute house this year. I had a great time, but maybe next year I should let the kids help? We'll see!

Davis putting the finishing touches on our awesome house...
I love these girls...Jenny, me and Jaimee (thanks to Jaimee for such a fun night). I am serving as a counselor to Jaimee in the primary presidency and I just love serving with her.

Not a great picture, but here we are with our finished product.

Family For Christmas

We were so lucky to have some family come visit us for Chistmas...it was the best present ever! Micah (my brother), Christie and Grant made the big drive from Dallas to come up and stay with us for an amazing Christmas. We had so much fun with them and we are so grateful that they would come. We are already counting down to the next time we get to see them again.

They arrived on the 22nd super late at night so we only had one day to show them around Louisville before everything closed for Christmas.


Oops, I meant to put this picture last since this is how we finished the day...enjoying a bedtime story with Steve. Davis made sure that Grant joined him for bedtime routines every night.

I think Churchill Downs was actually closed, but we had to do a drive by so they could say they have been there.

We had a lot of fun at the Louisville Slugger museum. It was actually the first time we have been there since we moved here. Steve was in Heaven! Anything to do with baseball and he is a happy guy. I think this picture of the Wrights is so cute...

Emery playing and getting ready to take off her headband. I keep fighting her to keep them on, but I think she is winning!

Davis working on his baseball skills...trust me, they need some work! He'll get it sometime, right?!

Steve and Davis watching Charlie Brown at the Christmas Charlie Brown exhibit (which was kind of lame, by the way, except for the adults that were in there writing letters to Santa. Weird.).

Little kids+kid size Louisville slugger bats=really bad idea!

No one got hurt this time, but they didn't get to hold them for very long. I mean really, what else is a kid going to do with a little bat besides hit another little kid?

Steve is so proud you would think he single handedly rooted the Giants to win the World Series this year. What can we say? They are his team!