A wonderful weekend!

I had an awesome weekend. It was fun to be with my boys for the weekend. So on Friday my sister Apryl and her family came over to decorate cookies and have dinner with us. Well for dinner we had something that I haven't had before but have been told that it was really good. I finally tried......Salmon. It wasn't too bad. Oh, for those of you who don't know I don't like fish. Unless it is seasoned just right or if it is fish and chips at Chuck-A-Rama, other than that I won't eat. I think it is because I had to gut a fish when I was little and that just grossed me out ever since. Anyway, I tried it and it wasn't too bad, but I don't think that I would eat it very often. But we had fun decorating the cookies. Daxton and Corbin decorated cookies for their primary teachers and we were told that they were really good. I used Mat's mom's recipe and they are TO DIE FOR!!! Oh, and my sister made the frosting and that just topped them off. It was fun. After dinner we got all the kids into pjs and we, as adults, played a game and it was a lot of fun. I think the game is called Celestial Companions. It was fun to see how well I really know Mat and how well he knows me.
On Saturday Mat and I got reservations to Tucanos. We were leaving the two older boys with my dad and we took Hayden with us. We had a really good time. We ended up getting in half an hour after our reservation time which is really good considering it was Valentine's Day and they were really busy. We were so full by the time we left Tucanos. The special for that day was all you can eat for 15.95 and we were really excited. Along with that every girl was given a rose and everyone was given chocolate covered strawberries and they were really good. It was so nice to be with Mat and spend that time with him without the other two older boys. Hayden was really good for us. He ended up waking up but wasn't fussy at all for us. It was really nice. After our really fullfilling lunch we went home and played with the boys and that night we were having a sitter come and watch the two boys again so that we could go dancing. So we made pizza with the boys and Mat and I were so full still from lunch that we didn't eat much but it was really good. We got the boys into bathes for church the next day and then our sitter came. Our stake was doing a Valentine's dance. Although it was not advertised very well. Mat was told in Elders Quorum but I wasn't told in Relief Society. We thought that we would try it out and see how many people were going to be there and then decide from there what we wanted to do. This was the first time that Mat and I had danced together since we got engaged 5 years ago. I know 5 years ago we had gotten engaged and we went to the Sweetheart dance at the Institute. That was the last public dance that we went to. Soooo...... I really wanted to go and check out the dance with our stake. However, when we walked into the church there were not very many people there, but who is at the start of a dance. We waited it out and then some dance teachers came and taught us all how to cha-cha, waltz and swing. IT WAS SOOOOO MUCH FUN!!!! Hayden ended up falling asleep, thank goodness, and Mat and I were able to dance the rest of the night without any worries. I haven't had that much fun with Mat dancing in a long time. Mat says that we need to take a dance class, but I don't know where we need to go to do that in our area. If anyone knows please let me know. After we had our lessons with the teachers we danced for a little bit longer and then we went and got a movie and came home. I was excited that it took me awhile to finally calm myself down to go to bed. I had such an exhilarted feeling. That was the best day of this year so far. It was so much fun. I'm not the best dancer but I sure did try my hardest. I hope that you all had a good Valentine's Day. I am so excited to go to the Draper Temple in a few weeks with my family and to spend that time with them. Love you all! Have a great day!

My silly boys!!

Well I so I wanted to post these pictures of my boys that were over this last week and weekend and to tell you what my boys have been up to. My first big boy, Mat, has been just working and helping me at home when he can. He's so amazing and I love him to pieces. Daxton has been a hand full lately with being Mr. Attitude. I hope that he grows out of it, otherwise I am in big trouble when he gets to be a teenager. It has to be his way or he is NOT a happy camper. AHHH some days he really pushes all my buttons and then I have to remember that he is only 3 1/2 years old and hopefully he will get better and just LISTEN to me. Corbin is also a little Mr. Attitude, but a little flare. He just makes me laugh more than anything which can be just as frustrating. He loves to read books and get into as much trouble with throwing all the toys, shoes, coats, books onto the floor. So he is also a little tornado and you can see where he has been. So we are constantly picking up toys, books, shoes, coats from the floor, and he does a pretty good job at putting everything back. He is a good little helper, when he wants to be and sometimes when you don't want him to be. So is the life of a 20 month old, right?!?! Hayden is getting so big. He is laughing for me now and he loves to show off his smile. If he doesn't know people he will put out that bottom lip and let it quiver for you and just give you this sad look, like saying, "Mom, who is this and don't you want me?" It makes me kind of sad to see that face. Hayden does love his brothers and his brothers love him just the same and I have to pictures to prove it. For me I am just a mom at home that gets a kick out of what my boys can come up with to entertain themselves. I am just glad that Daxton loves to use his imagination. Like the other day he was "throwing" snowballs at me in the house and we were trying to get daddy and we were "building" a snowman and Mama got Daxton with a snowball down his back. It was a lot of fun and it does keep things interesting around the house. Thank goodness Mat knows how to play along, most of the time when he isn't frustrated with him.

Hayden getting ready for bed and being so funny.

