The Dirty 30!!

The day has come where I am 30! On my birthday I enjoyed a Maternity Photo Session with an awesome lady! Ginny Dainels A few days before (at 6pm it was 100 degrees with 100% humidity!) - Jeff and I with the boys met up with her to do a family session to capture everyone before Laurels arrival. Just in case she comes early I did the session early! I want to get a book to capture my pregnancy, the boys, Jeff and I - and then her newborn shots. She did an amazing job and it was fun to get all dressed up for my birthday and do a photo shoot! Please enjoy the sneak peaks she sent me.... as soon as the gallery is up I will post the link with password!! Enjoy!

Mini Vacation!

We traveled up into Alabama to Birmingham so Jeff could run an Xterra Race! It was a half marathon of trail running, and a little part thru a huge mud puddle - which was a couple feet long. We went with our good friends the Hurleys and met up with some more Hurleys' (Jeremiahs brother and sister in law).


We stayed in an awesome spa resort : Renaissance Birmingham Ross Bridge Golf Resort & Spa it was awesome and we will be staying there next year when I run the race! :) They had an awesome pool with water slide and now that Ian can swim very well with a life vest on he had a blast. Blake is getting better with the life vest and the floaty ducky that he is glued to.



So the morning of the race the Hurley's and Jeff got ready to run the race. (We had adjoining rooms) so when they left - it was me and 4 sleeping kids. 4 kids ages: 1,2,3 &4! We managed to play, eat breakfast, get dressed, potty and go to the car.... only to miss everyone cross the finish line! So I didn't get any pictures. :( I should have been a little faster... but loading up 4 kids and being 29 weeks pregnant was my workout for the weekend.



We enjoyed our pool side service of sandwiches and drinks and fruit and lounged around that afternoon.

All and all it was a great weekend with great friends!



Every night there was a bag pipe guy playing he walked around the hotel. It was pretty cool after dinner one night we caught up to him and Dawn took this picture of Blake and I. Jeff had to take Ian back to the room due to a headache (he played 4 hrs in the sun and was super tired and dehydrated). But here is the one picture we have! Enjoy!

Baby Laurel & Pregnancy

I have some time on my hands. Blake is watching cartoons and Ian doesn't feel so good. He has been having a headache since yesterday afternoon - so I'm killing time until we see the doctor this afternoon. (Another Dr, saw one last night) I probably should be doing laundry and catching up on some household chores, but blogging is keeping my mind off Ians headache... which is making me think about his Brain Tumor....

Here is some happy news. I am 28 weeks pregnant and despite a rocky start of the vertigo and getting that fixed and the Gestational Diabetes (which I am not taking meds for) and the hormone shot that I have to take every week (in my bootie) to try to keep her from coming to early... geez that sounds like a lot doesn't it? I feel fine... with an occasional contraction/Braxton Hicks daily. The Army Base has finally kicked me off post to a civilian doctor (which I have been trying to see all along with the history of my preemies) so I will start seeing her next week - since my history of delivery at 35 @ 33 1/2 weeks are fast approaching.....

Here are some pictures of the nursery. Really can't do to much since we are renting the house but I am nesting, so I'm setting it up little by little. :)

Crib with Flower Quilt made by Chelsey and Jeffs Baby Blanket (the yellow one) still waiting on bedding to get mailed to me. And we aren't leaving the crib there with my fear of her getting tangled in the blinds and getting all wrapped up!

Pink Pink Pink


Baby Laurel

Cute Foot!

Gobbles

Word of the day: Gobbles.

Blake loves playing with his "Gobbles" in the pool.

Class of 2023

May 20th 2010 marked a very special day for Ian. He graduated Preschool! The ceremony was very cute, they sang, read poems and walked across the stage to get a diploma and a medal. This was very emotional for me. I thought I wouldn't get all teary-eyed. But to see my baby boy walk across the stage, I was so proud and saw him as such a 'Big Boy' now. He is off to a Catholic School: Saint Annes for Kindergarten. He is very excited, as so am I, but my baby is growing up!!

We were also very excited to have Jeff's mom Terry and her husband Wayne come down for the weekend to share in this very special moment for us. They were also here to see Ian's last T-Ball game. All and all it was a great weekend!

After Graduation. Proud Brother (who was just interested in the cupcakes for the after party)

My Ian all graduated!


Exiting the stage.

His teacher Ms. Sonya & Ian

So proud, walking to get his diploma

Grandma Terry & the boys sharing some lunch. (I have to get the good picture off thier camera of the 4 of them)

I forgot...we went to the SC Zoo!

I forgot to write about our Zoo Trip to SC! A good friend of mine who I met in Savannah when we lived in our apartments there got married on April 17th. She is a very special friend for she drove me to the hospital when I was in labor with Ian. She was there for me every step of the way during the deployment. Cynthia Hutson-Poterfield will forever have a special place in my heart!

We were excited to make it a family trip and explore the zoo. The boys had such a great time and the weekend went smoothly! Although Jeff had to take Blake out before the wedding happened in the church (he was getting cranky and wanted to draw in all the bibles)- both boys behaved good at the recption! Here are a few pictures from our quick trip to SC!

Cynthia makes a beautiful bride!

Feeding the horse at the zoo.

My friend: The Smiley Goat

Feeding Nectar to the birds.

Loving the tiger!

May has almost come and gone...

Wow, I have been horrible about updating the blog. We have been super busy here in the Harmon Household.

In the last week of April the boys and I headed on down to Mexico City Beach, Florida. My good friend Dawn has a friend with a beach house down there so 4 Army Wives (two which were pregnant) and 7 kids under the age of 4 moved into a 4 bedroom beach house. It went quite well with just a few meltdowns and we actually made it to the beach and back everyday!! Ian was quite adventurous and ran right into the ocean while Blake was scared of the waves and just stuck to making sand castles.

Then the 2nd weekend in May we made a 12 hour trip to Outer Banks to see Jeff's cousin Jackie get married on the beach. For some reason when we got the invitation quite some time ago I thought it was in a part of NC that was 6 hrs away. Even when I called and made the hotel reservation I was still thinking it was 6 hrs away. Well when I packed up the day before and printed off directions I was like OMG.... this place is 12 hours away!! We did the trip anyways and so glad that we did. It was long - left after Jeff got off work at 1pm Friday, and then left 9am Sunday - both of us worked on Monday! We were tired!!! We saw Jeff's side of the family that we haven't seen in such a long time. The boys enjoy the beach again - this time with Dad & the Harmon Gang.