Mini Family Vacation

Last week Brad had the chance to take off a week from work and we were able to go to the coast together. He ended up working half a day Monday, so to make it easier on Harper we drove to Houston and stayed the night. It worked out great because we were able to meet up with family and eat dinner together. Michael and Kristi met us with Dad and Kelly and we enjoyed a nice meal. It was so good to see everyone and after dinner we headed back to Dad's house and just visited and watched t.v. Early Tuesday morning we headed out for the coast. Mimi met us in Houston and followed us down there. So for the rest of the week we enjoyed hanging out as a family resting and playing in the sun. Harper had a great time and did really good. We took her to the pool everyday and ate at two new restaurants in town. Last time we went to Port O' Conner was when Harper was 10 weeks old. It's hard to believe that she is almost 14 months old now. As always we had a great time and it was beautiful. It has changed so much down there , and we were able to see the houses Brad has been building . We are so proud of him and we can't wait to do back down soon. Here are a few pictures from the week and a video of Harper showing you her EYE..Road trip... Hello POC... MIMI's love... Harper with Chester before dinner. Sunscreen Mohawk Pool time My eye...

Church nursery

Last Sunday I ended up getting the day off so we decided to go to church. It is so rare these days to go to church together as a family that I get so excited when we are able to go. This wasn't the first time that we had taken Harper to church , but this day we decided it was time to send Harper to the nursery. It is becoming so hard to keep her quiet and she needs to become more comfortable apart from us. I also want her to be comfortable at church. My hopes are that soon, with or without me , Harper will be at church most Sunday's learning about the Lord. This week we decided to make the transition a little easier and asked CiCi to stay in the nursery with her. I felt like if she knew someone it would make it a little bit easier. So we dropped her off and I waited around the corner to listen for her to stop screaming. She finally quit when Cici arrived and we went on to church. I couldn't wait to see her after the sermon. Come to find out she did great. She played well and seemed to do great with the other kids. I wanted to get more pictures of her that day but I was so stressed it didn't happen. I did grab one picture of Harper and her daddy. Maybe next time we will try it without Cici and things will get better. Here is a quick picture of out big day.

Harper GET DOWN...

Harper " get down " is the new phrase around the Warren household. All of a sudden Harper thinks she needs to climb on everything. So today I had her in my room while I changed the sheets on the bed. We had been in the room for 5 minutes and this is what I caught Harper doing!! My little monkey! Also we recently in the last week finally had a new tooth come in. So here is number 6!! So the smile is balanced back out now..

Last is a video of Harper talking. Just thought it was cute. ENJOY...

Random Sweetness

Just thought today I would post a few cute things. Harper and I have been really busy so far this week , so today I decided to take it easy. I just wanted to post a few cute pictures from the week so far.

My little vintage baby playing in her room.
Notice little Chester :)





Harper playing in her toy box.



Harper playing with chalk for the first time.




Hope everyone is having a good week.

Hide and Seek...

Harper where is Chester? This is our new game. She loves us to hide her favorite stuffed animals. Then we ask her to find one and she goes looking. It is so funny to watch her look over the room.

Fourth of July

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY...

I love holiday's on days I am off. :) I love to be home with family an extra day. It is so rare these days to be together all day that I love these days. Today we took it easy. Harper was up at 5:45 so we were up before the sun. We played with Harper most of the morning in the playroom and around lunch we started cooking. Brad started marinating ribs and Mimi made potato salad. We also got corn on the cob ready to be grilled and made some baked beans. Then we all loaded up and headed to Cici's house. Cici and papa and the Hill's are all down at the coast. We were sad to miss the trip but I had to work so we decided we would just go over to their house and swim for the evening. We had JJ and Pops meet us over there and we all hung out at the pool. Brad grilled all the food up and we had an amazing dinner. Harper was obsessed about the dog toys while we were there. She kept taking all the squeaky toys and balls from the basket. So finally I just gave in, cleaned them and let her play with them. Harper was exhausted because she only had a small nap so around 8 we headed home and called it a night. So now everyone is in bed and we are listening to the sound of fireworks. Happy Birthday America!! Here are a few pictures of Harper today with her adorable outfit and little squeaky toys...

