Grandma Larsen Visits

Grandma Larsen came next to take care of us. We loved getting to see her and I think she was happy to see us too.

She brought a surprise for Ella for every day! Ella loved them. She is still using her special pencils and heart sticky notes.

Thanks to Grandma for taking such good care of us!

Grandma Call Visits

Grandma Call came to help us get our bearings with two children.

Stephen got lots of snuggles.

Grandma and Ella went to get Pooh Bear a check up at story time.

Grandma kept us all fed and happy!

Baby Stephen!

Stephen Jay Larsen 
born at 8:56 AM 
7 lb 8 oz
20 inches 

We were the talk of labor and delivery with our one hour in the ward and delivered on a slow Sunday morning. 

The poor nurse had no idea that she would be grabbing the hospital's on call doctor and nurses out of the hall to catch a baby within 5 minutes of getting me settled in the delivery room after my first contraction there. (I was talking through the contraction) 

Stephen's birth certificate even had a little blood spot on it. According the nurse handling the paperwork that is how you know that things were fast and furious in the delivery room. 

Even after all that crazy, Stephen came into the world healthy and calm. 

Elissa's birthday

I had a low key birthday, but it was a good day. It is hard when you are super pregnant and have gestational diabetes to really celebrate, but the family made me feel loved.

Daniel is a very observant and noticed that I only had one cloth for straining yogurt, and that it was a pain. So he got me a very tight weave strainer to use instead.
As long as you know to ladle in your yogurt instead of dumping the batch in, it works great. It is super easy to clean and can hold a whole gallon batch of yogurt!

I'm glad that he loves me even though I can be a little super pragmatic sometimes.