***WARNING***This post contains graphic pics!!

OK so you have been warned...if you continue reading...send me the bill for your therapy....
For father's day this year we took a weekend to Raleigh. It is one of our fav-o-rite places. So here we go...
Doesn't this look like fun? Doesn't it make you want to chance getting stuck and having to call the fire dept to come and rescue a 35 year old women out of the McDonald's play area.....almost.=)

Of course when we go to Raleigh we always have to see the temple. (can't you hear the primary song playing in the background=)

OK Mandi... Nathan does take some pics, but due to my AWESOME editing they don't always make the cut.

Of course it wouldn't be any fun for the Harwards without some pool time...

here are my mermaids and mermen....

here is king Triton working on his tan lines...

(i am sorry=)

This is all you will see of me in my swimsuit!

If I had a better camera I could have got them in mid air...this is semi air...

can I just tell you how much I love life jackets.I could just kiss whoever invented them. Bravo, whoever,bravo.

Emma and her 360s. AWESOME air dude!=)

Have you seen these machines? We love them! We even planned a trip to the zoo just to get our squished pennies!

Again this is another tradition...I have a million pics of this guy and his little friends... but it wasn't until this trip did I learn he isn't a T-Rex....What is he you ask....

Acrocanthosaurus . The Terror of the South... I always thought it was rednecks, but whatever.

Oh what do you do in the summertime?

You know what we do...well we celebrate the glorious day of my birth. I turned 35. People have asked me if it was time to have my mid life crisis yet...hah.. haa...haa..(that is a Woody from Toystory laugh by the way)I will have you know I was very happy to turn 35. I thought I was turning 36.. so see.. hahaa suckers I am a year younger than I thought I was! (I told my teachers I would never use math growing up and I am sticking to my guns!=)
Anywho, for my birthday Nathan won a weekend in the Queen city of Charlotte, NC. So here are some pics...
every trip we go on I take one of Nathan in the car. Here are the tickets for the baseball game.
the Queen City.
We were right at the SC/NC line. So of course we had to go to the welcome center.
As you can see welcome centers are another obsession of mine. I don't know maybe it is all the free pamphlets they give you, because I have about a million of them!
This is our room. Nice TV. (even though I read all weekend. Nathan liked it.)
At the stadium.
Throwing up gang signs. Word to your mother.
This is the meal that poisoned Nathan on Sat.
I know crappy pic, but we got to watch the game from our sky box. Leather couches, popcorn, peanuts, drinks, our own attendant. Nice!
Oh and they had these cute baseballs we took home for the kids. Don't worry they are foam.
Me chillin before the game.
Nathan and Sweet Caroline one of the mascots.
I titled this one...Dude what is in that drink? Or where can I get one?
The home team won 3 to 2. It was a good game.
Oh yeah it was a fireworks night.=)




So needless to say I had a AWESOME birthday!=)