The Larkins Family: katy

Showing posts with label katy. Show all posts

Monday, December 19, 2016

Katy's College Graduation!

Last Friday we celebrated my youngest sister Katy as she graduated from college in 3 1/2 years with a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Grand Canyon University. She also played on the women's soccer team for 4 seasons as I have posted about many times before so she was very busy. Everly was at school and Justin was working so my sisters picked up me and Aspen to head out to the graduation. It was a risk, since it was right during Aspen's nap time but she did pretty good, especially considering the graduation was kind of long. The speaker was wacky. He was the drummer for Pink and he basically talked about himself for an hour. Super weird. Once they finally started calling people's names though, it went by pretty fast. We met up with my sister outside and took some pictures after and then headed back home to get ready to house a little open house for her. We only did appetizers and drinks and still had way too much food, but better than not enough. My sister's boyfriend graduated from ASU two days earlier so the cake was split for him, too. Now I am not the only ASU Alumni! My sister's boyfriend is already a teacher, but my sister is going to be going to P.A. school sometime next year I think so it is basically just a little break before going back to school! We are proud of both Katy and Alex!

Katy with Alex and his family which have always been soo supportive of her.

Katy and Teddy
Untitled

Katy and Aspen

4 college gradates and almost 2 with masters as well.

Sill sisters and a mom h

ASU and GCU

December graduations are very festive.

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

GCU Soccer is Back!

Last weekend we went to my sister's first home game for her last year at GCU. This was also their first game in the brand new soccer stadium on her campus so it was really fun. There is obviously a lot more seating and shade which is nice and I think they did a really good job with the stadium. The kids love going to the games and watching Katy play and it is usually free so it ends up being a fun thing to take them to. Aspen was napping at this time, so I took Ev by myself and met my mom and sisters there. Ev had lots of fun playing with her cousin Mae who scared the crap out of me on the concrete bleachers cus she is so dang clumsy! Thank god she is a tough little chunk cus she falls down all of the time. We will be back out there this Friday night to watch her play again and hopefully it will be a little cooler out!

they lost 3-2 :(

the big kids!

love these two!

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Happy 21st Birthday Katy!

Almost 2 weeks ago my littlest sister, Katy, turned 21! She turned 21 only three days after I turned 30 so originally I thought it would be fun to celebrate together, possibly in Vegas, but then our family reunion was scheduled at the same time and since she is busy with her last year of college soccer about to start, we decided to do a staycation and go out in Scottsdale. Her actual 21st birthday was on a Wednesday so my siblings and I met my mom out for a quick weeknight drink which was actually really fun. We just went to Chili's and had a beer but someone did by her a shot which was funny. A few days later we checked in to the DoubleTree in Scottsdale for our night out. We hung out at the pool for a little bit before getting our makeup done at Sephora, which is basically my favorite place on Earth. I didn't have a super concrete plan but more a few spots I wanted to stop in at and it ended up being a really fun night. My sister-in-law joined us and my mom and older sister met us for dinner at Bottled Blonde. The pizza was actually really good there. A couple of my sister's friends also made it out along with her boyfriend. After Bottled Blonde we went to Whiskey Row for a little bit before checking out Maya. I thought Maya was supposed to be cool but it was super dead. We weren't there for very long and then ended the night at Dakota. It was packed but I think it was the most fun of all the places. It was pretty hot though and we were all sweaty by the end of the night. I forget that my sister has never gone out like this before so at the first place she went to the bathroom, she came out and was surprised that someone was "working" in the bathroom (the bathroom attendant). Haha. She had no idea these existed and what they do. So innocent! Even my sister's boyfriend didn't know that some girls have a job just to dance at clubs. Kids! Scottsdale is definitely no Vegas, but I had a lot of fun and now I really want to go to Vegas!