10!

My Chase is 10 today!!! I really can't wrap myhead around the idea of my baby turning 10! Chase is seriously the best 10 year old you will EVER meet! He is SO well-behaved and helpful and his brothers both adore him! He is also very smart, gets good grades and is a soccer superstar. He's going to be one of those people who is just good at everything they try! We are so proud of him and love him so much!

Happy Birthday Chase-man!

Animals

Not much to add today but I thought this video of Bridger was blog-worthy!

St. Anthony's

We aren't up to much and unfortunately I haven't had any interesting thoughts of late, (Unless you really want to hear me bitch about politics, the economy or stupid superficial people, which I doubt! I thinkI might be PMSing!) so I don't have much to update. However we went to St. Anthony's last weekend and I thought I'd post a couple of pictures. For those of you not "up" on your quading info, :) St. Anthony's is just outside Rexburg and is world class quading. Actually after one of our first trips there we read about it in an article listing the top 5 quading places in the US (we've been to 3 of them!) in ATV magazine. (Yes we subscribe) You will note, I'm not IN any of these pictures... Amanda & I were the only girls with 13 guys & I was the only one who was picture happy. :) Amanda, if you have any pictures I want to see them!!!

Tyler & Jon being dumb... but funny

Brandon jumping
Jon & Amanda in the camper the first night. It was raining! :(
Jon jumping
Tyler on choke-cherry, a really steep climb
Tyler, Brandon, Dax, Jon & Amanda. Dax's bike wouldn't start and
they were trying to jump start it. Shortly after this Brandon dropped Tyler on
his bum, it was pretty funny

Brandon, Amanda, Jon & Tyler on top of a hill, watching a storm move in

Pictures!

My friend Kailee surprised me on Friday night by showing up at Bridger's B-day party. She drove in from Seattle after coming straight from work. It was so fun to have her here! On Saturday we went to couple different parks around here (to check out the flooding) and she took some amazing pictures of the boys!

Happy Birthday Bridger!

Happy Birthday to our Bridger-Beans! My baby is turning 2 today, which I still can't believe! He has become such an amazing little person and we all adore him so much! He's such a bundle of energy and it's amazing to see the things he is learning everyday. I love this age because even though they develop an attitude (which has kicked in full-force this week!) they learn so much and are so much fun! Anyway we love you Beans!

This is Bridger in the hospital, those are preemie diapers that are too big!

The bubble is his oxygen

This is the nurse's hands holding him. He was so tiny!

Finally home! But the preemie clothes are still WAY to big!

This picture is a little older but it's one of my favorites of him

Soccer

So here are my boys Spring Soccer pictures for the year and we're so happy that soccer season is over! However, that said they start soccer camps, swim lessons, tutoring sessions & scout camps all in the next few weeks so.... I guess no rest for the weary! Not to mention Chase is trying out for the select soccer team and tryouts start in a little less than a month. Thus the reason why "stay at home Moms" are never actually home! :) We are so proud of our boys though and can't help but make those sacrifices to see them succeed. They had another GREAT season!

Davin aka "Speedy"Chase aka "Superstar"

Happy Birthday to me!

Just a couple pictures to celebrate me on my birthday! My "birth" day! Gared, OP & I. I think I was about 6 here.

Toddler road rage

Bridger may never be able to get his driver's license. Lately when we are driving and we are either stuck behind someone slow, or even stopped at a stop light for a long time I hear "GO!!!" from the only car seat still remaining in our car. He says this while pointing to the vehicle in front of us! This has got to be the youngest case of road rage ever! Interestingly he usually shouts this at the exact moment I am thinking it and mere moments before I would've shouted it myself.... I am definitely going to hell.

Confessions...

WARNING: If you are easily offended or meek of heart, please do NOT read this post!

I don't like to think of myself as "white trash " but I think everyone is a LITTLE bit! After all I do live in North Idaho, and my kids are on occasion a little raga-muffin-ish. ( I know that's not a real word. Yet another sign of the white trash in me!) Sometimes I don't get all the weeds out my flower beds as promptly as I should and Brandon just installed a car seat on the back of my 4wheeler. The signs are pretty obvious. However, the biggest sign of a white trash household has FINALLY been removed. On this momentous day,after months (and months, and months....) of nagging, my husband took down the Christmas Lights!!!! The worst part is, they were actually still turned on! The timer had broken and we couldn't turn them off. But yesterday when we finally got to turn on our sprinklers I think Brandon saw the light! It was pretty bad to have your Christmas lights on and the sprinklers running at the same time. :) I had threatened to get up there and do it myself, but you all know me well enough to know that was probably NOT a good idea as I am "a little clumsy" and would surely fall off the roof. So I figure today I'm about half as white trash as I was yesterday!

My cute family

We went on a hike/walk around Tubb's Hill on Sunday afternoon and I took a few pictures of all my cute boys in the place that is SO beautiful! Spring has finally come to us and reminded us why we moved here in the first place!

