... and he's home

Here he is, so cute, love that smile, and that tie!

This weekend we went to Salt Lake to pick up my brother EJ from the airport returning from his 2 year mission in Paris France. So much fun. It was so good to see him and he is doing awesome. We headed to my sister Melanie's house after the airport for hot chocolate and cinnamon rolls and to open some family Christmas presents.

This is the entire Morgan crew, wow, that's a big bunch!

We then headed to our hotel. The next day we had plans to go into SLC for a day of fun, but the snow changed our plans a bit, but not our fun. We hung out at the hotel, swam, ate and did what we do best, sat around and talked and yapped. I love that.
Saturday we went to an Italian pizza place for lunch, Settebello wow, so good, it was the closest thing to the pizza we used to eat in Italy that I have ever tasted, brought back some good memories. Then we headed home and now it is time to get serious with wrapping presents and Christmas baking, I'm so excited!

Happy Birthday Mollie

Today was Mollie's 2nd birthday. Wow, I can not believe how much time has passed, it really seems like we just brought her home yesterday. (But then again we watched her first few days DVD that Carrie made, and ya, it has been a couple years.) She spent the day singing Happy Birthday to herself and when anyone called to wish her a happy birthday, she wished it back to them. She is so much fun and opening presents was pretty cool and made me really excited for Christmas morning! Have I mentioned I love this little girl! Sadly, this is the only picture we got tonight opening presents, we have some video, but that will take a little editing so you don't have to watch 10 minutes of it all. Perhaps I will post that later, or just make do with this!
This morning she had her 2 year well check appointment, I know I am horrible making her get shots on her birthday, but she was quite the trooper, didn't even cry and was great the rest of the day. She is still my little peanut only 30% in height and weight. As her doctor said, I finally got one that has my genes.

Larsen Family Talent Show

On Thanksgiving, the Larsens held a family talent show. This is something pretty cool. The Larsens are beautiful singers and so it was fun to get to enjoy them all share their talents. I didn't get the whole evening on tape, but a small sampling which you can find below. Elise wanted to do I Have a Dream from Mamma Mia. I got the sheet music and we started practicing, but she decided she would rather do it with the CD, so we have ABBA as back-up. I wanted to post that video, but the sound is such that it is hard to hear anything but ABBA. Reagan played a primary song, Follow the Prophet, and Tyler and his dad sang the Bing Crosby, David Bowie Christmas song, Peace on Earth which is one of my favorite songs. So here you go. (Please forgive the accompaniment, old piano and I get very nervous in front of people) Enjoy!

Turkey Run

Thanksgiving was great his year. Had fun with both families, we are very spoiled, I know. Thanks Larsens for a great meal and good company. Thanks Morgans for other good meals and more great company. We did so many fun things, played games, had a Larsen family talent show, went to Hop 2-it, saw Twilight, hit Target at 6:30 am on Black Friday, talked a lot, ate good food, and ran a 5K.
It was a lot of fun and I am so glad everyone was willing to come and run, we couldn't have asked for a better day.

Here we are ready to run. I think there were a couple more, not pictured.

aThose crazy Morgan Girls. I never realize how short I am until I see pictures, I am really short!