What a sweet spirit for Christmas

So I know this is a little late but for Christmas this year all I wanted was my son to be here safe and sound and healthy.  I can't believe how much he has grown in the first month, he turned a month old on Christmas Day.  He is an amazing little boy and is so well behaved.  I love this boy with all my heart and can't describe how much I love him.  But I do have a few pictures to show off.

Christmas Present 2011

One of my favorite moments this Christmas was the Larsen Family Christmas Party.

We got a 4 generation picture with my grandma.  

 (me, his great grandma, his grandma, and him)

His Great Grandpa held him for the first time

Grandpa and him like to sleep a lot!

But the best part about the Christmas Season this year was how sweet my little boys spirit is.  We were in our room where we have a picture of Christ on the wall and when he was fussing he found this picture on the wall and stared at it for 10 minutes calming him down.  I wonder what he was thinking when he was looking at this picture.  The way he was looking at it let us know that he knew who that was and he got a big smile at the end before he fell asleep in dad's arms.  

What a sweet Spirit my little boy has and every little kid out there.  They are so innocent and kind.  I will never forget these moment!  Hope everyone has a great year and always remember how precious our little children are.

Baby's first Christmas

My son was born a week early!  Thank goodness because I didn't know how much longer I would last being pregnant.  He was born on November 27th at 12:01pm he was 7 p. 15oz. and 20 in long and was born within 6 hours of labor and only 26 minutes of pushing.  He is such a good boy, he only cries when he is truly frustrated and is such a big cuddle bug.  WE ABSOLUTELY LOVE BEING PARENTS!

I feel so much closer to my husband now that Ayden is born.  Bobby was there for me every step of the way and would lose sleep over it.  We went into the hospital at 4am and he only got an hour sleep that night because I was in so much pain that I was almost screaming/crying the whole night tell finally he convinced me to go to the hospital.  Thank goodness he convinced me or Ayden would have been born at home!  I love you babe, you truly are the best husband a woman could ask for!

All his grandparents came down and saw him the day/week he was born.  As well as his Aunts and Uncles from the Keller side!  We were so excited to see everyone but now its just the three of us and we have loved every minute of it.   Although we get little to no sleep it is so worth it!!!  

Well this weekend we went to go see Santa twice.  Once at our Ward Christmas party and then we went to Walmart to see if we could get him with him awake because the one at the Christmas party he was dead asleep.  Well we sort of succeeded.  He had his eyes open a little.  

Christmas Party

Walmart Picture

I love this little boy with all my heart and don't know what I would do without him!  I can't wait to see what adventures are in store in the next few years.  I love my new little family!!!! 

Halloween 2011

Halloween was interesting this year, Bobby worked and I stayed home and cleaned but we still had some fun with carving pumpkins, decorating the house.  We also dressed up for the fun of it.

Family pumpkins and outside decorations

Fall flowers with Candy corn

candy corn cup

My nerd 

Pumpkin (also 35w 2d)

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!!!!!

Paper Chain

So a few days ago I realized that Ayden will be here in  

3 1/2 months! 

 I can't believe how fast its gone.

So I was reading my friend Della's Mosai blog and she was talking about making a Paper Chain for when she moves back to Malad to live with her awesome husband Jesse.  I really like reading all her blog posts they make me so happy and they are always so funny!  So I was thinking that I don't have anything better to do I so why not make a paper chain for our first little baby Ayden to comes.  Bobby and I are super excited for him to come and can't wait to see how handsome he turns out!  So here is how it turned out.

 First made marks on the paper where to cut

 Cut them into pieces with my fantastic cutting board my wonderful husband gave to me for Christmas.

 Organized them into where I wanted which color

Wrote the day and the number of days left on each

Glued them all together to get this.....

  Cute chain over Ayden's bed!  So excited to start to use it!

109 DAYS LEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

22 WEEKS PREGO!

I am now 23 weeks pregnant today but this picture is 22 weeks.

I have loved being pregnant....

but with all good things there are some bad.

I have had the flu for 3 weeks and have hated every moment.

I hope to get feeling better soon, but until then...

 I have now felt our little baby boy kick, seen my belly move.

In fact Bobby put his head to my belly 

and our little one kicked him in the face.

We have decided to name our little baby J Ayden.  

But haven't decided on a middle name yet.

Ayden Jenkins I can not wait to meet you!!!!!

1 Year Ago.....

1 year ago Bobby and I got married.  

Now that is a good thing right?????

Well for our year anniversary  

Bobby was in Cedar City working.......

while I was in Salt Lake babysitting my siblings.  

Well on Saturday I got these.

They made my day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks to my wonderful husband who always knows how to make my day better and make me feel better!

I can't wait tell next weekend, we will have a blast in St. George!

Our Defiantly CRAZY Life

April and May are a busy months for Bobby and I.  

It is now the second week of April we have two weeks of school left which means.....

You guessed it FINALS!

I very much dislike finals, the are frustrating.

Well until finals come we have

• Quite a few papers left to write for me.
• I have to stress about Bobby passing classes  
• (even though I know he will its still on my mind)
• I have to pack, and being sick and packing is not a good combo
• We need to get ready to check students out of our dorm.
• We have a cross word puzzle we need to make up for a class.
• A few tests left before finals (a graduation test included).
• Finals by this time will be hear (I have 3, Bobby has to many to count
• Then checking out all the students which is sometimes a pain.
• We move on May 7th which will be nice to be done with.
• Bobby has to find a job in Cedar City.
• We start summer school on May 9th and then some on May 31st 
• On top of that just to unpack all our stuff again.

I am really excited to get these next two months over with and be able to relax again....

Like I said OUR Defiantly CRAZY Life!!!!

SPRING....HOW I MISSED THEE!!!!!!!

I feel that spring is finally here....and its about freaking time.  

I hate winter because I am always so depressed 

and now I can see the all the colors and be happy. 

Thank You Sunshine for coming today and brightening my world.

So that I could wear flip flops and NO JACKET

Cleaning

So a great amazing friend and 8 months later after we move in I finally have a clean closet!  Thank you Della you are amazing friend!!!!!!  We are a great team.

LOTS of Late Night Chats

Bobby and I have had A LOT of late night chats
to the point we are up at 2 or 3 in the morning.

I like late night chats we both are so tired 

that we don't even remember what was said,

to the point we laugh our (ok at least I laugh) heads off!

Bobby I just wanted you to know 

I LIKE YOU A LOT!!!!!!!

Lately I Have Felt......

Upset
Extremely exhausted
sick 
frustrated 
unhappy


Thanks to my friends who have helped me through this little rough patch.  


I know feel....

really Tall
extremely happy!
finally content with my life
ready to take on any other challenge that comes my way
beyond brilliant
and many many more things!!!!

Thanks again for helping me realize how important my life is and how important all those in it are, and how grateful I really am for it!!!!!



YOU ARE GREAT!!! 

Day 8

Short term goals for this month and why.

One of my short term goals is to focus more on my schooling.  Don't get me wrong, I really am trying but I think I am not trying hard enough.  I feel that I could try 10 times harder and maybe actually do better in school.  I am going to read my chapters and try and maybe stay ahead so I don't fall behind.

Another goal is to spend more me time.  I feel that I haven't gotten any me time in a while and so I have set an appointment up for Tuesday to go get my nails done and a pedicure.  I feel like this will help and just let me have time to think about my life and really how great it is.

My last goal is to be more patient and stay out of others business.  I tend to want to know what people are talking about when it is really nothing of my business.  I need to learn that if I am not in the conversation, just keep my comments to myself and continue to do what I was doing.

Those are my three goals for this month!

Day 7

A picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you.

My mother has had a big impact on me. 

She is an amazing mother and I don't know what I would do without her! I love you mom!!!!!

Day 6

My favorite super hero and why.

So I don't really have a favorite super hero....in fact I really don't think I really cared about them.  My super hero's was my parents....however some super powers I think are cool.  If I had a super power I think I would have a hard time deciding.

So I don't like heights so its definatly not super ability to fly or climb walls.....I think I would die!

But I think what super power I WOULD LOVE would probably be to have super woman strength and to run really fast....between those two super powers I would be SET FOR LIFE!

That way no more asking my husband if he can open a stupid bottle of mayo or a jar of pickles or wait for him to get home so I could have him open it....oh no I could finally do it MYSELF!

And instead of flying places or driving FOREVER in a car I could just run and stay in the fresh air and get to where I want to go faster!  This avoiding our LOVELY "Utah Construction" and Utah's "Traffic hour" which makes those already bad drivers and excuse to be even worse of drivers....causing more accidents.  See what better of a chance to get away from that!

Day 5

A picture of somewhere I have been to.

Church Trip 2008 

   I know this was a while ago but it was probably one of my favoritist trips EVER now that I look back at it! I learned so much on this trip and it was really just full of good laughs lots of inside jokes and a big 15 passenger van named the silver bullet, that we drove in for many MANY hours.  We went all over and saw many church sites and in the end went to New York and got to go see Wicked!  I really want to go again now that I am older.  Thanks to my wonderful mom and dad for taking us on this trip!  I didn't really understand why you took us there then but now I do.  
It was one of the MOST NON FORGETTABLE TRIPS EVER!!! I love you guys!

Day 4

A habit I wish I didn't have:

There are many habits I have that I am not particularly found of but I think my most unfavorable habit is the fact that I can over think EVERYTHING even the small littlest things.  I over think the stupidest things. I wish I could just not think sometimes.  It gets me in trouble so many times and I fret over the stupidest things! It also can be very stressful because I stress over it for a long time and don't worry about the more important things and focus more on that worrying people around me.

So please Miss Habit leave me alone and let me just be calm for once and go drive someone else CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Day 3

Picture of me and my  friends.

I know this is cheese but I don't have any other good ones and technically he is one of my bestest friends but here is a picture of me and my hubby.

Then there are my dormbies who I consider my friends....I don't know if any of them consider me one but I sure think they are to me :)

Day 2

 The meaning behind my blog name-

I named my blog OUR CRAZY Life Together because.....well our life is crazy.  We have so much going on in life so it is hard to, what you would say, "stop and smell the roses" We have 4 families to juggle, Bobby had 3 jobs now he has 2 (one was a teachers helper for last semester), We are RA's at Mary Nielson which take up a lot of time but it is completely worth it!  I love those kids!  So you see life is full of adventure in our lives and it is completely CRAZY but a lot of fun. Although we can get pretty frustrated with each other we work it out like normal adults and get over it, and still after all the frustrated moments we can still act like silly little kids!

 

    I love my life its CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!