Birthday and Kentucky!

This year I decided to take a trip for my birthday to Kentucky to visit Candice and her family. Since I left on my birthday, the day before I came into the office and found my cube all decorated...SO cute!!

Since they are stationed at Fort Knox, we decided to go check out their tank museum. It was interesting to see how they have changed over the years. We put Abigail next to some of the tanks for some something to measure the height with.

I brought Abigail some of the cute Tutu's from Jen's company. One morning she was playing around with them...I couldn't resist documenting it. I think she liked them, what do you think?

When Candice and I are together we like to experiment with new things in the kitchen. We made a super yummy veggie and garlic pizza with dough from Pampered Chef (the dough is awesome!) Then we made a Quiche, it was our first time, we just made up our own recipe and it was really good. And then made some Peanut Butter Cupcakes with
Chocolate Frosting and Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting for Justin to take to work...can you say AMAZING!!!

It was Derby Festival time while I was out there. The night before the Hot Air Balloon Race, they had a Balloon Glow. We decided to go and check it out. We got there early so to pass the time we took some pictures. They even have a Derby Queen and her court. I have to say that it was kind of nice to "real" people being "royalty" for a change. I'm sure the girls have to have riding skills and such to be able to be in the Derby Court.

Then here are some pictures from the evening. There was at least 20 different balloons on the field and it was way cool to see them all light up at the same time.

Here is Owen chilling in his car seat on the way to the airport. Such a cutie!! He was born in December two weeks before Ryan and Alisa's Owen was born. So, easy for me to remember the name. :)

This was my first trip to Kentucky and I have to say, I really liked it. I will be back to visit! :) It was SO green which was such a nice change after winter in Utah. Oh and the drivers are SO polite it's almost annoying, the will almost stop traffic to let someone in in front of them. Not aggressive in the least. Here is one "Kentucky" type story. We were driving in Louisville and Justin says that he thinks this lady in a two door sedan has a baby seat in the front seat. So, we of course need to check it out. When we catch up to her we find that not only does she have an infant carrier in the front seat, she is also smoking in the car with the windows up! Oh, that poor baby!!

Festival Of Colors -- Holi 2010

Yesterday I went with Kahea and went to the Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork for the annual Festival of Colors or it is commonly know as Holi. It's a Festival that is celebrated at the end of winter. :) It is celebrated by throwing colored powder at people. Sounds like fun, right? Well, we got there a little late and missed the huge color throwing event...but we did manage to to walk around and find people who still had some colors. So, it was all good and we had fun just being there.

One of the best things about the day...it was an absolutely beautiful spring day in Utah!!! Wouldn't you agree???

Girl's Weekend -- Las Vegas!!!!

Last year Amy came up with a great idea...to get some of our friends from High School together for a Girl's Weekend/reunion. We decided that Las Vegas was a good meeting point for all seven of us. We did what girls normally do together....shop! It was a lot of fun just being together and hanging out again.

We ventured down to the strip and checked out the M&M Factory...lots of fun colors and LOTS of chocolate! :)

Then we walked down in the crazy wind to the Paris Hotel for some YUMMY crepes and WOW were they YUUMMMMYYY!!!! We were hoping to see the water show at the Bellagio but that darn wind was just too much! :(

We had a little photo shoot when we got back to the hotel. So, top left to right....(1) Wendy and Jaime, (2) Wendy and Amy, (3)Melissa, Angie and Amy, (4) Angie, Carrie, Melissa, Wendy, Jaime, Jackie and Amy. Bottom (1) Melissa, Jaime, Angie (2) Amy and Carrie (3) Jaime, Wendy and Carrie (4) Jackie, Jaime, Amy, Melissa, Carrie and Angie. It was SO fun to be together again (I know I already said that but it really was)...let's not wait SO long for the next time!!!

A beautiful day!!!

