They are here!

We are so excited to finally meet Ronan. He is so cute! Ashley and James had a very long flight and were very exausted. They are also having to adjust to the 5 hour difference, not easy to do.

Parker and Conner were so excited to have Alison home.

Parker is now taller than Ali.

Conner loves hanging out with James and Ronan.

What a mess!!!

Our front yard looks terrible, our dumb septic tank has to be fixed. It was supposed to last 30 years but it only lasted 5 years.

Piano Recital

Conner had his piano recital Monday night. He did a great job. He played a duet with dad, like last year, and they did a great job.

With sister Heidi Larson his piano teacher.

All the students and sister Larson. She is also my piano teacher but I don't participate in the recitals because I am a different kind of student, older than all of them, way older.

Busy holiday season

We have been busy with:



Ward Christmas Party.

Friends visiting from Tallahassee, The Shuler fam. It is a funny story, we met her 5 years ago at the Atlanta airport when we missed our connecting flight to SLC. They were at our Ward one Sunday a few months ago when she recognized Brent, she has a great memory. They were in town this weekend with a friend of theirs that went to the temple for the first time.

Conner's last basketball game.

Baking Christmas treats for members of our Ward.

Festival of the Nativity

Today we went to the Festival of the Nativity in our Stake. The highlight of the night, to me, is Margie's paintings. She is my visiting teacher. She is an awesome artist. This year she painted a picture of the Larsen family, sister Cami Larsen was my visiting teaching companion. They moved to Idaho this past summer. I took a picture of Brent so that you can see that he has lost 30 lbs. He is doing a great job with his diet. His clothes are getting too big for him so we had to buy him new shirts and he needs new pants.

They had activities for the kids in the Primary room. Parker and Conner made a Christmas chain.

Conner drawing a Christmas picture.

Larsen Family painting

Margie (the hat lady) and her paintings.

Basketball

Conner is playing basketball again. He started a month ago but I haven't been able to go because the games have been at the same time as Parker's guitar lessons. I take him to practice and Brent takes him to his games. The game yesterday was early and so I was able to go. He does great he made like 5 baskets, they don't keep score at this age so it's only for fun and learning the rules of the game.

Brent is doing awesome with his diet and has lost about 30 pounds. I will be posting pictures soon.

Early Christmas present

We got an early Christmas present. We bought a new dining room table and I love it. Our old table which we had for 16 years, only had six chairs. The new table has 8 chairs, I would have loved 10 chairs because our family is getting bigger, but our dining room is too small for that many chairs.