A Visit from Grandma Larsen!

We had a wonderful visit with Grandma Larsen this last weekend. She flew down from St. George Utah and stayed a few days with us in Tucson, and a couple days with my Dad in Mesa.

Melanie & Isaac's Visit

AT THE PARK

Dave's sister, Melanie, and her son Isaac, came down to Tucson to visit us last weekend. We had a fabulous time! Here are a few shots of us at the park.

We decided to go on a little drive and hike up to "A Mountain". (University of Arizona) It had quite the view and gave us some great exercise!

On Monday we went to the Tucson's Desert Museum and learned about the desert's plant and animal life. It was good times!

This was in the hummingbird habitat. The hummingbirds just wiz around you and at you! Abigail was in heaven, pointing at every one she could see!

Abigail's True BirthDATE BirthDAY!

After Abbie was born last year, Dave ran to IHOP next to the birth center, and grabbed us some food. It just happened to be National Pancake Day that day-Free pancakes! We thought it was the same day every year (a fun way to celebrate Abbies birthday...free pancakes and all) however, it's a different day every year. Bumma! We have still decided to make it a tradition!

Abbies first time coloring!

We ordered Abby a fun face pancake. That pancake was face-less so fast! :)

GULP! Those strawberry eyes of his were delish!

I was trying to feed Abby a Gogert thingy from the front seat...enough said! :D She didn't mind at all, she sucked that yogert down in a jif!


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***** 2 ***** (Notice the hand print on the side of her head!)

***** GONE! ***** She cleared that tray pretty quick!


Abigail enjoyed the wrapping paper more than the presents at first!


What a great birthday grin!


A friend of ours gave us some toys that they were getting rid of and we scored a little piano for Abbie! I just sterilized it, polished it up, and Wa-la- She loves it!


Our master pianist at work! :D

February Partying!

We had a huge "Double Birthday Party/Game Day" for Abby & Dave's birthdays in February. It was a riot! Dave requested an old family recipe called Ruby Dessert for their "cake", and being a dessert covered in berries- I knew Abby would love it too. And boy did she! Look at her go! :)

Can you just hear her thoughts with this facial?

Birthday Boy!

She was covered- and what a look of pure glee! I sure love my two birthday babes!

First Fruits!

We want to announce the arrival of our very first ORANGES!!! Yeah! We picked, sliced and ate our own, home grown orange off our tree that we planted in the back yard last spring! It tasted very sweet! We also picked some lemons that day off our other tree and made home made lemonade. Yum! And it will taste even yummier during the HOT summer here. It feels great to be harvesting fruit from our own land!

Dave was teaching/showing Abby how to eat an orange from the peel...then she tried. She did pretty good. She's not much of a citris fan yet, but she ate this one because it was so sweet!

Tub Time Giggles!

These two kiddos were having a ball in the tub! Abbies laugh can make anyone smile- even the meanest scrooge alive! Enjoy this little video!

Abby loves the bath! A while back we discovered that she is really good at trying to balance things on her head! And no matter what it is, when it falls, she laughs herself silly! It is adorable!

In January we had a new niece join our ranks! This is Britta, Pheobe (Amber's sister)& Cameron's new baby girl! Isn't she a doll?

Britta and her big sister Maddy.

Pilot Man!

Dave got an RC airplane for Christmas and we went to the park by our house to fly it. Dave was an awesome first time pilot! I would've crashed that thing to pieces for sure! Abby loved to watch-she thought it was a bird!