AWESOME CONTEST!!!

My best friend Kim has officially launched her own photography business!! Im so so proud of you Kimmi! you are going to do amazing!

She has a contest going on right now! check it out!

www.kimharms.com

Madison and gymnastics

Madison was born to be a gymnast. There is no doubt about that. She is doing amazing and after only 4 months in the pre-k advance class she was invited to be part of a higher level team called Hot Shots. She has been waiting for that opportunity and she was dreaming of the possibility of moving up and she finally did. She has been doing amazing and she has wasted no time at all and has done so much more now that she has moved up. She can now do.. pullovers, back hip circles, squat ons on bars, press handstands, handstands, tic tocs (handstand to bridge to bridge kickovers), bridge kickovers, back walkovers, front limbers, cartwheels on beam, cartwheels, round-offs, she is working on RO to Back handsprings and working on front walkovers, working on kips as well. I cannot believe how awesome she is doing and she loves it more than anything. She still has a couple of years before she can compete but we look forward when she can finally do so. Her coaches are amazing and she loves them so much. Kathy has been her coach for almost 2 years and Madison just loves her so much. Kathy and Madison are without a doubt the dinamic duo. She loves her Kathy more than anything and she also says she is gonna marry her handsome son Trey :) Keep up the good work Maddy! You are doing amazing!

Madison is a cheerleader too!

Madison started All Star Cheerleading a couple of months ago. She wanted to compete more than anything and since she cannot compete with gymnastics yet till she is around 7 years old then we decided to let her join the Colorado Elite All Star Cheerleading team. She is loving it and she will be competing for the first time on March 27th and 28th at the Denver Coliseum. She is very excited and all the gymnastics tumbling that she knows have helped her so much with cheerleading as well. Isnt she the cutest little cheerleader?

McKenna is almost 5 months old!

She is almost 5 months old! And she keeps growing and growing. She looks so much like Madison when she was that age but she looks a lot like Melanie too. What do you think?

Melanie is 2 years old!

Can you believe it??! She is 2 years old! Where did time go? She is a ball of energy. So sweet, so funny and she eats like a little vacuum! Crayons, play doh, cookies, haha. She can now count to 10, sing her favorite songs which are Twinkle Twinkle little star, ABC's, Its raining its pouring song, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Yo Gabba Gabba songs, and so many more! She talks like a big girl and she loves to cuddle. She loves gymnastics too but she wants to be a cheerleader also! She loves her sisters and she loves to play!!! She is my sweet little pumpkin and she is a big mommy's girl!

McKenna Taylor

What can I say. I am a proud mommy of 3 girls.. thats right. 3 little girls. McKenna Taylor was born on October 16th, 2009. She was 6 lbs 12 oz and 19 inches long. For what the Drs believe she was not 37 weeks as we all thought. It seems that she was in fact 39 weeks and somehow her due date was not calculated right. After a hard pregnancy (not as hard as Melanie's but weekly shots, huge amount of pills and a lot of contractions you cant really call it a walk in the park) she came all naturale (yeah that sucked!) at 4:08 pm. Only 6 minutes after her sister's time of birth (Melanie was born at 4:02 pm.. weird huh?). She is an amazing little baby. She looks so much like Madison although we can still see a lot of Melanie too. She is now 4 and a half months old. She is just the sweetest little girl! I still cannot believe we have 3 daughters!

I know I know.. what a slacker

So I used to keep up with the blog like crazy and while I was pregnant with McKenna I just began to super slack so yeah.. my bad. I apologize. I know this is the best way to keep everybody updated since not everybody has facebook and stuff so here we go.. I will be posting updates on us, the girlies, gymnastics of course and general life stuff. :)

34 weeks already!

I have been slacking quite a bit on the blog. So much going on!  But here we are.. 34 weeks and still pregnant. I am in a lot of pain and with constant medications and shots but I am hanging in there. McKenna is doing great and we are so ready to meet her!  I had an appt today and I am a little over 1 cm dilated and Dr Hammond said that on October 6th we will stop my medications and let her be born. At the latest she will be here by October 9th. So not too much longer!!  Once I hit the 36 week mark she will send me straight to the hospital and we will have this baby. I still cannot believe we are about to have baby.. it feels like we just had Melanie!!.. I cannot wait and mommy, daddy and big sisters are so excited to meet her!!

Look what she did!

Madison is on summer break from gymnastics (thankfully it was only a week since she had camp last week). She has been practicing at home every single day and the other day while we were playing in the playroom and watching her do cartwheels she said... Look mommy what I can do!!.. she got on her mat and did a bridge and out of the nowhere she got a bridge kickover! I screamed so loud that our neighbors probably thought we won the lottery.. well this was way better than the lottery haha. She did it with no problem and I kept telling her oh my goodness Maddy when did you learn how to do that?!  she kept saying.. right now mommy! haha  She was so proud and she kept saying.. look mom now Im just like my big girls!  (her best buds level 10 team). She has been doing bridge kickovers but she gets them done with the wedge mat but now she can do them flat on the floor!! Im so proud of her!

What can I say?

