Four score and 7 weeks ago...

...(or more than 7 weeks ago)...was Easter/Conference Weekend 2010. I never posted pictures because I just got my memory card reader back from one of McCord's movie shoots. So, we're going to back track a little to 7 weeks ago...ish. I guess it's more than 7 weeks ago, now that I think about it.
My mom is awesome at sewing, crocheting, and being domestic in general. She taught me a little about crocheting. We didn't get too far, but hopefully I'll get to a point where I'm as awesomely domestic as she is. She used to make me easter dresses every year when I was a little girl. She altered and enhanced ALL of my prom dresses and my wedding dress. She's simply amazing and more.

My mom is awesome at sewing, crocheting, and being domestic in general. She taught me a little about crocheting. We didn't get too far, but hopefully I'll get to a point where I'm as awesomely domestic as she is. She used to make me easter dresses every year when I was a little girl. She altered and enhanced ALL of my prom dresses and my wedding dress. She's simply amazing and more.
Obviously Nate was paying sooooo much attention to conference in this picture. He was making tongue tatoos with the fruit roll ups. He always makes me laugh.

Obviously Nate was paying sooooo much attention to conference in this picture. He was making tongue tatoos with the fruit roll ups. He always makes me laugh.

Joe and I decided to blow eggs for easter. I totally thought that it would be easier than it really was. After blowing one, my sense of accomplishment was at it's peak and I was SO not going to do 5 or 6 more. Joe went on to do more and one exploded in his mouth and hands. I just happened to get a picture.

The Larsen home tradition is that we make danish hotcakes. McCord made the hotcakes this year for my family for the first time. Mmm, so good. This tradition will live on hopefully for a very long time.

Yep! That's my hubby being a chef. Every wife's dream: not have to make breakfast every once in a while. =) Easter was awesome. It's always so much fun. It was extra special to have it on conference weekend. One of our best.

SKY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL - Guiness Book of World Records Cereal Art
My high school alma-mater (sp?) the humanities department made the largest cereal art in the world in the big basketball gym. I was told that it attracted "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" and will be in 2010 Guiness Book of World Records for the largest cereal art in the world. I'm so proud to say that I went there. Woo Hoo! They based it off of Silent Night by Vincent Van gogh. I think they did amazing.


These are the huge boxes of cold cereal that were donated. There were over 15 of these huge boxes. Insane!


McCord and me. You can't see us very well, sorry.

Here's a video. It was so hard to get the size perportion in the picture. Notice how small the people are.


More cooking stories from Lisa:
Apparently I will find anyway possible to blow up cookware. After shattering my casserole dishes on the stove, burning something at least once in every apartment we've lived in, and melting plastic gadgets, I came home to a smoke filled apartment and my baking poor poor baking stone:

Bridgestone commercial

McCord got a call this week to be an on set PA for a Bridgestone commercial that they are shooting in Park City. He'll only work for them for a day, but we're hopin that they like him and that he gets called back to help with future days. He's an awesome awesome worker though. They are lucky to have him. Great job, babe. This summer is going to go by so fast with all the film opportunities that he's been getting.

Memorial Day

We are very patriotic at our house and we really have no words to describe how we love our veterans and our soldiers.
A poem for veteran's day:

It is the
VETERAN,
Not the preacher,
Who has given us freedom of religion.

It is
The VETERAN,
Not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.

It is
The VETERAN,
Not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.

It is
The VETERAN,
Not the campus organizer,
Who has given us freedom to assemble.

It is
The VETERAN,
Not the lawyer,
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is
The VETERAN,
Not the politician,
Who has given us the right to vote.

It is the
VETERAN who
Salutes the Flag,

It is
The VETERAN who
Who serves under the flag.

4th year Anniversary!

Has it been 4 years already?!? WOW! We've had such a great 4 years of being married. We've been so blessed and just fall in love with each other over and over again. A wise someone told me "If it goes by fast, then you know you are happy." I thought about that and since my last 4 years of marriage have gone by so fast...we are happy. How true that statement is.

