Trace, Aubrey & Kenzie

Bridal Shower

2011-07-08T13:57:00.006-06:00

A few weekends ago my mom, sister, and I hosted a bridal shower for my cousin Haley. We had such a great time planning and putting everything together. We went with a tea party theme, like Alice in Wonderland. Bright, whimsical and we were even able to use real teacups! (thanks to everyone who allowed us to borrow them!) for refreshments we did small things like dollar sandwiches, fruit, a salad ect. but my favorite part was these little cheese cakes (my moms idea). Not your normal cheese cake; they were cut into squares, put on sticks, dipped in chocolate, and decorated. If I may say so myself, they turned out so cute! (you can see them in the picture we placed them in the large teacups).

Madison Larsen

2011-06-25T20:50:00.006-06:00

We have had so many wonderful thing happen to us lately, it has been very busy. The very most exciting thing for us has been the birth of our baby girl, Madison. It is quite a story, on May 25th Trace's brother got married. The whole day we laughed about how funny it would be if i went into labor ect.. I was going to extremes to put myself into labor at that point, for example i walked around the Logan temple with one foot on the curb and the other on the road (Trace wouldn't be seen with me doing that so he drove around and let me know how ridiculous i looked!). I was very disappointed when at the end of the reception i was still feeling great, after such a long day I had expected to at least feel a contraction, or something! No luck. However a few miles and just moments after leaving the reception my water broke. I was stunned. Thankfully my sister in law was not far ahead of us and was kind enough to stop and let us borrow her camera. The nurse at the hospital found Trace some pajama pants so he didn't have to spend the night in his suit. It all worked out great. Madison was born 14 days early at 7 lbs 10 oz, 21 in long. She is healthy and a good baby. We did find out that her blood had my antigens trying to kill her red blood cells (causing jaundice). Thankfully it has not been a big deal, she has pulled through remarkably well. Quincy Gibson was kind enough to come to our home and take the sweetest pics of Madison, she did such an awesome job!

A moment to brag...

2010-05-05T13:01:00.006-06:00

Your probably thinking about Kenzie!?!? not again!!! But this time i want to post a little about Trace. I would like to tell all that after many nights of his "i'm a failure" speeches, he has proved him self wrong about that again! Not only is he a wonderful husband and father, but on Sat he will be graduating with his bachelors in chemistry. It has been such a long road, and i am so proud of him! He will be continuing school at the U of U for his Masters in Chemical Engineering. Which leads me to another thing about him, He just got an internship at Rio Tinto! (which is bitter sweet, we love all our friends in logan but are so excited to move on and back home to SLC!). His birthday is on the 11th too, Happy Birthday!! I love you Trace!! (pic is of Trace and Kenzie feeding ducks over spring break)

Happy Late Halloween!!!

2009-11-12T22:33:00.009-07:00

Well this is very very late to be posting pics of my little bugs Halloween costume, but, well i couldn't forget to put this up. I think shes pretty cute, and was way excited about it. She was a Lady bug this year, and i think she had a blast for her first Halloween! Trace was on call (luckily didn't get called in) so we had to stay close this year. We went trick or treating which was lost on Kenzie but she loved the attention and her candy has been yummy. She particularly enjoyed assisting in carving the pumpkins, which mostly included her trying to eat raw pumpkin. Well as for since Halloween not much else is going on, just normal life. Tomorrow is the JJcole sale, super excited! -hope its as good as last year!

We're still alive

2009-10-04T17:38:00.007-06:00

So, I don't really take time to update this, that is why there's not much on here. However I decided to do a quick update, although my guess is nobody will really notice.

There has been a lot that has happened since the middle of Aug. The biggest thing is starting school again. The only good part about that is it is the last time I will be able to say that (knock on wood), at least for my undergrad. The worst part about being back in school is in between work, school, and church for myself and work for Aub we figure we see each other for a total of about 2 hours from Sat. afternoon until Friday evening, once again we have split custody of Kenzie. Aubrey gets her during the week and I get her on Fri., Sat., and Sun. afternoon and evenings. They say going to school is worth it, THEY BETTER BE RIGHT!!

The queen of the house started crawling, as you can see above,right after we got home from Bear Lake, thanks to seeing all the other kids she couldn't be left out. The crawling wasn't to bad however she has learned that she loves going up the stairs, I've even taught her how to come down (crawl up, the straighten you legs and body and slide down on you belly, she thinks that is the best part- oh the things parents never let you do growing up, we just have to teach our kids to do them and let them enjoy for us!). However there are something you don't want to teach you kids, What are we doing teaching bad habits like this?!?!

We also took a long weekend and headed up to the Cabin to relax and enjoy the mountain air, Kenzie enjoyed being up there, most of the time. The crib up there is a little different, I think she felt like she was in prison.

2009-08-10T12:09:00.005-06:00

Summer Fun!!

Trace is out of school for the summer!!! I am so excited to have him around a little more. He only has 3 weeks off so we are trying to pack as much summer fun in as possible.
Last Week we went to Bear Lake with Trace's family. It was such a good time, boating and hanging out in the sun is our favorite thing to do! Kenzie absolutely loved it! She came home with lots of new tricks she learned from watching her cousins like, the army crawl, pulling self up on things, and she talks a lot more now too! She thought the other kids were so funny and they seemed to think she was alright too. Another great thing that happened on vacation is that Kenzie got more used to Trace, she doesn't scream so much when he is holding her and I'm not around! (She is such a mommys girl right now but this improvement makes everyone happier:))

My wife doesn't know how to use a computer!!!