Ok, so I need to explain this picture a little bit. There is book that we have called, Clarence the curious calf. In the book are different animals that Clarence meets and my dad came up with little actions to them for Corbin to get involved a little bit. For example, Clarence meets a bunny rabbit and asks why he has big feet? The rabbit replies that he hops on his big feet. And so my dad uses his two fingers and has them hopping around. Well, for this picture he meets a mole. The mole squints his eyes because he is not use to the sunlight and Corbin usually does this but a little while ago I asked him what does a mole do and this is the face that he gave me? It cracked me up. And for the sound of a sheep instead of BAAH, it's BLAAHH! He is a character. I love his facial expressions and apparently he imitates me. Which is kind of an interesting thought to me.

The next couple of pictures are of my SUPER HEROES!!! Daxton asked me yesterday if I could make him SUPERMAN and to get the camera. So that's what I did and Corbin wanted to be SUPERMAN too. Doing everything that big brother does.

Daxton wanted to play train and so they were THOMAS the TRAIN. See here is Daxton's imagination at work. I love it!

This one made me laugh so hard. I was cooking lunch the other day when I turned around and saw this. The boys had piled all of their blankets onto Hayden and then Corbin put this pot lid on his head for a hat. I had to take a picture of it on my phone to send to Mat. Truly they have Brotherly love for their littlest brother. What will they come up with next? They sure keep me on my toes that's for sure.

On last Saturday we took the boys outside to play a little bit and to build a snowman that Daxton has been asking for since it first started snowing in October just that little bit. So that is what we did. He also wanted a Santa Claus, but Corbin was getting tired and ornery and needed to take a nap. Here are a couple shots of the boys playing outside. Of course, knowing me I took tons more, but I won't bore you with anymore photos of my boys.

Vacuum Hairdos

Ok, so I know that that sounds kind of funny, vacuum hairdos, but Mat figured this out when I had just finished cutting his hair and I was vacuuming his hair out and then he did it to Corbin and this is what had happened, it turned into a mohawk hairdo. So we decided to do this to do the boys the other day and "do" their hair. Corbin will let us do it, but Daxton was a little bit hesitant. It really makes me laugh how scared he was of it, but we convinced him that it tickled and this is what we did. Here is Mat doing Daxton's hair. (Just in case you would like to try it on your own children.)

Here are the results of the "do." Really spikey hair. For some reason this is where my boys grow their hair is right in the center, from the front of the head to the back. If I let Daxton's hair grow out he would have a mullet, YUCK!!

Here is Daxton and Corbin's hair. Corbin gives you good view on what it looks like and how high it gets. Corbin also likes to put food in his hair if we are not quick enough on cleaning him up after dinner and Mat will put Corbin's hair into a mohawk with food and water. YUMMY!!

My two silly boys giving BIG CHEESY SMILES!!! Gotta love em'!

Can't finish up this post without showing a picture of Hayden and how cute he is. And yes, I have another thumb sucker. No matter what I did he wouldn't take a binkey. Oh well.

I wanted to show you a picture of my family. This is 30 out of 31 of my family. We took this the day that Hayden was blessed. My sister-in-law Cindy did a really good job. The only one missing is my brother-in-law Casey, Chelsea's husband. Silly man didn't want to be there. My favorite person in the picture is Daxton and his pose. Along with my two nephews being ornery. Oh well, it will not always be a perfect picture will it. But that's what makes it a great family photo. Memories, memories!


Hope that you all have a great day and are safe, especially with all of the new snow that we have gotten the last few days.

Random Updates

I realize that it has been a little while since I last posted, but not much has been going on other than the fact of baby blessings, baby blessings, baby blessings. We had Hayden's had the end of December and then the next week we went to another one up in Farmington. We went to be with one of the missionaries from Mat's mission and his baby was being blessed. We wanted to support them and it was really nice to be able to do that and to see them again. Then the next week we went to my brother's little girl's blessing. She was born 6 days before Hayden but is much smaller than Hayden. She's adorable though. Her name is Korryn Rebecca Lee. Anyway, we went up to Idaho Falls to be with my brother and other family up there. It was nice to get together. We almost had our whole family again, but my sister-in-law and some of her kids were sick as well as my sister Chelsea and her husband Casey were unable to make it. It was a lot of fun. Mat has been enjoying his job and we are just thankful that he still has his job. So many of my extended family members have been struggling and some have lost their jobs. We just keep thanking Heavenly Father that Mat still has his and that we are doing ok financially. We truly have been blessed this past year. It has been nice to be so close to family and to spend time with them the past few weeks. The boys keep growing up faster and faster. I can't believe that Daxton is now in Sunbeams and Corbin in nursery. I'm excited for them to be progressing, but it is really scary that times goes by so fast. Daxton will be going into preschool this fall and that is exciting and weird to think as well. It will be nice to be able to spend a little more time with Corbin and Hayden though. Oh, I have to tell you a scary thing that Daxton has did to me the other day. We were shopping the other day with my mom at Shopko getting some of their clearanced items and were getting ready to go and check out. I went through first and paid for my things and then put up he things that my mom was buying when I turned around and didn't see Daxton. I yelled his name a few times and no response. I started walking down aisles and still no response. Then this lady asked if he was wearing a blue coat and I said yes. She said that he was outside. So I left Hayden and Corbin with my mom as she was finishing checking out and ran outside. He was running towards the car. Thank goodness that he didn't get hit by any cars, but he scared me so bad. He got into a lot of trouble and was not able to watch any movies or tv and AHHHHHH!!! I was so scared that something had happened to him. You just never know what could ever happen, but ah, I just had to let someone know what my little boy did. Frustrating little boy sometimes, but I do love him. Well enough about that I will stop. Just thought that I would let you know how things are going for the Larsen's, although it isn't much. Hope you all have a great day.