Since it was sunday, to celebrate, we packed a lunch and went out for a picnic in Sugarhouse park. The weather was perfect, sunny with a slight breeze. We sat by the big pond, watched the birds and the clouds, talked and just enjoyed life. It was so nice. One of our best.

Just for fun, I thought I'd put down the top 10 things that have happened to us this last year (the good and bad):

1- McCord PASSED his math class! This was such a BIG thing for us, and it has opened up so many options for us and our family.
2- McCord got accepted to SLCC film school while we were in Germany, and he's been attending school here in SLC.
3- I got a job at the U of U, part-time and then got promoted to full-time in the Admissions office.
4- Movie opportunities that we've had this year.
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
Immortality Bites
I Live at the House with the Blue Door
Endless song of Night
She's My Daughter (music video)
...and many more small projects McCord's done.
5- We moved to our new 2 bed apartment. We love it. It's bigger and better than we've ever had before.
5- Rushed McCord to the ER with kidney stones. =( That was an awful day!
6- Made great new friends here in Salt Lake
7- Family is growing up: Angie had her baby, Jared got called on his mission
8- WE LOVE SALT LAKE! We've been to 4 Jazz games, and 2 concerts. We love the little "ma and pa" places to eat, and love the city.
9- Enjoying watching our families grow: Angie had her baby. Jared is on his mission (6 months out now). Mauri and Courtni are both pregnant with #3. And many more things.
10- Our car is still surviving for us. YAY!

HE PASSED!

MCCORD PASSED HIS MATH CLASS! The letter C has never sounded so good after 4 times of taking this class. =) Words can not describe how wonderful we both feel to get this math class over. We have completely altered our lives around this math class, so he could have the time needed to study and pass. He's studied 4 hours a day, and around 6 hours a day closer to finals. The last week for the final he was studying more than 10 hours a day. We are just so so HAPPY to have this math class over. That C is now our new best friend.

My 24th birthday

Can't believe that I'm 24 years old. I remember being in high school and thinking that 24 sounded so old and I would never reach that old...and yet, here I am. =) I'm feeling good and feeling blessed. I have the best hubby in the world. He treated me to a great birthday.

First he was so so nice and brought me huge gerber daisies that he picked out and hand delivered them to my office at exactly 9:00am and said "you were born at 9 o'clock, right?", with a huge grin on his face. Got tears in my eyes because I am just so lucky to have a man like him.

Then he came and picked me up from work right at 5 and took me to Cafe Rio for pork salads. Oh, how I love that place. He then told me that he got me a massage. The sweet friend of ours that does massages is 9 months pregnant though, so that became a rain check. So he took me home and walked me into a CLEAN house with CLEAN dishes and floors. May I add that it truly looked like a tornado buzzed around my house before, and HE CLEANED IT ALL. He made me a jello pudding cake and invited all my friends over for a game night. It was SO much fun. We played games until midnight and had a blast!

For my present...like I needed one after all this... he bought me the new book by Dieter F. Ukdorf:


Icing on this wonderful birthday cake was that he also arranged a family birthday party for me up in logan on May 2nd. I got so many nice gifts for my new job. I loved all of my gifts. I have the best family ever.

What a lucky woman I am to have such a wonderful husband who appreciates me. He's so great and I love him so much. Thanks to him for everything!

My Girlfriends boyfriend trailor

For those of you who don't know or maybe forgot. McCord was a PA for My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, filmed in Salt Lake. I was Alissa Milano's stand in and we were both extras in this movie. Comes out April 22nd to theatres. Everyone go see it and let me know if you can see us in the background. Should be a great chick flick to go see.
Here's the trailor. Cheers.

Promotion!