While I was waiting for a new alternator to be put in my car I had sometime to enjoy a beautiful day in Utah. I have to say I never get tired of looking at the mountains covered in snow and the beautiful blue sky behind it. Oh and what is even better now...to see IN-N-OUT in that setting, sometimes it still seem surreal that we have IN-N-OUT in Utah. It will always and forever be my favorite place to go for a hamburger and pink lemonade. :)

That same day I went up to Salt Lake City in the evening and as I was driving around with a friend we notice this amazing sunset. I thought the colors were just awesome and the view just as nice. See...winter in Utah isn't all bad. ;)

Congratulations David & Jen!!!!

January 8, 2010 was an exciting day in the Harrison Family....we added 6 new people to our family! My older brother, David was married to Jen! They are the cutest couple and are SO happy together! I'm so happy that you found each other.

Jen has 5 wonderful kids that we are so excited to have in our family. Here is a picture of all the kids. They all looked SO good!

I took advantage of having all of my sisters together and finally got a "sisters" picture. It was fun to have Jodi fly in for the night!

What handsome brothers I have. :) We were so happy that Ryan was able to come in for the day! :)

My Mom and her girls....

The Harrison 7....SO fun to have everyone together for a little while!

The Harrison kids...I love you all (and miss having everyone in Utah county....come back! ;) )

I had a lot of other pictures from the day so I decided to make a big collage to get some of them in. It was a beautiful wedding and I am SO excited to have Jen and her kids apart of our family now! Congratulations David and Jen!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

This year we had a small Christmas on the day of with just Dad, Mom and I. We did go out and visit David and Amy's families at their homes in the morning to see what Santa brought everyone. Then we chilled the rest of the day at home and had a nice dinner with the Crooks and Wetzels. Then Sunday morning we had a Pajama Breakfast with the family! Here are some random pictures from the day. It was fun getting together with everyone in their new PJ's.

Here is the family picture from the day. We did miss Ryan and Alisa but it couldn't be helped as they were in Washington with their new baby! Owen Scott Harrison was born December 24, 2009!!! Congratulations to the new little Harrison family!

Candlelight Christmas

Last week I went with Diane to This Is The Place Heritage Park for their Candlelight Christmas. They put Christmas lights on the houses and in each house they had different things going on. They had a puppet show, crafts, printing of the first Christmas card, stories about the decorations, an elf village and you could write a letter to Father Christmas. Here are a few things that I learned from the night it was the British Royal Family that first came up with the idea of Christmas cards and had them printed. It used to take two days to go from Salt Lake City to Provo and people would have to stop at a half-way house in Draper for $1 a night. (That just seems crazy to me since now it takes me 45 minutes to go to Salt Lake City from Provo.) Before the mail system was really in place children would write letters to Father Christmas and then they would burn them and the smoke and ash would carry to the North Pole to Father Christmas. Have you ever heard about the Christmas Spider? I had never heard the story before, if you want to read it go here. I didn't get a lot of pictures but her is what I have from the night. It was a lot of fun to step back in time and learn new things.

I'm back!

Hello all! I know that it's been A LONG time since I've blogged but I am back (well, I am going to try to be back.) I decided to start from today and go backwards, I am going to try to put the correct dates...so you will need to keep scrolling down to see the posts. Oh and...HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!

Snow, Snow, Snow, Snow!!!!

Welcome Winter (I guess...) I really do think that snow is beautiful when you can be at home watching it snow from the comforts of your warm house. Too bad that wasn't exactly the case this morning with waking up to our first measurable "powder". I took some pictures to document the occasion. Last night I watched the end of "White Christmas" so all I could think of this morning when I saw all the snow was the song "Snow, Snow, Snow, Snow!" I'm not going to lie...now it officially feels like Christmas that everything is white. I can't wait to see the Christmas lights with the snow!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

This year there we had a small Thanksgiving gathering with just the Hanks Family. It was different but nice to all be at one table. We had a great time even though I had to leave the party for a little while to make a quick visit to Urgent Care. The sweet potato rolled out from under me while I was cutting them. But in the sweet potato's defense they turned out really good. Have a look at the recipe here . As hard as I tried NOT to go to the doctor it didn't work.

I went and came home with 8 stitches. I guess it was a good thing that I went to the doctor... :P Overall it was a great Thanksgiving! I just had to add a little adventure to the day. :)