Nate the great is eight!!

OK so my sweet Nate has been eight for a while now. I know I am a slacker. Anywho would ya like to see the pics? Alright then stop complaining...here they are...

birthday cupcakes...the kids helped me decorate.

So here is what he REALLY, REALLY wanted and asked me for about a million times. He finished the game in three days.

"What?! All the green stuff is for me? THANKS GRANDMA AND GRANDPA!!!!"

So these are from before his party... we spent the day at the zoo. Nana and Poppy enjoying their meal of dirt pizza, dirt soda, and for desert dirt cake. YUMMY!

Little Momma and JOJO!

What's up with the salute there partner? Well at least his tongue isn't sticking out.

the grand babies in the hole.=)

See he can be nice when he wants too.

Here is most of the clan. I really love Nick there in the front giving himself a little adjustment. I tried to find one that he didn't have his hands in his pants, but this was as close as it got.=)

Here he is dressed in white ready to get baptized.
This is my favorite. Just after he was baptized. I love my Nate. He really is a sweet kid!

(I would show you all the yummy food, but it got wiped out! ALL OF IT! It was some good

eats!=) It was a wonderful day!!!

I'm no He-Whore! by:Nathan Harward

Had the best time with my girl tonight, we took the time to go see the new Twilight movie Eclipse, which I thought was very good. Yes, if you want to know I am totally team Jacob, hot, hairy and stinky! Although I am not a fan of tween age vampire movies because most are predictable and geared towards 12-17 year old girls. The one scene that threw me for a loop was when Bella and Edward had the house to themselves. Of course one way or another they end up in the bedroom. As Bella is contemplating being turned into a vampire by Edward she tells him there is one thing she would like to do in her human form, and of course you guessed it... bumping uglies. As they begin to get hot and heavy Edward pauses, and says,"No Bella...I can't take your Christmas until we are married." Needless to say my jaw hit the floor. What a breath of fresh air. I am sure it won't affect everyone like it affected me. It is nice to know there are still a few moral people in the world, even if they are the walking dead!

***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!=)

Ahh.. the Good Ole Days....

I changed the pic on my desktop and I don't know...it just took me back... So I thought I would share some pics from way back when.=)OK my fav thing about this pic is little Nate there in the middle. He is such a little boy.=)

I used to dress the girls in the same dresses all the time.I would still do it today if I could!

they still act like this, but it isn't as loving. More screaming is involved.

Look at those cute kids!=)I just can't believe my babies are growing so fast! Stop it guys you are making me depressed!=)

Oh well. Sigh... I guess they can't stay young forever. At least they still "kind of" like us...kind of.