2009-07-26T18:21:00.003-06:00

So, we have recently decided that either Aubrey doesn't know how to use a computer or she just doesn't want to. She claims it's because she doesn't have time, ya whatever.

There has been a lot that has happened in the last few months here in our home. As for Kenzie she is getting huge. She is in 98% for height and 48% for weight, well she fits in her mom's family perfectly. She is generally a happy baby unless mom isn't around. I don't think I have ever seen such a mama's girl other than my wife, honestly. She has learned how to get up on to her hands and knees and rock back and forth however she can't crawl just yet. I am not looking forward to baby proofing our house.

Aubrey is still working in the ICU over at the hospital and I am now working in the OR at the hospital as well. Right now I am taking a genetics class and am planning on graduating next May. Hopefully all goes to plan and we can move either across the country or even internationally, (Oh how the grandma's would love that).

We sold Aubrey's car and got a bigger one so that she can go places with her friends and not have to drive seperatly, the 4-wheel drive and the tow package was my idea, now I can justify getting a dirt bike and get it around some how.

2009-02-19T21:34:00.007-07:00

Hey everyone! Its been along time since we updated anything on the blog. Been thinking about it and I am officially taking over this blog site. (Trace has been doing it). Everyone else has such cute blog spots, and I think ours needs a little feminine touch (please be patient I'm still trying to figure this blogging thing out). We had a wonderful Valentines day Trace took me out for pizza at Fredrico's and gave me a card with a sweet note in it. Not much has really happened since the last post. Kenzie was blessed on Feb 1st. It was wonderful she looked beautiful, and we were happy to have so many family and friends there despite the long drive for most. Kenzie is so much fun, I cant believe how fast she is growing. Currently she is cooing more and more often, smiles lots, and loves her bath. Trace is really busy with school and studies all the time, but is doing well with such hard classes. I have enjoyed my time off from work with Kenzie, but unfortunately have to go back on Monday. I'm a little nervous it has been a long time!

2008-12-29T20:49:00.004-07:00

Ok so I pretty much suck at this, bite me!!! It is nice to be done with school and have a little extra time to spend at home with Aubrey and the baby. She is sleeping pretty good until about 8:30 at night, then she decides it's time to wake up and play; it's either at 8:30 pm or like this morning it was 4:00 am. Aubrey got up to feed her and I went to work, when I came home around 6:30-7:00 she said that she had been screaming the entire time I was gone. So, trying to let Aubrey get a little more sleep I took Kenzie and tried to rock her to sleep thinking I would be there for a while, luckily I was wrong. After about 5 min or rocking she was out cold, I put her in her crib and grabbed a pillow and slept there in front of the crib, she didn't even make a sound.

Sometimes when she is "asleep" she will pull faces and different expressions. The other day she was laying on Aubrey's stomach and pulled her arms up and crossed them under her chin so she would have something to rest her head on, crazy girl.

To us she doesn't seem to be changing a lot but grandmas and grandpas L don't think the same. they just think that she is a perfect little angel that sleeps all day. I will admit she isn't the screamer I was terrified she would be but this is no walk in the park either. I must admit she is pretty fun, Usually!!!

2008-11-30T12:18:00.001-07:00

Here is another picture we took this morning. We actually got her to smile!

2008-11-30T12:07:00.003-07:00

Well, as many of you know Kenzie is here. She was born on Sat. afternoon at 4:33 pm, she was 7lbs 9oz and 20 inches long. Here are a few of the first pictures, I'll try and put a few more up later this afternoon.

2008-11-23T15:42:00.004-07:00

Well, the Dr. says that everything is going great. If she hasn't had the baby before Dec 2 she will start her. I don't think I have seen Aubrey so excited over the last few months as she was when the Dr. said that. She is just at that point were she is uncomfortable and doesn't sleep very well either. Luckily for me I am so busy with school and work it doesn't keep me up. Most the time I don't even realize she ever even got out of bed.

Since Dec 2. is on Tues the week before finals I have to try and see if I can switch my two labs until Monday, otherwise I might be driving Sardine Canyon a few times that week. This is the only picture that I have of her pregnant and smiling, in other words she just wants to finally get this over with. I'm sure all you moms out there know what she's thinking.

2008-11-09T16:48:00.003-07:00

Ya, so I haven't kept up on this, what are you going to do? nobody really reads it anyway. The last few weeks have been really busy and will probably stay that way until the baby comes and after the holidays.
I'm just trying to keep up with school and work while I try and keep Aubrey from over working herself. As of Thur. the baby is 5lbs 9oz and everything is going good. As of today we are a month away from the due day. Not much else to tell.

School is is done!!

2008-08-06T14:55:00.003-06:00

So I'm officially done with school, well at least for the next 3 weeks. I don't know what to do with myself. I come home from work and I don't have to study, what am I suppose to do?? We ran down south yesterday an hit a couple friend's wedding receptions and then spent the night in Centerville. Aubrey got up this morning and went to some quilting store, me, wanting to have a little more fun than that, ran down and waisted time at Marine Products. As you can tell, not much going on in our lives right now. Aubrey is really starting to show which is exciting. I have actually felt her kick a few times. The doctor is still not sure if it's a girl, she says there is still a 20% chance that it's a boy. We have an appointment on the 18th for "the big ultrasound," the doctor said they will be able to tell us for sure then.

2008-07-13T17:56:00.000-06:00

So I decided that I might as well create one of these things and I didn't have any other picture to put up. Really I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing and this is the only picture with the both of us that I could find.