Take a Bow

Katie had her preschool Graduation this last week!
WOW it seems like just a few short weeks ago she started her academic career and now it is over.
:p
She hammed it up well.. I did not get the part where she was blowing kisses..

SHE IS RUNE'S CHILD! ;) no doubt about it..

Tagged Again :)

one word..

1. Where is your cell phone? lost
2. Your significant other? watching
3. Your hair? Needing
4. Your mother? Missed
5. Your father? Lonely
6. Your favorite thing? Fam
7. Your dream last night? Forgettable
8. Your favorite drink? lemonade
9. Your dream/goal? Perfection
10. The room you're in? Cluttered
11. Your Ex? misrepresentation
12. Your fear? drowning
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? home
14. Where were you last night? watching
15. What you're not? thin
16. Muffins? costco
17. One of your wish list items? sitter
18. Where you grew up? Novato
19. The last thing you did? diaper
20. What are you wearing? grubies
21. Your TV? Cinderella
22. Your pet? dead
23. Your computer? busy
24. Your life? lucky
25. Your mood? many
26. Missing someone? mother
27. Your car? MoMed
28. Something you're not wearing? rings
29 Favorite Store? Ross
30. Your summer? short
31. Like someone? you!
32. Your favorite color? Orange
33. When is the last time you laughed? presently
34. Last time you cried? resently

35. Who will/would re-post this? friends


tagging: Kathy F. & Lisa W.
Also the other SC2 girls..past and present..

The long lost blogs..

We all know I have been thinking of 1000 other thing and have not been as good at blogging as I should have..

Here is a taste of what's been going on in our Family..Hope you don't get indigestion!

We have had some crazy days.. family par-tays.

We had a burnt Dad meal.
Thank Heavens we have this great friend "Jared" who new what we should do instead of eating the BURNT FOOD!


Rune the saddest dad in the whole USA..


He bought a pool to go in the front yard..

(We have a fun one in the back but we play out front so much so we thought a second kind would be good!)

Poor Rune .. he was FOOLED by the advertising.. It is Way to small! look at the kids on the box are they freakishly small?? Here are our normal sized children.. And it will NOT stand up the right way either!



Our grapes are growing!

Our ward had an interesting activity.

I was sick (again)




So Rune was supper Dad and went to Mom day at the building and played with the kids and "girls". :) Thanks Hun!



All in all we have been Happy, Busy, Sneeze, Sleepy, Bashful, and Grumpy!!

To Norway we shall go.. I think..

Yes you read it right.. NORWAY!



I know you are saying..Didn't they JUST GET BACK??

Rune's youngest Sister (who I love with all my heart) is getting Married the 6th of September and they all want Rune to walk her down the isle. (as their Papa passed away a long time ago)
Rune really feels like he must go and be with them at this time..I do understand and feel that it will be a great thing for him and "his girls".
My worry..(some of you know this story already..lol)
The Kids.. they would not be going with us.
It is times like this that I really miss my Mom.. She would be there willing to take them and love them and care for them ..no matter what. I am now on the hunt..
WHO WILL LOVE MY CHILDREN?
Rune says he will not go if I do not go ...so I must go or he will not..

I will disappoint someone. I know..whether it is our kids, his family, my family, friends.. Someone will think I am being selfish or not thinking of the feeling of that person..I as many know am a crazy worrywart about everything.. I am so worried about who I will upset.

Pros: Rune will be happy and get to see his family again, (2 times in 8 years is not a lot to ask.) he will get to do a little more family history work, seeing Rune's Mama and the family.

Cons: leaving the kids, financial concerns, any burden placed to caregiver. (not to mention it is during the FIRST week of school.) that crazy long plane trip, new job that he would not get.

What to do?
Really what would you do?

Memorial Day's of old.

We had a great Family Dinner last night! My Sister and 2 Brothers and lot's of their kids and our Dad were all together..I thought "what a great way to spend Memorial Day Weekend!"
As we all sat and ate and talked and talked I could not help but think of the fun we always had on Memorial Day's in the past. We were all about Samuel P. Taylor Park! I have really great memories of going up "camping". All the big Breakfast's our parents made.
Taco's in the afternoon made on an open fire. Seeing our ward members (who camped too) playing baseball in the open field and playing in the creek and hiking and flirting the best I knew how with the ward boys..(never was good at it!) That smell of the campground and how much I loved our family, thats what Memorial Day was all about for me!


So for my sweet family who stop by to read the blog, here are the pictures I could find;)
thanks for coming to Our family Memorial Day trips.. :) childhood would not have been the same with out you there!

The Music

I needed a change..I moved the music around a little..BUT in doing this I found that there is NO WAY to find the song I wanted most:(

How many people remember this song?
It is from the "Mormon Kids Sing Along" tape.

"When I grow up I want to be a mother
And have a family
One little, two little, three little babies of my own
Of all the jobs, for me I'll choose no other
We'll have a family
Four little, five little, six little babies in my home
And I will love them all day long
And give them cookies and milk and yellow balloons
And cuddle them when things go wrong
And read them stories and sing them pretty tunes
When I grow up if I can be a mother
How happy I will be
One little, two little, three little babies I can love
And you will see each sister and each brother
Who look a lot like me
Four little, five little, six little blessings from above."

First time I heard it I was driving in Provo and thought it was the craziest song ever! I thought..WHO WANTS SIX KIDS! well..lol (I know, lots of people do!)
I still like the 3 kids version;)

I am sure glad have the one's I've got!

Thursday

It all started with a YUMMY Chicken taco..
I have had a little flu bug for the last 24 hours. (I hope that it is gone)

Any who... Today was going to be a very busy day in the Larsen home... Sam had a jog-a-thon
for his school.


Katie was going to have a big wheels bike day at preschool. Her day ended up to be a stay at home and play with Lilly as Mommy try's not to die day.


Lilly was going to get to go to see all of it!!

On top of that it was an "Emmet Day" as our kids call it.

So Rune could not just watch the girls..Also I had a play date set (sorry Jamie and Jessy) and Ward Welfare meetings and I was invited to a really fun baby shower..

OH...BARF! Really who gets sick as often as I do?? NO ONE! (save my sister)

SO lovingly Rune took photo's for me to see!
(and because he is a foreign picture taking kind of guy)