Well, at least there's a video

Life is whizzing by with very little time to actually think about any of it, and occasionally (well, often) no time to actually enjoy it. School has kept me occupied for what feels like 25 hours a day, and Matt has been traveling like a mad man for work (Indianapolis & Memphis most recently). Poor Lincoln is caught somewhere in the middle of it all. (I believe he is at least still receiving regular rations of food and water.) However, before much of the craziness really got out of hand, we headed up to the mountains for my big 30th birthday weekend bash. It was PERFECT (with the exception of a few friendly faces absent) and a fabulous way to spend time ringing in my 31st year with great friends. I am SO thankful for them, both new and old.

Here's a fun little video of our time in the mountains:

Ali's 30th Birthday Weekend in Frisco! from Ali Larson on Vimeo.

Michael and Bryan were AWESOME and flew out a day early - we made the most of their time here and had a blast. Sadly, Erin and Alok (who were equally amazing and decided to stay out for a whole week), suffered the brunt of my graduate classes starting up and thus didn't see me for but 1/20th of their time in Denver. But, I think they had a great time regardless :) We loved having them all here!

Here's a few pics from their visits:

 (Lincoln fell in love...well, in love with attention)

Anyway, I probably will be pretty bad at updating the adventures in Larsonland for the next few months, with the (hopeful) exception of our quick trip to LA next week.  (What is Matt is on a game show?)  :)  Hoping for a fabulous time with a great showing on Matt's behalf!!

Oh, and for the other things I've forgotten to post about, I promise they are of no less importance to us.  It's merely a time problem... I need to write a paper now and sadly, that trumps all.  Here's a quick recap of whatever has been uploaded from my camera:

Spending New Year's Eve at Kristyn & Andrew's place in Uptown:

Matt's company holiday party at Dave & Busters:

 More jamming at the Empire:

A fun dinner at my folks':

Celebrating the Chinese New Year at Evelyn's place (she had quite the spread, it was awesome):

 

Catching up with Dan Goettsch before he heads to Scottsdale for spring training:

Oh, and thank you everyone for all the awesome Christmas cards!  They were so fun to display all around the house, so I tried to get a pic of them all in one place (didn't work so well)...