Jazz Game!!

On Friday night we made a little trip to Indianapolis to see this guy play (yes, that is Millsap, basically the only member of the Jazz left that I even know his name!)

Of course we were lucky enough to see the new coach of the Jazz, Ty Corbin have his first win as coach.

We got our tickets about 3 months ago. When Jerry Sloan left a few weeks ago we were so dissapointed. Then this last week when Darrin Williams was traded, we were extra dissapointed. It would happen the week that we were going to see them play. Thank goodness they won and it really was so fun to see the Jazz play again...even if we didn't know who most of the players were!

This was our Valentines present to each other...and I have to say that it was really nice to spend an evening with my amazing husband since he has been working so much lately and we haven't been able to spend much time together. Loved every second of it.

Jenny planned this outing for Keith's birthday and we were more than happy to help him celebrate!

Love this sister in law of mine.

Why did we take our picture in front of the bourbon sign? Oops.

Fun to see the Martins at the game, too. What can we say? We are a family of Jazz fans!

My Valentines

I tried to get some valentines pictures of these crazies and it was not very successful. They are cute anyway. Davis came home from school last week and said 'mom, do you know who my valentine is? YOU!'. Yep, that melted my heart. Love him.

Davis got to go to a Valentines party with some of the cute kids from church.

All three of my Valentines. We had heart shaped pizzas, red jello and chocolate covered strawberries for dinner. About as creative as I could get.

Had to throw this one in...I can't open the dishwasher without Emery trying to climb in. Good thing she doesn't weigh very much.

Davis eating pizza at his school party. Jenny and I were in charge of the Valentines party and we had a good time.

Winter....blah...

I have been terrible at posting lately. I think it is because I have not taken one single picture besides Emery's birthday for over a month. This is mostly because we have not been doing anything picture worthy. I am so over winter. I've had enough and I want it done. It was like 20 degrees yesterday and Davis wanted to play outside. He doesn't even like playing outside. He thought it actually felt warm enough to play outside. How sad is that? But, the weatherman promised warmer weather starting tomorrow so I am going to have some faith in him and I can't wait! I'm supposed to be training for a marathon and somehow running 12 miles on a treadmill in the morning doesn't sound too great so I am hoping it is warm enough to go outside. We'll see because I am kind of a sissy about running in the cold...

Steve was traveling for most of the month of January so while he was gone I took on a huge project and started re-doing the kids bathroom and our master bathroom. Sadly I forgot to take before pictures but I will post some pictures when I am done decorating, hopefully this week. Poor Steve got home from his travels exhausted and with major work overload and I had our bathrooms completely torn apart and ready for his expertise to finish what I started! He is such a good sport at helping (aka making my vision come to life) me with my bright ideas for our house. I am really happy with how they turned out. I don't want to paint anything again for a long time (or at least a week or two!!).

So, that's all we've been up to. Trying to keep warm working away on bathrooms. Like I said, I am so over winter! If it ever gets warm enough to do anything fun again I might start posting pictures again!

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!