And such is life

I have a confession to make. I love updating my blog! Everyone wants to think there are people out there like them, and I get excited when people update their blogs so I like to think someone cares when I do. I imagine that you all are waiting with baited breath to hear what we are doing. Mind you I have an overactive imagination. :) I look at my friends and family blogs almost everyday hoping for updates. (maybe I have a little bit of stalker in me, I don't know)

Ok so now that that's out of the way... I am NOT busy enough! I tore the meniscus in my knee last Saturday and have had to spend a lot more time than I'd like sitting on my bum. I think I want to learn to knit and no I'm not joking! We've still had the usual soccer, scouts, house stuff that had to be done, and Brandon was host of an Elders Quorum BBQ on Thursday, but none of the other stuff that makes life interesting. I'm hoping next week I can get back to the norm since I don't feel like I need my crutches anymore. We'll see what happens when the pain meds wear off!:)

The boys and I went to this fun restaurant called Tomato Street

while Brandon did his Elders Quorum thing.Bridger got into Davin's deserted cereal this morning. It was pretty funny!

You will also notice Bridger is now without his hair. I've wanted to shave his head for awhile now but brandon was against it. However a couple days ago he discovered how to plug things in... namely the clippers that were in the bottom drawer in the bathroom. So by default I got my way! I guess Bridger's got my back!

More of the same

So not a whole lot of changes in the Harrison household, thus the lack of posts. We had our first soccer games of the season on Saturday and both boys did really great. This is a tough season for Davin because they change to a larger field, larger goals and playing actual positions at age 7. But he seemed to adjust ok. I got my car back from the bodyshop which was a relief since the rental car reaked of smoked! I don't know if I mentioned that my car got hit in the Wal-Mart parking lot... anyway it's fixed now. Other than that it's just the same old same old. Colors and fabrics and floor samples for the house. Taxes, scouts, soccer practices and FINALLY the gym! I couldn't go for about a month because of my sick kids and trip to UT and I'm finally getting back into the swing of it this week. Not much else worth mentioning so ta-ta for now!

Backgrounds

Ok so I'm not COMPLETELY technically challenged. I can usually figure out stuff on my computer, ipod, & cell phone. I can send and recieve text messages (which apparently "Mom's" don't do???) picture and video messages, all that stuff. However... I haven't been able to figure out how to put a pyzam Background on my blog without loosing all my links etc.. Anybody? I know a lot of you use them because I've seen them on your pages, but when i follow the instructions everything else disappears!!! Help!

The good, the bad and the ugly

The good: We got home from Utah on Friday night and we had a great visit! While it would have been fun to see EVERYONE I understand at this point that just isn't possible in one trip. We spent one day at the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point and had a GREAT time!!!

They are pretending to be scared of the T-Rex above them

Playing at the erosion table

Riding a....?

We got together one day with a couple of my High School friends and their kids. Bridger and AJ were "dancing" ! It was SO cute, they'd try to dance and then fall. Then he would try to pick her up.
Carrie and her son Parker
Another night I went over to Brandon's sisters house and a few of the cousins came over. We had a good time playing "Mr. X" and Rock Band. (Which I suck at by the way!:)) Above is my super cute sister-in-law Karah and me.
Nate, Me, Dave, Karah, Marc & Devin. Devin's girlfriend Elisha took the picture.

Now for the bad: Both of my older boys are home sick today with super high fever's and achiness. Davin started feeling yucky Sunday morning and Chase started feeling it to on Sunday night. So now that we are home and I'm supposed to be catching up on all the things that pile up when you're out of town for a week, we are stuck at home!

And last but not least, the ugly!: Bridger had a low grade fever on the way home and now has what appear to be chickenpox! The other boys have already had it so no worries on that front. He is actually getting better and it doesn't seem to be itching him all that badly. It's just ugly!

The poxApparently Bridger was tired... he climbed up on his changing table (he can't get into his crib on his own) and went to sleep! We found him like this yesterday afternoon.

Our crazy life

Alright so I know it's been awhile since I updated (not that anyone cares :)) so I thought I'd post something. It's just that we've been SUPER busy, but not with anything all that interesting. Brandon's working like crazy and, thank heaven things have picked up significantly in the building industry. He actually went on an adventure to Mexico a couple weeks ago too. He went with my brother Gared and my brother-in-law Matt. They did all kinds of crazy stuff like bungee jumping, a jungle canopy zip-line tour, 4 wheeling and surfing. (I'm SO jealous!) Anyway they had a really great time.
In the meantime paint is starting on interior of our house today so I've been collecting samples and making final decisions on all the interior "stuff". Because the house is kind of meant to show what we can do, there are several different styles within the house. Which means I couldn't just choose one stain or paint color all the way through the house. I needed 4 stains & 6 paints but they all have to compliment each other as well so it doesn't look ridiculous. Anyway, between that, getting ready to go to Utah this weekend (hooray!!) , my photography class, Easter Brandon's Birthday, the pinewood derby which B and I handle for the most part, both of our cars going into the body shop (yes BOTH of our cars were hit within a 2 week period), which also led to us realizing all of insurance info needed updating, and soccer starting with 4 practices on 2 different fields per week, we've been a little crazy!
Anyway that's what's new for us! Here are a few pictures of B in Mexico

