Bubbles

I love this video. She loves to blow bubbles in the tub. I think it is so funny but at the same time she chokes all the time. Ughhh. I almost want to stop her from doing it but then how fun is this mommy. I am thinking this winter I am going to take her to Aqua tots. Hopefully if we practice this winter she will be a pro by summer.

Just another nap

I love this picture! They truely are napping buddies!

Decorating fun...

Just wanted to post a few fun pictures of my sweet girl helping decorate the tree. She took off as much as she put on the tree but she had a BLAST and asks us to see the tree a million times a day! And now before bed we have to go in and tell the tree "night night tree " and give it a hug.. I secretly crack up every night when she does this. SO CUTE!!








We put it in the dining room behind the baby gate! Good thing we did because she is so obsessed that she cries when we don't take her in to see the tree for the 30th time in a day;). Mimi also made Harper a special tree , decorated with all birds !






She loves it too ! I love Christmas time. The house always looks so cozy with all the decorations. I always get a little sad after the holidays when it all comes down. Hopefully we get the lights up this weekend to finish it up! Happy holidays friends and family!

ICE " Shrek"

Last weekend we decided since I had off Sunday that we would make it a special family day. Harper is so obsessed with Shrek that when I found out that the ICE exhibit was Shrek the Halls we had to go. So we decided to invite the whole family and go together. We bought the tickets for 2 pm so we got out there about 1 to walk around the Gaylord.






They have it decorated so beautifully. So ends up there was a bad wreck on 635 and our family was late. So mean while I developed a horrible stomach ache and could barely function. So we finally were able to go through and I was only able to go through about half , because I was so sick.






Harper had the best time. She was a little intimidated for a few minutes , because it was so cold and the figures were so big.








But very quickly she warmed up to the event and then went nuts . I bet we heard "Shrek , Ice " a million times. We even paid extra to meet Shrek which she loved from a distance but freaked out when up close! Haha he was kinda HUGE!! So after Ice we then headed over to Great Wolf, originally I thought this would be great since we were already out there. But due to my illness and a late start it didn't go as planned. Once finally in the room( due to messed up room keys) we headed to the pool.




But I think because it was the coldest day so far this year it was cold in there! No toasty swim experience for us, we ended up just going in the hot tub for about 30 minutes and then heading back to the room. We ended up going down to the arcade and story time and that was really really fun. The hardest part of the little family day was at night. Harper usually does great but that night we were up every 30 minutes all night. So early the next day I ended up calling the Pedi and going in to find out Harper had an ear infection. Poor baby I bet being in the 9 degree ice exhibit or going swimming was really painful. So antibiotics and a good nights rest she is back to here crazy happy self and multiple times a day I still hear "Shrek, Ice" . So I guess even though it was a hard day, in the end we were able to spend the day together and I think Harper had a great day ( minus the painful ear infection night) ;( . so here are a few pictures of my little ogre! Love her!!!!

Thankful

We have so much to be thankful for! When I sit down and start thinking about it , I get so emotional. We are so blessed to have all the wonderful things going on in our lives. And each year it only gets better. I am so grateful that we have our health and that we are so happy. Also I am so thankful that we are able to support our family! So many people out their struggle to put food on their table. I am so abundantly thankful for Harper. She has brought so much joy and love into our lives. She teaches me so many things daily from patience to unconditional love. We are so thankful for our families. The family that helps us when we need and are always there for support. I could go on for hours probably with all the things we are thankful for. This year we had a quiet Thanksgiving . We got up and Mimi made a pintrest sticky bun breakfast! Yum! Then we turned on the parade and laid around and watched it while napping off and on.





Later that day we headed over to Aunt Jenn's house for a thanksgiving dinner.




The kids played like crazy around the house and we all ate way to much food! It is always so awesome to spend the holiday with family because working as a nurse their are many holidays spent at the hospital. It was a great Thanksgiving and we look forward to the next year of things to be thankful for next year.

Beautiful Voice

I just had to post this video. Harper watches Shrek probably two times a day. I am so embarrased to say that but she loves Shrek and The little mermaid. It is completely amazing to me how she memorizes things in the movie. We caught her doing this the other night. In shrek there is this one spot that Fiona sings to a bird in the tree. We did not teach her any of this. The way she sings with her or the hand motions. Who knows where she picked this up , but everytime I watch this it cracks me up. This little girl makes me laugh every day.

The Coast.

So after the last crazy week we had, we headed down to the coast with Brad so that he could work. I had switched a day that week and so I actually had off that Sunday so we took full advantage. We packed up on Sunday and headed down to Houston to visit Uncle Mike and Aunt Kristi. They moved into their new house recently and we had not had the chance to see it yet. The house is so perfect and they are working so hard to repaint everything and fix some small things up. We loved it and Harper took full advantage of the playground across the street. Kristi and I took her over and played for an hour or so before Paw Paw and Gigi showed up to visit. We spent the whole day with all the family and then watched a movie before bed. We had such a great time visiting them and hope to be able to do it again really soon. On Monday morning we got up and headed out to go to the coast for Brad to work a few days. They are building two houses right now so he is going to be traveling down there quite a bit more now. So we are trying to go more to be able to hang out as a family in the evenings. Turns out that Tuesday we had some rain so we were able to hang out a little more due to rain delays..


