Santa visited the Larson house early this year

Introducing the cutest little pre-Christmas present ever.....The mighty Zeus!!!

He he. We have been wanting a puppy for a very long time, but wanted to wait until we had a house with a yard, well we got one, and found the most adorable little boy online. He is maybe about a foot long and weighs just over 1 pound, which is mostly fur. He is just a big puffball. He has such a wonderful personality. He loves to cuddle, he doesnt bark unless he is playing and even then it takes a lot to get him riled up enough to make noise. He is great with children and other dogs and is just so freakin adorable. He would be perfect if he was totally potty trained, But we cant have perfection right away I guess. He is close though.

Congratulations Divers

For the past couple of months, I have been coaching 2 different High School Diving Teams- Red Mountain and Skyline. It has been a blast to be back in the diving world (blast from the past :P) But it was alot of fun and I had some really great kids. Last week was the state finals and I had 3 divers make it to the state competition. Ryan placed 7th, which is awesome for a sophomore, and two of my senior girls from Skyline, Lauren and Khazia placed 3rd and 15th. They did awesome and I am very proud of them, and proud to have played a small part in them getting to this point.

Bye Bye Blue....Hello Beautiful

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We got new granite counter tops!!! No more ugly blue (sorry Donna :P ) I am so excited. It has made such a difference in the kitchen! Now I just have to stain the cabinets and the kitchen will be beyond beautiful!!!! I just wanted to say thanks to Valerie and my Scot! They hooked me up with my beautiful new counter tops!! If anyone wants granite- Epic Renovations has the best stuff!! I would definitely recommend them to anyone!

Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween Everyone!!! I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween. I really enjoy this holiday but for the past couple of years we have been bums (not literally, bums as in, not really done much). This year my cousin August and his wife Melissa threw a Halloween party. It was a lot of fun. They had a costume contest (we were in second place by 1 vote), yummy food, a donut eating contest ( my sister Nauni won for the girls ), bowling with pumpkins, and just some fun times. Eldon and I were Hercules and Meg from the Disney version of Hercules,

but everyone thought we could be the couple from 300....didnt see it, but I will take their word for it. (Check out my hot hubby!! )

Nauni and my cousin Melissa were scary fairies

and my Brother and Cousin August were MAC and PC from the commercials.

I thought it was pretty creative. We had a blast hanging out with family and meeting new friends out on this side of town, but we were a little sad not to be at our house for trick or treaters for the first year....oh well. This year, Halloween was for us and we had a blast! Hope Halloween was happy for you all as well!

My First Time

Lame, I know, but yes this year was the first year that I carved a pumpkin all by myself. Eldon did give me some good pointers, but I did it! This is definitely a tradition that I want to keep. It was a lot of fun, but I had no idea that pumpkins dont last very long. :( It didnt even make it to Halloween. Sad, oh well. I am still proud of myself. Eldons pumpkin is the transformers symbol for those of you who arent in the know. and mine is eating the small pumpkin. I was laughing so hard carving the small pumpkins scared face that i think it turned out more like a smile ( or at least that is what my grandma saw when she "oh its cute" ha. oh well..... Happy Halloween!!

Back from the Dead

Hopefully!!! Many of you may not know, we basically died (at least from our social lives) for the month of October. Eldon had his surgery to remove his giant kidney stone and then had to deal with a stint for a week (not fun, but he was a good sport). He kept me company while I was on bed rest- and no not for a happy reason like a baby.....for a stupid cyst that burst and caused internal bleeding and so much pain that I thought I was going to die, and resulted in my first ever hospitalization. I never want to go through that again!!! It was absolutely miserable. Hopefully that is all behind us. We are feeling much better and back to work and school and starting to pick up on some of the things that dropped off....such as the blog. (So sorry for the long time with no posts :) One of the good thing that came out of all of this was the great company we had. I am so grateful to Mom and Dad Larson for coming to our rescue when we needed some extra help (its no good to have both of us out of commission). We also had Mack and Valerie out for a few hours to visit and see our new place. They brought their dog and I thought it was so funny.

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the dog (Damage....yes that is the name) apparently was cold at our house because he snuggled right up to my heating pad and blanket....please ignore the ugly pictures of me, i just had been released from the hospital, but i think it is funny.

We also had Misti's family out. They entertained us with Rock Band. It was a riot. The kids were really good!!!! Grant Man rocked it on the guitar

and Olivia hit every note singing.

Issac really liked the drums and liked that Uncle Eldon helped him win!!

Thanks for playing with us guys!! It was a lot of fun. We had some other wonderful visitors as well, but I didnt take any pics. Sorry! Anyways, that was our October basically. No fun...hopefully the rest of the year goes much better.

