Harper Turns 2

Harper's birthday finally came. My husband surprised me and flew my mom down for Harper's birthday. I was so happy that she could be there to celebrate. To bad my dad did not come down. I felt horrible that my dad didn't come. The part i felt even more bad about was that my mom flew out on my dads birthday. That's the only bad part about Harper's birthday being born the day after my dads birthday.

So for Harper's party we were doing a rainbow theme. It was fun. I made the cake for her.It was time consuming. But so worth it. Only had one piece left at the end,

My mother in law decorated for Harper's party. I wasn't allowed to help. So we took my mom to the mall and let her experience the Disney store.

 I loved how my mother in law decorated for her party. Some of it I knew what she doing and some of it I had no clue. All the decorations tied into the rainbow theme.

Singing Happy Birthday to Harper. She would not blow out her candles though. I was kinda bummed. She does not like being in the spotlight like that. She didn't want to eat the cake either. She only wanted the ice cream.

Then we had to move to presents quicker then I was wanting to. Harper and her friend Kendal got into the presents and opened the one that I was gonna leave for last.

Harper had a really great birthday this year. I am glad we got to spend it with a group of wonderful people.

Harper's Birthday photo shoot

Harper's birthday was coming up. So we thought to do a photo shoot. It was fun. A nice experience. I got to take the majority of the pictures. Which was amazing that I was able to do that. We went to the same place out picture were took for our sealing. 

Here are some of my favorites. 

We should of started the photo shoot a little earlier so that we could of got more photos with better lighting I think. But they turned out so good. I love all her facial expressions. She knows exactly what to do when it comes to getting her pictures took. She loves it. 

We were able to get some pictures of all of us. I just love how she loves getting her pictures took and how she is always happy in her pictures. 

Toy Story 3 on ice

This year Harper got to experience watching Disney on Ice. They put on Toy Story 3. Harper loved it. It sure kept her attention. She was so entertained.

She watched the whole thing. Loved it. It was fun going there. With everyone. I hadn't been to that kind of performance since I was in Girl Scouts. When we went and watched The Lion King.    

Harper loved it and she got to see her favorite characters. She loves Minnie, Mickey, and Goofy. They came out and did a little performance during a break. It was fun and I would love to go watch more.

Christmas 2011

This years Christmas was pretty nice. Unlike last year I got to spend it with Harper and not having to work. She sure enjoyed waking up and opening her presents. She was how you say a little spoiled this year for Christmas.

Harper and her Christmas outfit                    

  

Rocking her new shorts while getting another gift to open

Harper got so many gifts this year. We opened all the presents from us and my family at our apartment and then we went and opened more at my in-laws house that night. Harper got a lot of baby dolls for Christmas along with a baby bed for her dolls. Kolby and I put it together for her on Christmas eve and got all of her gifts around it before we went to bed.

Christmas morning when we all came downstairs Harper was not to sure what to think. She didn't just run right to the gifts. But she is only 2 so i can see why. I am looking forward to opening gifts next year with Harper just like this year. Hopefully she will be more into opening the gifts up and running to them like most kids on Christmas morning.

Only thing missing this year for Christmas was my family. That is one thing that I am not used to at all. Not having my family around for holidays is hard. I know I am going to have to get used to not having them around for holidays but it is not that easy so far.

Thanksgiving 2011

This year was a little different from previous years for Thanksgiving. Well besides last year I also celebrated in Arizona. But previous years I would be with my family in Montana at my grandparents house. I miss them all so much especially around holidays.

This year for Thanksgiving was not bad though. There was not a lot of people. And the house was not over crowded. Which was nice. We had a nice dinner. Everyone came over and to my in-laws house. We all enjoyed eating outside and not having to worry about snow like I would of had to in Montana.

Our trip to Tombstone

The day that we left Tuscon we didn't come straight home. We went to Tombstone. It was so neat going up there. The first place we went when we got up there was a reptile place. My brother in law loves lizards. So they had to show us what the place had.

After we left the reptile place we went and walked around and looked at a lot of the old buildings. Got to see lots of people wearing old time clothing which was pretty cool to see.

After we were done looking around we went and ate lunch before we headed home. Once we left it felt like forever before we got home. It was dark and late when we got back. It was a bunch of fun though.

University of Utah football game

In November we went to Tuscon to watch the University of Utah play against University of Arizona. We went up there for Scott's birthday. We went and stayed at a resort in Tuscon. It was a nice resort. We got there pretty late that night. The resort had wild pigs on their grounds. It was so cool to see them. Once we had finally got to the room i was more then ready to get out of the car and unload the car. It was nice to get out and stretch and relax finally.

The next morning we got up and realized that we did not have any food what so ever for breakfast. Needless to say my husband and his older sister went into Tuscon to get us some breakfast. They went and got some really good muffins from Costco. Once they got back everyone was ready and dressed for the day. The two other men were still golfing so we ate and waited on them.

Before we left the resort we got pictures of the kids in their outfits for the game. Harper of course loved getting her pictures took.

Once they got there we all got ready to go to the mall. Once we were at the mall we just mainly went to waist time before the game started. So we just walked around and looked at what stores were there.

Finally when we were at the game we got our seats. We were right behind the one of the end zones. So it was not too bad of seating.

The game was very good. We all enjoyed it. Even Harper loved the game. Her favorite sport to watch is football now.