Birthday pictures

Here are a few pictures of Sarah's first birthday party. Grandma and Aunt EmmaLee came as well as Grandma Larsen (Creed's grandma), Grandma and Grandpa Mitton, Michael, Caroline and Ryan all showed up to help us celebrate this special day.

Happy Birthday!

Our little pumpkin is turning one today and I can't believe it! Here are some milestones from the past year: Sarah was born October 30, 2006 at 3:47 AM. She weighed 6 lbs 6 oz and was 19 inches long. She was three weeks early and had a hard time eating so three days after her birth we took her home and she weighed 5 lbs 6 oz. She was a surprise to us, meaning we didn't know if she would be a boy or a girl. So it was really exciting when the doctor said, "You have a girl!"

At her two week appointment she was 20 inches and weighed 6 lbs 4 oz. At her two month check up she weighed 10 lbs 6 oz and was 22 inches long. On January 26, a day before she turned 3 months old, she rolled over for the first time, and Mom and Dad missed it! A days eariler we were worring because Sarah started having seizures, so it was great to see that developmentally she was on schedule. On January 31st she had an EEG and everything came back normal and since then she hasn't had a seizure, we are so thankful!

At four months Sarah weighed 12 lbs 6 oz and was 25 inches long. She giggled on March 1st! She probably would have been crawling by her 6 month appointment, but we were in the middle of a move, so whenever she looked like she would crawl I picked her up, I didn't want her in all the boxes just yet! So she started to crawl in the middle of May instead. At 6 months she weighed 13 lbs and was 25 inches long, that is right she didn't get any longer between four months and six, I think that that is a little weird, but who knows!

She waved at 8 months and said da da and ma ma by her nine month check-up. Now she says cracker, duck, thank-you, and bye bye. She can do the sign for food and milk. At nine months our little one was 16 lbs and 27 inches. Today we will find out how much she has grown. It really is so amazing how much changes in the first year, I can't even believe that last year she was just so little. But we are very thankful for our Sarah girl and for the love that she gives to us and for the love that we feel for her. Happy Birthday Little One!

Tag!

I have been tagged by a Angela Stevens! So here are the rules:

A. Each player lists 6 facts/habits/confessions about themselves. B. At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog, for these rules.

So here goes!

1. I have started my own business and love it! I really didn't think that I had the head to run a business, but I have found that I loved the getting started phase and that I love the accounting side of it as well!

2. I have no clue how to raise a child, and I have a soon to be 1 year old! But I love staying home and doing things with her, or taking her out and showing her the world. Sarah is so curious it makes everything we do together fun.

3. I hate talking on the phone. I hate it, so if you call and I don't answer, I am sorry, I try not to be rude and call people back, but I really hate talking on the phone, I would rather meet and chat in person!

4. I love to play games and have a hard time finding people who will play with me, so if anyone reading this wants to play let me know!

5. One of my favorite past times is laying in the tub and reading a book, I picked this up when pregnant and having to relax my body out of contractions. Some days it is a big struggle to do the excersizing first! Right now I am reading Pride and Prejudice!

6. I do not know six people to send this too! Pathetic I know, but Angela took all the people that would send it too! This also means that I do not have a ton of friends, I am not as out going as some, and yet not as shy as I use to be.

So I will tag Katrina for now and try and make some other friends to tag later!

She walks!

That is right, my Sarah girl can walk! The other day we went to Creed's work to see the life size model of the S-40, a jet that his company is a part of making and she walked the whole time, it was so cute! She was following these two girls around like a little lost puppy, I loved it! She also has four teeth now, wahoo, she can eat what we eat, well mostly what we eat, no eggs, no milk, no peanut butter, no honey etc. You all know the list.

Brite Music

I just recieved a call from my sister-in-law Shelli, she is now an active seller for the Brite Music. I grew up on Brite Music and was thinking of getting some for Sarah. Well Shelli called to let me know that they are going to stop selling the books that go along with the tapes! Devasting news for me, I love the books, so it looks like I will be buying sooner rather than later. It is also a first come first serve basis on the rest of the books that they do have, so I will be ordering today, and hoping that I get the books! If you want to know more about Brite Music just go to britemusic.com. They really are great CDs and books! Shelli gave me a 10% off code, I think it will work for anyone, so here it is 2041108, and if you order $60 or more you get free shipping! Just thought some of you would like to know.

So for an update, the basement is still coming along, I guess I say that everytime I post, but that is the big thing that we are working on at the moment, and what we are spending what seems like all our money on as well. But it is really fun to work with Creed on a project this big. He is such an engineer and nerd and I LOVE him! Sarah has two new teeth on the top, which means that she can eat crackers like the rest of us, and she loves them! She is also being a little picky in what she eats, but I am probably the most pickiest of eaters, so I guess I know where she gets it :) She is standing and took her first step last Tuesday, though she doesn't yet have the confidence to really walk, but we are working on that. John had his first midterms this week and seemed to do pretty well. So all and all things are going great here at the Larsen house!

