All who know Harrison are aware that when he loves something, he REALLY loves something. He lives it, eats it, breathes it, becomes it. This was the case with Captain America, Pirates and for the summer of 2018 SPIDERMAN.
Throughout the hot months, you would not see our little Harry, but Peter Parker in full costume. He would fly through the air, try to climb walls and watch every single Spidey movie he could, even Spider-Man three, which is terrible. In fact, we had to watch that one half the time. The best part is when he would walk around like creepy Toby Macguire with slick back hair (he really did wet it in the bathroom) and do the strut across the room clicking his fingers shaped as a gun at anyone watching.
Naturally, for his birthday, we needed to celebrate in Spider-Man style. Harrison chose to go to Chuck E Cheese with the family instead of a friend party. To be honest, it may not have lived up to his expectations. It didn't live up to mine either! Ha! Gone are the days with the giant puppets putting on a concert. Drats! We did rack up some serious tickets, but the prizes were so lame. Good thing his family party focused on his love of the Spider-Man.
The love runs so deep that when a spider was crawling around our basement, Harrison ran up to tell me, but did so as he knocked his fist against his head. Clearly he was torn. He told me about the arachnid and that I should go get it, but he really needed it to bite him so he could become Spider-Man. Not sure it was radioactive, so I went ahead and got rid of that bug!
We love Harrison so much! He has the best sense of humor and belly laugh. He cracks up at so many things and it just ripples through all of us. He has a sweet/sensitive side too. I had a particularly hard day, facing some pretty tough stuff and ended up on my bed crying a bit. Harrison saw me like that, and was so concerned. He grabbed a blanket, wrapped me up and laid his head on me. Later that day he said, "remember when I wrapped you in a blanket? I felt all Jesus-y" Haha! He is a little gift to us...but he is super scary with his temper at times. Since it is his birthday post, I won't mention specifics right now!
Harrison's birthday always falls right when school is starting for the year. Here are the kiddos' first day photos....
Harrison Pre-K (yes it is a Spider-man backpack)
Grant 8th grade (I lost a lot of pictures, so this had to be retrieved from our family's Cluster site. Pretty sad.) Notice Dave's photo bomb. We really are looking over Grant's shoulder more often than he would like, but we do it because we love him so darn much.
Here is Katelee's first day of 6th grade-finally ruling the elementary school. She pretty much could have been in my 6th grade class-overalls and crimped hair, she would have fit right in! She has Mrs. Chang who we heard is great, so should be an awesome year!
Brenna has Mrs. Brooks for 3rd grade, who is a new teacher this year. Brenna is thrilled because Mrs. Brooks is so beautiful and is having a baby. She's going to rock 3rd grade!
So, they begin a new journey, a new chapter. I think our whole family does. Ages, decisions, experiences take us to new places we didn't anticipate visiting or being a part of. Some are amazing some are terribly difficult, but either way, they are shaping who we are becoming, and hopefully that is in a positive way. What we do know is that we can draw off of good days, fun memories (like the day at the zoo I forgot to add to the last post...)
Or our last summer fling to Bear Lake with a couple of neighbor families. We went glamping (because that's the closest thing to camping we could get Dave to do)
Most of my pictures were deleted-the ones of us at the lake and in our amazing tent (that actually had electricity and a bathroom, so not sure how much it is camping at all). Our friends stayed in the covered wagons. We enjoyed biking, the game tent, shakes
smores and mostly playing all day at the lake. We rented a wave runner for a couple of hours, kayaks, paddle board, and a water trampoline. It was so great.
The beginning of September is always Snowbird week. We have been keeping a secret from the kids that we got our very own time share. All leading up to our stay there, the kids would keep asking which condo we would sleep in but we would put them off or tell them we would figure it out when we got there. So, when I brought up some of the kids and I grabbed our key the first night (Brenna came late because of a birthday party). Katelee let out a scream of joy! It was such a fun surprise. No pictures, but it was a fun Snowbird week as always.
So, we've got a lot of good times ahead. We have beautiful views like this from our glamping tent to draw from, but we also have many memories and happiness to come. Sometimes being stuck in the middle of something hard makes you look down, but we need to look up and all around because the joy is there!
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