Pizza!

Andy and I attempted to make homemade pizza and it was delicious! It was super easy too which was a bonus :)

Recipe:

Soften: 1 package of yeast and 1/2 c of lukewarm water

Add: 2 c warm water

1 1/2 t salt

4 T shortening

2 t sugar

3 or 4 cups flour (until it is not sticky)

Mix for 5-10 minutes and let rise approx. 45 minutes

Andy and I bought a pizza pan, sauce, and pepperonis from Wal-Mart for under 5 bucks! After adding your favorite ingredients, bake for 25 minutes at 350!

He's Done!!!! (For Now.....)

Andy graduated from the University of Utah on May 8th with a Bachelors in Business Management! It was such a great (long) day!!! I am so proud of you Andy! Now on to graduate school we go :)

Easter 2009

Andy & Nixon

Easter was great this year! Andy made me breakfast and it was delicious! He made me eggs golden rod, an annual Easter breakfast, and it was so yummy! We were able to have dinner and visit both families! It was crazy, but a very fun day! Nixon was being a stinker and we couldn't get a very good family picture :)

Shape Shifter

I have had many interesting experiences recently with my 2nd graders. It is a common habit of students of any age to want to be fast at reading, therefore skipping most, or all, of the words. This especially happens in my more advanced reading groups and I have to constantly make them reread a section. Well, I approached a certain student with this issue and he replied, "I am not human, I am a shape shifter so I can read fast." (It is sometimes hard to be an authoritative figure when things like this happen and you want to laugh your head off...) so I told him he was a human child and he needed to reread the section at which he replied, "I am a shape shifter and I was only sent to this world to learn about human life." So be careful, there are shape shifters among us :)

Elder Andrew John Larsen

Eating at Golden Corral before the MTC

The MTC!

My little brother entered the MTC and is on his way to Salta, Argentina in May! It was such a neat experience to be at the MTC with him. He will be such a great missionary and we are excited for him! Congratulations Andrew!

Meet Nixon

On February 28th we fell in love with the cutest black lab and had to bring him home! Nixon was born on December 23rd which means today he is 11 weeks old. He has been so much fun, and we are so lucky that we picked a smart and handsome puppy! Andy works at home so Nixon always keeps his daddy company on those long days. Andy is such a wonderful husband, he wakes up at at least 6 every morning to wake Nixon up and take him for a walk to go potty. Every day when I get home Andy has taught Nixon something new, he already knows how to sit, fetch, and we almost have him potty trained... but not quite :). I have such a wonderful husband and he sure loves his little guy.

Andy and Nixon taking a nap

Annie and Nixon

Uncle Toby and Nixon at our cabin in Park City

Toby and Nixon on a walk

It's official!

I will be teaching 2nd grade at Eagle Valley Elementary in the Fall!!! I am so excited and I cannot wait to start creating my classroom and lessons for my students! Alpine School District is amazing and I am so happy that I finally will be a teacher!

Just a few things we have learned....

We are absolutely loving life in our new home. It has been such a blast being out here, and everything is just perfect. I just wanted to post about the things that we have learned since we have moved out here in our new house...
1. Garbage day is on Thursday. This took us a few weeks to get used to, but when the garbage starts to pile up you learn pretty quick.
2. If you let the snow get too deep in your driveway because you haven't bought a snow shovel your neighbors will come do it for you.
3. When you finally buy a snow shovel and go out to shovel your driveway for the first time, your neighbors will feel bad for you and come over with their snow blowers to get the job done in half the time.
4. Neighbor Christmas gifts rock.
5. Circles do not get snow plowed so from time to time you may bottom out trying to get to your driveway.
6. Since circles do not get snow plowed, people give rides on sleds behind their 4 wheelers during the day.
7. You have to buy a mailbox.
8. Living in a home without blinds can be interesting... good thing they came a couple days after we moved in.
9. If the bank forgets to take the real estate key box off the door, there is a switch inside that you can push to take it off yourself.
10. Reception is not great out here and since we have not yet set up service we do not watch tv. Needless to say, your own movies get old fast.
11. Because movies get old fast, you can watch tv shows on the internet if you don't mind pushing start again after the commercials end.

This has been such an amazing experience. We are still getting used to being homeowners! We love our neighborhood, our ward, and everything we are currently doing out here.

Home Owners!!!

We closed today! I am so happy, it seems surreal because we have been wanting this for so long, but if finally happened! I will update more later about our move and how we are enjoying life living alone again! :) (Im pretty sure it will be great!)

Utes, NOG bonfire, Thanksgiving, Twilight, and our house!

I of course have to post about the U of U and BYU game even though it is long gone :) My camera of course was out of batteries that night so I have no pictures but I sure had a huge smile on my face the entire game! I was so excited! It was a great game and I was so glad that they won.Last Wednesday night my friend Whitney Beck came home from the Air Force Academy to have Thanksgiving with her family so she had a party at her house for the NOG. Let me just explain first, the NOG stands for the North Ogden Gang, otherwise known as some of the best friends I have ever had! It was so much fun to go buy some Jones sodas and kick back like we used to before everyone was married and having babies! Thanks Whit, we had a blast!

Thanksgiving was a blast, we had a rocket launch in the morning with Andy's family and then a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner that night at Stan and Jenny's house. After dinner we played a fun present game and we all had a ton of fun! I have a lot to be thankful for right now!

I know that everyone is sick of Twilight by now, but I had a late start because Andy's family wanted to go so we waited til they went (and they paid which makes it beneficial to wait...)! It was awesome! It was way better than I thought it would be and I loved it. It obviously changed a bit and left out some of the parts in the book, but there is no way they could have fit it all in, and quite frankly I think they did an amazing job! I loved it, and that is all the more I will say.

Now for our final update on our house, we should close tomorrow!!! We are so excited to move in this next weekend! We bought a refrigerator to match our other appliances and today we went to measure it to make sure it would fit. We feel like this house is perfect for us in every way and we are so thankful that it worked out! Today we went to our new ward to check it out since we will be officially moved in on Friday or Saturday and we loved it. They are building a brand new stake center near our house too so a lot of new things are happening and we couldn't be more excited! We will keep you updated but if you don't hear from us this week it is because we are undergoing the monotonous task of moving... again... but hopefully this will be the last time for a few years!