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Hi! I'm Abby. My husband, Carl, and I are happily married since October 2007. Our little family of 2 (well, 3 if you count Chief, the dog) added one more in October 2011 when we welcomed Audrey Elizabeth, our first child into the world. Our life was forever changed. And to add to the joy and excitement, we added another daughter, Clara Marie, in May 2014. I wanted to create this blog originally to document all the milestones throughout my pregnancy with Audrey so we could remember that special time in our lives. And now I get to write all about Audrey and Clara and our life with these amazing "Larson Ladies", which is so much more fun!

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Showing posts with label Church. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Happy Easter!

April 8, 2012

Audrey and the Easter Bunny
(at daycare)
The Easter Bunny came to visit Audrey at our house and at both of her Grandparents' houses.  Here she is digging into her Easter basket that the Easter Bunny left at our house:



The Easter Bunny left her some candy.  Silly Easter Bunny,
Audrey doesn't eat candy yet!  


The Easter Bunny left a basket at Grandma & Grandpa Larson's house.  This bunny was in it.  It plays an Easter song while its ears flop up and down.  It's so funny and so cute, and Audrey just watches it in amazement.

The Easter basket at Grandma & Gramps Patton's house had some cute spring/summer clothes and a Mother Hen who lays eggs.  It's so funny!



Dressed to go to church!



We spent Easter with Carl's side of the family at Grandma & Grandpa Bockelmann's house.  It was really a fun day.  I only took a few pictures:



Wednesday, February 29, 2012

God Bless Audrey Elizabeth Larson

Our baby girl was baptized on Sunday, February 19, 2012 at the 10:30am church service at our church, Shepherd of the Hill Lutheran Church in Lockport.


It was a wonderful service where both Audrey and another little boy were both baptized.  Audrey was such a good little girl.  She didn't even cry when the holy water was poured on her head.  

After she was baptized, Pastor Dealy and his assisting minister, Meredith, "introduced" Audrey to the congregation as the newest member of the church.  She looked so beautiful in her gown!     

Carl and I asked our good friends Cynda and Andy Marr to be Audrey's Godparents.   Cynda and I have been best friends since High School and we've experienced a lot together.  They are really important people in our lives, and it was an honor that they want to be so involved in Audrey's life.  Audrey is so lucky to have Cynda and Andy as her Godparents.  They care about her so much and are such great role models for her.  Even though they live in Springfield (about 2 1/2 hours South of us), I'm excited for our families to grow up together.     
Audrey's Godparents: Cynda and Andy Marr

Pastor Dealey
Grandma and Gramps Patton

Great Grandpa Hahn

Grandma and Grandpa Larson 
Aunt Amber & Aunt Ashley

We wanted to celebrate the occasion with our family and friends and have them all over to our house for a luncheon celebration.  

We had a lot of people travel in from out of town to be with us:  
  • Audrey's Godparents, Cynda and Andy Marr and their son Colby (10 weeks old) came up from Springfield
  • Cousins Kadie and Bella also came up from Springfield
  • Cousins Keely, Matt, and Chloe traveled here from Indianapolis
  • Aunt Faye and Uncle Jim and Grandpa Hahn came up from Decatur on Saturday
  • And of course my parents (Grandma & Gramps Patton) and Ashley came up from Decatur/Forsyth on Saturday morning


It really was a beautiful celebration.  Grandma Patton is so creative and so talented and worked so hard planning for this party.  Isn't it just beautiful?  We cannot thank her enough for this amazing party!
We moved out the furniture so we could fit the tables and chairs
Beautiful fresh flowers decorated each table and the dessert table.
These containers are the same ones that we used for the pew decorations and
cocktail decorations at our wedding.  
The main feature was the dessert table.  Grandma Patton made the sign, all the
tissue pom poms, and the paper chain. Isn't it amazing?


Desserts: Cupcakes, White Chocolate Covered Pretzels, Jordan Almonds, Hershey Kisses,
Puppy Chow, Wint-o-Green Mints, M&M's,  Sugar Cookies in the shape of a Cross,
Iced Rice Krispie Treats, Pirouettes, Sugar Cookies shaped and decorated as Baptism Gowns,
White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Squares (not pictured), and Cream Puffs dusted with powdered sugar (not pictured).

As soon as the church service as over, Amber and Ashley started cooking.  Here, they are making the pasta for the salads and the soups.  
We served homemade Portillo's Chopped Salad, Pasta e Fagioli, and La Gondola (Decatur, IL) sub sandwiches 
Grandma Patton and Aunt Amber

Gramps Patton, Great Grandpa Hahn, Ryan, Kadie Patton, Keely McClure
Keely with Audrey
Gramps Patton and Great Grandpa Hahn
Great Grandma & Great Grandpa Bockelmann, Aunt Janet, and Grandma Larson
The Larson's: Carl, Uncle Tom, Aunt Jeanie, Aunt Cheryl, Ross,
Uncle Ross, Aunt Keri, Jennifer, Jill, and Grandpa Larson
Aunt Faye with Audrey, Matt and Chloe McClure
Last picture... I have to post it.  Check out Audrey's bloomers!  She wore them under her baptism gown.  Love them!
The bloomers were a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Grider