Baby Animal Day!

This year we decided to go to the American West Hertiage Center in Logan for their BABY ANIMAL DAY! They always hold this event around Easter time and we thought Jackson would love to see the animals!

Jackson's ready to go! He climbed into the car,

insisting to bring along his buddies, ELMO and PUPPY!

What a cheesy grin!

Petting the back end of a baby goat!

He was trying to kiss the bunny,

but doesn't know what to think about that!

Jackson and his friend Ava, holding hands! Ah, how tender!

We couldn't pass this up! Jack LOVES tractors!

JACKSON'S first EASTER EGG HUNT

Its tradition for Steve's grandparents to host an annual Easter Egg Hunt for all their grandchildren and great-grandchildren! This year's event was fun because we had a kid to participate! Jackson caught on pretty quick on what to do! Spot the egg filled, run to get it, and dump it in the basket! Here are a few pics of the hunt!

Sometimes you have to go to extreme measures...

Stopping to take a little candy break!

Grandma hides those eggs in sneaky places!

Grandma and Grandpa Larsen with their great-grandchildren!

LOVE YOU BABE!

So, I managed to hack my way into the blog account, and now that I'm here, who knows if this will work since I've never put anything on the blog before. I mostly wanted to say what an amazing wife I have. Heather sure does get the short end of the stick with me going to school, working, and fulfilling my church calling. I sure hope she knows how much I love and care about her and how incredible I think she is. She is an amazing mother and always puts Jackson and I before her. Babe, always remember how amazing you are! Thanks for being you!
Love, Your Husband!

Better late then never...

How could I forget to post Halloween pictures... Jackson was Curious George! For those who know Jack, it was a perfect costume for him! He is our little curious george! He loves to get into everything and make monkey sounds! For Halloween we went to Steve's work for a party and our ward had a trunk-or-treat! Jackson loved holding out the pumpkin bucket, attempting to say, "Trick or treat", to get his candy! Steve's sisters came with us to the trunk or treat! Then we went to my sister's for dinner and more treats! It was alot better than last year's Halloween, when Jackson and I were sick!

Our cute little monkey!

The Fam!

Jackson with his friends, Logan and Allison!

Curious George sharing his candy with a sheep!

Playin' in the leaves

Aren't the seasons awesome? My favorite is the leaves changing beautiful colors! We love FALL at our house! We have two huge trees in our backyard that drop lots of leaves to have fun in! Jackson thought the leaves were the greatest! Steve would rake a big pile together and Jackson caught on pretty quick that it was fun to jump in them and throw them everywhere! It was fun!

Jack loves to help Daddy rake the leaves!

Havin' a good old time!

Throw the leaves everywhere!!!

What's that growing in our yard....

Its official! We now have our yard in! Yeah! Steve has done a great job! This summer we had to remove about 6 inches of dirt off the whole front yard because our lot was the last one to be developed on our street, so it was used as the road base (which I'm told basically is where they dumped lots of gravel for the streets to be paved). We had topsoil brought in, leveled the yard, had curbing put in, and planted grass! We even got a little tree! Each day as we look outside to see the progress of our grass! Jackson loves playing in it! Our neighbors boys call Steve "Farmer Joe" because he was always out on the tractor smoothing out the dirt! Here are a few pictures of our green yard! It was a long project, but well worth it!

Jack's first Pumpkin Patch

The other day we went to a pumpkin patch to pick out pumpkins to carve for Halloween! We went with some of our good friends, the Thaxtons! Jackson had a blast walking through the fields of pumpkins! Everywhere you looked there were pumpkins! We finally found our three and loaded them in the cart. This place also had a hay bale maze for the kids and fun picture boards to take pictures in front of! This Halloween will be fun! Last year Jackson and I were sick! So this year he will be able to experience the fun of trick or treating! Happy Halloween to everyone!