My parents came last week and we had a blast! We went to IKEA and bought my mom and dad some nice, yet cheap furniture, which she says she loves! Then on Sunday Sarah opened her birthday present from my parents, a way cute purple Bambi jumper, and she told my mom and dad, tank to, that is right she can say thank-you, but refuses to call me ma unless she really wants me, most of the time I am dada, which gets confusing because so is Creed. My parents had to leave on Monday, and Sarah went down for a nap at the same time, she woke up and wandered around looking for them, it was so cute! I love how much she loves them and knows them even though we don't get to see them all the time like her Grandma and Grandpa (my parents are Grammy and Poppy). Oh, and my parents also brought some of their "old" furniture, and now my home is really starting to look and feel like home! I love the free garage sells that they have! Thanks Mom and Dad!

Girls Night and Pictures

This last weekend while our men were away I got some of my friends and relatives together for a girls night. We watched the movie Bewitched-Kristen and her roommate hadn't seen it and really wanted to watch it. We also had a wonderful angel food cake with strawberries and whipped cream, yummmm! We also got to visit and catch up with each other's lives. It was a great little break from the day to day, and I love getting together with a bunch of girls!

Here are a few new pictures, hope you enjoy!

This is a picture of Sarah in her new coat. This coat was at WalMart and it can be a windbreaker, a nice white jacket, a fun fleece jacket and a nice winter coat. She doesn't like it when it is a full coat because she can't move, hence the sad face! And I am a horrible mom, because I thought that it was so cute and funny when she was so sad about it. So I am going to be working on being more empathetic with my little one.

What a wonderful Weekend

This last weekend was wonderful for me and my little family. I love conference and this time there seemed to be so many wonderful talks that hit home to me. I can say that I learned something from every talk and at the end of the last session I felt motivated to do better. Creed and John felt the same way and so we have sent some goals for ourselves. Here are just a few.

Creed and I are going to go to the temple three times a month-Caroline you just might be babysitting:)

We are going to buy the Preach My Gospel Manual and use it

Each of us are going to do better in our personal prayer and scripture study

We will put more emphasis on our family prayer and family home evening

We are going to say one way that we saw the Lord's hand in our day at dinner

I hope that everyone had a great a weekend as we did!

Basement fun!

So when we started the basement project I helped a little, meaning I played with the chalk line and measured stuff. I also gave my ideas of what I wanted. Well I am happy to announce that I have finally helped more than that. Last night I cut the studs and firring strips with the table saw, and then I nailed them in with the nail gun. But I still think that my favorie tool is the cement nailer. It is quite fun to use. Maybe I will help again tonight and take a picture. Guess you will just have to check back to see!

Yikes!

I am a horrible blogger, I swear I posted more in September than just twice? Oh well, here is another post. Things are going well here at the Larsens. We have been pretty busy though, like everyone else. The weekend of the 21st we were in Murray for a 60th wedding anniversary program for the Larsen grandparents. Can you believe that, 60 years! Then this last weekend we were at a funeral, for Creed's great aunt who lived to be 100 years old! Creed's relatives really amaze me at the milestones that they reach.

John, my cousin who is living with us, is doing great. His lowest grade in college is an A-, which I think is great, especially for someone with dislexia and who hasn't been to school for three years. He is really enjoying it and is setting some great goals for the future. We love having him here and seeing the progress that he is making. He is a great example to us of making the most of your life and the trials that you have been given.

Creed is also doing great. He is still plugging along at the basement, and I even helped this last week in putting the tub/shower combo in place:) I also helped pound in a few of the electrical boxes. This week we are hoping to make some real progress, but you know how life is, it has a way of sneaking up on you. Creed has also been helping me a lot with my business, which seems to not be doing so well. So I ask you all, if you came across some really nice frames to display your scrapbooking pages, what would you pay for them? I think that that might be my problem, but I am not sure. So this week was spent doing some free advertising on some different sites, so hopefully I sell a frame soon! Oh, and maybe you can all tell your friends about my booth, it is in the Provo Quilted Bear and the name of it is Sweet Yesterday. Right now there are only 12x12 frames there, but I can do 8x8, or whatever size anyone needs, it just might take a while.

The other huge thing that we have been focused on is my ear. Yes my ear. You see it has been hurting for three weeks now, but I thought that it might be due to the fact that I have been having a lot of dentistry work done on that side of my head, but that has been done now for a little bit and my ear still hurts like the dickens (okay so I don't really know how bad the dickens hurt, but my ear hurts a ton!) So I went in and I don't have an infection, my ear just is having a hard time pressurizing. Which means I have to take Sudafed, until my ear stops hurting. I hate paying doctors $25 for them to say, sorry not much I can do for you.

Sarah is doing great as well, she is getting a new tooth-FINALLY! She is a year old at the end of this month and she is just now getting her third tooth, unbelievable. Which leads me to another question I have. What do you moms do for your kids and food? I got so sick of buying baby food I just started blending things that we were eating, some things she likes and others she doesn't. So if anyone has some good ideas we would appreciate them. Also she is now able to stand on her own! Soon she will be walking, or maybe running would be a better way to describe it. She just goes and goes and goes as fast as she can. She really is a cutie though, and I love her tons!

One last question for all of you out there, do any of you do the digital scrapbooking, and if so what program of website do you use? Just curious!