On our way to 30 days

So it's been awhile since I've last updated, it's always hard for me to find the time.
Anyhow, I just wanted to update those of you who don't know...
Brett and I quit smoking and it's been 25 day's as of today!
It's a huge deal for us, I've been smoking for way too many years, I won't even say because I don't want the kid's to know how young I was when I started. It's been very hard for me, and Brett, who won't smoke again just because he does not want to be the first to give in! It does make me feel better each day I can mark off though! This weekend will be thirty big days gone by and a huge milestone, we will have to celebrate!

Andrew got his report card and is on the honor roll again! Good job Andrew!
Brandon's mid-quarter report was all A's! Keep it up kid's!

That's all for now!

Catching up

So, it's been quite a while since I last blogged. In the word's of the beauty queen "Taylor" from "Kid Nation", "Deal With It!"

No, I don't mean to be a brat, but it is very hard to keep up, so to all of you who do.... Congrat's!" Kudo's to you!

Let's see, since I last blogged, I have had a birthday ( my 34th ) and I was incredibly spoiled by my husband. Which I alway's am, but for this whole month, he has really been incredible! I am a very lucky lady!

Speaking of Birthday's, it is my mom's birthday on Tuesday! Happy Birthday Mama, you are loved more than you know!

The Viking's have not been doing very good, but I still always have faith and next week, they will show you what they are made of!!

On cool website front's, please check out http://www.americangreetings.com/, they have cool card's, background's and screen saver's. I love this site!

The boy's have their school picture's back and they are great, but due to some problem's with our scanner, I am unable to scan them at this time. If you are all really good relatives and friend's, I will either get them scanned soon, our you will receive them via US Postal Service; but I would have to be really good in order for that to happen!

We love all of our friend's and relatives, and hope that you will all keep the faith, that I will get better in regards to the blog site! But, if you all know us and love us, you will not be upset if I take a break between post's.

Tis the Season

It's that time of year, the kid's are back in school, the weather is starting to become cool and crisp. This is my favorite time of year, the cool but not cold evenings, the sound of the wind blowing through the tree's... and of yeah...

Football Season!

Which just happens to also be one of my favorite thing's! For those of you who don't know, the Vike's did win their first game of the regular season!

Tonight is another favorite Monday Night Football!

Larsen Family campout

So a few week's ago all the Larsen's went camping. Here are a few of the photo's from the trip.

Who let the dog's out?

So last Friday the kid's were playing at one of the neighbor's house's. Andrew comes home and says " Hey Mom, Angela is here and you need to come and meet her now." Angela is the mother of Jake and Jesse, some neighbor kid's who the boy's play with all of the time. So I went outside expecting to just kind of chit-chat. Angela and I have spoken on the phone and the kid's even spent the night over at her house earlier this summer.


So I come outside and she is frantic, has my baby boy Brandon at her side and he is crying and she pulls up his shirt and tells me that their dog had bit my boy!

The dog is up to date and the skin was really not broken too badly, but as you can see he bruised something awful! I'm sure that she initially thought that we would sue, but Brett and I felt that as long as the dog had it's shot's and he was not bleeding that much, he did not need stitches, a trip to the hospital was not necessary.

Brandon is recovering quite well, just still bruised. The neighbor ( and later her husband and kid's ) stayed here talking until almost 11:30 that night.

So slowly, slowly we are finally after 8 years here, starting to get to know the neighbor's!

Brandon is really ok and was even ready to go back to their house the next morning!

Happy birthday Randy!

Happy birthday to the best brother in the world!


For those of you who don't know, today is Randy's 29th birthday!


I miss him just as much or more today than ever! He was my first child, my little brother, my best friend, and there will never be anyone to take his place in my heart, ever!

There is an in memoriam ad placed today in the Star & Tribune, please feel free to check it out.

I love you so much Randy, and can only hope that you can see all that we have become, and all that we will never be without you! You are always with me, and only you and I can know what we had together and how lost I am without you!

Thank you for being in my life and for loving me like you did, without exception, and with all you had!

You are always in my heart, in my soul, and on my mind.

I love you always!
Sisser

So much to do so little time...

It's been such a long time since my last entry, I just wanted everyone to know that despite the lack of entries, everyone is fine out here in the country! In the past month we have had several birthday's, a wedding, an anniversary and a vacation! I do have lots of great photo's to upload, but just need the time to do it! Until then, I leave you with some photo's from Yellow Stone!

OK, so I'm just gonna leave you with this little tease, because I do intend do do a whole Yellow Stone entry! We will all be camping with the family this weekend so I hope to get lot's of pictures then too!

Morneau is THE Man!!!!

Did you see either of the Twins Double Header today?

They totally rocked in both games, a total of 32!

My boy was responsible for 3 homeruns himself, something that has not been done by a Twin ( 3 homers in one day ) since 1973, courtesy of Tony Oliva!

Touch them all Justin Morneau, touch them all!!!!

A promotion for Brett

• So Brett was offered a promotion at work. He has been mulling it over. It means a lot of changes, the biggest being the following:
• An office, a desk and even a window!
• A salary position from an hourly
• A crazy schedule for the first 90 days

Most important for Brett, it means he is " The Boss"!

He just officially accepted the offer yesterday, so there will be plenty more details to come, but I am hoping that this is a really good move for Brett and us as a family as well. Job security for this position versus his last is much, much better!

That's all for now, just wanted to keep everyone updated, and as I said before, more details to follow!

The Larsen's go to a neighbor's party!

So as most of you know, one of the main reason's we moved out to the country was so we had our own space and did not have to be bothered by neighbors. Well, as you may have read on a previous post, we were invited to the neighbors graduation party on Saturday.

The kid's wanted to go right away when they woke up, and Brett and I were really trying to put it off for as long as we could, even trying to think of reason's not to go. We decided that we had to just suck it up and go on over at around four.

So we slowly made our way over next door, where the party was really just getting started. The boy's of course left us as soon as they had made it to the pool, we were on our own, feeling like the first day in a new school or something....

Needless to say, it did not take very long before we had made friendly, and laughed at how we had kept to ourselves ( them and us ) for the three years that they had been there!!!

So long story short, the neighbor's are really pretty nice, and we stayed at the party much longer than the two cigarette allotment Brett had set before we left! :)