Happy Birthday Isabelle

We had the funeral today for Aly's Grandpa but also had to celebrate Isabelle's seventh birthday today too.  After spending most of the day at the funeral, tonight we decided to go to the Cheese Cake Factory to celebrate.  Grandma and Grandpa Ferran and DeAnn and Hanna went with us and after we went over to Build a Bear since we had some coupons to use.  Isabelle's main present was a guitar, but not just any guitar, a pink guitar.  She also got some footy pajamas that she has been wanting as well.  Happy Birthday Isabelle, I can't believe that you are already seven years old.  Where has the time gone?

Grandpa Larson

Wow, what a week.  I was in Las Vegas for a trade show last weekend when I got the call from Aly that her Grandpa had passed away.  Luckily for him it was peaceful, but bad for us that he won't be around any longer.  Aly was supposed to fly into Vegas to spend a few days with me but once this happened we changed plans and I flew home on Saturday instead of Monday.

The Funeral today turned out really great and they had a packed house paying their respects to Grandpa Larson.  We will miss you Grandpa, thanks for everything that you did for us.

New Year's Eve

We spent new years with the Barker Family at my Mom's and Dad's.  I decided to get crazy and make ribs for everyone which turned out to be a good and a bad thing.  Aly being the great wife she is bought me a new smoker for Christmas and it came yesterday and I just had to try it out.  While using the smoker the auger motor wouldn't shut off and thus the ribs took a lot more attention than they needed to.  They had to be finished in the oven but they still tasted pretty good.  It was a fun night of games and good food, here's to 2011!!

Another bad thing is this is the only picture we got before the camera died, sorry Aly!