i hate building

enough said nothing is going are way. building is for the birds. we are at a total stand still and to think i said i wanted to do this again. here are some pic of the progress

Christmas is coming fast and we are all getting excited for the holidays there is nothing better then no schedule. Matt and his wife Rebecca are coming and i am looking forward to getting to know her better. we are doing a homemade christmas this year and it has been kind of fun making gifts for the persons name we drew. i am not going to put any thing on here cuz i don't know who reads this but i post some of the things we have been busy making after christmas.

black friday

i have decieded that we women are strange creatures. well some of us any ways. last weekend a group of girls and i went down to Kalispell to do the black friday thing. for those of you who don't know what that is ,it is really good deals after american thanks giving. we went to kalispell this year and it was so much fun. we stayed at the cabin witch was awsome cuz the group of us got to stay up the next night and show each other the deals we got and of course the things we were going to take back. it was so fun i am already looking forward to next year so get ready girls it will be a blast

i hope you dance

it has been a long time since i put any thing up about madison and we just got some darling pictures of madison in here ballet stuff my friend jill took them and they turned out so cute. Thanks Jill. madison is my little dancer she loves it and so do i. she is always dancing around the dinnig room and every where she goes she dances and sings.

baby nixon

my baby is one i can't believe that a year has already gone. he is so much fun, i really like this age he always is making me laugh. he is my only baby that even cares about me and wants me. but he still wants his dad more often, i guess he is just more fun than me. things about my nixon
-he learned to walk at 11 months
-he has such a cute smile
-he looks just like his daddy
-he can really bust a move
-he loves to wreastle with his dad and drew
-he loves to help empty the dishwasher while i load it
-the stairs are his favorite toy (so i spend my day taking him off them)
-he is so loving and such a sweet baby
-he still has 2 naps a day and i love it
but he is still my baby and he better stay that way
lucky boy got to have 2 birthdays and this was one of them. Amanda made matching monkey cakes for the boys. and then for the second party amanda helped me decorate this cow cake they both turned out so cute. good thing we have amanda who is so talented. nixon looks terrifed in these pics.

red neck mikey

just a funny little story but first you have to know a little bit about mike, he was born with a cleff lip and palate so as a teenager he had his frount tooth totally rebuilt. so while we were driving to utah to go to my brothers wedding- and meet people we have never meat before- mike is eating spitz and all of the sudden half of his frount tooth fell off he looked like the biggest red neck. so i had to take a pic but i don't think the pic dose it justice!!!!!!!

nothing beats the lake

lets see how many kids we can fit into a small tub !!!!!


The babies really do love the lake there is nothing better than a naked diapered baby got to love the pics of these three cousins. I hope they all stay as close as my cousins and i have stayed thanks in part to the lake.

This year at the cabin we decovered the best story teller, Danas husband Sherman, the kids absoulutly loved him he got so into the story that it took over an hour to tell but he never lost there interest they loved every minute of it he even used there names in the story. thanks Sherman they can't wait till next years stories

Summer is my favorite time of year i am not sure why i live in this part of the world but i do so i try to make the best of it. this summer we went camping with kurt and jo and there kids it was so much fun here are some pics form the fun weekend.

OK so i am the worst blogger there ever was. a lot has happened so if the next few blogs bounce around its because i don't know the order of events any more.
one of the things that we did this summer (thanks to Mikes mom and dad) was we got to go to my brother Matthews wedding in Logan Utah with NO KIDS. yes it was very fun we had no "when are we going to be there or i have to pee or I'm hungry" on the trip down. I got to spent 4 whole days with just mike it was so fun. i also got to spent a whole bunch of money on stuff for my house. i have never spent money on decorations and it was so fun we went to a place called tai pan trading. i also spent to much money on clothes. but it was so fun.
But the real reason we went to Utah was to go to Matt's wedding it was so nice Matt married the nicest girl we really like her, it is to bad that they live so far away. here are some pictures from the wedding

this last weekend has been a busy one for us . we celebrated grandpa larsons 90th birthday so crazy when we thought for sure he wasn't going to make through his last surgery that he had. but what a blessing for grandma that he did. he is such a roll model to me i look up to him alot he is strong in the gospel and bears his testimony every fast sunday, he dosen't care about what other people think, he likes everyone for who they are, he always has some good advice to give to us, and he show unconditional love to everyone around him. and one last thing he always knows how to have a good time. one quick stories about grandpa. him and grandma were at a party one night and decided to put some thing in the hor d'oeuvre to liven up the party and it sure worked the party was hoppin and it went on all the way till breakfast and then they were sorry that they had done it cuz they didn't drink any punch and they were very tired. that something that they put in the hor d'oeuvres was ridaline and they never told any one about there little trick till years later. that is just one of the many tricks grandpa had up his sleeve.

