A girl, her dad and his truck

Caroline absolutely loves her daddy and his truck. Its like that primary song "I'm so glad when daddy comes home", she is so happy and excited to see daddy and his truck when he pulls up to be with us for the weekend!! With the new job and only seeing Brett on the weekends we have really come to appreciate and love our family time and being together!! We are now officially halfway through week 15 of our 6 months training program, which means we are more than halfway through!! We only have about 2 and a half months to go, which is still alot but we are hoping in goes by fast because we miss Brett!!

Caroline loves it when daddy works on his truck and she can play in the drivers seat

Pink or Blue??

Caroline is checking out the sonogram pictures. Can you tell? Boy or girl?

Thanks mom, I'm done looking at the pictures
We are excited to announce that Caroline is going to have a little brother. We are not set on any names yet, boys are hard for us, but there are a few we like. Brett was so excited he wanted to go out first thing in the morning and buy the little guy a nascar and camo outfit so he could come out into this world in style. It was fun to buy some boy clothes. I am 20 weeks now and doing well. The little guy just barely started kicking last week and he is quite active.

4th of July and Wicked

The 4th of July has to be one of my all time favorite holidays, it brings together some of my favorite things, yummy food, the cabin and of course the lake!! It's always over too soon and I am always sad to leave. I love my family so much and love my parents for building a great cabin for us all to gather together and make such wonderful memories.

My sister Em and I with our sleeping baby beauties

the ultimate pyramid

Brett attempting to show some skills
Brett and Anna skiing, that will be Caroline in a few years!
Brett, Tanner and Caroline enjoying the jet ski

Caroline and her best friend Bekah

My sweet girl

My sisters Sarah and LeeAnn came into town from Arizona for us all to go see Wicked!! It was my first time and I absolutely loved it!! I would for sure see it again, maybe I can even get Brett to go next time :-) Here is all of us that went outside the theatre together. Sisters together!! Love you guys!!

We love our daddy

We just wanted to say Happy Father's Day to our wonderful and amazing dad. Who is our best buddy and always makes us laugh. Thanks for always putting a smile on our faces, having fun with us and taking care of us. You are going to be a great father of two. We love you, love Caroline, Linnae, Elliot and baby to be.

Memorial Day

We had such a great time at the cabin over Memorial day. We got to spend a whole 5 days with Brett!! Which was so needed for me and for Caroline!! The weather was wonderful and the water was the perfect temperature. And we were in great company with family and friends. Brett's sister Chrystie and her family came up from Oklahoma City to be with us. We couldn't have asked for much more.

Just enjoying some quality family time

Lovin' the water and jetski
Caroline with her cousin Emma, (couldn't get a great shot of them together)

Just relaxin'

mama and Caroline

New job, New addition, New adventures

Brett accepted a job with Exterran, a company that does natural gas production about a month ago. For the next six months, well about five now, he will be completing his training. For 8 weeks, he has classroom training in Davis, OK about 2 1/2 hours away, and then for 4 more months, he will be doing training in various locations. This means we only get to see him on the weekends, which is really hard for me, but I do feel lucky to be close to family to keep us busy while Brett is away. When the training is over, he will be a field service technician working on gas compressors ( basically a large engine). We will be moving to either east Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, or Mississippi when the training is complete. Brett has been looking at a job with this company for a while, so we are very excited about this new opportunity, we just hope the training time goes by fast. Because I hate being separated!!

And for our second bit of news, we will be adding a new addition to our family. Yes, I am pregnant with little Larsen number two. Caroline officially becomes a big sister on December 2. Which puts me at 14 weeks as of tomorrow. So far, this pregnancy has been a little bit the same and alot different than the last. I have had all the same sickness, the stomach yuckiness, and the usual headaches. The differences have been my cravings, with Caroline I never really had any, with this baby I have them all the time and get really upset when we don't have what I am craving in the house :-) And I get alot more tired this time, probably because I have a 16 month old to chase around. Also, it is definitely true what they say, you start showing alot sooner the second time around, totally depressing. We are looking forward to all the new adventures coming our way over the next little while. Brett will be finished with his training right before the baby comes and we will be moving right before the baby comes too, luckily we are pros at doing the moving right before the baby comes thing. We did it with Caroline, and the best part is no box lifting, just leave the delegating to me.

A love for the outdoors

Our little miss Caroline loves to be outside, anything and everything as long as it is outside. She loves to play in the grass and get dirty, the sandbox, riding her bike, and especially animals. For family home evening a few weeks ago, Anna brought her horse out and Caroline went for a quick ride, she was in heaven.

very into riding her bike

Anna's horse