Tuesday, October 30, 2012

October


Here are a few things we did in October....
 

1.  Purposely made  a hole in our stairway wall to get a couch to "fit" downstairs :)


Who knew you could get so excited destroying your own house :)
 
See.... Doesn't that look better than the empty room we had :). 
Now I just need to work on wall decorations and window coverings.
 
2.  Hung out up in Park City with some friends.  Our friends the Duncans had a extra time share they needed someone to use.  It would have been rude of us to say no :)  Not only did we get to hang out with great company, but we also....  ate yummy food, walked Main Street, watched cable, went to a Scarecrow Walk, a park and of course swimming. 

The Duncan and Harrison kids

Rub a Dub Dub, two Dads in a tub.

The most amazing tree for climbing. 
 Lizzie was in heaven and kept saying how cool the tree was.

 
3.  Nate and Liz came to visit.... I think the picture explains perfectly how excited my kids get. :)


4.  Carved Pumpkins-
My parents came up to help carve pumpkins.  It is noisy and chaotic and something the kids SO look forward to every year.
Getting the "guts" out.

My dad and Afton

Afton with kitty bat

The line-up -
 Jim's, Lizzie's, Ethan's, Lilly's and Afton's.


The pumpkins seem pretty happy about their new look.
 
 
5.  Took the kids to their first corn maze. For some reason our kids have never been.  Actually there is a reason- Since the girls were born, the idea of taking all four to a corn maze sounded too chaotic and nerve wracking for Jim and I.  Luckily our girls are getting easier to take  more and more places the older they get.
Ethan and Afton brave enough to be our leaders

Afton was very curious about the corn.

The kids conferring about where to go next.


Some of my favorite people


1...2...3...4...5...6.... WHEW!   We all made it out!!
 



Friday, October 19, 2012

Family Pictures

The Harrison Family started....
 

With a boy named Jim....

And a girl named Alisha.....
 
Falling in Love....
 
A son named Ethan was born.....

 
Then a daughter named Lizzie...
 
Along came the twins....
 
 Afton....
 
 and Lilly....
 
 
 
 
Our Family
(Oct. 2012)
 

Friday, October 5, 2012

Girl Power

 
Every Tuesday from 1:30 to 3:30 these six girls get together and hang out for a children's book playgroup.  We rotate houses and whose parent is in charge. When it is your turn you  read a book to the girls,  have a couple activities based on the book,  have a snack and then let them play. 
 
These six girls all live within a block of each other and will start kindergarten next fall. The two girls in the pink and blue shirt in the middle are also twins and live about four houses up from us.
 
 
 


At our most recent turn at our house, we read Harold and the Purple Crayon.  After story, they drew their own purple adventure (like Harold) with only purple crayons, markers and colored pencils.  Then  they learned about mixing red and blue water together to make purple.  Then of course we had purple grapes and purple Kool-Aid.

 
Such a cute group of girls!