I GOT THE JOB! Hoowaa and Yippee!
I am so excited to announce that I received the full time job position at the U of U Admissions front desk. We are so so blessed to be going to bigger and better places in this economy. I am so excited to work at the front desk and to meet and greet new people. I know I will do a great job and help with the emense volume of papers and phone calls that they receive. Since this is a full time job, yes, we will have full benefits. We are thrilled to death about that, especially after we rushed McCord to the ER last month for the kidney stones. The best news of all is that I got a huge raise in my hourly rate and I will be receiving the highest amount/hr for the position that I received because of my education and experience. I officially start on April 1st.

We are more than thrilled and we are so so blessed.

I will miss working so closely with all the graduate and residency staff. They were all such good sports and let me take a picture. As I always said "VIVA GRADS!

Being Aunt and Uncle

Announcing!:
Dayton Taylor Chandler
8 lbs. 8 oz. 20.5 inches
Born March 6, 2009 @ 11:45pm (ish)

Mom, Dad, and baby are home and doing fine. I am a proud aunt. So happy for Angie and Adam! So so happy! I don't feel much different than I did 2 days ago before the he was born, but I sure love being an aunt. Here are some pictures of the little guy with all the family:
I've been waiting so long, and here he is. He's the cutest little thing, and such a good baby. He never cries. Angie is a lucky mom. He melted all of our hearts in one second.

This is our proud momma. Yay! She is beaming and is now "Grandma Trudy". She stayed up all night to hold this little guy. I love Dayton's smile in this picture.
Other pictures with the family.





We are so happy to have little Dayton in our family and we love being Aunt Lisa and Uncle McCord/Mac.

More good things about being uncle and aunt is that we get to babysit sometimes. We had the privilege of watching all 4 of Justin and Alesa's kids for a whole weekend. Here are some experiences that we had and some pictures.
(will add later)

4 years ago by the Logan Temple...

Today marks the day that McCord proposed to me! 4 years ago McCord took me up to the hill next to the Logan temple over looking Logan city. We had a picnic lunch and he told me over and over how much he loved me. He was so nervous and the ring box got stuck in his pocket as his shaking hand tried to wiggle it out. He told me the sweetest things and asked if I would marry him. Without looking at the ring at all, I said yes and gave him the biggest hug in the world. He started crying and I was started crying. We were so in love and so happy.
Just retelling the story intesifies all the love that we have for each other. We love each other more now than we did that day. Could life get any better than this? It would be pretty hard to beat.

Valentine's Day 2009

For Valentine's Day this year, McCord surprised me by taking me to Red Lobster. We both LOVE seafood and it's one thing that I can not make at home. =) It was so nice to get out, and Red Lobster has some good prices with some of the choices that they have. It was so nice. I surprised McCord with some movie tickets to Persey Jackson and the Lightning Thief. He's been so into reading the books lately and I just knew that he wanted to go to the movie so bad. We went to the movie with our good friends Jeremy and Raine. It was so so much fun! Great movie. Nothing like the books, but a great movie.

The mother of all updates

WE LOVE SALT LAKE!
We've been here for 7 months now and love it here. I love that it's the city and I can go shopping anywhere I want. McCord loves it because he actually has the opportunities that he has always hoped for with his film, school, and career goals. We also love that we can go to Jazz games (we've been to 3) and concerts (we've been to 2) without traveling 2 hours each way to see them. I also love that it is still close to family, just 2 hours away, instead of 3000 miles away (when we were in NY)We really love our life here:
Jazz game Jan 2009


Bucky Covington and Phil Vasser in concert: (boy, I do love Phil)




I through Angie a baby shower on Jan 9th. She's about to pop. She now has pretty much everything that she needs and I'm so glad. Love you sis. So so excited for you.



McCord was called to help with THE CHOSEN film for the LDS film festival as an AD (assistant director). So we went down to Provo for 2 weekends in a row to work on making this short film and seeing it, and many others, priemere. It was so fun. I got to be a grip, and a PA. Pics from the shoot.






McCord's next project is a Cloak and Dagger pilot. Cloak and Dagger are one of our favorite superhero teams ever. We start shooting over spring break. It's gonna be BIG and I hope I can get a lot of pictures to show you in the future. Here's what they look like so you can get an idea.


