White Sands Saturday

We had a big party in the huge sand box at White Sands.


Boys getting ready to play golf.


Jorge looking for his target.


Footsteps in the sand. Marja's on the left, Alex's on the right.

Rod, Sam and Jorge putting around.

Alex is buried in the sand.

Freaky thing at White Sands. Turn on the volume and click on the "play" button twice.

Tomorrow...home.

Black Friday

While the boys went golfing, us women went shopping. The day went like this:

Breakfast burritos at Bosa's.
Shopping at Old Mesilla.


Lunch at Dick's Cafe. Here Elle and Whitney.


Visit at Sam and Heidi's. Here is Hyrum, aka Spiderman.


Heidi and Gideon...he just woke up.

Jarom, the youngest one.

Dinner at Texas Roadhouse.

Whitney and Craig ready for ribs.

Alex and Elle.

Mom and Dad Larsen.

Rod and I...No more food for the rest of the weekend.

Turkey Day

Our turkey day started with the churning of the home made ice-cream.



The kids table: Amberly, Jorge, Elle and Alex


For dessert: Mom's kiss..the pies were good too.


Grandpa and Alex after dinner.

Mother and son.

Southwestern sunrise

We drove all night on Tuesday to New Mexico for Thanksgiving. We saw a beautiful sunrise when we got to mom and dad's house.




Jorge said that he can't sleep in the car and wouldn't take a pillow with him. A few hours into the 12 hour drive he was totally asleep. He kept saying that the roads are so much straighter and better than in Mexico, and didn't get sick in the car at all. Right here he is sleeping like a baby.


Still asleep when we drove to mom and dad's.


First thing we do in New Mexico is get breakfast burritos from Burger Time. They are the BEST!

Game # 2-Win # 2

Alex's basketball game on Monday ended to Mountain View's win against American Fork 36-35. Yay for Mountain View!

Finally I can sleep at night

Porche with 4 doors? Yes, finally a reality. I can dream now that I can put my family comfortably into this beauty. Available next summer. Gotta start saving.

Friday Night Proposal

We went to dinner at Sundance last night with Katie and Steve. We had such a fun time discussing politics (touchy subject), health care, and sports. While Katie, Steve and Rod were discussing these favorite subjects of mine, I was paying attention what was going on in the next table.


Katie showing how much she loves us.


Steve is happy to be eating trout.


Rod is contemplating who is going to win tomorrow...BYU or Utah.

Then it was time for dessert.

I could have gotten this beauty but it was all chocolate and I'm not a fan of chocolate desserts.

Apple pie looked good, too, but I was not in the mood.

YES!!! Bread pudding with banana and chocolate chip. That was my choice. You know, if there's bread pudding on the menu, I'm having it.


So, while we were having dinner and dessert, this young couple was having their own little proposal party. I couldn't help but hear what they, or he, was saying and after she received the ring, the guy (from Peru) said to his now fiancee:"You are so beautiful and I love you, but now you are more beautiful with that ring on." And she ate it up (am I being sarcastic?) It turned out that the couple MET 2 weeks ago, and now were getting engaged. I started wondering if the dude needed a green card that bad. Well, I wish them luck, but it seemed like they were strangers to each other.

On Saturday I was telling Alex: "Can you believe the couple got engaged after 2 weeks!" Alex coolly responded by saying:"Well, you got engaged after 5 days!" I guess I shouldn't judge, huh.

Maya came to visit

Last night our friend Heather brought her daughter Maya over for a brief visit. We had so much fun with her even though she was scared of Rod, Miia and the stuffed animals. She loved the balls in the basket, and the silly "hats" (soccer sideline cones). We hope to see her soon.

Game # 1 Win!

Alex's basketball team won Willowcreek team last night 30-28.

Next game is on Monday, Nov. 24 at 7pm.

Good to be inside the box

Last night we got to go to the Jazz vs. Phoenix Suns game. We were able to sit in the box and enjoy the fun atmosphere and a good view...the food was good, too.

It was fun for Alex because he was able to see Shaq and Steve Nash for the first time in person.

Phoenix Suns suffered an eclipse and went home with a loss of 109-97.

Introduction of Jazz players.

Shaq (walking towards the camera) made 9 points and retirement should be in his near future.

Oysters and Chocolate Cake

I know, I know, you are now saying "but she doesn't like chocolate cake!!!" True, very true actually. But there is only one chocolate cake I can stomach and it happens to be at Magelby's in Provo.

So. On Friday night we finally went to celebarate our 22nd wedding anniversary. We started the evening with the latest Bond movie. It was ok. Not great. I have to go see it again and then when it comes out on a DVD, I have to turn on the subtitles. British English is the worst!

Then. After the movie and extremely salty pop corn (the new Cinemark by the mall), we headed down to Magelby's for late evening snack. We happen to love Oysters Rockefellar at Magelby's. If you haven't tried them, please give them a try (picture below).

Conspiracy:
I swear I have a tattoo on my forehead that says:"please seat me extremely close to an air-conditioning unit" because, once again, I was shivering like crazy while the a/c was blowing straight at me. This was the first time I saw the restaurant provide a portable heater to a table nearby that happened to have 8 old folks, mostly women sitting in it. I was jealous. I wanted the heater. Didn't get it. The oysters kept me warm. Maybe in 30 years I'm eligible for a heater.

To crown the evening, we ordered a slice of chocolate cake. Another amazing food at the restaurant. The cake height is about 10-12 inches and it has 3 huge layers with lots and lots of homemade frosting on it. I scooped the frosting off, of course. I don't like frosting. But the raspberry sauce and the ice-cream provided an incredible explosion of chocolaty taste.

It was a nice evening with just my hubby and without his cell phone.


Huge plate of Oysters (half eaten before the picture was taken.


Yum-o!

Convention pictures

Just received these pictures from the photographer who was at the Zija Convention a couple of weeks ago.

We clean up pretty nicely.

Friday night award ceremony.

Saturday night Disco..

Alex and Whitney disco dancing all night long.

Alex, the disco king.

Rod and Whitney.

Alex and Whitney (hiding behind Alex's hair).

"Get down on it"...