Happy Mother's Day cards

Check out the mother's day cards that I am having made at Shutterfly! SOOO CUTE!

5x7 Folded Card

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Long time, No Post...

The Harvey household getting Christmas-fied!

Our back porch gets a candle and green tablecloth.

Wrapping gifts for our kids for the FIRST time is FUN!!!

Place settings at our dining table--notice the paper towel as the napkin. LOL!

Hanging the lights--best Dad ever!

Our little Santa baby...

In the era of Facebook, Myspace, twitter, etc. it's easy to lose the zeal that I once had for blogging. 'Updating my status' is so much easier than loading pics and providing a detail of what each of them are on this blog. However, I LOVE THIS BLOG!!

It provided a link to Bryan while he was in Iraq, and to his family up north since Kayne has been born. What a special bond it provides--and I am trying to make time to make it a priority again!

With that said, here are a few pictures from the past week--including Christmas. Some of them are on facebook--but most that I will post on here will be just for the blog. So, be sure to check back every week for new pics!

Run for the Fallen

Please check out the following video that I made with pictures from the Run for the Fallen that we did for Marcus and Mark on August 22/23... We miss them everyday!

First Day of FOURTH GRADE!!

All ready to go... not so ready to say goodbye!

So, I just put my first born on a bus headed for 4th grade...where did the time go? Prayed blessings over her, and told her to be a witness unto others in ALL that she says and does~I am praying for an amazing first day for my baby girl (and all other kids going back today!)

Elyse wanted a teacher named 'Mrs. Slaga' so badly that she was praying DAILY that she would have her as a teacher. I told her that God knew what was best for her, and that he would put her where she needed to be... she said "I know, Mom--but I hope He thinks its best for me to be with her!" LOL! What a great child I have~praying to God and believing for things that are important to her and EXPECTING Him to listen and respond to her. What an inspiration!

Well, she DID get placed with Mrs. Slaga... so this morning she JUMPED out of bed and brought me the comb to fix her hair, etc. She was SO EXCITED!! I was sad to see her go. We had such a great summer and its sad to think that my time with her will be cut drastically now, but such is life :-)

Have a great day, everyone!

Her Jonas brothers pins all over her backpack :-)

I don't want you to go, Sissy!

Bye, bye babe! We will see you this afternoon!

To the aquarium... yet again!

Heading out with our friends!!

Elyse and Christopher, having a good time!

A little snack!

Hey, hey! It's Lysee!!

So, we went to the aquarium today yet again. It was a beautiful day, and my friend Lori volunteered to go with me and take her kids as well. The kids had such a great time playing in the water, and the covered sand box area... they even shot each other with water cannons! A great time was had by all, and we are sure to be there more and more as the summer draws nearer to a close--soaking up all the rays that we can before school starts back up!

Friday~July 24th

We went to the OB/GYN for the first time today! Her name is Dr. Qureshi, and she was more than amazing! She said from the exam that I am at least 8 weeks along, and we will go next Thursday to find out exactly how far along I am. We are finally settling into the thought pattern that we are ACTUALLY going to have another baby. It is getting more exciting every day, and we are praying for God's will to be done in the coming months as we are faced with several tough decisions about our next steps together as a family. We will keep the blog updated as we progress through this next phase of our family's life...

To the aquarium!

Putting our passes to good use, we went to the aquarium today... here are a few pics from our day! Free and low-cost things to do for the kids has kept me sane this summer! We are still waiting on a job for Bryan, so I am doing my best to keep the kids busy, while keeping our money spending as low as possible. We are having a great time enjoying each other while Bry is still at home with us... but he is anxious to get out working! :-)

Operation Purple:Completed

So, our baby girl came home from Camp Winona for their Operation Purple camp for kids affected by deployment. I know that Elyse will always be affected by the last deployment that took Marcus's life, and so I think she will always benefit from this summer camp with other kids that know somewhat what she was going through. Not all kids have necessarily lost a family member, but all of them have gone through a deployment and know what it's like to be without someone that they love.

She had a GREAT time! I was so relieved because as a Mommy I was so worried that she would miss home, or be sad. She said that she was sad for a day about Uncle Marcus and she was missing us, but other than that she was ok. I know that everytime she leaves us for a week, she grows and matures as a young lady and that is so exciting/frightening for us :-)

Here are a few pics from us picking her up: