Dalan's 9th Birthday

Yesterday was Dalan's 9th birthday. He is getting so old! I wasn't to make sure he had a great day so I told him to tell me exactly what he was picturing to happen that day. Here is what he said.

Reeses Cereal and sausage for breakfast.

Chocolate Fudge Cake with a Lego set on top.

Mint Oreo Milkshakes.

Moose track ice cream in cones.

Treasure Hunt

Subway for lunch.

Pinata 

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So what are we going to do??? ha ha. He for sure had the food part down! We ended up doing a Lego party. We had doug DJ it (because if there is good music, the party is fun. Right? The weather cleared up, so the kids were able to hang out outside (woo hoo). We played a basketball game that Doug made up that the boys loved, broke a pinata, and had a treasure hunt. During the treasure hunt, he kind of game me the eye like "mom this isn't cool" I had to remind him I was following his instructions to a T!

 Breakfast in bed!!!! MMMM I always used to do this for my family as a kid and he sleeps later than me so he got it this year! He told me he had been awake for over an hour though when I finally brought it down at 8:30!

 I wish I would have gotten a better picture of everyone that came, but besides family he only wanted to invite boys, oh and Marissa :) He ended up getting a Lego set from almost everyone who came, so he totally scored and was the happiest kid ever!!! After the party my Mom took him on a date to dinner and to see Croods. He was so excited, I'll wait for her to post pictures of that. Happy Birthday Big D!!

 And I had to throw in this picture of Sierra. She loves this exersaucer . So much. So much :)

Bridals

One of the great things about owning our own company is we get to hang out together a lot. I had bridals in Heber so we loaded up the whole family and went. I didn't know how it would go, but we went to a 55 acre property owned by the man who owns Sprint, and it was amazing! Doug just ended up hanging out there because it was so big we really didn't even see each other. Doug used to work with the sister so he kind of knew the family so it wasn't weird or anything. I love how closely intertwined work and life are in our lives. I can't wait until the kids can join in on our business!

Doug titled this one "Objects in mirror are happier than they appear:)"

Sometimes it is weird to thing about people who have so much money that they don't even know what to do with it all. This picture really shows nothing, but it was incredible there! People say money can be a huge trial, I'll admit, it is a trial I like to try my hand at ;)

He's published!!

Dalan has been working SO Hard on his writing! I say so hard, because writing is not his favorite thing to do. At all. So to write at all is hard. But each kid in his class got to write and publish a book. He chose to do his on Neil Armstrong. We worked so hard on it together. We got to go in during school and watch him present it and then go back the next day and look at all his writings that he has been working on this year! I am so thankful for Mrs. Litchfield and all her hard work with Dalan. At first I wasn't so sure about her, she seemed a little hard on Dalan, but I really feel like she has pushed him this year and he has grown a lot. I sure do love this kid, just looking at him in his little tight suit that he grew out of so fast and we had to spend a small fortune on it to get it custom made, just makes me smile. I never imagined being a mom could be so fun and make me love so deeply! I sure am proud of this little man!!!

Thanksgiving Point

Sometimes without even trying all 6 siblings get together at one time. It actually doesn't happen that much, we are always missing someone. But somehow, last minute this day we all ended up hanging out at the dinosaur museum, and I think only 2 of us had a spouse there (we have 21 kids all together:) So we had to take a silly picture holding my mom up. Why? Um because we can lol

Off to the wedding

Doug was shooting my cousins wedding and the girls hardly ever get to go to weddings since I am usually shooting them, but when they found out we were going they wanted to wear their best dresses. Um we got a lot of attention that night :) I sure do love my little princesses :)

