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As you will read below we had a garage sale this weekend..... Stephanie and Harper had been out and about and were on their way back to the house. Steph asked Harper if she thought Mommy had sold a lot of stuff and then said something about Jon & Kate plus 8 coming to buy stuff since they have a lot of kids. Harper told Steph and they wouldn't come and buy anything because they "live in the TV"

Busy Weekend....

We had our first annual Garage Sale on Friday & Saturday! Or maybe I should say my first & last ever Garage Sale. We decided it was time to get rid of all of Harper's baby/toddles cloths and all the baby things she had. Oh the work involved! I took Thursday off to get things ready and then I had Friday off from work already (Arbor Day! - yes it sometime pays to work for the State of Nebraska). Friday the weather was absolutely beautiful! I took Harper to DD's for the day so Matt and hung out and 'sold' things. Sonja came up for the weekend to help and hang out. She got to the house in the afternoon.. as did Stephanie. So Harper was in heaven - she had both her favorite aunts to play with and show off for.... Jim also drove up from Kansas Friday night. Saturday morning it turned out to be cold and rainy! I opened the GS up anyhow and just put everything in the garage. Matt of course was a little concerned as he didn't want people looking at all of his treasures in the garage. I told him I wouldn't sell anything - unless I could get a lot of $$ for it. :-) Stephanie took Harper to dance class for me and they had a great time spending time together after. They went to lunch and then to the mall. Anyhow... it turned out to be a good weekend as I made some $$ and got to spend time with family!

Farewell Alphabet

Harper will be done with her first year of Preschool in about a month. She has learned so much and absolutely LOVES IT. We have enrolled her next year at the same place for Tue/Thur morning again since it worked so well with my work schedule. Today this was sent home with her and I thought I would share.

A - is for Alphabet - which we know how to say

B - is for Busy Bodies - at work and at play

C - is for Colors - red, black, blue & green

D - is for Drawings pictures - the best you've even seen

E - is for Exercise - to keep our bodies strong

F - is for Fun - we've had as we gone along

G - is for Good friends - we made them throughout the year

H - is for Happy faces - filled with love and cheer

I - is for Imagination - used at every turn

J - is for good Job - and praises that we've earned

K - is for Kindness - we've shared with everyone

L - is for Learning - more and more each day

M - is for Minding - and showing our respect

N - is for Numbers - one, two, three, correct?

O - is for Obstacles - we've learned to overcome

P - is for Puppets - and playing on a drum

Q - is for Questions - we've asked them throughout the year

R - is for Reading - stories that we love to hear

S - is for Snacks - several different kinds we've tried

T - is for Talking - it's not to be denied

U - is for Unusual - it fits some things we've done

V - is for Volunteers - parents and friends every one

W - is for World of preschool - now we are through

X - is for X-traspecial - it's him, it's her, it's you!

Y - is for Yes - it has been a GREAT YEAR

Z - is for Zest - We're ready, have no fear

Playing ball @ Uncle Mitch & Aunt Brandy's

Come on Dad - Pitch me the ball!

The Outfielders!

Our little ball player not sure who was pitching..

Maybe Uncle Mitch?

Sunday we were over at Mitch & Brandys for our first cook-out of the summer. The food great but the company was better. Grandpa got Harper and new bat and 6 balls (now we don't have to chase it after every pitch) THANKS grandpa! She loves to play ball - she can even hit in. Now we just need to get her a glove and practice throwing. She bats right handed but 'sometimes' throws left handed?

Easter Pictures!

Easter Stuff!
Easter Basker/Bubble/Peeps - you name it!

Harper & Jayne @ the Easter Egg hunt in Chester

Harper & Grandpa

Harper and Chester Grandma!

Easter Morning

Harper & Holden @ the Easter Egg Hunt!

Matt called me a work on Thursday and said that he was going to go pick up Harper @ DD's and head to the lake for some fishing. They didn't catch anything but had a good time trying.

Easter Weekend....

