Wickedly fun in Phoenix!

Dinner before..Jason, Jan, David, Lydsi (jan's niece doug's daughter) me, Mark, Kenzie and her friend Katie

It was like 116 degrees!!!

The page gang..Jan, Amy, Jason, and David after the show

Me and McKenzie

Had to stop on our way and visit Scott in Page and of course go to RD's for an oreo shake!

For McKenzie's grad present and my birthday present we went to Wicked in Phoenix. We met up with my best friend from childhood... Jan Gardner Bueller, her nephew Nick (Karen's oldest boy), David Grygla..another Page friend, and his brother Jason. Jan was so great and surprised me with a hotel room at the Butte's in Tempe. We all went to dinner and then to Wicked. Saturday we just lounged around by the pool. Mark, McKenzie and I had a great time. It was fun to be with friends and away from kids! How many people can say they are still friends with their childhood friend...Jan has known me longer than my husband or most people for that matter! I think our mom's were pregnant together, Dr. Washburn delivered us and the rest is history! :>

More Random pics...

Carson fishing at Navajo Lake...trying for the big one!

How fun it is to cook in this kitchen~

Comfy beds! The trailer sleeps six..that includes floor space :>

The babies got into these sunglasses I sell...they had a great time with them so Kenzie got it all on film...

Ah so sweet..not really ! They are 2 1/2 Wyatt on left Walker on right!

More pictures of Navajo Lake

Fishing at the lake..not tons of success, but tons of fun!

Right before our morning jog..Mark has a hard time keeping up with me! :> j/k look at the lake in the background...so pretty!

Our little campfire right outside our door...

Bryce teaching the twins how to fish..

After you checked out his nice legs...look at those quakies in the background..it was beautiful!

Surprising Mark with Trailer/Camping

This field was right outside our camper and the trail led to the lake.

This is what Mark saw when the blindfold was off..pretty huh?

Relaxing and eating in his very own camper trailer!

McKenzie where are you taking me???

We have had a great summer. Not a lot of schedules and just trying to enjoy McKenzie's last summer home before she goes off to Southern Utah University in August. She is very excited and we are so glad she is only an hour from home. We went on our first real camping trip in our 'new' trailer. Well, new to us, but it is very old. I got a great deal on it and we surprised Mark and gave it to him for Father's Day. He loved it. The kids and I got it all cleaned out and looking sweet. McKenzie went and took Mark from work blindfolded and all and we surprised him complete with pizza in the little kitchen. We took it out for it's maiden camping voyage for the July 4th holiday to Navajo Lake on Cedar Mountain. We did not want to come home! It was so peaceful, perfect weather and NO CELL PHONES! The kids loved it! My great grandfather Nathan Alvin Larson owned and even built some of the cabins all around Navajo Lake. He ran that for 20 years. While we were there I had this overwhelming feeling that my family needs to have a reunion there. Now if you know us Larson's we don't reunion or vacation very well, but I hope with these pictures it will convince especially my older brothers that we can all do this next summer. So get your camping gear ready...I am planning on a reunion :> I will add all other pictures in other posts.

Well it has been a very long while since I have even visited my own blog. I can't believe the nice comments that have been left. I feel terrible that I have not personally responded. I swear I am going to do better at this. My problem is this...I got this great idea...started our blog...then totally forgot my password...I know lame..but now I am back on and think I have this figured out. Another thing I am terrible about is FACEBOOK! Wow..people are on that so faithfully and I just don't do that very well either. It is an amazing way to find people and I swear I am going to try and do better at that as well. Anyways, I am determined to get some posts up and hopefully do better with this...now that is good news right?? :>

I am so thankful that I had a good Dad! Leo Samuel Larson. I miss him terribly. He passed away at age 58 just over 10 years ago. Not a day goes by that I don't think of him or appreciate the things he taught me. He was a great man who was loved by all. He lived by his word. We have a video of him bearing his testimony right after he was released as Bishop in Page, Az. I will cherish this forever! I am so glad that we have it to show my children. McKenzie and Bryce are the only ones that remember him. When he passed away he was serving as Stake President of the Page Arizona Stake, he was the State Farm Agent in Page, and he was loved and admired by so many people. But he was just "Dad" to his seven children, wonderful husband to my mom and fantastic grandpa to I believe only 4 grandchildren were born at the time. Now he has 25! I have just been thinking alot about him lately and I wanted to include him in our Good News Family Blog!

Today is a day Carson has been looking forward to for a few days. We finally got chickens. Mark, Bryce and Carson made the chicken coop over the weekend. They are very proud of it. We were able to get four nice healthy hens from a lady in LaVerkin. I think I might just love having these little chickens because they are babysitting my chickens! We even got our first egg tonight. Carson has carried the egg around all night. Mark said "Do you think it will hatch?" Carson said "I am just so proud of this egg..." Hopefully we will have more and the novelty will wear off. I don't want Carson carrying around all of them! We plan on getting more chickens from an old farmer in our ward by the end of the week. We hope to get a duck real soon as well. During our good news minute last night Carson said, "I like how mom says let's get some chickens and then we just get em! When mom has an idea she does it!" That was a great compliment from Carson even if it was about chickens! Welcome to our little farm life! :>

Well I have not been very good about posting all our good news or anyone else's for that matter. So sorry! We had a great Christmas and good New Year! Back at Thanksgiving time we were with my family and we took some fun pictures (I am a little behind) so I decided to get some of them posted now. We were also able to be up north after Christmas for Mark's dad's funeral...Heinz. He passed away on Christmas Eve due to complications of Parkinson's Disease. I have posted some pictures of Mark and his siblings, Randy and Dianna and his step mom, Pat. Enjoy.