Christmas 2009:
I never posted about christmas 2 months ago, so it's gonna be short. We didn't do stockings or candy or dvds or anything like that. We got this:

It was a great christmas with family and great food. I didn't take many pictures, but know that it was one of the best. We missed Jared, in the MTC, but it was greaat all around. One of my favorite memories will be Paul and Kandi's (my inlaws) faces when we showed them their new 50" plasma tv that all the kids chipped in to help purchase. It was so great. Also, little Abby wearing my 3 inch pencil high heels:


I was so entertained by this. I don't know why, but isn't she so so cute.

We also never posted about New Years either. So sorry. Normally we don't do much for New Years. But for the 2010 new year we had a lot of fun having a fondue party with the Larsens and the Meikles (Alesa's family).


McCord and I wished that we could light the illegal fireworks from Germany, that are actually legal to light there. We got a whole box full for 6 euros. That was a great New Year. Feel free to look back on my posts to see those pictures.
So even though it is late, Merry Christmas 2009. Hope everyone's christmas and new years were fabulous.
Love,
McCord and Lisa

p.s. Now we get to be excited for Valentines Day. =)

Best day of our lives perhaps?

Could this be the best day of our lives?
#1: "Math? I'd rather stick a pencil in my eye!" - McCord
This cartoon is to tell everyone that McCord GOT AN 89 ON HIS FIRST MATH TEST!! WOO HOO! Let it be published in the next history book. We are screaming from the top of our lungs for this glorious happening. This will be his 4th attempt at Math 1010 (just the word "math" makes his shiver inside) His final grade is based on soley the 3 tests. We both couldn't be happier with this score. What he did miss was just the simple mistake of a negative sign. Everyone send him a text/facebook message to congratulate him.


#2: THE STONE HAS PASSED!
(Picture to be posted later)

#3: Big surprise for Lisa:
(picture to be posted later)
McCord, yesterday, looked online and found me a Whirlpool washer and dryer, got them in our second level apartment and hooked everything up for me. I had NO CLUE that he was doing this for me. Isn't he the best? It's exactly what I wanted and he found them for cheap, which is great also. I love a good deal. I have the best hubby ever.


Yah! I'm not excited about these babies at all...obviously. ha ha ha

#4: Our new apartment
(video and/or pictures here)
Our new place seem so big to both of us. We are happy to announce that we can walk normally instead of shuffling to the side when we walk. We can sit on the toilet and if we forget to close the door, it doesn't hit our knees (in fact, they have plenty of room). The second room is so nice. We also have a small storage unit and covered parking space. This will be our home for the next 1.5 yrs+.

#5: GROUNDHOG DAY summary
Last night was so much fun! As most of you may already know - groundhog day is HUGE at the Day's house. We came all the way up to Logan for this fabulous occation. The street was lined with cars. My mom makes more food (2 tables full) for groundhog day than she does for christmas. We watched Groundhog Day with Bill Murry and the whole family singing the songs in the show. It's a time honored tradition and this year we had groundhog presents (small kites from the dollar store) - so fun. My dad also annuonced that next year we might be singing groundhog carols. lol It's always so much fun. While I had the chance, I took a picture of me and my cute preggo sister before the baby comes and I miss my chance. She only has about 3 weeks left. =)

So, this may be one of the best days of our lives, it seems like. I'll let you be the judge of that.

Kidney stones...

...is a nice name for something that is WORST PAIN ON EARTH!



This last week has been one of the hardest weeks ever for us. We rushed McCord to the ER around 2am on wednesday night/morning after being up all night trying to figure out why McCord was in so much pain. Neither of us slept at all that night and it was terrible. KIDNEY STONES was the diagnosis after all the testing. So around 9am or so after that night we were at home trying to rest. We are still waiting for the stone(s) to pass.

