Just a FEW updates!

Okay so I have been an awful blogger I know, so I thought that I would go back and share a little bit about what we have done.

October

For the rest of October we were pretty busy. A few highlights are Sarah turning three and Halloween. Sarah was Nemo again, Madalynn was a zebra, Creed was a pirate and I was a maiden. Also of note Madalynn turned 5 months.

November

So all I really remember of November is that we found out we were pregnant and I cried, not because I didn't want another baby, I just hate being sick! So pretty much all of November was spent trying NOT to be sick, which doesn't work when you are pregnant. Though Thanksgiving was amazing. We ended up not being able to go to Tremonton where the rest of my family hung out, but we did end up handing out with our friends the Opdahls. So thank-you Monique and Tom for an excellent day!

December

December was also a bit of a blur. We had the usual colds, well Sarah and I did. I was still sick, but not everyday like in November. We figured out I would be due June 4, and for those that are wondering Madalynn's birthday is May 29th, so with my tendancy to be three weeks early, these two kiddos will be pretty close in age. Then on the 16th I boarded a plane with the two girls and headed to Boise. I LOVED it! We spent a week with my parents and Kirsten and Cam were also there for a few days, which was a blast because Kirsten is pregnant too! She is due the end of June. Wahoo for babies! Anyway, we of course did the shopping thing and the usual Christmas stuff, you know making ornaments, eating chocolate, watching gooey romantic Christmas shows and staying up way too late talking. It was a blast! Then on the 23rd I once again braved the airport by myself with two kids and flew to Salt Lake, where I spent two weeks with Creed's family. Creed arrived Christmas Eve and was able to stay until the Monday after Christmas. We had a lot of fun with the Larsen's. We went sledding, had Christmas, talked, played games, shared our testimonies and once again had a blast! It was about the time that Creed left that Madalynn learned to sit up by herself as well as the start of the army crawl and talking. Then we had New Year's Eve, which was spent with Ben's wife's family, why you may ask? Because they wanted to play games and so did I.

January

That leads to January, where before I left all the girls went and saw Blind Side. I highly recommend this movie. I loved it! I flew home on the 5th and because it was cheaper to buy two tickets, one to Boise and then one to Portland, I had to figure out how to get me, two girls, 3 bags and 2 car seats checked in again. All I can say is THANKS DAD! My Mom stayed with us for the four hours we had between flights, all I can say is THANKS MOM! Oh my did they make my day. Once we made it home I just wanted to go to bed. So other highlights for this month would be Madalynn mastering sitting up by herself, eating solids, army crawling all over the place and saying Da-Da along with a-Da (this is Sarah we are pretty sure because she only says it when looking at her). Also of note I have chosen my midwife! I am so excited about my choice. We have, or really, I have chosen to do a home birth with this midwife, she actually doesn't do hospital deliveries unless something is wrong in the labor. I decided to do a home birth for a few reasons, 1. to save money, 2. Madalynn's birth was so easy going natural and I learned that my body just knew what to do, in fact the nurse delivered her head, the resident her body and the doctor walked in after it was all over, 3. I really wanted Creed to be able to stay around once the baby was born. With Madalynn he had to go get Sarah and stay with her, so this way even if he has to go get the girls at least we will all be together! So I guess we will see how it all goes!

So I guess that gets everyone up to date. Hope that you all had the best of holidays and are just loving life!

Busy Busy Bees

Yup that is what we are! So here is a short recap with pictures to come:

September 3-8= trip to Utah

I can't remember if I posted about this, but it was so good to be with family! We got to see everybody from the Larsen's except Val, and boy do we miss her! She is still going to school in Boston and didn't come home for summer so we haven't seen her since forever! Anyway, it was a really good trip because we also got to see all of my family except Nate, he had to work but I saw his wife and kiddos and LOVED it! Man do I love family!

