les remerciements

Random picture to start of this post. Harmony loves to climb on the kids rides at the mall.

Since I've been meaning to post a new blog for a while, and it just so happens to be Thanksgiving Day...I thought that it would be perfect-because I wanted to write about how thankful I am that my sweet mom came to stay with me for two whole weeks, while I was sick. It helped me get better so much faster! Harmony really loved to play with Grandma all day...and I especially liked having someone around to talk to and an extra pair of hands all day long! I got spoiled :) Thank you so much Mom!

Mom and Harmony playing together.

I also forgot to post a picture from
when my dad was here, just before Halloween.
So here it is.

We've been having fun this week while Ben's sister Becky is here visiting! Harmony just loves getting to go play at Grandma's everyday too. She especially loves the new baby sled that everyone *gets* to take turns pulling her in! I think we know where we'll be getting our exercise this winter! I have a bunch of clips of this new workout routine (via the link).

There are so many little videos I wanted to share. Follow the link at the bottom if you want to view them all. Here is just one from today.

Harmony gets a kick out of the dogs catching food in their mouths.

Here's some cute videos from this month...I apologize for the lower quality of the videos lately. The only camera I have is on my iPhone...

Birth-o-ween

One year older and WISER too...yes that's right...well, at least the older part. I had a great birthday!! I really wanted to go to the temple for my birthday. Ben's mom watched Harmony for us, and we were able to go to the Provo temple. It was a Thursday, so that means Ben's dad was working there that day. So, we got to have a delicioso temple lunch with Nyle, and meet his temple buddies :) After that, we went out to the mall to spend some birthday money ;) At the end of the night, I even got a SWEET massage at home from my wonderful masseuse friend, Liz!

On Friday night, we went to our ward trunk-o-treat and brought our friend Nicole and her babies Ethan (3) and Shelby (10 mos) with us! Harmony LOVED it. She'd grab the candy out of the bowls and then put it directly into her bag, followed by excessive hand clapping while saying "yaaaaay!" Then, to gear up for more Halloween fun, we watched a scaaaarry movie (The Uninvited) with Nicole and her husband Nathan.

Our friend Nicole and Shelby with me n' Harmony

Our costumes were Agent's Dana Scully and Fox Mulder from the X-Files
( in case you DIDN'T know!)

The only bee that I'm not afraid of :)

Saturday, Ben planned a little birthday/Halloween get-together for me. We dressed up in our costumes and had a tastey ice cream cake with our friends and family. I was very excited to hand out candy for the first time (Seriously. I'm usually trick or treating!). Harmony thoroughly enjoyed having the doorbell ring and giving the kiddos some candy! Then of course we ended our day with Ben's brothers by watching a hilarious RIFFTRAX of one of the most frightening movies of all time: TITANIC.

The Ice Cream Cake. Inscription: Happy Birth-o-ween. Love it!

AWESOME OCTOBER 2009 :)