Harper headed to Chester Friday afternoon with Aunt Jayne, Aunt Carrie & Cousin Holden! She of course had a GREAT TIME and each day since she has come back I hear another story or she says something about someone in Chester. Chester had their annual Easter Egg Hunt Saturday morning at the Park. I haven't been able to get her to tell me much about the hunt except that there were a lot of eggs and candy. She was also able to spend some more time with Luke & Lucy (her favorite horses in the world) Alan hooked up the horses to a wagon and they got to go on a hay rack ride. I hear that Allan ran a Stop sign in town (don't worry, we are talking Chester and there isn't a lot of traffic) and Harper let him know what he had done. Yes - she is our back seat driver.... If I go through a Yellow light she lets me know! and tells me that Yellow means... slowwwww downnnnnn. She had a great time and I'm very thankful that she is able to spend time in Chester with family.... I should have some Easter Weekend pictures to post sometime this week!

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Harper went to Church Easter Sunday with The 3 Aunts - Judy, Jolene & Jayne. The minister had invited all of the children up to the front on the church for a children's sermon. Harper didn't initially get up and then she finally said "I'm a children" and asked to go up and join the other kids.

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To start off this one - I need to tell you all that we have been trying to get Harper to stop Interrupting when someone is talking. Most of you know that she loves to talk and this has been a hard habit to break......I had just dropped Harper off at Preschool and was talking to one of her teachers. I looked at her and was just going to ask her not to interrupt. She looked at us and said... Will you please stop talking while I'm trying to interrupt you.

Harper's Motor Game Trivia

Which one of these parts is the intake?

Harper's knows!

Read post below to understand

Daddy - Daughter Day Out

Yesterday was Matt's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY HONEY! He had the day off from work and decided and he and Harper were going to have a day of FUN. Unfortunately she did not let him sleep in much - "welcome to my world" :-) They started off the day going fishing at 'their' favorite fishing hole. Didn't catch anything though. Matt told Harper it may be to cold to catch any fish and she told him the fish were not biting because they were having lunch.. They then did their good deed for the day. There was a old farmer who had come up to see if the fish were biting and when he went back to his car he couldn't get it to start. Matt tried to help him figure out what the problem was and when they couldn't get it started, Matt offered to drive him home... To Schyler! A bit down the road thes old guy saw a truck and a trailor that he recognized and told Matt that if he could flag him down he could catch a ride with him. After a few miles Matt got the guy to pull over and the off he went to Schyler. They then headed back in town to go Drag Racing! Yes - I said Drag Racing. Harper and Matt often watch drag racing on TV and whenever they go to O'reilys and Harper sees the Go Carts at Champions she wants to go... so they did! Harper is convinced that all racing is Drag Racing. They had a great time! When I got home from work they were sitting at Matt's bench playing the Motor Game... Matt is rebuilding the motor for his truck and the motor is on a stand in the garage. They look at one of Matt's catalogs and he points to a picture in the catalog and then he asks Harper to find that part on his engine. Harper and I then went for a long walk over the Mulberry Road... Check future posts to find out about Mulberry Road

Weekend in Chester...

Harper went to Chester on Saturday with Aunt Jayne, Aunt Carrie, Uncle Jan, Katie & Holden. It was Katie & Holden's birthday...HAPPY BIRTHDAY! She had a great time and had lots of stories. I've only gotten bits & pieces of each story so far... She didn't get to see the birds at Chester Grandpa's apartment because they were playing the piano (I'm guessing they were maybe having church) - She got to sit - not ride on one of the horses of one of the neighbors - She got to play at the farm with Aunt Jolene - She got to play at the north park in the big round thing - She got to eat at Runza (her favorite). I'm sure I will hear more in the next couple of days. Thanks for thinking of her and taking her with you... It's important to Matt and I that she gets to spend time in Chester whenever she can... Matt has so many good memories of time he spent in Chester growing up...

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Last night as Harper and I were coming home from the store I looked back and saw her chewing on her hair (which Really bothers me). I asked her to stop and she of course did not. I then told she better stop doing that or I was going to cut off her hair. She was quiet for a moment and then got a little teary eyed and said.... "But mommy, if you cut off my hair I will look like daddy."........... I laughed a little and then explained that I would not cut off her hair, but would get it cut shorter so she would not do that anymore.. She said she understood - but who knows/?

