Friday, May 28, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Another day at the ball park!!
If you don't know us very well at least from looking at our blog you can tell one thing WE LOVE THE BALL PARK!!! Macie may actually know all the words to take me out to the ball game.
We had a great time this last week with Sky while he was off for a week in between semesters, Congrats Babe on finishing another long semester and here is to the summer. May it be filled with patience (people for him to work on in the clinic) and fun!!!!!
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
New pictures of the kids.
My mom came for ten days last week and we had so much fun!! While she was here we took the kids to the park and got some pictures of them they are so much fun. Aren't they cute? I could almost do a blog of Thomas many different faces, well maybe next time!!!
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Olympic stars in training!!!
After we took Macie to Disney Princesses on Ice she has been talking about ice skating, and begging us to take her so we did. We went to the Olympic training skating arena it was pretty cool inside.
That morning before we went Macie started demonstrating how she was going to ice skate. It included skating on one foot while her dad tossed her in the air and twirled around. Sky said "Macie it is kind of hard to ice skate"
she looked directly at him and said "Its, not hard Dad!"
When we got there she finally admitted how hard it was. She couldn't even stand up it was cute. Yes Thomas has on ice skates as well and I don't recommend putting ice skates on a child who is still having trouble learning to walk. We had a lot of fun!!
Monday, April 5, 2010
GOOD TIMES
It has been a fun couple of weeks with the sun shining and Sky having a couple of breaks off school and the kids are finally over their sicknesses for a little while we took advantage of the time and played, played, played.
We spent a morning a the zoo and brace your self for the picture of Macie by the fence, I saw it and couldn't believe how grown up our little girl looks!!! We have been having BBQ most every other day and I love this because I don't have to cook that much!!!
Sky and I went to a Brewers game on a Friday night, it was fun to watch and we had great seats. This is the first brewers game that we have been to that they have won!!! Go Brewers.
And there are pictures of the kids in their Easter clothes and looking so CUTE!!! I love those kids!!!
Monday, March 22, 2010
Winter Olympics 2010...Glen courts style
The Harkers hosted the first annual winter Olympics for family date night. We all brought an authentic food to share and spent the night playing games and having a good time. We received the most bronze medals and Macie was pretty proud of herself!!!!
Team China
Team Germany
Team India
Coin Find
Yellow snow eating contest Go MACIE!!!
Team China
Team Germany
Team India
Coin Find
Yellow snow eating contest Go MACIE!!!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
What a wonderful Life!!!!
The last couple of months have been pretty stressful at our house with Sky's schedule, a 3 year old who has decided to exercise her own independence, and a little man who just turns and smiles when he knows he is trouble and runs off.
There have been nights when I have gone to bed crying, laughing, alone, and wishing sleep would last a week however I find myself wishing Thomas or Macie would wake up so that I could hold them one more time.
Being a wife and mother has been completely different than I thought it would be, in fact it is alot better than I could have ever imagined, however no one tells you how hard it is. If they did I certainly didn't understand what they meant, I mean really what can be hard about playing with your kids all day and doing whatever we want to.
I always thought to myself if it is hard I can handle it, I know how to work hard, I worked all growing up , I served a mission, went to beauty school, and received my bachelors degree while working all at the same time. I thought I had a pretty good resume for hard worker. Well that kind of resume hasn't prepared me for this. I was never taught how to handle a 15 minute tantrum, a child who is completely afraid of public toilets so we revert back in potty training every time we need to leave the house for longer than 4 hours (yes she can hold it that long). An active little boy who so adamantly needs something and I can't understand what it is.
All of the things I have done in my life have had a certain degree of hard and I keep thinking is this like that time in my life, or the other time. When in reality this is a whole new world. I am once again a greenie and it is never easy to be the greenie the times of inadequacy, lack of self confidence, and uncomfortable feelings set in. However this is the greatest job and calling on the earth is to be a mother.