Our last 2 day of Spring Break

On Thursday of Spring break sometime in the middle of the night, we heard that terrible sound. The sound of throwing up. It was Kaylee. She continued to throw up during the night and we continued to wash sheets and pjs and hair all night long. Friday and Saturday Kaylee did not move off the couch AT ALL. I ended up putting a diaper on her because for about 24 hours it was coming out both ends. She was a super sweet sick girl though. After a while she would give me about 10 seconds of warning before she would start throwing up again. We got pretty good at catching it! I would estimate her throwing up about 40 times in those two days. We were giving her 2 oz of Gatorade every 15 minutes and it would come right back up, but she was so hungry:(. It was nice to have her start feeling better. Keep in mind we were down in St. George so Doug could go shoot a wedding in Vegas and to save on gas and time he stayed there for 2 days. I was really excited to go down and help Doug's Mom a little bit because she has so much on her plate right now. I was able to cook dinner the first two nights and get all the bathrooms cleaned and the house vacuumed before Kaylee got sick. BUT then it just turned around and she helped us so much. I have to say she is amazing. She really is! She is in a constant mode of helping others and complimenting others. She can't help me much with my kids especially when they are sick, but she was so kind to me. I know it was not fun to have us there while Kaylee was so sick and I was trying to take care of everyone else plus Kaylee, it was rough. By the time Doug got home I was exhausted:) That night we had been asleep for about 3 hours when we heard the throwing up again. I RAN to Kaylee's bed and she was fast asleep when we looked over and it was Katalina throwing up. And thus the joy of twins:( We wanted to leave right after conference the next day, but I was so exhausted I didn't even get out of bed until 11:45! We had to do tons of laundry again and prepare for the ride home. Doug's mom got us all hooked up, we put diapers on the girls, I sat in the middle and we headed home! Katalina threw up 4 times on the way home, but she made it in the bowl every time. They were both so sick, it was really hard for a few days. So glad that is over. So glad I have a Mother in Law who set such a good example to me in how she helped care for us while we were there! Oh and I can't forget the Allred's who also helped care for my kids while I dealt with all of this! My 3 older kids pretty much hung out there (they live in the basement), and ate all their food. Needless to say I don't think they were sad when we left. Happy Spring Break!!! Ha ha

Hollywood Connection Spring Break

This week is Spring Break!! Which means for the first time in like a year I am actually blogging about something that is not 4 months ago :) We started off the week sitting in our house for an entire day. I didn't make anyone get dressed or brush their hair! It was great ;) I helped my neighbor move which will be a blog post in and of itself. The weather was great and we just relaxed. On Tuesday we turned it into a marathon fun day! We woke up and went swimming while I did water aerobics, came home and got dressed and headed to IKEA for lunch (kids eat free on Tuesdays:). It wasn't even crowded because we planned on going around 2. And who eats at 2?? From there we met up with my parents up at Hollywood Connections. With our pass of all passes we get to go there for free for 2 months and we are finally getting around to it! It was a BLAST! It is a little bit ghetto and a tad crowded, but who can complain for free??? They even gave us free hot dogs, drinks and potato salad! We spent the entire night there. It was fun hanging out with my parents and especially watching my Dad skate. He skates there 8 hours per week, so he was totally in the zone and so excited to show off his skills to us. It was tons of fun!

Roller Skating was really hard, all my kids are terrible at it! Doug took turns taking them around a few times.

Kaylee fell and she was DONE!

I don't really think Katalina was trying very hard ha ha

And we ended the night with a balloon animal for each kid. Happy Spring Break!

Ben's farewell

Should we stay or should we go???? We were kind of going crazy deciding if we should go to our nephews farewell in St. George or not. We have been down there so much lately, and it's pretty expensive just to pay for gas to get there. I had a family photo shoot Saturday morning and we had our Ward Easter Breakfast (with egg hunt inside since it was snowing), and we decided last minute that we couldn't miss it, so we took off for St. George again. I am glad we went, we love Ben so much and wanted to support him on this special Day. Of course the weather was amazing in St. George!

Some of the nephews!!

Then we had to hurry home for another Larson Family party with Doug's sister Julie who was in town for the first time in 5 years! We had a lot of fun!!

And we also decided last minute to go to Draper's Easter Egg. Let's just say there was about 20,000 Easter Eggs, and 8,000 kids. It was CRAZY! But the kids had fun and they only got like 5 pieces of candy each which was great :)

Swimming

So we took the kids swimming on Tuesday and tried out our water proof camera. So much fun! I don't love going swimming, but the kids do, so we do it as often as they can talk us into it:) Doug came so that was more fun for me:) It's not so bad when the weather is nice because we can all just go jump in the car after and we don't have to change. That cuts down on the chaos a lot!

Crazy Hair!

Here is Ellie's 4 leaf clover hair for St. Patricks Day (I did it on all the girls) No hair for Sierra and Crazy hair day at school for Dalan. Now that he has longer hair, crazy hair day is much more fun!

And feeding the ducks in St. George, doesn't fit with this post, but I don't feel like switching it :)

My Wolf scout

Dalan earned his wolf last month. Even though I was the wolf leader we don't spend a ton of time doing scout stuff, but it isn't that hard to learn! Sure do love this boy!! I love when he is with kids his own age and you can really see how tall he is. Makes me laugh. I love tall people and I can't wait to see how big he is going to get!!

This was right after he pinned the wolf pin on me, there was no one to take the picture so I just took it :)

And Sierra helping us fold clothes ha ha ha. We have so many clothes to fold each week!!