just for a laugh

so i just have a funny little story to tell about my drew. the other day we were in wallmart just taking our time walking up and down the rows talking to each other. then out of the blue we look up and drew is quit a ways in front of us and he has his pants pulled down just enough so that we can see his bum, he is sticking it out at us pointing his finger at his bum and saying ha ha! yes my four year old was mooning us and we don't know where he picked that up at. mike and i were laughing so hard we couldn't disiplene him, we kept looking at each other with a look like get a hold of your self so you can tell him that that is wrong and we shouldn't do that.

long time

ok so i know it has been a long time since i have written but in my defence i have been really busy. so my house is coming along and i am so excited every little thing that gets done i have to go over and look at it i know that is really lame of me.
i am also really busy getting my dance studio started which has been alot of work but is so fun i have wanted to do this for so look i cant wait till it is up and running. we called the studio Dance on Broadway cuz it is on broadway in raymond. when i can get my computer to work properlly i will post pictures of the progess of my house.

what a day

saturday was the buziest day ever i went to lethbridge with amanda to get my mom a birthday present cuz sunday was her birthday. then we went to get some groceries. then we rushed home to save mike from the kids, he was tring to work on the house and the kids were driving him crazy. oh ya on that note- we started building our house i am so excited about my concrete walls i know that is so pathetic but when i have been waiting for almost a year to get started the concrete is really exciting. well back to saturday then after picking up the very muddy kids i rushed home feed them and got the ready to go to tys babtism. next it was a rush to the moonlight run. and i suscessfully ran the 6k run and yes i finished. what an awsome feeling it is kind of like a rush to finish a race. now it is time to train for the next run and just so you know dan and andy there will be no getting out of the next one. by the time we finished the race and got our kids home to bed it was 11 and we were all very tired. what a day

the things that make me cranky

the other day i was so cranky i thought i should write about the things that make me cranky
-tring to nurse with an exersice bra on oh i mean 2 exersice bras on
-asking my 4 year old to put his pants back on at least 10 times before he even thinks about it
-wearing sock i love bare feet that must be were my kids get it, they take there shoes and socks of the minute the get in the house
-slow computers that randomly shut down when you are in the middle of something
-taxes need i say more
-gst cuz we are way to far behind ( not my fault of course)
-living in a rental house
and i could probably go on but enough said

and for the things that just make my day
-getting to exersice in the morning
-hearing drew say "i like you mom"
-the smell of a fresh clean baby
-nap time
-when madison walks in from school i love having my kids home
-when madison and drew decide to play happily together
-kisses from a 4 month old (you know how they are nice and slobbery)
-hearing the words i love you when i tuck my kids into bed at night
-having my husband do the dishes without me even saying a word (thanks mike)
-wearing sweat pants
-seeing how much madison has inproved in school
and i could go on and on but i won't bore you any more

i need a name

i need all of your ideas for a name for a dance studio please write as many as you can think of

the new year

once again it is time for a new year. i have a really hard time letting go of the old year and moving on to the new one. some of the things that happened to us in 2008
-we sold our second home which i am so sad about because we loved that house and now we are living in a runned down rental that i can't stand but only while we build so i guess i can handle it
-we had another baby so now we have three kids
-my oldest started grade one that means all day school i can hardly believe it
-we payed off both of our vehicles that is a awesome feeling
know for the goals that i hope to accomplish this year. i want to read the b of m i always start but have a hard time finishing. pay more attention to my kids and husband for that matter. read less so that i can accomplish the last one. get out of dept, i hate credit cards. have a home maid christmas which i am super excited about, and take my kids to do things one on one so they can spend time with us by them selves. and last of all build a new house.