Eldons Bullet

My poor Eldon-We spent a good chunk of Saturday in the Emergency Room. Between the 2 of us, we just cant seem to stay out of the hospital. Eldon woke up with sharp pains on his right side. About 3 years ago he had kidney stones and it felt similar to that....but worse. The ER got us right in and drugged Eldon up pretty good....It turns out he has a 9mm (yes the size of a bullet) kidney stone. They said he had a 10% chance of passing it on his own, so we will have to have some kind of procedure to remove the stone next week (hopefully sooner than later). Poor Guy!!! On the bright side- we got to watch conference in the hospital room (which i would have been at work and missed. Ha)

Its Official!!

We are big adults now! We have a house!!!!!!! I know I posted that we had an accepted offer, but now we have keys and are in the process of moving in (all our stuff is here thanks to our wonderful family, but its not all put away yet-hence still in the process). We are loving all the room-although we have a lot of stuff and it is amazing how quickly we are filling up this house (Where did we put it all in the apartment???) We love having a garage! But now have to remember to make sure and not just drive away with the garage door still open :P, and our new appliances are bringing great joy as they work sooooo much better than our junky apartment ones! We have already begun the many projects that we have lined up. First was painting....man oh man is there alot of walls to paint. Thanks to the amazing help of alot of family and friends all the wall are painted. There are quite a few touch ups that need to be done-but for the most part-no white walls :) I dont really have pictures yet just because there is just color on the walls but no decorations just yet....We have also have embarked on changing some of the flooring from the nasty vynal to tile. Thanks to our amazing brother and sister Justin and Donna, we were able to put in beautiful tile floor in the entryway and kitchen.
Here is the before.....


During



And After (mind you, i still have some more work to do in the kitchen- and the tile looks different, but it is just different lighting)


The next projects are decorating, changing the cabinets, and getting the granite countertops that I am so excited for. They should be in in a couple of weeks :) Yeah for home makeovers!!!

MIA

Normally, I have been pretty good at posting, but September was an absolutely crazy month. So normally, I would give each of these activities its own post, but for sake of being behind....I will condense a bit but still try to show you what we have been up to and why we have been missing in action for the month of September.

First
CONGRATULATIONS TO MR. & MRS. MACK LARSON!

They were married in the Snowflake temple on Saturday, September 6th. It was a beautifully ceremony and both Mack and Valerie looked incredibly happy! Their reception was beautiful as well.

One of the few things Mack insisted upon was hot wings as part of the refreshments.....so I caught Derrick enjoying a little too much.

During the reception we got to hang with the Martin family for a bit. Their newest little one Mason was so cute. He and Eldon got along great!

Also during the reception the little ones-Jade, Issac, and Sadie had their own little soap opera on the dance floor :) It was beyond cute!


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CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH OLIVIA AND SHELBY ON THEIR BAPTISM

both girls were baptized during the month of September. Both looked absolutely beautiful and sweet in their white baptism suit that was made by their Grandma Larson. They both sincerely felt the gift of the Holy Ghost and felt different and special after their baptism which I love!

while we were up in Snowflake for Shelby's baptism, we attended a few football games. The first was the High school game. During the game, whenever the team scored (which was a bunch that game), the recording of a wolf howl was played. Our nephew Gannon showed us how to howl!

The next day we went to Chandler's Football Game. His team is doing amazing and I believe is undefeated so far in their season.

Jessica is on the cheer squad for Chandler's team and rocks all of the cheers!

She is absolutely the best one out there, and is definitely a good little cheerleader! Seeing how good Jessica was....Jade was on the edge of her seat wanting to be up there cheering with her older cousin. Jessica was so sweet and let Jade come out and stand with the squad. Jade is so stinkin smart-she was able to pick up on the cheer in like 2 seconds!

Back at home- I had a very entertaining day at work. I was sitting at my desk and saw something moving on the floor- If you have read posts about my work location in the past, you know we have lots of crazy creatures, including ones that i am absolutely disgusted with such as black widows, tarantulas, rattlesnakes, scorpions, etc. So i was a little cautious when i approached the moving object....it turned out to an adorable teeny tiny baby frog. i was a bit shocked

but was even more shocked when i saw another and another and another....Before i knew it, i had caught over 25 baby frogs in my office. I have no idea how they got in there, but it was kinda cute.



Well...it was a crazy month, but hopefully we wont be MIA anymore. I think now that I am caught up a bit, it should make it easier to stay on top of things. Thanks for being patient!

Time for some changes

So we are making some changes in our lives right now....new car (not planned), new house (wahoo!), we are both searching for new jobs closer to home that fit our family goals and desires better, so hey....why not add another!

Before....

How about a new haircut!!!!!

After......

K, if you know me at all, you know that this was a huge step! My hair was short in college but has been long for about 6+ years or so and i barely let Kristy (my wonderful hairstylist friend) trim my hair let alone take any length, but my hair has been making me mad, so it was time for a change. And my hair was long enough that i am going to donate it to Locks of Love to help children with hair loss. Makes it worth it, but i really am liking it now that i am getting used to it. And i have received some pretty good reviews so far. Let me know what you think!