Huntley in the hood

Hunt helped Chris clean out his fire bag yesterday. She found all sorts of treasures. Dishes that hadn't been washed all season, beanies, and her favorite of all, earplugs! She calls them treats and insists on taking them everywhere. Of course she drops them where ever we go and I got lots of strange looks from people at Wal-Mart yesterday

Resolving to do Better

Since Paisley was born I now spend a lot of time awake when I used to be asleep. This is probably my least favorite part of having a newborn. Luckily I have my handy dandy iPhone to help me pass the time. How did I survive Huntley without an iPhone!?! So I spend night time blog stalking and reading about random people's lives that I've never met before. The other night I started to feel bad that it's been six whole weeks since Paisley started her life and besides announcing her arrival I haven't recorded any of it. So iPhone came to the rescue and I downloaded my own little blogger app. Now instead of being kind of creepy and reading about other people I now resolve to keep my own little space of the internet updated so people can read about me. When I put it that way maybe I should go private but then again maybe I'll write something someday that keeps some nursing mother entertained in the middle of the night. Here's the update of the past six weeks.

CHRIS:This guy has actually managed to stay in the state for the past six weeks. He's still left us alone at times but not for longer than a week which has been nice. What is even nicer is the 31st is his last day on call. We can now officially leave the county, hallelujah!!! At the end of the season party today he was given an award for being the "rookie firefighter of the year." We are so proud of our daddy and can't wait to spend the next 6 months getting as much time with him as we can.

PAISLEY:

This little girl pretty much spends her days accompanying me at work. She doesn't do much besides eat, sleep, and poop but what she does do she gives it a 100%. For proof of this you can tell by looking at her go from this,

to this,

to this.

Yes she has put on a few pounds the past six weeks and is turning into a cute little chubbers.

HUNTLEY:

Huntley has definitley had the most changes going on. I am constantly amazed at all the things she can do now that Paisley is the baby and she's the "girl." She's not big and she will be happy to tell you that. During the past six weeks she got a haircut.

The nice before picture where she looks scared to death and had a death grip on my hand the entire time.And the after pic where she looked like Shirley Temple and loved her haircut but was ticked off because her mom wanted to take pictures instead of giving her the phone to "bake" cupcakes.

This is Hunt picking flowers in the backyard. I had to put this picture on so I would remember her obsession with picking flowers this summer. She had cups full of petals all over our house and my poor mom only had stems and leaves in her flower gardens.

Huntley's favorite animal right now is an elephant. She loves Dumbo and was so excited when Nini took her to the zoo to see real live elephants.

Last but not least we have our one and only fish of the season. Daddy was gone all summer and mom was preggers so poor Hunt had to settle with catching fish out of a tub at Cabela's. Lame I know but at least they bait the hook and clean the fish for you too.

So there you have it, an update on the Harvey's and lots more to come!!!

{birth}days

S is my new favorite letter. An "s" on the end of a word makes it plural and we are now a plural family with two birthdays in the month of September.First we celebrated Huntley turning 3. All this little girl wanted for her birthday was balloons and donuts. She is easy to please and I loved making her day by giving her exactly what she wanted.

A week later we had another birthday and Paisley joined our family. The past week we have been spending our time getting to know her and loving the fact we have two little girls.

What am I???

This is Chris's home away from home. Unfortunately it's not the temple but the fire truck. It looks like a fire truck, at least I think it does. Yeah it isn't your typical red engine you see running around town but if you saw it going down the road wouldn't you just assume it was a fire truck. Apparently some people don't and part of the fun I've had this summer is Chris telling me stories of random people coming up to and talking to them and thinking they were something else. My favorite so far has been last week when they were working on a project up Big Cottonwood Canyon. A lady with a fishing pole came up and was pretty excited to see them. She wanted to know where they would be dumping the fish. I guess it kind of does look like one of those fish trucks but I think I'd start to wonder when it had the words "Fire" written all over it and what kind of fish would be coming out of it.

Last Saturday was our "Day of Service" for our ward and yes lazy me actually participated. Chris spent the day using his skills chopping down a tree. How's that for fun, do something all week and then do it again on the weekend minus the fire. Huntley and I helped pull weeds. Which is something I think about doing all week long in our own yard but never actually do. Unfortunately our fun was interrupted by a freight train, Chris's new ring tone for being called out, and we had to go send our daddy off to Arizona.Now the two of us lovely ladies are hanging out hoping we don't become a trio before Chris can get home!

Lazy Summer Time

This summer I've put a whole new meaning on the term lazy days of summer. It's hot. I'm pregnant. I don't really do a whole lot besides sit in my lawn chair in the backyard and let our 5 little babysitters entertain Huntley. We have puppies and I was less than thrilled when we figured out they were coming but now that they are here I don't think I would have survived without them.

Technology

Lately I've had a real love hate relationship with technology. When Chris first went to Texas we discovered his cell phone, 100 plus degree weather, and fires do not mix. We would go days at a time without hearing from him and it was pretty darn awful. He ended up being stuck in that awful state for 40 days and got to celebrate his birthday blowing out big flames and we splurged and bought him an i-phone so he'd be able to talk and skype with us. Unfortunately right after that our computer died and I wasn't able to make a decision on my own if we should pay to have it fixed or just buy a new one. He finally got home for a few days and helped me put on my big girl panties and deal with life and when the next call came four days later I did pretty good. I got the computer fixed, handled three hound dogs and Huntley with very little tears, and only had one casualty and are now rocking a really awesome yellow lawn. Luckily his trip to Colorado was cut short by a snow storm and we only had to miss him for one week. Now he's on his way to Arizona but we have a working phone and computer so this should be our easiest separation yet. A month ago I was hating technology and how it wasn't cooperating with me but now I'm so glad for everything we have and how it lets us still be a family even though we can't be together. I'm also grateful for technology so we could see our new baby and have reassurance that everything is fine and we have one healthy little girl coming our way.