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While in the car this morning Harper noticed the sun. It was very big and low on the horizon as it was about 730. She said it was a very pretty color but wanted to know where the lines coming out of the sun were???

Helping Daddy rebuild the motor for the Yukkie Truck!

Helping Dad drain the radiator! Like the hat? - thanks Les

I want to help? Pleaseeeeeeee

Shrine Circus

Finally - after asking about 100 times - I gave in and bought her a snow cone!

Pony ride - Pony ride

Riding the "Daddy" Elephant

Harper, Aunt Brandy & myself went to the Shrine Circus on Saturday and had a great time. Harper got to ride an elephant & a horse. She also got to enjoy cotton candy, popcorn & a snow cone! Which she is still talking about. Brandy and my favorite part was the elephants & a the magic part of the show. They had a guy and gal do an illusion with their outfits. They would just change! Hard to explain... I had seen a video on-line once with the same thing... Oh - almost forgot, they also shot a guy out of a cannon! Thanks for coming with us Aunt Brandy! We had a great time!

Thursday 13

What is Thursday 13th?

The Thursday 13 is a weekly meme with a simple theme: each Thursday you blog a list of 13 things. What kind of things? Any kind! Just come up with a list theme and run with it. One week you may list “13 things on my mind” and maybe the next week you’d list “my top 13 favorite movies”.

I think this meme looks fun - but I'm not sure I'm goign to be able to the Every Week thing.. But will give it a try! shhhhhh I know today is already Friday, I'll do better next week! My friend at http://www.joeyswalk.blogspot.com/ had it on her blog and thought it would be fun.

1. Pepsi/Coke taste test - My very first job I had at age 12 at the Boone County State Fair.

2. City Cafe in Newman Grove - Worked from my brother in his cafe during high school. I ran the register, cooked, cleaned You name it!

3. Pick-a-Flick Video Store - I managed a video store in St. Paul Nebraska. Did it my first year out of high school. Then decided to move to Lincoln to go to school.

4. Lincoln County Club - work in the kitchen on what they call the 'hot' side. I was the only female and loved it. I learned so much.

5. Charlotte's Farm Kitchen - enough said - what the heck was I thinking???

6. Mahoney State Park - LOVED this job. I was there for the ground up and the park was being built. Worked in the kitchen, dining room & in catering.

7. Arbys - left Mahoney to be one of the managers. Better hours and no driving.

8. Colby Ridge - Managed the Korn Popper downtown, really enjoyed it and lots of fun.

9. Cornhusker Hotel - Worked as a banquet captain and had blast. Did banquets from anywhere for 10 - 1000 people.

10. Went back to Colby Ridge and managed a different store... enough of working weekends - I wanted to find a man!

11. DMV - Cannot believe that I have been here for 10 years! OMGosh I really enjoy my job.

Just happened on this job - started as a temp and before I knew it I was a supervisor.

12. Wife - not sure I really think of this as a job, but I had trouble coming up with 13. I have a wonderful husband who is very thoughtful and takes care of me! Which is my past relationships I had not experienced and boy was it worth the wait! I love you honey!

13. MOM - One of the greatest things in the world. I am so amazed by Harper each and every day. I love you baby doll.

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Harper has had a cold for the last few days and I woke up yesterday with a cold. Last night we were sitting at the table having dinner and I told Harper that she had given me her cold. There was a short pause and she said... Mommy, I didn't give you my cold cause I still have it.

Happy St. Patty Day

I have been looking at pictures from the year Harper was born - and it's just so amazing how fast they grow up. This picture was taken on March 10th, 2005 so she would have been about 6 weeks old. I showed her this picture the other day and she looked it and it and just laughed... and said "was that me as a baby? I'm cute!"..... OMGosh...