Family Weekend!

Wow! Christmas weekend was kind of crazy. We had a great time when my all of my family got together at my mom's house on the Saturday after Christmas for a BINGO party for all the grandkids. When I was little we would go to my grandma's house during Christmas time and play BINGO. My mom decided to keep the tradition that her mother started and keep it going through her own grandkids. It was the easiest way to keep the kids involved with Christmas in a special way with their MAMA (that's what grandma is to the grandkids). The kids had a blast. And after BINGO was over the kids all played with the simple toys that they all got and had a blast while the adults played some games.

Here is beautiful picture of my neice Madilyn. She's the oldest grandchild and next January (of 2010) she will be 12. I can't believe it. She's gorgeous though.

Here is Mat with Daxton and my nephew Christian helping them play BINGO.

Here is all 31 of my family crammed into my mom's tiny house. Okay not all 31 are showing in the picture, but we did have 31 in the house that night. It was cramped but we didn't mind being so close to one other. We had a blast.

The next day we blessed Hayden. I know that it wasn't on a fast Sunday, but I like to do blessings when I know that all of my family will be there. It happened to be that my brother from Idaho was going to be down and able to participate. It's hard for him to get Sundays off from work and I was glad that he and his family were able to be there. We had a good time. We had a small luncheon at my sister Apryl's house. She has a bigger home that would be able to hold all of my family as well as Mat's large family as well.

This is my nephew Dalan and he is showing his sticky Coolwhip fingers and saying that he's a T-Rex. ROARRRRR!!!!

Here is my dad (PAPA) with Hayden and Korryn. Korryn is 6 days older than Hayden but you would never know it if you looked at her. She is soo tiny. Especially compared to my 14 lbs little bundle of joy.

Here I am with Hayden the morning of the blessing.

Here's Mat with Hayden. Don't they look like twins?

Here are my boys in their new church outfits from Grandma. Their so cute!

Here is Hayden in his blessing outfit. I love this picture. (He's smiling at Mat.)

Doesn't he have a cute smile? He makes me smile everytime I see him. So too cute not to smile at.

Our New Years was spent at our house with my family. We just stayed up playing games until about 2 am and I'm not used to that especially if I have to get up during the night to feed Hayden. But it was fun. It was full of laughter and good memories of my mom being silly, especially when she gets really tired. It makes everything just that much more fun.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! WELCOME 2009!

Hope all of good goals set for this year and hope all goes well for you.

A New Year already!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I can't believe how time has flown by so fast and we are already at a new year. 2009!! Wow! Well, I hope that all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Well for Christmas we were up at Mat's parent's house. They do a big Christmas Eve dinner. We were able to be with almost all of his family. It was nice for the kids to play with their cousins and enjoy Christmas Eve with them. We had to threaten Daxton to be good or else we were going to call Santa up and tell him that he couldn't come to our house. Mat's sister Stephanie's boyfriend said that he had Santa's number on speed dial on his phone and that we could use it if we needed to. We didn't have to many other problems the rest of the evening with him. He was so excited for Santa to come. That night he and his cousin Landon got things ready for Santa. They went outside and laid out some food on the snowy lawn for the reindeer to find the house. Mat's sister Emily had gotten the reindeer food for Christmas from a neighbor friend. So the little boys did that and then set out the plate of cookies and turned off the fireplace so that Santa wouldn't hurt his bum. It was really cute.

Here is Mat so excited for his gifts that I had gotten him. Plus, he was being a dork and being just Mat. I love him though.

Doesn't Corbin look so excited for Christmas?!?! He really was excited. It was fun to watch him open up presents. I know that next year he will have caught onto the whole idea and be really excited.
I love this picture of Daxton. He was so funny. He told Santa that he wanted a house for Christmas and a guitar. Well, Santa got him the guitar, and when Daxton opened it up he was so excited that after that he said that he wanted to go home. He's so funny. But here is Daxton jammin' to his guitar. It's a Backyardigans guitar and he loves to play it. He's a goof.

With Mat's family they do a little thing called the ELF. Where one of Santa's elves will "come down" and give the kids a pair of new pajamas on Christmas Eve. Mat and I have kept this tradition. The kids love it. Here are our boys in their new pajamas from the ELF. Hayden was tired and Corbin was more interested in what was going on around him and Daxton just wouldn't look at the camera.