Larson Christmas Party

Last Saturday was the Larson Christmas party at my house for the half of my family that could make it. It was so fun! We went sledding, decorated cookies, and played a white elephant "lefty-righty" game. We ended the night with Ethan's preschool Christmas program which was a riot. I've never laughed so hard at a program before but get a bunch of 2, then 3, then 4, then school age kids to perform on stage can be quite entertaining. Below is the story I wrote for the Lefty-Righty game. It's long but there were 12 people to include!

Christmas time is here again and it is nice that the weather is finally right for a party complete with sledding. It wasn’t right that we couldn’t celebrate Christmas and Grandma’s birthday together last week because the weather left everyone in the cold.

This has been another busy year for the Larson family. Irene has been right on track at work and made several trips right up North to Aironn and Sunnie’s. She also traveled right past Idaho and into Oregon for baptisms and blessings. She left her fear of travel abroad and signed up for an exotic trip to Egypt this coming March. I hope she filled out her passport application right! This summer, she did what she thought was the right thing by lending her car to her co-worker for a short trip and was left with a few minor dings that needed to be fixed. The other lady must have been using her left, not right, foot to drive with!

Brandon left the life of a farmer and turned more into a rancher this year with the addition of more cows, chickens, and a kitten. We think he is right on track with the organic wholesale beef business. We are just glad he left his old butcher behind and chose the right one this year! He studied hard this year and became a very valuable asset to the Larson clan when he answered all the test questions right and became an EMT. Do you think he left his doctor kit at home for this party? I hope not!

Sunnie decided it was right to stay with third grade again this year. It has been nice to have someone right at our fingertips with homework help. Do you think she knows the right way to add multiple digits? She left Idaho this fall and jumped right into hunting pheasants. With the right advice and the right location and the right gun, she knocked birds right down. Brandon also tried to get her hunting deer but they were left without one. She did learn the top-secret right way to make salad for the Streadbeck Thanksgiving dinner though.

Ryan left Mom’s upstairs and moved right into the downstairs apartment after the other tenants left. It is the right spot for the gang of poker players to gather and every once in a while he has the right hand to take home some money. He has been busy building a number of things in his wood shop for family and friends and, believe it or not, he still has all of his fingers left! This summer, he left Utah and moonlighted in Oregon. Didn’t he learn that Oregon isn’t the right state for him? I guess he still knows how to operate all the equipment right.

Connor has been very busy this year. He learned the right way to play tennis, the right plays in football and the right girl for his girlfriend, Whitney. He left third grade for the challenges of fourth and is learning all the right answers to Utah history this year. We loved listening to him sing for the right Rock Band song over Thanksgiving. He left home this summer for Cub Scout Day Camp at Jeremiah Johnson’s camp and left with several things passed off in his scout book. He also left Utah for several out of state journeys to Oregon and Idaho with his Dad and Aunts and Uncles.

Austin left something great behind the last little while. He left his shyness when he left gluten behind and is quite the prankster. He thinks this party is right on track with scheduled tubing, since it is one of his favorite things to do. He hates that he left his girlfriend, Kim, in Utah but it was the right thing to do to come to Idaho. He is reading all the right things in first grade and is turning into the right kind of athlete with football games this fall. He is also right on track with Rockband and plays better than many adults in the family!

Gary left home for California a few times this summer and also left for Florida in February. It wasn’t the right kind of fire season to keep him in Idaho. He finally got the right kind of lay-down blind to help him slay the birds and the right hunting buddies to keep it interesting in Tom and Logan. He got the right motorcycle this year and spent many days enjoying the right way to get to work. Now it just needs the right paint job and he needs the right jacket to complete the deal.

Aironn did the right thing in driving the boys to all their sports games and practices. She also left Primary and moved right into Cub Scouts. She left the garden to fend for itself this summer and was left with not very much to can. I guess the right thing to do would be to spend some time out there.

Thomas had a right busy year. He played baseball with the right league and used a pitching machine, learned how to play flag football right and earned an award of offensive rookie of the season. He also learned that it is good to choose the right when he was baptized in January. He has made the right decision to join Gary on his hunting trips and hopes to learn to shoot a gun right to hunt birds next year. He is right on track in Cub Scouts and earned his Bobcat and Wolf this year too.

Logan left the clean-cut missionary hair do behind for a longer version. I think it looks right good on him! He was a star soccer player kicking goals right in and defending the goal which left the other team without as many points. He is right on in reading and math and that has him in the top groups at school. He also learned all the right moves playing basketball this spring and even left the ground shooting some times. He loves to play with his friends that live both to the left and right of our house!

Ethan, Ethan, Ethan. What is the right thing to say about him? He left home for preschool two days a week and left his teacher bewildered at his talents. He will be leaving nursery for Primary soon too. He picked the right girls in primary and preschool to be his girlfriends and soon he will see them both right by him at church. He has learned the right way to sound out words too. He has left his mom and dad smiling when he says funny things every day like pirouette and this pan is stuck on my head help!

Dylan has learned it is alright to be the youngest. It is fine to be left out of conversations because he can get what he wants without too many words. He left crawling behind for running and running was left for climbing. It isn’t right that he is always on top of the table! He doesn’t think it is right for Gary to go to work and is right at the window to wave bye and right there again when Gary comes home.

The rest of the family couldn’t make it this year so they will just have to be left out of the story! We hope you’ve had a great Christmas party and we can do it the right way next year, at Grandma’s house!