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Recently Harper has really been into Honey Buns! Sometime DD's will give her one on Fridays and she just loves them. Last week I also bought her one to have for breakfast on Saturday morning. We were on our way home from Preschool yesterday and she saw a Hostess delivery truck at one of the quick shops. She asked why did the truck have red hearts on it. I told her it was a delivery truck that delivered pastries to the stores... she of course really didn't get it. So I told her that the man that drives that truck takes the Honey Buns to the quick shops so people can buy them. That she understood ---- and then went into how the Honey Buns are made. The bees needs to go to the honeycomb and get the honey. It cost $100.00 and then that guy has to make the Honey Buns in the oven. In that 5 or so minutes of her telling me about Honey Buns she did a lot of buzzing and pretending like she was flying and then something about burning her hand on the hot oven. Oh the imagination of the little ones!

ROAD TRIP - ROAD TRIP

Last Sunday Matt & Harper took a one day road trip to Ainsworth & back.... Matt needed to go to Ainsworth to pick up a part for his motor and wanted to take Harper. They headed out about 6:30 Sunday morning and drove straight through to Ainsworth (about 250 miles) only stopping to get out a stretch & grab some Road Grub (as Matt & Harper would say). On the way back they stopped in Atkinson to see Uncle Scott & Aunt Marlene. Matt, Harper and Scott walked around her property looking for the wild turkey's that live there, but they had gone to the neighbors. After leaving Atkinson, they then stopped by Albion to see Albion Grandma & Grandpa. Then it was time to head home. Matt said Harper did GREAT on the road trip and didn't have a single melt down. They walked in the house about 7 that evening. I had a full day of quiet! I actually got a lot done around the house and just enjoyed being alone.! I keep telling Matt and HE needs to blog something and this would be a perfect day to Blog about... I'll try to get him to do one from his point of view!

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Harper had just gotten out of the bathtub and her and I were in the bathroom getting her dried off. I had been sick the week prior and a digital thermometer was on the counter. Harper was looking at it, picked it up put in in her armpit and the quickly pulled it out and said "Ok, mommy, what time am I"

Harper's SPECIAL DAY out with Uncle Mitch & Aunt Brandy

On Sunday Harper got to spend a SPECIAL DAY with Uncle Mitch & Aunt Brandy. Harper got to pick where they would have lunch & and she of course picked Runza. (She loves to get a kids meal because it comes with a tiny ice cream cone). They then headed to Fire Station #8 for a tour. Brandy's dad, Red works there and was nice enough to let them come so Harper could see the Fire House. She had a great time and has mentioned something about it almost every day since then. Below are some pictures that Mitch & Brandy took and were nice enough to share them with me so I could post them. Thanks guys - I love pictures!

Fire Station pictures!

Harper, Uncle Mitch & Aunt Brandy



Harper and Red

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Harper received many Valentine's Day cards in the mail. We had brought them in and told her and after dinner she could open her mail. Dinner was almost over and she looked and Matt and said. "Ok, I want to open my email now."

Harper and her cakes....

Thought I had better put a couple of pictures in of Harper and her Birthday Cakes. The top one was one that I made the week or so after her birthday. On February 7th we had a 60th Birthday Party for Grandpa Steve and the Sunday after we had family over for brunch and cake. She loved it. The top cake was one that 3 of us shared on the actual birthday. We went to Chucky Cheese after work, played many games, had pizza and then home from presents and cake. As you can see, she is wearing the Princess Dress we got her.. to bad you cannot see the sparkly shoes and we also go her. :-)

THE CAKE

I took today off to make/decorate my first ever Barbie Cake... and I turned our pretty good if I do say so myself. We are having people over on Sunday to celcbrate Grandpa Steve's and Harper's birthday... She hasn't seen the cake yet, I took it over to the neighbors before she got home from DD's. I excited to see what she thinks on Sunday when she see it. I'll keep you all posted.

Harper's Barbie Cake

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While sitting at the table having dinner last night - Matt and I were talking about me having February 16th off because of President's Day. Harper piped up and said "What do I get for PRESENTS day?". We tried to explain to her what President's day was, but she was not interested when she found out that presents were not involved.

Big Monkey

This morning Harper and I were on our way out the door. I was ahead of her on the stairs and I hear her say "Stop It". I turn around and and said "I didn't go anything". She said that Big Monkey was pushing her. I asked if I needed to tell Big Monkey that he needed to go to Time Out and Harper says... NO I'll just tell him to go home. Gotta love Big Monkey!