Merry Christmas from the Larsens

Merry Christmas! It has been another eventful year for our family. Our biggest news is that our third child – Tanner Cole Larsen – was born on February 28, 2009. It has been wonderful having a baby in our home again. Tanner is growing so fast and has been a really good baby. He already crawls around the house and is into everything. Aside from being a mom, Melissa stays very busy at church as Young Women’s president. It is a lot of work, but very rewarding. Lamont continues to enjoy his law practice at Davis, Graham & Stubbs, and also serves at church in the Elders Quorum. Carter is in 1st grade and loves everything about school, especially art and math. He is a good student and only struggles with losing his jacket at recess. McKay is in a co-op preschool with all of his friends, and is learning to read and write his name. Both Carter and McKay played soccer this year. The fall season was McKay’s first and Lamont coached his team, made up of twelve 3 and 4-year olds. It was a lot of fun. We love the Christmas season and the chance to spend time with family and to reflect on the birth and life of Christ. We have been richly blessed this past year. Best wishes for a warm holiday season and a happy new year.

Love,

Lamont, Melissa, Carter, McKay, and Tanner Larsen

Thanksgiving

Christmas is almost here, so I better get to my Thanksgiving post. It was fun to have Lamont's brother Kimball here with his family all the way from Washington. Carter and McKay LOVED having their cousins here! This was my first year to actually make the Thanksgiving dinner. I even did the homemade rolls all by myself, which I have never done before, but did not want Rhodes Rolls for Thanksgiving. Lamont and Kimball did the pies and everyone just pitched in when needed and the dinner turned out fabulous if I do say so myself.
Voila! The Thanksgiving dinner

Carter and Aubrey made cute little placecards for our table.

It was a nice dinner with family

Tanner's first Thanksgiving was a success. He especially loved the pumpkin pie; he ate a whole piece all by himself!

Yum! The pies.

The next day we went to Hammonds Candy Factory and watched all the Christmas candy being made. The kids loved all the free samples!

Chance, Aubrey, McKay, Carter, Sydnee, and Jaxon

Afterwards, we walked around downtown Denver.

It was so fun to have Kimball, Marianne, and kids for Thanksgiving. Thanks for driving all that way to spend the holiday with us. Carter and McKay were so sad to see their cousins go!

November Visitors

We love having visitors and November was the month of lots of visitors. At the beginning of the month my sisters came out to go see the play Wicked with Lamont and I. It was fabulous; I think we all had the music running through our minds the rest of the night. We had a yummy dinner at Maggiano's beforehand and then had a little jog to the theatre:). While they were here that weekend we also got to check out the Denver Art Museum for the first time. It was a good musuem with a few Monets and some western art by Charles Russell. Carter and McKay loved all of the children activities that they had available and really got into the artwork. I thought they might be a little bored, but it was one of their favorite places they have been downtown and they talked about it for weeks. Boys after my own heart! My sisters, Melanie, Megan, and Michelle in town for Wicked!
Carter and McKay dressing up at the Denver Art Museum

My grandparents came the next weekend, also to see Wicked. It is the first time they have come to visit us in our home and the boys loved having them here. We went to the Butterfly Pavilion which was a lot of fun and ended the day with some BYU football and a trip to Texas Roadhouse where we were once again able to celebrate Lamont's birthday. Yum!Fun to have my grandparents in town
The Butterfly Pavilion
Tanner getting crazy at Texas Roadhouse

It was less than two weeks later when we were able to have Lamont's brother, Kimball and his family come and stay with us for Thanksgiving. We are always happy to have family come and stay with us it is almost like a vacation for us too!