This is Matt, Brandon and Gared

Brandon & Matt

B on the zip-line

House update

So the outside of the house is about done. There are a few details like paint touchup, and sealing the metal roofing (which will darken it so it's not so BRIGHT orange) that will need to be done last minute. But for the most part this is it. The interior should be getting paint in about a week or so, so it's progressing as well and we are excited about how it's looking!

Seattle

We went over to Seattle this past weekend for the frist time in quite awhile. Our friend Tex is being deployed for 7 months to the Persian Gulf so they were having a deployment party. I forgot how much I love that place! Maybe because on some level it's still "home" to me or maybe because we have firends there. Maybe it's just a cool city... who knows. Anyway I thought I'd throw a few pictures on here.

We went Pike's Place Market and the Tulips are up right now. Tulips are my favorite so I love the market that much more in the Spring! We also saw this man playing a saw... yes, you read that right. He was using a bow and playing "somewhere over the rainbow" on a hand saw. I tooka video but it's not very good quality.
The deployment party was at a Fun Center so this is us outside riding go-carts. It started raining in Seattle (that's wierd) and the trakc got all wet. There were about 14 of us so we were the only ones on the track and we turned our go-carts into something resembling bumper cars. It was awesome. We played Laser Tag too. I suck at it, but it was still good times.

My Kailee and Me at the party! Thanks for being such an amazing host, and playing with us all weekend!

I'm it...again

So I've been tagged and I hope you aren't all getting sick of learning about me! So here are the Questions.
1. 10 years ago:
2. 5 things on my to-do list today:
3. Snacks I enjoy:
4. What I would do if I were suddenly made a billionaire:
5. 5 places I have lived:
6. 5 jobs that I have had:
7. 3 of my BAD habits
8. 5 Random Things people don't know about me:
4 (or 5) people I tag:

1.10 years ago I was freshly married and trying to hurry and finish cosmetology school before i had Chase.
2.My to-do list is pretty short today, go to the Beauty Supply for my Mom, Go to Sherwin Williams and get small packs of paint so I can put together stiory boards, lunch with Susanna and maybe Amber, go to the gym & NOT slit my wrist because it just started snowing... AGAIN!
3. I enjoy all snacks except cheesey crackers, i.e. Goldfish, Cheese Nips etc.. My favorite right now is chocolate covered raisins. But I love baked lay's potatoe chips, natural cheetos, baby carrotts, snap peas, and fresh raw mango's, YUM! (Great now I'm hungry!)
4. If I were a billionare I would pay off my debt, (I know that's not very fun!) get a boob lift, travel extensively & shop like crazy!
5. Issaquah WA, Provo UT, Orem UT, Post Falls ID & Hayden ID
6. Teleperformance, Old Navy, Stylist, wife & Mommy
7. Interupting, I try not to but a thought pops into my head and can't seem to stop myself! I also eat out of boredom which explains why I can't seem to drop anymore weight. :( I clean excessively and while sometimes that's a good thing, I can get a little out of control.
8.I hate wet countertops, I also hate hair on countertops. I love to sing and wanted to be rock star when I was little. I love buying shoes but hate wearing them. (go figure) I have a celtic knot tattoed on my lower back and I have permanent makeup tattoes. I love to decorate our houses. I think it's so fun picking out paint and carpet and fabrics etc..
I tag Kari, Nicole, Cynthia & Mikelle

Happy Birthday Davin!

My Davin is 7 today! I can't beleive how fast he is growing up. We love you buh-buh!

ANOTHER update!

I know it's crazy how often I've been updating this week... I might be getting obsessed. Go figure. I just have to take back something I said a couple months ago. I complained that "all the beautiful snow" was being washed away in the rain. I TAKE IT BACK! Bring on the rain as long as the snow STOPS! I guess I got spoiled with our week in the Caribbean (We all know I'm spoiled, that's nothing new:)) but I'm so ready for winter to be over! I think it will probably take months for the mounds of snow to melt off and just when I think it's actually going to start it snows...AGAIN!
In other news, the house is coming along GREAT! I wish you all could see it in person, it's always different that way. Sheetrock is in and taped and the heat got turned this week so now they are mudding. The exterior is almost done minus a few pieces of siding. I'll post pictures when they are up. Anyway it's really beautiful and we've decided we are indeed going to put it in the Parade of Homes. Anybody who wants to come see is welcome.