Halloween Time

These are at my sister Jenny's (and Dawson's) annual costume party!  Abby represents our family.  I'm not sure how and why we didn't get a picture of our whole family on our camera.  But oh-well.  We were a skeleton family.  And we glowed in the dark too!  

Grandma Larsen and Uncle Randy even dressed up!  :)

This is the photo opp where Dawson and Jenny set up pictures to be taken of everyone at their party in their costumes.  Fun back drop huh?

Heather the oompa-lumpa. Her and my dad (as Willy Wonka) won the first place costume prize!  

The party was a success of course!  Everyone had a blast!  Jenny was a bearded woman.  Hilarious!  

The Spoiled Bday Girl

Her Aunt pheobe sent a fun package!  Even the wrapping was adorable!  

It was her very own APRON!  Her and I now have matching aprons!  It is super fun and so cute to cook together!  It was cute, Abby kept calling it her "apricot"!  LOL- she could not remember the word apron! Thank you so much Pheob! We love it!

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...back to Jen's house for the party...

Time to rip open the loot!!

I made Abby a framed holder for all her bows and clips...which I also made most of for her bday.

Yay for princess barbies!

One of the surprise presents Dave got was tickets to take an exploring scuba diving class!  He was very surprised and excited!

Aunt Jenny gave some silly and super fun punching bag toys!

It was a great day!  And now I have 2 more of my sweethearts 1 year older and wiser too! :D

Our February Birthdayers

Our Birthday Girl!  This was on Abbies 4th birthday!  She was SO very proud to be turning 4.  If you click on the picture above or below, you can see the AWESOME banner Jen & Abby made of all the birthday events for the day!  It was a super fun banner!   

Abby chose homemade pizza for her birthday dinner.  So that's what we did!  It was delicious!

The Cake!  

Gotta lick those candles off asap!   :)  That's a birthday necessity!

This is who Abby calls "my Jenny"!  Jen & Dawson took care of Abby and Joey for a few days before Abby's birthday so I could kidnap Dave for his birthday!  We so appreciated that..and we know the kids LOVED getting to spend time with their Aunt Jen!  

His smiles were SO animated for a while!

Ok, time for the traditional birthday game of the Clothes Pin drop game...

Let's see if I can get the video of Joey playing...he had some interesting techniques! :)

Everyone has a blast playing this game.  Abby & Joey especially this year.  It was hilarious just watching them.

The Day of Thanks and Feasting

Two of my gorgeous sisters, Heather & Jenny.  I am grateful that they help me see how much FUN life can be! 

The outdoor FEAST was absolutely fabulous!  It was sad I had the stomach flu that day!  Woke up with it.  But I could not get myself to stay away!  

Dad made these beautiful Jello parfaits!  That one took Abby 3 days to finish!  :) 

And I attempted to make some new pies this year.  Lemon Meringue, Pumpkin Pecan Cheesecake & French Silk.  I think they tasted alright....  Some day I'll be good at it!  Gotta start somewhere eh?

Larsen Family Party'en

Abby ripping it up! This year, she had NO problem figuring out what to do with presents.

Joey practically rolling around in his gifts! His aunts & grandparents spoiled him & Abby rotten!

Pheobe had me this year for her secret sibling...and it was funny, because I was WITH her when she bought this pizza stone! I secretly hoped she had me...and was delighted when I found out she DID!

Where's the mistletoe?

Aunt Chris' aprons! We loved them! She is so talented! Thank you Aunt Chris!

They love their Grandpa!

Talent time--haha, ya right! I try anyway. I'm going to also try and get some video clips of everyone elses' talents on here soon. It was a great talent show this year.

Pheobe is awesome on the guitar!

Guess whose legs? Britta? :)

We ate yummy food, and many of us left with some too!

Sweet 16 Productions

Joey's instrument!


A bunch of the crew--Pheob & Cam, Heather, Dad & Sade-Birthday Girl! I can't believe my youngest sister is 16!! Wow!


My cute, cool-dude, nephew River.


Britta, Joey's cousin, attacking Him from above!


Just so my family knows, I have all the videos of Madalyn's productions from this party, however I can not get Blogger to upload them. Who knows why, but i've tried about 6 times. I'll have to figure out another way for you all to view them. Sorry.