I have the most talented bestest friend EVER!!!  Kimmi took new pics of the girls and well.. we all know what she does with that camera.. amazing things!!! But my gosh.. this picture made me cry. I am so thankful to have a friend like Kimbo. I am one lucky girl. She took pics of the girls at Palmer Park super nice place and the girls did great!  Although I got attacked by fire ants haha. It was so much fun to see her in action and to see my girls in front of her camera. She is just amazing isnt she??  My babies look so beautiful and Kim has a way of making photography look like a piece of cake!  How does she do that?? I will never know!  I am so thankful that she is there for us to be part of our lives and to capture our best moments in life!... She is also going to be flying to Cali with us to take pictures of my sis and Josh getting married!!  I am sooo looking forward to a weekend of family and to a weekend of having Kimmi there. I want to show her off with the family hehe I talk about her so much and they finally get to meet my Kimbo!... its gonna be so much fun hanging out with her in Cali for the weekend. Here is the sneak peek of the pics she took of the girls.. more to come soon! (gotta give my poor Kim time.. the poor thing has a million sessions in one day.. she is definitely SuperWoman!)

Just like their siblings!

Can you believe this pictures??  The first pic is Ben, Ava and Melanie.. do you know who's on the other pic?? Their older siblings!!  Levi, Allie and Madison!  I love them. I am so grateful to have such amazing friends and that my girls have such amazing little buddies. 

Its official

After a lot of work and thinking we finally came up with a name for our little princess. We dont name our kids after anybody except Matthew and we wanted a name that had an M first of all and that would sound great with the girls names. So her name will be..

McKenna Taylor Larson

20 weeks and 5 days Ultrasound

Thats right!  More pics!  We had an ultrasound yesterday. I will be 21 weeks tomorrow (wednesday). Time sure its flying by!  I am starting to have problems again with contractions and preterm labor so I have been put on a very large dose of medications on top of the weekly shots. Everything looks good so far and the baby looks great! Here are some more pics of her little face!  She is so cute! I cannot wait to meet our little princess.

18 weeks and 5 days Ultrasound pictures

We had our 18 weeks Ultrasound on June 8th. On that day we found out our baby is a girl!.. another little princess. Well, that day the printer was broken so we couldnt get any pictures. The tech saved the pictures in the hard drive so we could have them later and well I had an appointment yesterday and she gave us a ton of pics. Here are the pics of our ultrasound. 18 weeks and 5 days!  Isnt she adorable? and she definitely looks like her brother and sisters. Same mouth and nose! 

Almost 17 months!

Can you believe it?? Look at how big she is now!  In about a week my baby will be 17 months old. In the last month she has changed so much. She is talking a bit, climbing on EVERYTHING and just enjoying her new little world. She definitely knows how to push her sister's buttons but she always gives her a hug if she makes her mad haha. Here's a pic of her new pose. When you tell her Melanie say cheese!! this is what she does. 

Friends till the end

What can I say.. the Larson girls and the Harms girls are like 2 sets of twins. They are the cutest and the love each other so much!  Definitely we are very lucky to have friends like the Harms family. Arent they the cutest little princesses ever?!

It's a girl!

That's right!  We are having a girl!  What can I say. I was so sure it was a boy. I guess boys are not in the Larson's plan. Matt was sad.. not because its a girl but because now its for sure that he will never have the little boy that he wanted. We are just so happy and so grateful that she is healthy and we look forward to raising our 3 precious little girls. I always wanted sisters and now I get to experience having little girls running around the house, playing dress up and fighting over the bathroom and clothes when they get older. Now I can definitely expect daddy to go bald and our bank accounts to be at 0. Planning 3 weddings and paying gymnastics tuitions for 3 will be interesting haha. We cant wait!.. Madison, Melanie and Mckenna!!!  I am so excited to have 3 girls. I never thought I would be a mommy of 3 girls and I am so blessed!  We will always miss and wonder what life would have been with Matthew but that wasnt in God's plans.. he is giving us the best gift of all.. 3 cute little girls that are healthy and happy!  The U/S printer was broken so the tech saved the pics in the hard drive so she can print them out for us next week so as soon as I get those pics I promise I will post them so you can see our little Mckenna or like Greatgrandpa calls her.. the little macaroni hehe

Madison's 1st bar routine

Miss Kathy had the girls do a little bars routine and of course Madison loved it. It seems that the higher she is the more fun it is for her as you can see her face once she jumps to the high bar lol. She loved doing that little routine. She said its just like the big girls. It has been almost a year since she started and its so exciting to see her try new things!!! Here's Maddy's first routine video. Of course I asked her to do a salute and she just went off and started scratching her nose haha.

Do I look like my daddy?

I came across a bunch of pictures of Matt when he was little and we couldnt believe how much Melanie looks like him. The only difference is the blonde hair!.. see for yourself. There is no doubt Melanie looks like Matt!

Maddy and her girls

Maddy is taking class on tuesdays and wednesday now and today when we walked in the gym Madison got a big surprise. Her girls were practicing too!  She was beyond excited to see the whole team!  She got lots of hugs from them and she was just the happiest little gymnast. She had class and she got to watch them practice one thing that she loves and after her class was over she got to hang out with them for a bit. She got pictures with them and she gave them lots of hugs. As we walked to the car she told me that she loves them very much and that she wants to be like them one day. She said she is very proud of them and they are HER girls. Maddy is so sweet!! and they sure love her!  Next week she is gonna get to wear the same leo that the girls have!.. so wait for some pics very soon.. they will be so cute!  She is without a doubt the little team mascot hehe. She wants to be there with them all day. And I am one happy mom to see my little one so happy and I am so proud that she has the coolest girls to look up to, they are amazing gymnasts and amazing friends and role models to Maddy. They sure are a great example for Maddy and she loves them very much! And also, today is Emily's birthday too!  Happy birthday Emily! Here are some pics with Maddy and her girls  (Maggie, Kirsten, Victoria, Lindsey, Holly and Emily)