Chewing on her dog toy..:)


Hanging with Mimi in the pool



JJ




I loved Harper's outfit..


This was Harper one year ago today. It is crazy how much she has changed in one year. I can not believe it..


Second 4Th of July !


Patriotic BUM....

Fun Filled Friday

Friday's are always the hardest for me. I remember coming back from maternity leave and someone saying " It's okay Jennifer, it really does get better". It did get better but I have to say I almost get a little depressed on Friday's because I know that for the next two days I will barely see my girl. So my new thing is to try to make Friday's really fun. Mimi came up this week on Thursday so we all decided to get up this morning and run some errands together. First Walmart! We are having a party at work on Sunday so I needed to pick up some food to make a dessert! Mom brought Harper a mini stove top microwave toy this week and we picked up some fake food. It has this little shopping basket with tons of fake veggies and fruits in it. SO CUTE!!We then picked up some lunch and headed home to unpack groceries. After we got everything put away we loaded back up and went to the Medical store in town to see about getting Mama a wheelchair. Mama and Papa White are going on a cruise soon and we needed to pick her out a chair to help get her around the ship. So we ended up spending two hours there and Harper was running the place ragged. Once we got done there we decided to come home and I cooked a good dinner. I actually made a dessert for us tonight to try out the recipe for Sunday's party. Pretty sure everyone was happy to try it out for me. I made a Blueberry Dump Cake. Sunday I plan to substitute Peaches but the blueberries were awesome. So after we ate dinner and cleaned up we decided to let Harper play outside for a while. I had picked up this water toy at Tj Maxx last week and figured we would try it. It was clearance for 5 dollars and it was like a mini splash park. It turned out to be really cute and she liked it but only played for about 15 minutes before heading off to get into trouble . Brad pushed her around on her Trike for a while and then we headed into bath. We finally got Harper clean and she was exhausted so we fed her and rocked with her for a while. When Brad finally took her to bed I was so sad to see her go. She waved and said NITE NITE and it just about broke my heart. Funny thing is that this week on Tuesday we met Liz and Heaton at Northpark to shop and she was a little irritable so I grabbed a clearance stuffed animal in Nordstroms to keep her busy. Next thing I know she is love with the stuffed classic tiger doll. I had just told some people I work with last weekend that Harper is not attached to anything. And next thing I know , she is in love with this orange tiger. We now carry it everywhere and sleep with it at night. So after we put her in bed tonight we watched her for 20 minutes on the monitor play with her Chester.{ Chester: stuffed tiger } When I was growing up I had a cat named Chester that looked just like this stuffed animal so we decided it would be kinda cute if we were both attached to a Chester :) Glad this Chester comes with no litter box. Well I hope everyone has a great weekend and a Happy Fourth of July. Here are a few pictures of Harper playing with her new Kitchen set and Water toy.

My sweet little chef.





Harper on her trike.


Splish Splash..

Surprise Wednesday's

This week I was on Craigslist to look for a diaper sprayer and so I went to the search bar and for some reason it brought up kids toys. Honestly I had never even thought about buying toys on Craigslist. Cici was just telling us the other day about how one of her friends bought this Laugh and Learn House and her grand kids loved it. So randomly it showed up for sale. So since it caught my eye I went to the site and checked it out. Ends up the lady selling it was in Rockwall. It retails for about 85 dollars in the store and she was selling it for only 30 used. It was in perfect condition with only a few crayola marks which I am sure we will only add too. So I called Brad and had him arrange the pickup and on Wednesday night we surprise little miss Harper with her new toy. It was so fun to watch her. I was giving her a bath and Brad set it up in the playroom and man she was so excited. She LOVES IT.. We probably should not have given it to her so late because it was hard to get her to bed that night. So now I am officially addicted to Craigslist! Harper is still in love with her new toy and I have to admit it really is such a cute toy. I love it when she rings the doorbell.

Belly Button

Harper where is your belly button??

There it is!!!!