It's so hard to say Goodbye

Our Dear,Dear friend Delores Ericson passed away..

She was, to the Larsen family, the joy of our street.. Our kids loved her like a Grandma: The cookies and visits and prizes.. the hugs and hair brushing's and understanding ear.. She walked down the Monday before Valentines to tell me they thought she might have a little Cancer and she needed to have a biopsy.. March 7th she passed away.

We all loved her and will miss her.

Every picture that I take for this blog I take with the camera that she gave me..she wanted to see everything we were doing..

When she made it to her next home, I know she was met by a kind lady who wanted to hug her and tell her thanks for loving my kids.....And I know she shared the gospel with her too~
(My Mom and Delores died 10 years apart .. I know they would have been friends0

A day with no smiles~

One day a week or so ago Katie was at school and had a little accident. When we picked her up the teacher said "oh yeah Katie fell down today." So when we got home I was crazy mad that no one had called to tell us ..I mean she had a Nasty EGG on her head..In my most upset Mom way I took her outside and was going to take pictures of the whole thing to DOCUMENT!!! but I got out there and she looked at me and said.."You can take the pictures but I will not smile!" she made me laugh so hard~ I thought well.. I am not happy about this but I need to also look at the happy things..She is okay and has her same *zippie* attitude that she has always had, so ... we watched her and loved her and she was fine. I am giving the school the bennefit of the doubt. (they did give her ice packs) so there is Katie's day with out smiles.

See how hard she really worked to keep the smiles off her face!

Five more reason I love IKEA..

I REALLY LOVE IKEA~

Here are a few more reasons.

1. You can count on seeing people you know and love shopping there.


2. Kids LOVE the food and it is cheap!


3. They are obviously animal friendly.


4. Even your husband wont mind walking around it for 3 hours.. he might get a little tired..but no complaining!


5. Frozen Yogurt.. YUM~

A little tv watching for your enjoyment~

Enjoy :)

A week without Mom

I have had a crazy flu bug all week!! Really I felt crummy last Saturday and it has only gotten worse. This evening I thought I would venture out to see what everyone was up to ..
This is how I found them.

The best friend a girl could ask for... worked 4 jobs and never complained about me being sick or the fact that he had to take care of everything and everyone.
Lilly who now "ONLY WANTS DADDY" as I heard her cry when I asked her if she wanted to sleep with me.

Sam..our tender boy..I see that bowl on your bed sir!;)

Katie girl.. The room looks okay for having no one help her pick it up all week!

My little cave..I am crawling back in it now.
(You might notice that I have taken over all pillows at this point!)

Lilly turns 3!

Happy Birthday to our Lilly Bean!

cousin's and pal's

Yumm...Cake!

The one good picture of them;)

Open that present!!

Buddies

This is a quick song from her family party.

Here are a few reminders of the day she was born.
(I know you are glad I did not put up all 2000 of them..lol)


I can not believe that our LAST baby is already 3 years old!
Lilly Bean we love you and are so very thankful to
Father in Heaven that we get to spend forever with you!
XOXO's for Lilly!!

A REAL date~

Well, you all know that I have had a long standing *Date Night* with my Computer; since Rune works on Friday and Saturday nights. Well with the New Year came news that Rune would no longer have to work on Friday nights. !!YAHOO!! So this week we planed to go to the Temple for our date, but the ward trip was canceled so we decided that we would go out and celebrate our 9 years of knowing each other and knew we would have fun doing that~
So always mindful of the budget we remembered we had a gift card to one of our favorite spots in town BJ's, it is a fun place that we really like. so..lol
We dropped off the kids at our home teachers place (thanks again Colton's!) and headed out.

The food was great..We both had salads and our main course and the whole dinner cost us $3.00 :)
Then we went to Springfield to the SONIC..we have really wanted to go there but ..with the kids and all..lol No time and no money for all of us it has not happened..

SO, Rune and I hopped over and partook of the BEST shake I have had in YEARS! For $2.19 we shared a regular sized HOT FUDGE SHAKE!! YUMMMMMMM! (yes it was that good)
We went to see about a $1.00 movie but nothing sounded good to either of us~
Soooo...lol He dropped me off at the church where they were having a Relief Society girls night out game night and he headed over to the Colton's to hang out with his friend..lol
As I was getting out of the car I asked if he was sad we weren't going to continue our date and he laughed and said "we had a good time, you are a cheap date..go play with your friends" lol that's one more reason I LOVE him. :)



Rune and his meatloaf sandwich.



Me and my Angus Beef Dip sandwich.



A better look at them both~







We ate it all up!



Rune happy knowing we were going to be paying
with a gift card~


YUMM~O


One last look at the place and off we went!


Try taking a picture of yourself sucking a shake through a straw..
Not always a good look..lol But I think we did ok..
Total amount spent??
$3.00 + $2.19
= $5.19 for one great night!