Who knew life could get so busy???
I hope you all had a good Easter, and enjoyed General Conference. I know our family did! We visited with family in a city about an hour north of where we live on Easter. The weather was great, and we had a fun Easter egg hunt in the back yard. It's worth noting that the ages of the egg hunters range from 12 to 21. And we had about 7 dozen eggs to hide. My wife and her sister love to make tons of eggs, and my kids love dying them. As a joke, my brother-in-law said we should hide the six egg containers in lieu of hiding each egg individually. His yard didn't provide a lot of good hiding places, so I sort of took him up on the idea, and hid two of my four dozen in their containers. It's funny that these two dozen were the last ones to be found. I guess I found a really good hiding place for them. (It helps to hide them where there may be spiders, since all the hunters are girls.) :-)
My missionary daughter in Chile is having a great time and is having lots of success. She is in her fourth area, and was recently made a trainer, so she has a new greenie (they call them "hijas", which is Spanish for "daughters") and her "hija" is from Argentina. Jessica writes that her compie talks as much as Jessie does, which is A LOT! So I guess they're a perfect companionship. :-) Fall is falling in Chile, and since she's in the furthest south mission of Chile (and furthest south in the world, as a matter of fact), it's started getting cold already. Her city rarely sees snow, because it's very close to the ocean (as is almost every city in Chile!), but it gets cold and rainy. And those of you who have spent a winter in humidity, you know that the cold goes right through you! Anyway, she's become a master fire starter, since their homes are heated by wood-burning stoves. You can read her blog that I set up for her at http://blogs.larsenclan.me/jessica. She's even got lots of pictures there for you to see. If you like writing to missionaries, her address is:
Hermana Jessica Larsen
Chile Osorno Mission
Casilla 7-0
Osorno, Chile
My second daughter, Megan, is a freshman at the University of Colorado in Boulder, studying international business management, and was on the Dean's List for the first semester. It looks like she'll make it for the second semester as well. She's such a braniac! :-)
My third daughter, Katie, is a freshman in high school. My youngest daughter, Emily, is in 7th grade. She just got braces a few weeks ago, and is finally used to them and doesn't talk about them all the time any more. :-) She's also about to finish up her season in volley ball for her school team.
Lastly, my son, Trevor, is soon to be a daddy! His wife, Katie, (that gets confusing some times!) is due on July 11, and is having a baby girl. They are going to name her Lia. I'll be sure to share pictures of her when she gets here.
The Larsens have officially entered "birthday season." Starting with Jessica in mid April, we have birthdays every two weeks until early June. Jessica is mid April, as you've heard in the most recent podcast, my wife's birthday is early May, Emily is mid may, and Katie is early June. I included a special song in the most recent podcast that my wife sort of wrote. She created some lyrics that she put to a familiar tune. Jason Jones then mixed it and created an awesome version of "Do Your Pants Hang Low" - in case you missed it, here are the lyrics:
Do your pants hang low, does your butt-crack show?
Can you feel it when the cold winds blow?
Do you waddle 'cross the street like a duck with webbed feet?
Do your pants hang low?
Even though I've heard the song dozens of times, I still laugh almost to the point of crying every time I listen to it. If you haven't heard it, download Show 137 right now! and give it a listen. Let me know what you think. |
