Ice Fishing and Outdoor Hockey

If any of you don't know our friend Dave just ask one of our boys about him and you'll begin to realize just how important Dave is to these boys. Dave is pretty much the best thing in their lives. I asked Torin one time what the order of breakdown was for him and I received this response, "Well Mom, it's God, Dave, our Family and then all the other people that we know." After a little bit of thinking he decided that maybe Bercan should come before Dave. Well at least one of his blood relations made it before Dave :) We love it though how much they love him. Dave asked us if we wanted to go ice fishing. The boys were of course SO excited to go ice fishing and with Dave. We headed out to our friend Andy's Moms' house who lives on a lake. It was a great afternoon for the kids and the parents.

Torin playing a little hockey out on the rink that they made.

Bjorn and Jaylin playing hockey...

Torin and Jaylin against Bjorn. I think the kids took him down :)

Yes, there was ice fishing too. I know that they caught a few fish

which was the highlight of the day for Torin.

All gathered outside except for Siobain and I. Neither of us had any desire to be out in the cold.

Amelia and Vaughn

Amelia and Vaughn are really just too cute together. They love playing together or in this case watching a movie together all snuggled in. The best is that Amelia is not afraid to make sure that Vaughn is behaving. She will put him in his place without missing a beat! I absolutely love it, as it is too cute!

Is she not the cutest little girl? I love her super rosey cheecks in this picture.

Getting warm, watching a movie after playing outside.

Smiling for Mom to take a picture....they really are too sweet

Christmas Cookies Made Easy

We decided to do things easy this year, okay really it was my decision. I may not have been working but I was running a house and a crazy schedule on very little sleep from Mr. Bercan so at this point in life it's not going to always be what's cute, creative or awesome but more what is easy. I mean after all the boys don't really care how the cookies or frosting get to the table just so that they can decorate them. The grocery store by us had premade cutout sugar cookies and these awesome premade frosting bags. The boys loved that there was no prework and so did Mom. Actually, I think that Dad was also pretty excited that there weren't two messes in the kitchen as well :) It was so fun to get creative with the boys and to see the different decorations they did with the cookies. I usually think in some of these situations that I'm the one who is having the most fun but I think that Bjorn had a ton of fun decorating too. It was a great family night together that ended with us eating one of the cookies that we had decorated. Nothing like eating your hard work!

Aren't these bags the best. Already mixed, cut the tip and you're ready to go.

They were really easy for the boys to use which they loved.

The boys and Mom after the decorating craze...

Vaughny so proud of his cookies

Torin was really cute in wanting us to take pictures of his cookies.

He really came up with some neat things I will say that he

gets that creative side from his Dad and the Larson side.

The finished work...I personally think that we did a fabulous job :)

My favorite one of all is the one that Bjorn did with the beginning letters of our names. I will say that it was the last one that was eaten as we thought it was a pretty cool idea from Dad. He's so clever :)

Posts are out of order :(

Heading back to work has been stressful and lets just say any organization I had with trying to keep our family of 5 together has completely fallen apart. It's alright, it's the way it goes but felt that I needed to at least state why my posts are not in any time sequence and are more just that I have a moment at work to try and catch up. So know that I am doing my best to keep this going and that I haven't gone completely crazy....yet :) Pictures from Christmas and others are coming....busy week this week but hopefully this weekend.

Heading back to school

Torin has decided that in first grade he really is not sure that he likes going to school all that much. He'll tell us that it's boring and that he has to sit there and write all day. We of course tell him to "suck it up" as there are many more years in front him. Before Christmas break all he could ask was how many more days till Christmas break. I seriously think he was more excited about having a break from school then he was about the presents. We did have a lot of things planned that unfortunately didn't get accomplished because Torin got a high fever and pretty much just wanted to lay around the house. After being home bound for so long I would have thought he was excited about school just to see his friends. His first day back to school I picked him up from school and asked how his day went. "It was ok but I would've have rather been home with my family Mom." I asked if that is why he doesn't really ever want to go to school and he said that he would be home with his family than going anywhere. I suppose if that's his reason for not liking school how can I blame him :)

WATCH OUT...

Bercan's a rolling....it literally took a day or so and the little man figured it out. Now when he is laid on his back he automatically rolls to his tummy. You can tell he thinks that he's pretty coolwhen he does it as he'll get a huge smile on his face. Diaper changing has become a little more adventurous but it's so much fun to see this milestone being reached for the little guy. Of course, his brothers think that he's pretty cool too. Although if you didn't know that Bercan was a baby you would think that he's our family dog these days with Torin and Vaughn saying "Roll over, roll over Bercan....good boy!" It's his new "trick" that the boys love to show off.

Vaughn's Faith

It always amazes me that these little kiddo's can have such a profound faith in God but Vaughn definitely has displayed this more than one time. Somtimes the prayers he comes up with are enough to make you feel inadequate as an adult where sometimes we are bitting our tongues not to laugh at what he comes up with. Recently, we had our cousin Cassie watching Vaughn for the day. They were just playing when out of the blue he asked her "Do you ove God?" Cassie replied that she did. Vaughn's resposne was "God ives in my art, right here." pointing to his heart. Cassie agreed and said that God was in her heart too. Vaughn looked her and shaking his head said "Umm, no". I guess Cassie didn't make the cut :) We'll work with him on that.