As I was getting ready to leave to Canada on a 18 month mission for the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints my brother pulled me aside and said "don't get comfortable. When you get comfortable that is when you get lazy, complacent, and careless." These words have helped my in the last ten years in so many catagories. Life isn't supposed to be easy we need to feel uncomfortable at times and feel like we aren't able to accomplish some things, why else would we turn to our Heavenly Father. Mother hood is the greatest calling and our children are on loan to us from the greatest father, and example we have.
I realized I have been taught how to handle a tantrum or a crying little boy, and all of those trials that come with raising little children, I was taught by father in heaven who loves me enough to send me to a home where I was taught Love, Being a mother isn't hard because my children are hard or that my life is any more difficalt than anyone elses it is because I am IMPERFECT.
Focasing on the little moments and loving my children is all it takes. So on those days when I go to bed crying, laughing, alone, and wishing sleep would last a week. I am thinking to myself How come I am so luck to be the wife of Sky who loves, and cares for me no matter what I do, or don't do for that fact, or Macie who every 30 minutes is telling me " I like you Mommy, and every night at dinner she so excitedly says, "this is Yummy Mom, thanks for making me dinner mom" and a little boy who is full of smiles and laughter who melts my heart ." So yes Being a mother is hard but only 15% of the time and when I focus on the other 85% I find a prefect world that our Heavenly father intended in family's.
I know the Gospel is true and I am so grateful to be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of-latter-day saints, where I am learning the true calling of motherhood!!!!
There have been nights when I have gone to bed crying, laughing, alone, and wishing sleep would last a week however I find myself wishing Thomas or Macie would wake up so that I could hold them one more time.
Being a wife and mother has been completely different than I thought it would be, in fact it is alot better than I could have ever imagined, however no one tells you how hard it is. If they did I certainly didn't understand what they meant, I mean really what can be hard about playing with your kids all day and doing whatever we want to.
I always thought to myself if it is hard I can handle it, I know how to work hard, I worked all growing up , I served a mission, went to beauty school, and received my bachelors degree while working all at the same time. I thought I had a pretty good resume for hard worker. Well that kind of resume hasn't prepared me for this. I was never taught how to handle a 15 minute tantrum, a child who is completely afraid of public toilets so we revert back in potty training every time we need to leave the house for longer than 4 hours (yes she can hold it that long). An active little boy who so adamantly needs something and I can't understand what it is.
All of the things I have done in my life have had a certain degree of hard and I keep thinking is this like that time in my life, or the other time. When in reality this is a whole new world. I am once again a greenie and it is never easy to be the greenie the times of inadequacy, lack of self confidence, and uncomfortable feelings set in. However this is the greatest job and calling on the earth is to be a mother.
As I was getting ready to leave to Canada on a 18 month mission for the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints my brother pulled me aside and said "don't get comfortable. When you get comfortable that is when you get lazy, complacent, and careless." These words have helped my in the last ten years in so many catagories. Life isn't supposed to be easy we need to feel uncomfortable at times and feel like we aren't able to accomplish some things, why else would we turn to our Heavenly Father. Mother hood is the greatest calling and our children are on loan to us from the greatest father, and example we have.
I realized I have been taught how to handle a tantrum or a crying little boy, and all of those trials that come with raising little children, I was taught by father in heaven who loves me enough to send me to a home where I was taught Love, Being a mother isn't hard because my children are hard or that my life is any more difficalt than anyone elses it is because I am IMPERFECT.
Focasing on the little moments and loving my children is all it takes. So on those days when I go to bed crying, laughing, alone, and wishing sleep would last a week. I am thinking to myself How come I am so luck to be the wife of Sky who loves, and cares for me no matter what I do, or don't do for that fact, or Macie who every 30 minutes is telling me " I like you Mommy, and every night at dinner she so excitedly says, "this is Yummy Mom, thanks for making me dinner mom" and a little boy who is full of smiles and laughter who melts my heart ." So yes Being a mother is hard but only 15% of the time and when I focus on the other 85% I find a prefect world that our Heavenly father intended in family's.
I know the Gospel is true and I am so grateful to be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of-latter-day saints, where I am learning the true calling of motherhood!!!!
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