The past couple of weeks.

I decided to give an update since it has been a month now and no post from the Hardens. Not much is new in our lives. A couple of weeks ago my Dad got some extra tickets to the circus, I think I was more excited then Eliza was. I can't even remember the last time I went to the circus, my guess is 15-20 years ago. Eliza was excited at first especially when the horses came out, but as most 20 month infants after a half an hour lost interest. Not me I loved every minute of it, it's fun to be a kid again! Our group was split up so at intermission Eliza of course wanted to go and see Grandma!! So I found my Mom and she took Eliza for the second half. My Mom said she loved it she watched the whole thing she was laughing and really enjoyed the elephants. I think Eliza like the second half better for a couple of reasons, first there were more animals and clowns, second she was with Grandma, and third Grandma bought her a coloring book and a snow cone(I wasn't about to buy her a $10.00 snow cone!)I really enjoyed going to the circus, even though my allergies got to me a little bit I stilled would go again and it was a great family outing.


This last week my sister Lesley was sick with pneumonia, I told her that I would take Walker Thursday so she could get some rest. Eliza liked having someone to play with but there were times she got a little jealous. I'm not surprised because she gets all the attention around our house. My mom took the kids for the weekend so Lesley could try to get some sleep, so Saturday we met the gang at the Hook for lunch. It is so funny Eliza doesn't just call my Dad Grandpa, to her he's Pa Pa Fry! it makes me laugh, but it fits so well. The kids slept over at Grandmas, but my parents had tickets to conference so they came over to our house Sunday morning during the session. Didn't really get to watch a whole lot of conference, entertaining four kids is hard work. It is always fun having them around, Eliza loves her cousins.

First Tramp Injury

So Eliza was jumping on the tramp with Grandpa Ron and Aunt Melinda, when all of a sudden she started to cry. Jeff and I went over to see what had happened, we checked her out and couldn't see anything wrong she said she was OK and wanted to jump again. So I got up on the tramp with her and jumped, but that didn't last very long before she wanted to go to her Dad. I put her down on the tramp, she then stumbled and fell. So I picked her up and gave her to Jeff. Then she wanted to go down the slide, so Jeff put her down and she fell again. I put her on the slide and when she reached the bottom she said her foot hurt so I checked her shoes thinking that she had wood chips in her shoes but there was nothing. So we started on our way back up to the house when she fell two more times, once again I didn't think anything of it and headed to the porch. There she fell again, and again. During all of this falling she never cried so I just thought she was being a klutz, until it kept happing and she was favoring her right leg. So we decided to take her to Kid Care where they did X-rays(that wasn't fun trying to hold her down). They told us we would have to wait till the following day to find out if it was broken or not, but they would put a splint on her leg so she wouldn't be able to put more pressure on it, but it also made it so she couldn't walk. So we held her down again while they did the splint. Eliza was screaming and trying to kick us the whole 5 minutes it took for the splint to set(it was quite a chore). Once it was on she couldn't look at it without crying she was so scared of it, I felt so bad for her. On the way home she tried to rip it off but wasn't very successful. The next morning she was fine with it I think she realized it wasn't going to come off so she had to deal with it. She didn't let it slow her down to much she just army crawled her way around all day. That night I called the doctors and they said the X-rays looked fine and they could see any fractures, so they told us it was alright to take the splint off and if she still was having problems walking to bring her back in. We took the splint off, she walked a little funny at first but now is back to her outgoing self. So I guess we will never know what was wrong, but at least it wasn't broken.

Family Fun!

On Sunday Aug 31st we went up the canyon to where the Baers were camping to celebrate Walkers 1st birthday. We went on a hike to Doughnut Falls once we got there the little kids played in the water and the big kids(Devan, Christian and Jeff) climbed up to the falls.
Eliza loved throwing rocks into the water, although some times she didn't even look to see what she was doing, she would just pick up rocks and throw them. She almost hit Aiden a couple of times. She was having so much fun she didn't even realize her pants and shoes were completely soaked. We decided to head back since the kids were wet and we needed to start dinner, good thing we got back and started dinner when we did because shortly after we got things started the rains came. We thought it would lighten up but no such luck. That put a real "damper" on the night, so needless to say we didn't even get to sing Happy Birthday to Walker or eat the cake. We packed the car up and headed home to get some clothes for Eliza since Grandma Turner offered to take Eliza for her first sleepover. Grandma said she did alright except around two in the morning she had to crawl into bed with her, Grandma thinks she got sacred because of Grandpa's snoring!








Saturday the 6th we went to Lagoon, I'm not much of an roller coaster person I can go on a couple and then I'm done for the day. It was fun just the same, we took Eliza on a couple of rides (the train, merry go round, and the ferris wheel) she didn't want to really go on the train but once we started she enjoyed it. We saw the tiger, and when we passed by it kept roaring at us, she thought that was pretty cool. As for the merry go round, she first went on with Grandpa Ron, he said she like it but when he asked her if she wanted to go again, She said "No!" I ended up taking her again while the rest of the group went on the white roller coaster, we got on a horse that moved up and down she kept saying UP, DOWN. I didn't like going on the ferris wheel with a little infant it just scared me the whole time because Eliza doesn't like to sit, she wanted to keep standing up, boy was I glad when we got off. Then it was time to get Eliza home for a nap, OK and I need a nap as well.

Primary Activity

Jeff and I are primary teachers and we have been promising our kids a firetruck ride and kids meals at the Hook and Ladder if they would behave in class. They've been pretty good so we decided to have the party before the kids started school again. I think the kids had fun, what kid wouldn't? I mean its food and a firetruck ride. The party wasn't very long we ate and went on the truck for about 10 minutes and then came back to the Hook for ice cream. After that we took the kids home and called it a day!


(Easton, Isaiah, Alex, Kaylyn, and Ina)