***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.

Hey ya'll it's Emma!!!!

Aren't we so cute? That's me in the purple coat. That's Lissette in the pink, and that leaves Sunshine!!!!!!

Ok now, this will be hard to explain...but you know who Lisette, and Sunshine are....So that leaves Kirmy, Ellis, and Kayla.

**side note**(this is Dena here...I just told Emma "why don't you tell something funny about school." She just gives me her bulldog look and says "Nothings funny about school." My bad, carry on.=)

**OK it's Dena again...I know, I know I said this was Emma's post...but she just told me a funny story.... from school no less...

So they were playing kickball today and her friend Lissette(pictured above) kicked the ball at Emma, and Emma caught it and got her out.This is how she tells it...

"So today Mom, Lissette kicked the ball and it went straight for my head! So of course I HAD to catch it! I didn't want to get my friend out, but I mean, come on Mom! It was life or DEATH!!! I had to get her out! Like it was fate!"=)

(Did I ever mention Emma can be a little....dramatic. I don't know where she gets it.Nathan, I suppose.=)

Comments.....

So...I don't know if you have been looking at the comment section of my blogpost...if ya have you may have noticed something a little...different. My daughter has been leaving little comments here and there. So I think I will let her do the next post. You heard me right The Harward Home will be taken over by my 9yr old.=)
So stay tuned!

PS
it will be after tomm. I have to work tonight.=)

my life in 60 seconds..no minutes...whatever..

I got a job at Books a million.
I like it a lot!

Nathan got this for his b-day.

I like it a lot too!

Some good ole redneck sledding!

I am such a mean Mom. That being said this is one of my fav pics.=) Emma's face plant in the snow.

My kids enjoying (cross your fingers)the only snow for the season!

**Side note**

They only went to school one day last week...ONE.....DAY! Sigh.The end.

Yeah! I finished it!

I said that I was going to make one, and I did! I know what you are thinking...(yippey skippey,big deal...right?) Well it is a big deal to me!;)

It was a really EASY project! I got all the instructions from

Little Birdie Secrets

Now I feel the love....Ohhh yeah...I feel it.

On a side note this is the new hot chocolate color I painted my kitchen. Say all you want about it....it cost me $6.00. You heard me...I said $6.00. My new curtains are only going to be $12.50. That is if I don't screw them up. That will be a later post.=)

Wish me luck!