Larsen Family Pictures

 

Great father moments:

(all pictures taken in June 2014)

Summer sprinkler fun

Desert Star date night

Miscarriage #2

******* Personal journal post*****

This post was reserved for weeks to announce Baby #2. Here it is August 3rd and we're sad to say that we have lost this baby as well. We were told by the doctors on the 5th that my symptoms show it is not a viable pregnancy. Not much can be done to prevent a miscarriage. I was 8 wks along. The miscarriage was finalized on Aug 18th. Of course it is sad to hear such news from healthcare professionals. This one happened naturally on its own. Perhaps it wasn't meant to be. This has been harder for me to deal with than the 1st miscarriage. I took 10 days off work since it was quite difficult to deal with emotionally as well as physically. I first felt that it was my fault but over the course of the week I have felt comforted that my those feelings were not true. McCord and I are both so reassured & comforted by the spirit that we will have at least 1 additional child. We both have relied on our Heavenly Father and our faith during this trying time. The good feelings have overwhelmed the bad as I look back on the full week. We are blessed with a sweet little girl and we know that we will get another child when the time is right.  May God bless anyone who is going through hardship for we understand and know there is a way threw the heartache. Good things lie ahead for us; we just know it.

Here is a picture idea I had for announcing this baby. Thought I'd attach it for memories sake:

(D&C conducted 08/22/2014. Recovery time good. Process was hardly painful. All is well.)

4th of July - 2014

This year for the Independance Day we celebrated in a smaller way than we typically have done. In past years we've gone up to Logan and did what the extended family did. This year, due to work and $, we decided to do a little something here within our little family. In our new house and new neighborhood, we had such a great time. 

Bear Lake - Larsen weekend

UACRAO work conference

I had a conference at Southern Utah University this last week. My work paid for everything of course. The conference was great and I learned a lot professionally. Here are some pictures of my trip:

Happy Father's Day 2014, Hogle Zoo trip, Lisa raise & McCord's new job:

We spontaneously decided to go to the zoo this Saturday morning! We sent out a masstext, packed a lunch, and headed to the zoo at 9am. We were three from 10am-2:30pm.

Tristan & Sarah, Dallas & Brittany came as well as Mauri who brought her kids and 3/4 of Justin's kids. We had so much fun.

Lisa's favorite part was the fanned peacock, the train ride, and the baby monkey and baby elephant.

Talia's favorite part was the train ride through the African Safari. McCord's favorite part was ------------.

Pictures:

First Garden: 2014

"Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow?..."

This year on Memorial Day we made a little garden in our backyard. It's about 7 ft x 3 ft. Since we didn't have a lot of tools and such we are starting small and will grow to have a larger garden later. We are so excited to try this new adventure. Very very excited!

Lt to Rt: Yellow squash, cucumber, 2 rows of beets. 

Our 2 tomato plants in our front flower bed. Looking good!

FAMILY PICTURES!! - Summer 2014

Family Picture June 2014

 

Family Picture May 2014

Memorial Day 2014

Talia 2 Year Old Pictures:

Our beautiful girl is 2 years old:

Girls weekend, mccord in Seattle/Vancouver

Friday night:

- chasing and hide and seek

- Hair bows and dresses

- sitting on kitchen floor eating melted chocolate with our fingers

- tootsie rolls and running in the front yard.

- bubble blowing

- shared ice cream cup

Cheap Date Nights:

Lately we've been doing a lot of free or very cheap date nights. I thought I'd post some of the things that we've been doing. Maybe it'll help us in the future if we need ideas for free/cheap date nights.

1) Temple Night!

2) Rom-Com Appetizer Date:

3- HeroClix battle. Our teams working together to defeat a big villain, rather than killing each other we worked together. :-)

4- indoor S'mores with friends and YouTube videos. 

5- ❤️Experimentation Night of Love.❤️

6- Pizza Pie Cafe ($5 buffet coupons)

7- Big Bubble wands with Talia for the first time.

Ideas to try:

- Board Games

- "Play like a child date"

- Nurf gun fight

- picnic at "the peace gardens"

- reinact the first, 2nd, or 3rd date.

- do what your parents did for their first date. 

- $5 Karaoke

Mother's Day 2014

Golden Spike National Park

8 Year Anniversary

McCord's dad, Paul, always gets his mom, Kandi, a bouquet of flowers for their anniversary. McCord did the same for me this year. The pink rose represents Talia and there are 8 daisies. One daisy for each year we've been married.

I thought I'd post this to show how lucky I am to have such an awesome husband. We love each other more and more as time goes on. We truly are a great team!

(For our anniversary, we are going to Promintory Point to celebrate. Post to come later)

Yard work - bringing us together

After asking neighbors to borrow their lawn mower for 2 months, we broke down and bought the cheapest lawn mower we could find with a bag ($200). Happy Birthday to me, Mother's Day, and Father's Day.

We don't have any tools to do anything around the yard so I am proud to present my work of weeding the flower bed with a kitchen tablespoon and a glass plastic pitcher of water.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

It's amazing what a little cleaning can do. I didn't plant any flowers or anything, just weeded and cleaned it up.

McCord has done the same with our grass. :-)

We're so proud!

Talia's Birthday 2 years old