The none fun part was me getting super sick which meant that I didn't get to spend as much time with my parents and Creed had to drive the 12 hour drive all by himself in one day. So here is the high five to him! We really love it here in Washington and we have decided that everyone needs to move here so that we can have the best of both worlds! If you want we will even help you find jobs! That is how much we want everyone to live here.

September 19th=trip to Seattle

So Ellen was in Seattle and even though we couldn't make it to her games we did make it up to visit and it was so nice! We wandered around Pike's Place Market and the Piers. Then we ended up eating dinner at this amazing place on the ocean. It was pretty cold but we ate outside anyway and got to watch the sea lions, who were catching fish and playing. Sarah loved it!

September 21st=Madalynn rolling over

I was a bad mother and wouldn't allow Madalynn to play much on her stomach because I didn't want her rolling over, well apparently it didn't matter. She decided that she wanted to roll over and now she does it every day either way. She still doesn't laugh, but she will giggle every now and again, and she LOVES to smile. She is always smiling. She is also blowing raspberries and playing with her feet. She is getting so big! She is huge compared to Sarah at this age. Sarah always fit into the size of clothes that matched her age. Not Madalynn she is in 6-9 months cloths and is only 4 months! Crazy, crazy!

September 25th=Daddy, Mommy and Sarah (and Madalynn) date night

Sarah asked if we could do a daddy, mommy and Sarah date night, and so of course Madalynn came too. We went and saw Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs for FREE, yup gotta love the couponing craziness that seems to have taken over my life. It was a pretty good show and we all had a lot of fun hanging out together.

Conference=LOVE

We loved conference, all of it and Sarah watched most of it and had a number of funny things to say, such as "Here come the Grandpas!" and "Look there is Grandma Mitton singing!" and our all time favorite which opened a very good discussion was the "Why is that guy all ooey gooey" as she pointed to an African American singing in the choir. So then of course we had to explain that people came in different colors, to which she responded, "oh like blue and green, I have seen people those colors!" Really we haven't but if it works it works! Sarah also just loved the music and the prophet, she kept saying "when does President Monson get to talk, I want to hear the prophet!" It was a wonderful weekend!

Liberty Provisions=new website still in progress!

That is right we are starting an online business to help everyone in their food storage quests. We will be selling products from Blue Chip (Morning Moo people). Our prices are actually cheaper than theirs so if you are in need of food storage and want some good quality product let us know and we will let you know when we are up and running (crossing fingers that it is by the end of the month!) We are also set up to sell raw honey from a local honey farm here in Washington and let me tell you this is the best tasting honey I have ever had, it is sooooo good! We will also be selling first aid kits and other emergency preparedness products along with coconut oil. So please feel free to tell all your friends and neighbors about us, and watch for updates on when it is live and running the way it should!

Free digital prints

Hey everyone I know I don't update this nearly enough, but I wanted to let all my friends out there know that you can get a ton of FREE prints here. The email I got from them said that I get 600 4x6 and 600 5x7. I still have to pay shipping, but that is a ton of free prints and I can always use free prints!

Pictures finally!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

So here are the pictures that I have been promising! I hope you enjoy them all and here is a little more on each event:

1. Camping in our house, I already posted about this, but thought everyone would like to see the pictures!

2. The Portland Zoo, I can't remember if I posted about this so here it is. The Portland zoo does a $2 Tuesday every month and I and two other friends and there kids decided to go. We had a ton of fun! Our last names are Moultri, Larsen and Updahle, so we called ourselves the MoLaDahles. There were 11 kids and 3 adults, so it was a bit crazy, but we got there right when it opened and left before it got too crazy.

3. One Saturday we decided to go to a baseball game, but not an ordinary game a game played using the rules from 1860 and period dress and bats etc. It was really really neat and Sarah loved it. Plus it was free!

4. Madalynn is 3 and half months, so crazy how fast time flies! She is big, well at least bigger than Sarah! She can wear a big 3-6 month and 6-9 month clothes (though these are a little big still, but not as big as they should be!) Sarah loves to play with her and we are all anticipating her laugh. She is so smiley and we really hope she starts to laugh soon!

