July 4, 2013

On the morning of the 4th, we went to our Stake’s flag raising ceremony & pancake breakfast. 

Love these two!

Harriet with her Aunt Heather.

Elna took this picture with my phone—she loves taking pictures and says “1-2-3- cheese” over and over again as she goes about snapping pictures.  Usually they don’t turn out, but this one actually did.  Yay Elle!

Food prep—we had burgers, hotdogs, fruit etc. with Brian’s family and the Roberts family.  I also made these:

Tapioca parfaits.  I felt very festive.

Harriet is always happy if she is in the pack.

These two have the sweetest relationship!

They spent some time singing and dancing together—and I videoed it so we’d never forget the magic:

Now we know where Brian gets his moves from!  Brian’s parents met on the BYU ballroom dance time. 

Happy Independence Day from the Harris family!

June in iPhone pictures.

My mom came up a week before Harriet’s blessing to stay with us.  Elna loved reading books with Grandma Elna!

Cousins—Callie & Hattie

This isn’t Elna’s most flattering picture, but Brian took it when he picked her up from his Mom’s house one evening when we went out to dinner with my sister and her husband downtown.  She never falls asleep in her car seat—must have been exhausted!

She’s holding up a donut from Voodoo Donuts—we went there after eating out with Annie & Lance, and picked up for Elna for the next morning.  Voodoo makes vegan donuts.  Yum!

Visiting the gorge with Annie & Lance

On the steps at the Vista House at Crown Point in the gorge.

Elna & Annie

We hiked with Annie & Lance to the top of Multnomah Falls

We spent a lot of days on our patio cooling off in this tiny little pool.

Elna and her cute friends Mercedez & Sawyer

Annie stayed a week after Harriet’s blessing while Lance went on a business trip. 

One day we went she came to the zoo with us and Callie, Jace, Char, & Grandma Fae. 

Horrible picture, but the only one I have of all 3 of us at the zoo.

Callie & Elna looking at the elephants // Elna with the cheetah

At her Papa’s dentist office getting her teeth checked out.

Love how happy this girl is!

Sleeping girlie

Father’s Day Sunday at church

Elna and her friend, Mercedez

Sharing Daddy’s oatmeal—she does this with him any morning that she is up early enough to see him off.

Loving her popsicle

Cute is what this girl is made of! // licking ground flax off the countertop.  Healthy healthy girl!

Playing at her park.

Elna is reading to her baby doll here—the baby is in her lap with the green hat on.

This is really what our family room looks like most of the time…

On our lawn, using an umbrella to keep the sun out of the girls’ eyes.

Obsessed with my baby!

Cute Harriet at Grandma’s house for Sunday dinner.

This is what she does with her arms when she poops—cracks me up!  She’s going to hate these pictures when she’s older.  Oh well!

Eating some raspberries off of our bushes // using latex gloves as socks and playing with lotion

We had a really hot week—the girls had a hard time sleeping.  I finally stripped her down to a diaper and she fell asleep.

Such a strong girl!

Cooling off.

We have had a hard time with Elna staying in bed at night—lots of crying/screaming/banging on doors…and finally falling asleep at the door.  We’re all tired.

In the jumperoo for the first time.  She loves it!

We take lots of pictures of the girls sleeping apparently—her sleep position made me laugh here.

Sunday morning dance party—these two love dancing!