I love this picture of the rain in the distance. I can not say I was too sad about the extra family time...:) We always have such a good time when we go down there. The alligator in the pond behind the house came out and basket in the sun one day and we were able to see it's full body for the first time.Usually we can only see his head from a distance. He was so much bigger than we thought . Probably about 9 feet. Emma no longer has full outdoor privelages.We wouldnt want her to be lunch.




Also on one of the other lakes in the sancutary the ducks have figured out that they are safe during hunting season. So everyday we would drive Harper over to see the ducks. Their were literally hundreds on this one pond. When we would drive up they take off and its beautiful to see them take flight over us.We also went down and played at the park in the evenings. Harper would say over and over "SLIDE".





Each night after we would get home Harper would lay up in our bed and watch shows on the Ipad. Man what a rough life she has.




While we were in town I picked up Harper a wagon full of sand toys and each night we would go down to the beach and play in the sand. Harper loved it , but was a little confused on why she couldn't play in the water. Just a little to cold.




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Also the house is not as baby proofed as home so I was constantly trying to keep this monkey off things.



We took Emma on this trip and left Riley with the Warren's . It is just so hard to travel with both dogs. So Emma went on Vacation too. She took full advantage and napped most of the time.






On Thursday we headed home and Harper did great in the car. I keep hoping she gets use to the travel , so that we can go down easily from now on. Brad always says when we get home how much he loves being home. But I cannot lie, I love being down on the coast. Funny how he views it as work and I view it as vacation! Yet he views home as rest and I view it as WORK.. Ha Ha. Either way Harper was happy to see her playroom and back to work this weekend for mommy.

Week of celebration

It's been a crazy busy two weeks and I realized somewhere in the past weeks I forgot to blog ! We have had so many parties and travel that somehow I was just to tired at night to sit down and blog. I rarely go two weeks without blogging so I guess I will just have to do better and catch everyone up. Last week we had a baby shower at work for Deanna to celebrate little B and then I worked on Wednesday. I then bought Harper a big blue hippo chair (her favorite Hippo's ) for Christmas and she saw it and now uses it daily :) ! Note to self hide things better.





Then on Thursday I was able to get the first haircut since Harper was 3 months old. Of coarse she went crazy with Mimi in the mall so she ended up in my lap ;)... Interesting new way to get my hair cut!!! For the first 5 minutes Harper thought the guy was hurting me by cutting my hair but after that she watched bubble guppies sitting pretty still.




Then we had Cheri's retirement party that afternoon. Her work threw her a really nice party and the whole family went to support her! Hayes stood up and told everyone that he had two things to say
1: That he was excited to spend more time with CiCi.
2: That the only bad thing is she was going to make less money!
I'm still laughing about this, kids are really smart these days! They know NO WORK = LESS MONEY!
CiCi received some awesome new luggage to travel with from her office. And Harper ran all over her office and passed out in the car on the way home.



Then on Friday we had a shower for Kelly and baby girl Finley. I made adorable party favors that I found on pintrest. They were s'mores that looked like owl ( her room is done in owls).



After the shower I then headed over to Zannatas for dinner. We celebrated CiCi's birthday with a wonderful dinner with all the family. I then worked Saturday and Sunday! The following week we also had a visit from Paw paw and Gigi. We had lunch and then spent the afternoon at the zoo. Harper had so much fun and my camera charger is lost so I didnt get to take any pictures :(. It was such a busy week but we celebrated some fun stuff. So here are some pictures from that week!

Halloween 2011

Halloween! I have to say I think everyone at the Warren house is exhausted from this weeks fun. We have had such a crazy last few days but in the end it was all worth it and now we will take a few days to recover. First off we dressed up Halloween night and Harper went to a few houses in our neighborhood to trick and treat. At 16 months we just wanted her to do a few and then she mainly helped us out passing the candy to the kids. I have to say this year she was a little fearful of the scary kids. Funniest moment: Our neighbors child came over as a lion and from that moment on Harper decided to ROAR like a lion . So I'm thinking her pebbles costume was not what she wanted to wear this year. She also had her first taste of candy. Thanks to the kit Kat that got a away from us we now have a candy addiction. Who could blame her right?? She looked so adorable and I just cannot wait to see what she decides to be every year.








So then on Tuesday we had been working for weeks to have a small party at the house for the kids. So thanks to Pintrest ( my new addiction) some friends from work and I put together a fun little carnival style party for the kids. Complete with carnival games, bounce house, art table,family picture booth, face painting, and cookie decorating. We also had good food. Everything from mummy wraps to halloweenies.It was so fun . So much hard work paid off in the end and I think the kids had a blast.
This year as a family we went as the The Flintstones. Maybe this will be a tradition for us and I will let the kids pick out a family theme each year. I guess we will see how it goes.
Harper ate probably a pound of candy( which I still can not believe I let her do) and was face painted all over (thanks to daddy who let her face paint herself) ha ha. I have to admit that dirty child looked so cute!

Thanks to all the people who came to share the evening with us and special thanks to my family for helping out so much .

























I hope everyone had such a wonderful Halloween!