Thankful: day 3

Today after dance class Huntley and I helped my dad dig potatoes. During that one activity I could think of a lot of things I was thankful for. It wasn't too cold out and the sun was brightly shining away. I got to spend quality time with my dad and daughter and found out Hunt is as nerdy as I am. I love digging potatoes and being surprised with each shovelful. Huntley is the same way and gave squeals of delight every time she would see red skin appear out of the dirt. I'm thankful I am her mom and get to watch her grow, learn, and get excited about everything around her.

Thankful: day 2

Today I am thankful for electricity, or the lack there of. This morning their was a power outage that knocked out the power in all of south Utah county. While normally I'm quite thankful for electricity and all that accompanies it, it was quite nice to stay home and enjoy work from the comfort of my own couch. Paisley had to actually nap in her crib but thanks to grandpa she was still able to sleep with the noise of a saw in the background. Lucky for us grandpa has awesome skills to help our electricity be less!

Thankful: day 1

I've always wanted to do a daily thankful post during the month of November, but let's face it I've never really been that good at blogging. This year it just might happen! Of course day 1 I have to start off by being thankful for my little girls. Today was especially trying, Paisley cried lots, Huntley had accidents, and it was COLD but I wouldn't trade being a mommy for anything. Huntley giving me a big hug and telling me she'd miss me too much before going to sleep just makes me happy!

Baby bumblebees

Huntley loved Halloween and didn't want it to end! My favorite quote of the night was when we were trying to get her to leave popcorn pa's. Grandma tried to help us out by saying she needed to get her pajamas on. Hunt responded by grabbing her hand, pulling her to the bedroom, and saying "come mere, me help you". Unfortunately for her that didn't happen and when she wakes up she'll be one sad little girl when she finds out there is no Halloween tomorrow day.

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.