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).

Autumn Fun

Last week my visiting teachers and I went to Gardner Village it's so much fun there this time of year. The shops there sell the cutest things and they have witches throughout the little village, it was exciting to see all the different witches they had displayed. When we got there I was wondering why it was so busy, come to find out it was "Little Withes Day" and there where all the kids in their costumes for the costume parade and lots of activities for them to do(we planned that one right). Even though it was pretty busy and we didn't have our kids in their costumes it was still fun, they also gave out candy and balloons. I just love this time of Year!




(Will, Eliza, John, and Dreak)














Once we finished there we met up with the Baer family at Wheeler Farm. This also was fun, Eliza loves animals and if I keep my distance their not to bad. So we walked around the farm and saw the horses, pigs,bunnies, chickens, ducks OK all the typical farm animals. After we saw all the animals there were to see, they have a little wagon ride that we went on. Eliza didn't even want to go, she cried saying No Mommy NO! Once she was on it she didn't want to get off, when the ride was coming to an end Eliza said "One more". Sadly for Eliza we didn't get another ride.











(Eliza, Andrew and Aiden)


Last Saturday was the Boo at the Zoo. I've never been to this event at the Zoo and thought it would be fun to take Eliza somewhere that she could get another use out of her costume. I didn't realize the whole state of Utah was all thinking the same thing, it was crazy busy!! They had Trick or Treating for the kids but the lines where so long that it wasn't worth waiting in, so we pretty much looked at the animals and came home. So now we can say we've done it, and I don't think we will try it again, we can go and look at the animals any other day with out all the people.

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.