In the beginning of March, Chad and Kim moved into a new house. It is awesome! They now live .4 miles away. We can walk to thier house. We spent a day helping them move in. It was quite fun actually. But, I still can't figure out why any family of 4 needs 6 couches. I love having them so close to us. 
It was especially helpful when, a couple days after they moved in, Brock decided to see if he could do 30 back flips in a row on the tramp. He over rotated the 29th just a little and landed on the bar. So, I immediately called Kim and said "can you come and get Parker, Brock and I need to go to the hospital." Kim was here within 2 minutes. Very convenient. Brock got 6 staples in the back of his head and handled it like a champ. He had them for 10 days and is as good as new. 
Parker is so big. He lost his first tooth. Wow, what a different experience from his big brother. Parker was letting me wiggle it and it was so loose that I just pulled it out. Just like that, no tears, no blood, just pure joy for Parker. He told us that he was so excited that he felt like he was dreaming. What a wierdo! Then the next day came the drama, Brock had a tooth hanging by a thread that needed to come out. We had to go to grandma's house (tears the whole way there) use the "numbing stuff", and let grandma baby him to death and take 20 minutes to pull it out. Needless to say the tooth fairy is going broke around our house.
The last week of March was great. CJ and Jennilyn went to the Temple. Cory and I had the honor of going with them to buy their new "jammies". What a bonding experience. They were the first people to receive their endowments in the Draper Temple. Then, just four days later, they were sealed. Cory was CJ's escort. They were asked 3 times in the temple if they were twins. How awesome for Cory. That makes him like 7 years younger. It was fun to be there with them. We are so proud of the things they have accomplished already in their marriage and we are so thankful to have them as our little brother and sister.
On the 29th, we had a bridal shower for my cute little cousin Amber in Price. Okay, she's 25, but I can't help but think of her as the little 6 year old who use to follow me around. I love her. She is an amazing girl. We are so excited for her. She is going t
o be a beautiful bride and we can't wait to welcome Kirk into the "cousin club". 
Yikes! Parker turned six. Where has the time gone. Parker is a little boy after my own heart. He started asking "how many more days?" at 48. Yep, like mother like son. I LOVE it. He is so great. He loves his birthday, everything about it. He had really fun day. He woke up about 6:00 am because he was "too excited to sleep". He had french toast for breakfast. Then, at school he got kinderbear. This is a huge deal, because Parker loves kinderbear. His 
cute teacher knows how much he loves him and I think she may have had something to do with "randomly" drawing his name. It made his day all that much better though. Grandma Jen picked him up after school and took him to Build-a-bear. He got a dog named Coal. Grandma took him to lunch and brought him home. Parker got to go to Karate on his birthday. His teacher had all the kids sing to him and then played a game where the teacher got to hit him 6 times with the blocking thing and Parker stood there the whole 
time without flinching, so, he got 100 tickets. Lucky boy. As soon as we got home from karate, the party began. Parker had 16 friends and cousins come to his party. They played outside for a while, then we played games and opened presents and had cake. (as per Parker's request, half chocolate, half vanilla cake). Parker is lucky to have such fun friends. Then we went to Wingers for dinner. Grandmas and Grandpas and Aunts and Uncles and Cousins were 
all there. We are so glad to have everybody so close to spend special days with. We came back to our house and Parker opened more presents and once again was spoiled rotten.
We waited and waited to be invited somewhere for New Years and when the 30th came around and we still didn't have any plans, we decided that we had better throw something together. So we had little New Years party at our house. It was quite fun actually. There was a ton of food. Some good friends, fireworks and some boxing. I know, WEIRD! New years is just not quite the same with kids.
In February, Parker tested for is yellow belt in karate and he did awesome. He was so excited and proud of himself. We are proud of him too. 
Well.... I think that pretty much sums it up. But, Watch out!! Spring is almost here and we will be coming out of hibernation. We will be having birthdays and baseball games and Jeep trips and Boating trips and boating trips and boating trips (get my drift) and all sorts of stuff to blog about. So, Untill then......
On Monday Feb. 2, 2009. Cory's Grandpa, Orr "Ike" Larsen passed away. He was 87 and lived a good life. He was a great example to his kids and grand kids and everybody who knew him. Cory has always had great respect for him. I know Cory has a special place in heart for his grandpa and he will always
remember him. They shared a great love for BYU football. It's the first thing they would talk about whenever they saw each other, even in the off season. Grandpa Ike was a great man and we will surely miss him. We are so thankful for gospel and the knowledge that we have. We know we will be with him again some day and grandpa knew that too. Cory was able to spend a couple of hours with him the day that he passed and Grandpa left Cory with his blessing, he told him that he is very proud of him. I know this meant the world to him.
Every single one of Cory's cousins and siblings and their spouses and children were able to be at Grandpa's Funeral. What an amazing sight. Annette spoke and asked us to look around and always remember what grandpa left to us. An amazing family. After the funeral, at the burial, all the little boys wore BYU caps as a tribute to Grandpa, I am sure he would be so proud. 
Who says its no fun having your birthday two days before Christmas. Cory's birthday is always so much fun. I hope it is for him too. It seems like everybody is in the party mode and also the gift giving mode. This year for Cory's birthday, he wanted to fix dinner for our families. He made some really really yummy taco soup for us. We had eclairs instead of cake and played games.
Finally!! Brock has had this loose tooth for over a month now. Those must be some good roots! We almost had him talked into the "ol tie it to a doorknob and slam it" trick. But first he wanted to just practice tugging it with a string, so he was, but the string kept coming off so mom decided to tie it on a little (alot) tighter. Once I did, I was STUCK! Brock was crying, Parker was going nuts because he just wanted Brock to "just pull it out!!" and we were trying to think of a way to get the string off his tooth when all the sudden dad just decides to yank it out. There was just a little blood, a few tears, $3.50 from the tooth fairy and a whole new pack of Yugio cards to make up for it. I sure hope it is not this dramatic everytime Brock has a tooth to loose! It was way more simple last time when the dentist had to pull it out.