This all had to happen, of course the big week that we were moving. With McCord on narcotics (a little out of it and unable to drive), we had the best friends in the world showing up to help us move. We are officially moved and in our new 2 bed apartment and comment frequently on how much room we have. Thanks to all that helped us out. We appreciate it so so much.

A little humor to spice up our lives:

McCord's on IMDB!!!

How many people can say that THEY are on imdb.com? Well, it's official. MCCORD IS!
Here's the link:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3757857/

Here's also a fun game for you to play:
This is hilarious!!!! Please Don't spoil the fun, and keep it going............DONT TELL ANY MEN!!!!

Pick the month you were born:
January-------I kicked
February------I loved
March----------I karate chopped
April------------I licked
May------------I jumped on
June-----------I smelled
July------------I did the Macarena With
August--------I had lunch with
September----I danced with
October-------I sang to
November-----I yelled at
December-----I ran over

Pick the day (number) you were born on:
1-------a birdbath
2-------a monster
3-------a phone
4-------a fork
5-------a snowman
6-------a gangster
7-------my mobile phone
8-------my dog
9-------my best friends' boyfriend
10-------my neighbour
11-------my science teacher
12-------a banana
13-------a fireman
14-------a stuffed animal
15-------a goat
16-------a pickle
17-------your mom
18-------a spoon
19------- a smurf
20-------a baseball bat
21-------a ninja
22-------Chuck Norris
23-------a noodle
24-------a squirrel
25-------a football player
26-------my sister
27-------my brother
28-------an iPod
29-------a surfer
30-------a homeless guy
31-------a llama

What is the last number of the year you were born:
1--------- In my car
2 --------- On your car
3 --------- In a hole
4 --------- Under your bed
5 --------- Riding a Motorcycle
6 --------- sliding down a hill
7 --------- in an elevator
8---------- at the dinner table
9 -------- In line at the bank
0 -------- in your bathroom

Pick the color of shirt you are wearing:
White---------because I'm cool like that
Black---------because that's how I roll.
Pink-----------because I'm NOT crazy.
Red-----------because the voices told me to.
Blue-----------because I'm sexy and I do what I want
Green---------because I think I need some serious help.
Purple---------because I'm AWESOME!
Grey----------because Big Bird said to and he's my leader.
Yellow---------because someone offered me 1,000,000 dollars
Orange--------because my family thinks I'm stupid anyway.
Brown---------because I can.
Other----------because I'm a Ninja!
None----------because I can't control myself!

Busy busy busy!

Weekly updates? I keep saying that I'll give weekly updates, but we are so busy busy busy. Here's a quick update.

We were so excited about the split level apartment that we found and it was perfect! We loved it and had such awesome plans a flowin. Then we got a call and the owner's sold the duplex and the new owners are NOT renting it. We were SO bummed out. So, we've been searching and searching for 2 weeks and found another place that we like and could stay in for a while. Yes, we are still sad about the duplex, but it'll be just great. We will be moving throughout the week 25th-30th. I'm getting good at moving. =)

Last weekend we went to Provo for the whole weekend and were both working (McCord as the 1st Assistant Director, me as a grip and PA) on a short that IS going to be shown at the LDS film festival this weekend. McCord is going down this weekend to Provo to watch premieres and work some more on different sets. Wish him luck and keep your fingers crossed that he can get some great connections.

Feeling old. Jared will soon go to Chile from the MTC, and look at my baby sister:

That bump is getting pretty big! I'm feeling old because all my younger siblings are getting older and moving to different stages in their lives. I wonder how my parents feel? lol

I've been applying for some full time jobs at the U. I didn't get the job that was open in my office. Kinda sad about it, but life will go on and I like working in Grad Admissions. It's busy all the time and I wish I had 3 of me so I could do more things.

Till next time.

"Dare you to Move"

I thought that was a cleaver heading (for those of you who like the band Switchfoot) to announce that we have found a new apartment in south salt lake and can start moving in on the 15th of this month. I'll try and post a video beneith this post later of a grand tour.