crafting fun

Wooohooo! I finally made a cupcake liner wreath. I'm absolutly in love with the way that it turned out. Since Mike is at school every night, i've had a LOT of crafting time (that probably should be homework time). This was in fact inspired by pinterest. Surprise there. Funnny thing is is that my husband actually asked me the other day while I was on the computer, "are you pinning?" haha. He even knows the lingo!

What's new with us?

No much... just the same old work and school. We are loving our new apartment and new ward. We were called to be primary teachers (CTR 6). We have been warned by the whole ward that these are the most challenging kids. Thankfully, we have found some ways to calm them down! They have even taught us some!

My next doctors appt is September 29th and hopefully will be the day we get confirmation on our baby BOY :)

That's all for now,

xoxo, the Harrison's

the craze: pinterest

need a fast, cheap & fun craft?

I made these coasters for our home, and got the idea from Pinterest.
And this is how they turned out! I'm very pleased :)

xoxo, the Harrison's

little man

Thank you 13rock Photography for helping me document my pregnancy!
Visit 13rockphotography.blogspot.com for more of his work!

settled

we are finally all settled into our new place. {except for a few cutesy things to hang up and of course, the nursery}. we realized in this move that we have a lot more than we thought. here's a few pics from the move, please excuse the dirty hair & scrubs... it was a long day. but we are so grateful to have a home and we are loving it!

xoxo, the Harrison's

the update.

so here's the scoop, last week we found out the gender of our baby! we weren't expecting to find out so soon but the baby was in a position to tell us haha. it's a BOY! we couldn't be happier. and mike is extremely excited of course ;) since the baby's coming i've been lining up projects for me to do before then. i made my own diaper bag! i hadn't seen any in the stores that i fell in love with so i decided to just make my dream bag! i'm very pleased with how it turned out, i was pretty nervous. (the sewing machine and i don't get along very well!) the total cost of the bag was probably around $30-$40 which isn't bad because that's how much i would have spent on a bag anyway. a bonus: i have extra fabric for other projects!

xoxo, the Harrison's

HEAT

so lucky to be only 6 hours away from the beach <3

ringling bro's & barnum + bailey circus, so goood!
longboarding on my families fav beach, manhattan.

huntington beach.

we're back from our week-ish long california trip! let me tell you, it was so much fun. however, we are very sad to be back in this terrible heat. our trip was very relaxing and we got everything we wanted to done. we were able to be there when the Us Open surf competition was happening and were able to watch some of those festivities. we enjoyed longboarding, beaching it, shopping, and also the circus! we are so very blessed to have some family friends who have a beach house right on laguna beach. the beach they are on is private so you have more space than in public beaches, which is really a bonus! we had such a good time and wish we could live there as beach bums but as mike says, 'it's back to reality'.

happy days.

(above) this is a cute little project that i've been working on. i started out with mike and i so as our kids come along we can do them one at a time. just a neat little way to display your family.

(above) us and hattie before the baptism.

(above) 50's Nerds!

not much is new at our home. just the fact that we're super excited for our almost-week long California trip. Countdown: 10 days! We had a wonderful weekend, here's a sneak peak at what we did: Friday, date night! We dressed up as "50's Nerds" to receive a free milkshake at Chick Fil A. Oh, what we do for free stuff! haah we got funny looks but many compliments on our 50's outfits. Later that night we went home to have a movie marathon. We didn't even make it through our 2nd movie. Saturday was catch-up day. Mike had to teach piano lessons & prep the car for our road trip. I stayed home, catching up on much needed housework. That afternoon we were extremely blessed to participate in a baptism. Mike & I are ward missionaries and have been interacting with an investigator that the full time missionaries had been associated with. Such a neat experience to feel the spirit and see someone so happy to have the gospel in her life. It makes me feel like I should cherish that gift always. That night we went to the Harrison's to have dinner and catch up with family. We then went to Dave & Busters with Mike's sister & husband. It was a blast! We haven't been out that late in a while but it was well worth it.. haha. Sunday was the typical church, nap and dinner at my parents house. It was great to see my dad who's only here for the weekend and I haven't seeen him in weeks! It was such a wonderful weekend, filled with fun activities.

xoxo, the Harrison's