In other news we went to Utah over labor day and have some exciting news, drum roll please..... we are finally distributors for Blue Chip. Wahooo! So in the next couple of weeks we should get our website totally up and running and everyone will be able to get some awesome deals on food storage! Creed and I just think it is so important to have at least something so when it is finally going I will probably have a blog about food storage so look forward to that! We had a blast until I got sick the night before we were suppose to go back home and spend some time in Boise. Well my parents are gearing up for a trip to Disneyworld and don't want to get sick, so we decided that we would just drive back all day Tuesday and let me rest a little more. I have to tell you that the priesthood power is real and the vitamin D does wonders. So my amazing husband drove the 12 hour trip in one day all by himself. I was so amazed and proud of him! We loved seeing everyone and can't wait to see everyone again, though we decided that we LOVE Washington even more than Utah or Idaho, so I guess we won't be going back to live anytime soon!

For all those wondering about Sarah's eczema it is doing a lot better. We are using no creams just some vitamin E oil when she really needs it and some antihistamine when she feels really itchy. And we have wrapped her middle and legs in ace bandage so she can't scratch it. We are also trying oatmeal baths as well. And we switched back to our old laundry soap. All in all she is doing much better!

In other news it seems when you take a little while off from blogging everyone you know becomes pregnant and you miss a bunch of giveaways! So congrats to those that are having another miracle from heaven and to those who won the giveaways! Also This week in shopping can be huge for those with a Rite Aid and Walgreens so check out my other blog a little later (tomorrow) to see how you can get 10 bottles of Johnson and Johnson for free and a bunch of other goodies!

Close to My Heart New Product Blog Hop!

Welcome to our Close to my Heart New Product Sneak Peak Blog Hop! 29 Fabulous Close to my Heart Consultants are celebrating the upcoming release of the Autumn/Winter 2009 Idea Book by giving you a Sneak Peak of some of the great products available in the new Idea Book starting September 1st!

If you have come here from Jennifer Kraynak's blog, you are on the right path! If this is your first stop, you may want to go back to Erin's blog http://www.tazzygirl2000.blogspot.com and start from the beginning! This is simple to do- just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! Here we go!

This fun layout was so easy to make with the new Grace paper (X7117B) ! I love these trendy colors for Fall and the outdoors in general!

I used the Reflections pattern 2F for the right page and 10C for the left. I used the Headline Alphabet (E1011) for the title. I used the Treetops stamp set (C1368) featured in the Summer catalog and I used the NEW basic craft buttons (Z1206) to dress up the tress a little. To attach the buttons I used the piercing tool set (Z1114) the neutral embroidery floss (Z1096) and the cranberry waxy flax (Z1086).

Now "Hop" on over to Amy Edwards' Blog http://PaisleysPlayhouse.blogspot.com to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and see the great new Paper Packs and My Acrylix Stamp Sets!

Remember, the Autumn/Winter 2009 Idea Book goes LIVE on September 1st!

