The Perfect Father's Day Gift

For Father's Day Keeli and I were making breakfast in bed for Eric.  As I was finishing up the french toast Keeli decided she wanted to get something extra special for dad.  She opened the fridge, pulled the veggie drawer open, picked out a baggie with half a tomato in it and headed downstairs.  Eric was still sleeping so Keeli decided tap dad on the face and huck the tomato at him.  (luckily it was in a bag!)  He woke up to a confused Keeli and a tomato in his face.  Needless to say we did not eat the tomato for breakfast but we did have a great Father's Day and french toast! 

We love ya Eric!

It's not official until it's posted :)

It's time to post that baby #2 is on the way.  We are very excited despite the nausea!  Look out world, in January, Harper baby #2 will be here!

Keeli now has a life jacket

With the warm weather here that means we are spending our weekends outdoors and at the pool.  Last week as we were about to leave the pool we noticed Keeli was missing.  We looked over to the deep end just in time to see her being lifted out by a family while the life guard blew his whistle.  As I ran towards her, she looked around and started walking back to us like nothing had happened. 

She has no fear and loves the water which equals a life jacket from now on.  I am just grateful for the people that pulled her out of the water and for the life guard that noticed she jumped.

Did you bring brownies to my house?

If so, thank you!

Keeli Escapes from Nursey...Again

On Sunday we went to a baby blessing and after church we went to go get Keeli from nursery but she was no where to be found.  This is not the first time she has escaped from nursery.  Keeli and some of her nursery buddies discovered how to open the doors in their classroom and take turns roaming the halls until someone brings them back.  The teachers have to block the doors with tables now and watch the kids like hawks.

She made her escape after nursery this time when everyone was being picked up.  As we were searching for her, Eric finally found her with a woman in a different ward in the hallway.  Somehow she had managed to get into sacrament meeting, walk to the front of the meeting, climb the stairs to the pulpit and proceeded to wave to everyone sitting down.  She was waving and waving and finally a woman in the audience Keeli kept waving especially to picked Keeli up and took her to the hall where Eric found them. 

:)

They grow up so fast

Keeli just learned how to fake snore today.... :)

Conglomeration

If you are wondering why I haven't been writing about sugar...don't worry, I haven't given up.  Unfortunately, I have found nothing exciting to write about not eating sugar.  I love my 100% fruit jam and smoothies are a great craving killer at night.  On Valentine's day I can cheat for a day and then I am staying off sugar until the next holiday.  Once I got over the two week hump of sugar less life it has been smooth sailing.  I am hoping I get sees chocolates and a coscto muffin for v-day though.  :)

Keeli played on her first big toy all by herself today at chic fil a....she was in heaven and followed every kid close to her size.  She is sleeping very good tonight.

Life is good.

Leadership

I was reading a talk giving by my dad last week and the below really stuck with me:

The six most important words: “I admit I make a mistake”


The 5 most important words: “You did a good job”

The 4 most important words: “What is your opinion?”

The 3 most important words: “If you please”

The 2 most important words: “Thank you!”

The 1 most important word: “WE”

The least most important word: “I”



"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"

— Lao-Tse

Hmm...starting over

We had our neighbors over for dinner on Sunday night and they brought a delicious cake I couldn't refused.  So today I started over with my 30 days of no sugar.   Day one is done and over and I promise I won't keep starting over going forward!

30 Days Sugar Free

Some of you may know I am not supposed to eat sugar.  I have arrhythmia and sugar lowers my blood pressure and makes it worse.  The last 6 months I haven't  been too strict with my no sugar diet and have decided that it's time to get back on track.  These next 30 days I am going to get back in the habit of keeping my heart and body healthy. 

In order to stick to my plan I decided to keep a record of how I am doing here.  I am hoping if I have to write about how I am doing I will be motivated to stick to my plan and get back in the habit of following doctor's orders.   Here's to day 1!

Christmas in a Nutshell

Merry Christmas

With all the hustle and bustle of the season it is easy to get caught up in everything except what Christmas is all about.  Keeli and I have been sick the past few weeks so we have slowed our pace down a little bit and I have had some time to stop and take a look around me.  I have so many wonderful examples of Christ-like people in my life and am blessed to just be alive. We Harpers definitely try not to take life for granted being so accident prone.

As I look back over this year our lives have taken so many unexpected twists and turns but have led us to the place we are today.  As the song says, "God bless the broken road that led me straight to you".  Thank you for being a part of our lives...your kind acts haven't gone unnoticed and we hope that you are blessed and know of your love for you. 

Merry Christmas!