Why you don't run with your hands in your pocket!

Eliza had to learn the hard way, the reason why we don't run with our hands in our pockets. I have been telling her that for weeks now, but she just wouldn't listen. Today I think she learned the reason why I didn't like her to run with her hands in her pockets. While out with Grandma Cindy she started running, and ate it pretty hard, yes with her hands in her pockets, so her face and knee were the only things to catch her, the pictures don't do justice put you get the idea. She has a big goose egg on her forehead, a scratched nose and scrapes on her knees. Poor little girl, I'm just glad that we don't have pictures in the near future.

Diploma

It's official I finally graduated from SLCC. I got my diploma this week, I was a little nervous that I didn't graduate because my diploma was taking so long, but to my relieve it has come. It feels nice to have that chapter complete, I only wish that is was my bachelors, but at least it is something right? I never thought it would happen especially since we started a family, but when I found out three classes is all I needed I couldn't wait any longer. Although the summer and fall were a little stressful at times I can say it was all worth it.

A Harden update

It is always great to start a new month but, I can't say February has brought many changes. Unless you count the size of my belly! As my due date draws nearer it brings the joyous moments of having to go to the bathroom every ten seconds, not sleeping at night, and just plain old being uncomfortable, but in the end it is all worth it!

Now that Eliza is 3 she thinks she is big enough to do everything. When asked if she needs help her response now is " I can do it, I'm three now". She just makes me laugh, and maybe we have done this to ourselves since we have been telling her that she will be a big girl when she is three and that her sleeping routine was going to change. We have been laying with her for a couple of minutes when she first goes down, but I wanted to break this habit before the baby comes. So I told her when she is three Daddy and Mommy can't lay with her. She has done Okay, she still asks a million questions when it is time to go to bed, we call this her stalling method. Eventually she falls a sleep and gets to put a sticker on her calender in the morning, I told her that if she can go to sleep by herself for a month we could go to the jump house. The reward system works great!


Last night Jeff and I went to the Jazz game, he had won some tickets through his work, and what a nice husband he asked his wife to go. It doesn't happen very often that him and I get to go out alone so it was nice to spend that time with him. The Jazz actually won which makes going even that much better.

Eliza is Three

Happy Birthday Eliza!!!

Eliza turned three yesterday, she has been gearing up for her birthday ever since her cousin Lindsey had hers a couple of weeks ago. We started her birthday celebration off on Sunday at Grandma Turners with a little party with the cousins, she has been into Dora the explorer, so that was our theme for the party. We had to have Eliza's favorite dinner which is, bow tie pasta and Alfredo sauce. After dinner we played a little game, each child had five specific shapes they had to find and once they found them all they got a goodie bag. I think the kids liked it, simple
but went along with the explorer theme.

( Andrew and Aiden complained that they didn't want to wear the Dora party hats, but Aiden must have liked his he wore it all night, and Lesley said he would have slept in it if it hadn't have broken.)




Then came cake and ice cream, Jeff and I made her a Dora cake, I was a little nervous as we started to frost it. It looked scary, I told Jeff Eliza was going to start to cry when she blew out the candles, but as we continued to frost the rest of the cake it started to impr0ve, and I think it turned out great! Jeff said this is the last cake that we decorated, next year it is a Costco cake, we will see what next year brings.


Once the day came she didn't seen to overly excited. Grandma, Eliza and I all went to a movie for her birthday. We saw Plant 51, cute but Eliza didn't seem to into it, I think it was for a older audience. Although she kept bouncing from grandmas lap to mine throughout the movie, she said she liked it.Then last night we headed over to Grandma Cindy's for a little pizza and to open some presents, all in all I think she had a great day.












I can't believe she is three already she is growing up so fast, and continues to make me laugh every day. She has brought so much joy to our lives, I am so proud to be her mother.