Easter '09

Easter 2009

The girls and I decorated Easter Eggs.

We hunted for eggs at the 3rd Annual Circle Easter Egg Hunt. Thanks again, Joni!

Wes and Ben Trompke

Easter Morning

The table is ready for dinner. We had my family over for dinner and then Joe's family came later to have dessert with us.

My sister, Anna, with one of her twins.

Grandpa Jeff with Baby Jeff

Uncle Joe and Sam

Emma and Jeffrey

Grandma Doris

Grandma Carolyn brought a pinata for the kids to play with.

Finally!! Candy!!

Luke

Luke has had a long couple of months with sickness. After many months of coughing, with no other "cold" symptoms, we were referred to an infectious disease doctor at Children's Hospital in Omaha for a possible immune deficiency. We met with a doctor in March who was able to rule out allergies, cystic fibrosis, acid reflux, and an immune deficiency. Although we were glad to find out it wasn't any of those things, we never had an answer to what is going on. And we still don't. For the rest of March and April he was still on antibiotics off and on, but it has slowly tapered off. We hope that with the weather change things will get better. The doctor also suggested that he will grow out of this.

This is how he spent most of January - March.

But he did find time to stick blue M&Ms up his nose....

and paint his own fingernails.

The Month of March

Back! By Popular Demand!

And by popular I mean the 2 of you that have asked what happened to the blog.

Well, here we are!

These are pictures from the month of March.

The girls did self-portraits.

Luke checked out auction bills and tractor magazines.

Has anyone seen Imagination Movers on Disney? My kids LOVE that show! They seriously don't move a muscle for 20 minutes while it's on.

Addie sniffed glue sticks.

Addie performed in the Mother/Grandmother Spring Tea at Trinity Pre-School.

She is the short one, 3rd from the left.

Addie and Mommy

Addie and Grandma Gigi.

Addie and Grandma Carolyn

Our nephew and cousin, Graham Clinton Trompke, was baptized at the end of March.

How cute is he?

Luke's birthday, farming, and dancing

Luke's Birthday Party

John Deere Tractor Ice Cream Cake
Aunt Erin, Aunt Anna, and Cousin Jeffrey

Grandpa Jeff playing with the kids.

Just hauling some Cascade to the elevator....

this was quickly replaced with some rocks!

Dancing to his Valentine Day Card.

Happy Birthday Luke!

Two years ago, this little guy was born

Monday, February 12, 2007

Luke Stephen Larson

4 days old

1 month
6 months

1 year

18 months
2 years old
I love you Lukie!

Valentines, Tummies, and Tortillas

The girls and I have never made "homemade" Valentines so I thought it would be fun to do that this year. (I must have forgotten to take my meds the day I decided this!) Last week they picked what they wanted to make, Saturday we made a trip to Kearney for supplies, and Sunday we created. Emma made ipods and Addie made heart-shaped crayons. For the record, these were not my creations. We found them in the magazine Family Fun. I love this magazine. There are fun crafts, recipes, parenting articles. Look into it!

For ipods, you start with a box of candy hearts. We also went to the Family Fun website for the templates of the front of the ipod that Emma already cut out.

We taped 2 Reece's Peanut Butter Cups to pieces of yarn for the earphones and then taped the yarn to the box.

Then we covered the boxes in red paper and glued on the templates. You'll have to look at the picture close-up to see the song titles.
All done and ready for the party!

For Addie's project we started by peeling the paper off crayons.

Even Luke got into this! His favorite part was making a big mess!

We filled the heart shaped muffin tin with the crayons and put them in the oven for 15 minutes at 250 degrees.

Just out of the oven.

I thought these turned out pretty neat!
We haven't completely finished them. Here is a copy of the magazine page and how the finished product will look.

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On to the "Tummies" portion of the title.....

We got some TCBY for our ride home from Kearney on Saturday and Addie informed me that whenever she eats "her tummy has a party"!

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And later that day she told me that my stinky feet smell like tortillas.

Nice.

Hey Kid - No Peeing in the Pool!