Big News!

No, I'm not pregnant! Eliza is potty trained. I am so happy that she picked it up so quickly, We decided to start potty training her when I stopped working full time. My bosses wife told me about this book "Potty training in less then a day". I was skeptical since Eliza would just cry and try to get off the potty every time we put her on it. So I read the book and I'm a true believer now! So if any one is trying to potty train there child I would read this book for sure. Eliza has been wearing big girl panties for a month now, and has only had 3 accidents. I am so proud of her she is such a fast learner, and is so great with adjusting to change. Another thing is that I'm so glad we don't have to make the 50 dollar purchase at Costco every month any more, NO MORE DIAPERS!

Eliza is getting so big I look at my little girl and can't believe how time has just flown bye, it feels like yesterday I was bringing her home from the hospital. I just love this age, she learns new things every day. She enjoys reading books, playing outside, going to the children's museum with Grandma Cindy, hiding eggs(and then she tells you where she hid them) and turning off the T.V when Jeff is trying to relax afters a days work. She thinks it is so funny. She is Ms. Independent! She has to do everything herself, from putting her shoes on, to climbing in the car, She has even learned how to but the DVD's in the player(we're afraid that she is going to break it). Kids are so much fun, I just love being a mom.

Eliza singing her ABC's, please excuses the annoying voice in the back ground.

Time Flies

I can't believe it is March already! But I'm so glad, Utah is getting a little warmer(until the next storm) which makes Eliza very happy, since she is such and outside body. She wants to ride her bike, go swimming, go to the park, anything to be outside. Eliza's new thing is when ever you make her mad she points her finger and says" Don't talk to me!" No matter how many times I tell her that we don't talk that way she still gets the attitude. She is talking so much, everyday a new word or saying, and she loves to sing even if it isn't the right beat. I just love my little girl!


Jeff just got back from Rapid City, he had to go there for work so it was a quick trip but he got to see Mount Rushmore. He said it was neat and would like to go back when it was a little warmer.(I will post some of the pictures later)

I leave next week for Seattle to see the Ferrari's I can't wait, I'm meeting Bri up there for a weekend of relaxation and good times! I'm so excited to see them and their new addition Maisy, she looks so precious in the pictures. I'm a little sad because Eliza will not be going with me, now that she is 2 we have to pay for her and the cost was to much for the both of us to go for a weekend. It will be so different without her, I've never left her before, but I know that her daddy will take good care of her.

Where do I begin? It has been so long since and update, I believe I start every entry this way, sorry not the biggest blogger! Life has been a little crazy for the Harden Family the last couple of weeks. My coworker had her baby so I'm back to working full time until she come back from maturity leave(thank heaven it is only four more weeks). Going from working three days a week to now five is a real adjustment, laundry days have become oh once a week, clean clothes waiting to be put away, have been sitting on our guest bed for three weeks now. Trying to find time to clean my house and when I do find it, I'm to tired to worry about it. So many things that have been but off since I've lost those two days. I don't know how moms can work full time and get all the stuff around the house done. I will probably get used this adjustment in four weeks and then it will be back to only working three days a week again, isn't that how it works usually, you get something down just in time for it to change again? One good thing about working full time is that my weeks go by super fast I can't believe it will be February in a couple of days, where does time go?



Also last week Eliza turned 2, I can't believe I have a two year old! She is so funny now, I just love this stage! Eliza had two request for her Birthday, one was to go bowling and the other was she wanted a Nemo cake. So last Saturday the family met at Ritz bowling ally for a little bowling and of course some Nemo cake. We all had a lot of fun bowling, eating cake, and watching Eliza open her presents. The party came to an end, but not for Eliza she ask almost every day if we can go bowling and yes have a Nemo cake! I love my little girl she brings so much joy and laughter to our family.

Our vacation to Florida

So I'm not to good at the whole updating the blog thing. I can't believe it has been over a month since the last update. Sadly to say not much is new. This last week Jeff, Eliza and I went out to Orlando Florida to visit the Palfreymans, it was so fun to see them, the girls are getting so big. We were there for almost a week and most of the time was spent at Disney, I'm not complaining, I felt like a kid again. The last time I went to Disney land was when I was in eighth grade so quite sometime ago. Eliza love it there, almost every time we got off a ride she would say again, again, but there wasn't too many ride that we were able to go on twice.
(This dinosaur ride was the only one that when we got off she didn't say again).


We went to Animal Kingdom one of my favorite ride was there it was the safari ride. I really feels like you're on a safari, they have elephants, giraffes, lions, okay to many animals to name, but it was really neat to see the animals just roaming.













All the parks had Christmas lights, but at Universal studios there was a street that every building had thousands of lights on them, every couple of minutes a Christmas song would play the lights would go off and on with the beat. I loved this it got me in the Christmas spirit.

We went to see Santa at Epcot, we got in line to see him but they said he would only be there for 20 minutes and they didn't think we would be able to see him. We waited in line still and were getting closer to the front when Eliza decided she didn't want to sit on Santa's lap. Lucky for us Mrs. Clause was there and we convinced Eliza to sit on her lap(we told her that it was Grandma Lutz). She agreed so we finally got a picture with Santa, just wish she would have smiled. (Stacy has the pictures I will post when I get them).

I love vacations but it is also nice to be home in your own bed and not living out of a suite case. I hope that we can make it out there again soon, I already miss the 65-75 degree weather. We came home to a foot of snow and freezing temps(got to love Utah).