Christmas at Disneyland

Every five years all the Harmans get together and go to Disneyland right before Christmas. So me and the kids packed up and headed to Cali for a few days. It was alot of fun spending time with family and hangingout with the cousins. The kids had a blast and were really into it and we got really cool sweaters to match the whole fam. Thanks grandpa and grandma!!

Happy Birthday Jake!

Jake turning 2!!!

I made him his own little cake and he inhaled it!
He gave up on the fork after awhile.
I love Grandpa!!


Holy cow!! I can't believe my little Jakey turned two. I know everyone says this but it really went sooooooooooooo fast. We had a little get together with our good friends the Smiths and had some cake and opened presents. The funnest part about it was that Bumpa (aka- grandpa Kent) was here to celebrate! We head to Disney this week with grandpa for the big Harman reunion and then go on to Fresno for Christmas. It's going to be crazy, but a blast! We wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and those we won't see this Christmas we love and miss you! Kiss kiss, hug hug!

Preschool Performance.....

For this months enrichment we had dinner and a talent show from people in the ward. Alex's preschool teacher signed the kids up for a Christmas song performance. They sang Jingle Bells and Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer, with the only little boy in their class, Dillon, being Rudolph. Mrs. Candace even had it a little choreographed. At first I didn't think they would get up there, but they all pulled through and it was awesome!! Alex practiced all week and did amazing! My camera was so full of pictures that I only got a little of both of the songs.

More pics from performance.....

Alex's Class
She was "Dancer" the reindeer
Alex and her good friend Bay

Attempt #5

I have attemped 5 times to get a family christmas card picture, and it's not looking good for me. Cam and the kids hate picture taking so the first attempt of getting all of us in it was bust. I then thought well maybe I can get a good one of the kids together. I tried for three days to get them to cooperate. I'm sorry to say to fam and friends who will hopefully get a christmas card this year, they will be old pictures of the kids, because this obviously is not happening this year.

ABC Tagg........

My sister Katie is making me do this silly tagg so here is goes.....

A Attached or single? Attached to the most handsome man alive! :)

B Best friend? Besides Cam being number 1, my sisters and mom.

C Cake or pie? Pie, I've never been a huge cake fan.

D Day of choice? Friday night, movie night with my hubby.

E Essential item? Wow, just one? I guess I would have to say my purse, it's a wonder bag for my kids! I forgot it once and we about fell apart without snacks and wipes!

F Favorite color? I love all colors, but if I had to choose one it would have to be red.

G Gummi bears or gummi worms? Gummi worms for sure! The sour ones!

H Hometown? Rupert, Idaho

I Favorite indulgence? Chocolate shake from In-N-Out. I love those things!

J January or July? Oh man, it used to be July when I lived in Utah, but I would have to change my mind now that we are in AZ, so I go with January.

K Kids? The two most well behaved, beautiful four and two year old alive :)!

L Life is incomplete without? Family

M Marriage date? August, 22, 2002

N Number of brothers and sisters? 1 Brother and 3 sisters

O Oranges or apples? Um, depends on the day. I like both.

P Phobias or fears? Getting attacked by a shark and spiders.

Q Quote? "Lifes like a box of chocolates, ya never know what your going to get."

R Reason to smile? When my kids are finally in bed at night and the house is clean.

S Season of choice? Winter (in Arizona)

T Tag three friends: Whoever wants to be

U Unknown fact about me? I own more pairs of sweats than jeans

V Vegetable? Tomatoes

W Worst habit? My shoe addiction

X X-Ray or ultrasound? I guess ultrasound.

Y Your favorite food? Anything that tastes good.

Z Zodiac sign? Aries

Decorating the Tree

Jake was feeling a little under the weather so he just watched from the sidelines.
Alex was a great help!
The finished product!
This was a random picture from Thanksgiving weekend. I was getting Jake dressed and his tie was sitting there on the floor from the day before and he refused to not have it on for half the day. I thought he did a pretty good job at accessorizing his wardrobe :).

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was special this year. My moms whole side of the family got together at my mom and dad's house. We started out the weekend with helping my mom and Grandma put up the Christmas tree, with the help of the kids. It was also my moms birthday while we were there, so we had a big party for her. The boys played football everyday and it was pretty funny watching the "older" boys think they were hot shots and then when the game was over come in the house limping like they were 90 years old. It was also quite hilarious to see them get up out of bed in the morning. Thanksgiving Day was a blast! Me and Cam started off the morning with a run so that we didn't feel quite as bad about eating all day, and we did the ENTIRE day!! We watched alot of movies and ate lot of pie and all in all it was a great Thanksgiving!