**Link not working? Missed a Blog? Here is a list of all the participants in the New Product Sneak Peak Blog Hop! Erin Herring http://tazzygirl2000.blogspot.com Terrie Dodd http://my-life-in-real-time.blogspot.com Jessica http://jessicaspaperpetals.blogspot.com Leisa Hubley http://bigredscraps.blogspot.com/ Karen Norman http://gettinscrappywithit.blogspot.com Sherry Thompson http://picturespatternsandpaper.blogspot.com Adeline Brill http://adeline-brill.blogspot.com Miranda www.scrampinwithmiranda.com Brae Montgomery http://thebrae-er.blogspot.com Wendy Kessler www.myscrapbookingblog.com Dawn Heuft http://stamptildawn.blogspot.com Carla Ironside http://carlacreates.blogspot.com Dawn Ross http://iamahappystamper.blogspot.com Julie Banzon http://www.scrapbookiejulie.blogspot.com Jody Gustafson www.cre8nmemories.blogspot.com Helen Onulak http://www.hookedonstamping.com Sheila Bennett http://sheila-bennett.blogspot.com Haley Dyer http://inkyscrapper.blogspot.com Lisa Stenz http://www.lisascreativecorner.blogspot.com Jena DeVries www.livelovelaughscrapbook.blogspot.com Jen Patrick http://www.roxybonds-scrappin.blogspot.com Amy Schultz http://amylizschultz.com Lori Scott http://scrapinglori.blogspot.com Tresa Black www.fabulouslyartsy.blogspot.com Jennifer Kraynak http://whatchadoin-jennifer.blogspot.com Sharesa Larsen http://creedandsharesa.blogspot.com Amy Edwards http://PaisleysPlayhouse.blogspot.com Jean McNulty http://stampinmaui.blogspot.com Emma Hubert http://paperaddictsanonymous.blogspot.com Antoinette Herrin www.GodblessyourART.blogspot.com

Major Life Changes, funny sayings and a lack of pictures

In case having a baby and moving out of state to start a new job isn't enough major life changes we decided to make a few more! With the next few announcements I am sure that many of you will think that we have gone off the deep end, but I assure you that we are still the same old Larsens, just way healthier! Right before we had Madalynn we started thinking about vaccines and how weird it is that you vaccinate a child a few hours after birth for a disease that they aren't going to come in contact with for a while. So we declined that vaccine and started more in depth research and have decided that we will no longer vaccinate our children, especially if we have boys. This led us to researching Prozac (Creed has OCD and has been on Prozac for a few years). We decided that this wasn't really what we wanted so we found that a mix of bee pollen and flax seed oil along with exercise and more sun. We are soon going to add fish oil instead of flax seed. Anyway, Creed has said that his mental health is probably the best that it has been for a long time. We have also decided to cut back on our MSG and sugar in take (you will be surprised and what MSG is in! It is found in almost ALL Campbell products and almost all processed food). We are also eating more fresh fruits and vegetables. All these changes have really helped us to feel really good. We can see a total change in Sarah. She is smarter, less cranky and more loving. We have more patience and adaptability. It has really been good for us as a family!

Sarah has been saying some really funny things lately, it may be the life changes mentioned above, or just Sarah, either way we have all been laughing a ton lately! The other day she was eating a muffin and I was trying to get her dressed so that we could go to the Portland Zoo (which is another post to come later!) and I told her that I needed to take her clothes off and she asked "is it so they don't get muffiny?" I laughed which then made her laugh! The other day we were in the car and she said, "do you see something?" I said, "yes I see trees. Do you see trees?" She said, "No, they are green, oh, I see them!" It made us laugh. She also believes that her cousin Parker is her prince and that they are going to get married in the temple. We tell her she has the getting married in the temple part right, but that she will probably not want to marry Parker, though he is a handsome prince!

In other news, yes this post is lacking pictures, sorry it is just too late to post them, so next time I promise! Madalynn is growing big. She is going to be bigger than Sarah was I can feel it! She also is so smiley and she loves to coo! It is just the cutest thing ever! Sarah is loving having a baby sister, we think this might also be due to the diet changes, she is just so loving where as before she didn't like Madalynn at all. I got a new calling, okay so I got the calling over the 4th of July and there was a ton going on so I can't remember if I mentioned it or not, but I am a ward missionary and I love it! I love learning and going back to just the basics. I love learning from the new members and seeing the gospel through their eyes. It really is a neat experience! I hope they let me keep this calling for awhile (they just found out that I am musically inclined and I really just want to keep this calling!)

Albertson's

If you want to see how I did at Albertson's this week just check out my other blog. I am totally amazed at what I got, what I spent, and what I earned, yes earned! I will have what I saved posted later this week. AMAZING!