Ridge's Christmas List

This thing kept Ridge busy for HOURS!  This wasn't the final list.  I taped several more pieces of paper on to the end.  He was pretty proud of it, even after I read the Berenstain Bear Christmas book.  The one where Sister Bear realizes that it might be selfish of her to ask for too many things.  The great part about being close to Christmas, though, is that every time anyone asks for anything in the store I can just say, "put it on your Christmas list."  That usually does the trick.

Decoration For Christmas

With a warm fire and Christmas music in the background....

Larsen Family Reunion

In the middle of Thanksgiving, visiting, tons of food and parties, and Katelyn's baptism we also had a Larsen family reunion.  My cousin Michael hosted it at his house.  Here is a pic of my Aunt Karla, Aunt Toni, Uncle Kent, Mom, Aunt Jan, and Aunt Mardyne (from left).

Katelyn's Baptism Day

 Katelyn was so excited to be baptized and have all of the family here to support her.  Both sets of grandparents, the Tarry's, Rissie and kids, Darci and Dan and family, and of course Mike and Holly and girls.  We were sad that she would miss out on the leis from a Hawaii baptism so we enlisted the family to help and she got a heap of leis to add to the excitement.  Soon after the leis were around her neck she also had a following of kids.  Part of GG's talk included a warm snuggly blanket and part of Nama's talk included a cute baptism bear.  More than any of those gifts though was the actual baptism.  Congratulations Katelyn.

Baptism Pics

 We took Katelyn out on one of the last nice days of fall 2014 for some pictures in her baptism dress.  Apparently we weren't the only people taking advantage of the nice weather.  Everywhere we went there were hoards of photographers doing senior pictures and wedding pictures.  We had a hard time finding a place to take pictures, but they turned out cute.  These were some of my favorites.