Had to happen sometime.....

I have been tagged. I knew it would come sometime and I would have to dig REAL deep and find some interesting things about me. Thanks Corina. 7 things about me?

1. When I was a little girl I would get Koolaid from the cupboard and dye my barbies hair different colors, then I would cut their hair into what ended up being a really scary purple, orange, blue or red bob. I hope after schooling I have gotten better :).

2. I sometimes wish I could go back to BYU and be really poor and newly married and enjoy some of those careless, good times we had with friends at the hole in the wall Mexican restaraunts and coming up with really creative things to do.

3. I really enjoy running. I ran in trackmeets before I was in Junior High, but never ran in High School or anything. I don't know why, I guess soccer always came first. Now I have picked it up again thanks to what I think is hereditary craziness and love to run all the built-up worries and frustrations away.

4. To go along with number 3, I have always secretly wanted to run the Boston Marathon. Who knows what the future holds, but not anytime soon.

5. Once in high school me and a friend raced her car with another car around the newly surfaced high school track. I still get all hot in the face thinking about that. I was soooooo stupid when I was younger.

6. To those of you that don't already know, when I was about 8 or something I won the Rupert Rodeo Mutton Bustin riding contest. To those that don't know what that is, first of all COME ON! Mutton Bustin!!?? It's when you ride a sheep in the rodeo arena and try to stay on there for 90 seconds. Yeah, I totally killed my sisters and cousins! I still have the trophy and it still stands tall in our office room. Cam has wanted to get rid of it a couple of times but it's not going to happen, I'm still way to proud of it.

7. I want to one day go to Europe with Cameron, and have always wanted to get together with my mom, sisters, aunts, and cousins and go to New York City. Do all the fun shopping, sight seeing, the things that Katie and mom did but I didn't get invited to :).

Here are the rules:
1. Link to your tagger on your blog
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

You have been tagged (if you want to be):
Katie: kbswenson.blogspot.com
Niki: brianandniki.blogspot.com
Jess: boldervisions.net/gabygroup/
Emily: mattandemilysmith.blogspot.com
Erin: aewilkes.blogspot.com
Merm: curtisdyerfamily.blogspot.com

I KNOW IT!!

I know that all of you out there are thinking what is SHE thinking, its not even Thanksgiving! BUT I just couldn't wait, I actually can't believe I have waited this long! I LOVE Christmas! Not that Thanksgiving isn't a special Holiday, because it totally is. It just doesn't seem like its getting any where close to Christmas here in AZ, so I had to bring the Christmas to me. We are still wearing shorts and t-shirts and sweating at the hottest part of the day. I know pretty lame huh? The truth really is though that I probably couldn't last in a Utah or Idaho winter. We are going to Idaho for Thanksgiving and I'm a little nervous. The kids have a limited supply of longsleeve and pants, and mine and Cams winter wardrobe is SO out of style :). No, I'm excited to go home for the sake of Alex maybe, possibly getting to see snow and make that snow angel she has been practicing on the tile floor at home for the last month. She is pretty bummed out that we had to explain to her that Phoenix doesn't get snow and that Santa Clause has to come through the door. THAT is a whole story in itself, so all of ya'll have a wonderful Thanksgiving and remember you can never eat too much turkey and pie!!

Peanut Butter

Everyday I ask what the kids want for lunch and this particular day Jake wanted a peanut butter sandwich. I went upstairs to put some laundry in and came back down to find that he had cleaned his bread of all the peanut butter in sight and this is what was left. I should have taken a picture of the bread because it was pretty impressive.

Trick or Treating!!

Trick or Treating was a lot of fun this year. Both kids were really into it. Thanks to "Grape" Grandma they had cool lanterns, and were ready to go at 7:00 that morning. Alex was like speed racer through the neighorhood. We didn't even make it to the end of the street last year and she was already begging to go home, but this year she was whining because she wanted to do more. Jake, he was quite the character. Me and Cam both thought for sure he wouldn't do much but sit in the stroller because every time we went to a store with Halloween decorations he would hide in our shoulders. BUT I guess he got over it because he was running all over the place and would NOT let anyone touch his candy. He was too cute, he said "ank ooo" (thank you) to everyone after they would give him candy. What a polite little boy (yeah right.) By about house ten he gave up and sat in the stroller, but he was quite the trooper. It was a great way to end our Halloween festivities this year and we can't wait until the next.

