Saturday, October 31, 2009

Trunk or Treat

Today was the Trunk-or-Treat Activity at church. Quarterly Activities always stress me out, but they turn out so fun. Some of the kids costumes were so clever this year. We had a girl dressed like a whoopee cushion, Harry Potter, transformers, Little house on the Prairie...they were all really cute!

My girls decided a month ago that they wanted to be Geisha girls. They already had the dresses in their play clothes, so what could be easier? Derek put their hair back in a bun, inserted chopsticks and I did their makeup. Don't they look so old? That is truly scary....


Here's one of Jacob and I....I was a Hillbilly, and Jacob was Woody, from Toy Story.
He would not keep his hat on! We hope everyone has a great Halloween tonight!

Monday, October 19, 2009

Pumpkin Patch







Last Saturday, Derek and the kids went to Johnson's Pumpkin Farm in Greenbrier. It was windy, cold, and really muddy. Not the best conditions, but the kids had fun anway.
Once we got home all the tennis shoes, and coats had to be washed..lol

Friday, October 16, 2009

fall festival


Kids and Derek went the fall festival at the Primary school last night. It was nice of Derek to take them out for a bit, as I have not been feeling well the past 2 days(nope, no pregnant, just exhausted).

Here are some pics of the lovely face paintings they came home with..lol
You cant see Lydia's sunset, but it was shaded very well, and of course Jacob smeared his car..oh well. Kate got a rainbow with clouds.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

this and that...ramblings.

Been pretty busy here lately. With Orchestra, church callings and never ending small crisis' that pop up, it seems I never have time to stay on top of everything. See, I'm a perfectionist. It's a terrible curse. I feel like I always have to have my house clean, and in order, and presentable, but then there are other areas of my life that stay in chaos. I guess I just place more importance on certain things. Lately some things have happened that have caused me to reflect on what really is important.

Without boring you to death, I wont bother you with the minute details of the story.
You ever felt really threatened? Like how someone who you thought knew, you, accused you of doing something you didn't do? How do you convince that person? It's a difficult thing. People are stubborn and prideful.The scriptures keep telling us not to be prideful, but the meek get run over by the prideful everytime. Do we just lay down and take it? My parents raised me to be independent, and sometimes that means fighting back . I do agree there are times, you must just turn the other cheek. Doesn't mean its always easy...especially when it involves your family.
I love my family, not just the my own immediate family, but my family I grew up with, the Harrison clan. We didn't say it much then, but we love each other , but yet somehow our relationships remained a bit strained. Sometimes I wish we could just remove all the pretense, maybe we need some therapy. Maybe we just need to let some things go of the past, and start over.
Anyhow, didnt mean to turn this into Psych 101 this morning..lol
Just want to let my friends and family know how much I love them, and I'm so glad that I'm not alone in the crazy mixed-up world!

Sunday, October 04, 2009

give away

for all you scrapbooking fans, this website is giving away a free Gypsy machine. If you dont kno what it is, go on over to Provocraft.com.It works in conjuction with the Cricut machine....go enter at the site for a chance to win.

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