Celebrating Lucy

 

I can't believe it, but this cute little stinker is about to turn the big O-N-E. We celebrated a little early, when Grandma and Grandpa Larsen and Aunt Aubrey were able to be here. While they were here enjoying Nashville, we caught an awesome variety show at the downtown library.

Then had lunch at the Farmers Market.

 

 Lucy did some shopping on her own at Phillips Toy Mart.

The next day was Valentine's Day, but in our house, it was a celebration of Lucy!

 

She loves her grandpa.

  After church, we put on our party hats!

 

 

 

 The "Wall of Lucy:"

 

 The Birthday Girl and her Grandma.

 

 

 

 

 

 Her Birthday cupcake!

 

 She got lots of awesome presents!

 

 

Above is her with her new "cell phone," which she loves.

Grandma Diney made Lucy the little picnic basket ty is holding in the bottom left picture above. It had some felt food she also made. It was so cute and quite a hit!

Here in Nashville, there are several Hot Chicken Kitchens. We went to Hattie B's with Aubrey once everyone else left on Monday. Hot Chicken with her hot date!

And the picture below is Lucy modeling one of her adorable birthday outfits! Stop all of this growing!

Sleep and Play

 I recently found out the Green Hills YMCA has a kids play gym day twice a week. We went to check it out one day and had a great time!

 

 

 

And just a few cute pictures of my sleepy heads after too much play...

Snow Day!

 It wasn't a Colorado snow day, but in Nashville, it was pretty legit. We had a great day celebrating the snow by making snow cones, watching winter movies, and bringing the snow inside so it wasn't so cold!

 

 

The Hermitage

 On the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, we got in free to The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's home. I guess this is the battle that made him famous.

  

 

The cotton blossoms were past season, but they looked pretty. We went with a few friends, including Ty's little friend Olivia.

 

 

 

 Channeling Harry Potter:

When Daddy's Away...

Tim has been on a lot work related trips the past few months, so at home, we have to keep ourselves busy.

 

 

 

I love when people at church take Lucy so I get a break. I don't even think they mind!

 

Okay, occasionally we splurge and go to Chick fil a without daddy.

 

 

 Apparently, Ty ate plenty. He also loves pushing Lucy around in the high chair with wheels on it (below).

Happy New Year!: Texas Christmas Part 4

Happy New Year from our crazy family! Grandma Diney planned a masquerade party for us. The kids got to make their own masks. Ty went for Optimus Prime from Transformers. Even now, about 3 weeks later, he loves his mask!

The Denzer's came up from McAllen to celebrate. We had so much fun when they lived in Denver, so Ty was happy to have his cousins back!

Mexican for dinner.

We all got to open a silly gift. Uncle Scott got this fitting cat calendar.

Grandpa Rod did a magic show and we set some fireworks off in the backyard. In Mexico, it's a tradition for Easter and other holidays to get these colored eggs with confetti in them and break them over someones head. Lucy enjoyed hers (see below).

Many mornings, we woke up to Mackenzie's cocoa stand, but it was official on New Years morning.

Ty thought he was so cool playing with older cousin Seth.

And Lucy got plenty of extra snuggles from both Sarah and Shelby!

These kids are just too cute!

We had a great trip to Texas for Christmas and New Years. We already miss everyone!

Anniversary: Texas Christmas Part 3

 

I know it's hard to believe because we are just so young and vibrant, but Tim and I reached our 9 YEAR ANNIVERSARY while in Texas! On our honeymoon, we visited an old mission in Southern California. To remind us of that, Tim planned an awesome date for us to rent the city bikes and ride between three of the 5 in San Antonio! Though I do the exercise bike often, I hadn't been on a bike in YEARS! Unlike exercise bikes, you actually have to steer these bikes; it was amazing and adventurous and SO FUN!  We are so grateful to Tim's family for watching the kids during our long adventure.

We started in the middle at Mission San Jose. It had a nice visitor center and was much bigger than the others. It was just so pretty!

 

 Next was San Juan. This one had a pretty walking trail just outside of it.

And furthest south was Mission Espada.

 From here, we rode back to San Jose and drove up to the Riverwalk for lunch with a view!

 We finished by walking by the Alamo, the furthest north Mission. It's hard to see in the picture below because we are rookies to selfies, but we were there!

Happy Anniversary! To many more years...