Carving Pumpkins

Carving pumpkins here in AZ is a little interesting. If you do it too early, in a few days the pumpkin is nothing but mush. So, the day before is always best if you want it lit and only half deformed from the heat on Halloween night!

Alex found a marker and started decorating before we started to carve!
Jake kept tasting the pumpkin!
Cam thought it would be funny to give the pumpkin a una-brow! Overall it was a success!

Random Halloween pics...

We were trying on Halloween costumes and obviously this is how Jake felt about it!

Alex made this cookie at preschool and when we got home she demanded we take a picture of its coolness!

Back in time........

I remember when we would all get together as a family in the Harman household and sit and watch this movie around Halloween time. So, when I saw that it was coming out this year I hurried to the closest Wal-mart and bought it for the kids. I was so excited to have the kids watch it, I made popcorn and set out a blanket for us to watch it together. Needless to say the kids were NOT as excited as their child for mother. BUT, I keep putting it on and Jake is really getting into it! Anyway, I just wanted to say to all of you kids at heart give into those childlike tendencies! Totally worth it!

Bumpas glasses......

One morning in Idaho we were just finishing breakfast and I went to go find Jake for a his bath and I found him in front of the TV with Grandpas reading glasses watching the Backyardigans, upside down even. It was too funny, I had to take a picture.

Pumpkin Patch!!!

When we were in Idaho we went to the local pumpkin patch.

Jake kept picking up the pumpkins and throwing them,

needless to say they were glad when we left.

Fifty cents for Aunt Cris!!

Bittersweet memories.......

We recently took a trip to visit my parents in Idaho. For those of you that don't know, I grew up on a farm in Rupert, Idaho. My dad has recently sold the farm and it was the last potato harvest this year, so we went up and hungout with the troops. It was all a bittersweet event. We all are excited for my dad to move on after thirty years, but after twenty-four of those years i'm having mixed feelings. Anyway, the kids had a great time and we got to see the first snow fall. We also spent some time at my grandmas in St. George who recently had a birthday. All in all it was a great trip. We are having withdrawls from the fall weather that we never see here in Phoenix, but other than that we are glad to be home.

More Birthday Party Pics

Alex's party was of course Princess Themed. Mom made the cake, which was a total disaster! But, it turned out okay in the end. I really tried to talk her into just having an icecream cake from Dairy Queen, but she insisted on a Princess Castle cake, so all of you bakers out there don't laugh!! We had a Pinata(fyi- they really don't make the ones you hit anymore, you take turns pulling strings from the bottom and hope that your string is the one that opens the door at the bottom- I know, wierd huh)we also played some pretty funny games. One game was tieing strings to doughnuts and hanging them from a bar and watching the kids eat them without their hands, sorry not pictures, I was laughing too hard! Of course we played duck-duck goose. Then we had cake and icecream and sent the kids home with bags of candy, making their parents really happy I'm sure. It was a really fun day and I'm so glad we have one more year to do another one!

Alex's Birthday Party

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We had Alex's party on Saturday with all of her friends. She was a little nervous to blow out her candles, but she finally got the guts at the end. And mom, not being very good at electronics, cut off the best part of her blowing out her candles!! Sorry Alex. All in all it was a great time and we will post more pics from the party.

Some more lasting moments......

Our Big Boy

Our Crazy little guy is finally going to Nursery consistently. He might come home with cookies all over his mouth, and one shoe missing, but he is going!! Yeah!!!

Our Big Girl

Alex started preschool this year. Shes already coming home and writing her abc's down freehand on paper. She absolutely loves it, and mom loves that she gets a break for a couple days a week for a couple of hours.

Playing in the Rain

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We don't get much rain here in Arizona, so when it did rain we let the kids go out and play for awhile. Jake got a little too excited about the whole thing.

Jacob Mathis

Alexa Reese

My friend Erika took some amazing pics of the kids. We were really only out there for like twenty minutes and she seemed to get all the true sides of them.

More pics from Oregon

Jake could NOT just walk down the beach, he had to touch every piece of sand he walked by. He thought the ocean was so cool. Even though the water was freezing, he couldn't help but get in.

OREGON COAST

We recently went to the coast, my mom took some pics of us and the kids at the beach. We had a blast!