Sunday Dress and Hair

It is a beautiful spring day! 

The sky is blue and the roses are in bloom!

And Elle looks lovely 

Happy. . .

First, Happy (late) birthday, Dad:

Unfortunately, I only took a few pictures at the party my sister and I planned for  my dad and they are not great, so you only get to see the timeline I made that took me forever:

It has a date for everyone who was at the party and says what was happening in the world when my dad was their age.  It was pretty cool to see all the history my dad has lived!

Second, Happy Women's Conference miracle!

My sister-in-law had the crazy scheme to go to the Women's session of conference last minute.  She figured we could go to the standby line and if we got in, great, and if not, we'd go out to dinner.  Success either way!

Well, lucky for us, my mom had two women in the ward give us the exact amount of tickets we needed to get in! Not only did they have tickets, they were pretty much as close as you could get!  Elle said she could see the prophet's face!  

It was a miracle! More than we ever hoped for

Third, happy (late) Easter!

We had a big dinner with lots of family on Easter.  The teenagers hid eggs for the little kids. . .

And the kids were so excited to hunt for them!

The teens hid four of the eggs particularly hard so they could each keep one.  Unfortunately for them, Uncle Jason found them and helped the littlest egg hunter get them.

Good news for the teens, though: each hunter shared two eggs with them so they were rewarded after all!

Fourth, happy spring! 

Our hummingbird came back a couple weeks ago and built up her nest a little.  She has two little white eggs in there now!  It was so fun watching them last year and so fun again this year!  It is very convenient that she set up her nest right outside our front window to give us easy spying access. 

I just hope the neighbors don't think we are spying on them. . .

Fifth, happy visitors!

My brother and his family came all the way from Michigan to visit us! (and go to Disneyland, California Adventure, Six Flags, Dreamworks, and Disney TV)

Chris showed them his game and the youngest gave his stamp of approval!

We went to the beach to catch some waves and sun

And watched bits of conference when the internet was actually working.

We eventually had to watch the rest of Sunday afternoon session at the church just like in the olden days!

The only other people there were the full-time missionaries.

(and one lady from the ward)

And finally, happy new truck!

. . .To someone, I'm sure.  I think this should be Chris's next vehicle--complete with the smoke stacks and the chain across the front grill (not pictured).  He agrees.  We will save up our pennies.

And I can't believe you read this whole thing!

Gold star for YOU!

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Snow!

No, not real snow, Silly!

We have to make our own snow in beautiful sunny CA!

Check out Elle's snowmen:

And Christmas trees

(you have to look at it right to see them)

And another fancy one!

I don't know how she does it!

Is it just me or does it seems like this is turning into an art blog?

Shoes?

So Elle needs new shoes, right? (because apparently she's going to be 6'1 someday).

I shopped around and found a good deal at JCPenney.  I even paid extra so they would get here sooner because poor Elle has her toes cramped all the time.

Well, when I checked the status, it said that they had been shipped to Las Vegas instead and wouldn't come for a day or so later. (grr)

Yesterday, two packages came.  They were both addressed to Elle.  One said JCPenney on the outside so I knew it was the shoes.  I figured the other package must be from a relative.

So Elle opened the JCPenney one and saw the invoice:

Athletic shoes, black.  Right size, right color, check.

HOWEVER,

When  she pulled out what should have been shoes, she pulled this out instead:

In case you can't tell, that is a package of size 38 DD  lacy white bras.

Yep.

Not shoes.

I had a mental image of a drawing Chris could do of a girl trying to Pollyanna the gift by putting the bras on her feet.

ha ha.  

Luckily, the other unmarked box contained the shoes.  

No invoice though.  I thought it would be great if the shoes had the invoice for the bras, but no.

I guess the store decided to gift us some giant bras as compensation for the delay of the shoes!

;)

The Grinch Who Stole Breakfast

Chris was asked to do the backdrop for our ward Christmas party "The Grinch Who Stole Breakfast."

Pretty epic painting!

He even signed it:

They were doing a little skit so half was the Grinch's cave:

And half was the ward breakfast which the Grinch stole

I didn't see the photo bomber.  

 I managed to see his mom who did mean to photo bomb right before him though! 

She's a funny lady.

Chris got plenty of compliments and everyone was very impressed by his artwork--and by his Christmas card. :)

Merry Christmas! Cards

Chris insisted on drawing our Christmas card again this year, but it didn't come as easily as in past years.

First attempt:

It was just a rough layout.  Elle said to add bunny ears. I'm not sure why.

I said we could leave them and say "Merry Christmas from the Harveys" 

Get it?  Big white rabbit. . .

Ha ha. 

(We just watched that the other day)

Some other details/back story you might not see at first glance:

Chris only has half of his glasses; I'm the one in the middle; Elle is doing a yoga pose because she stands like that sometimes; Chris has an extra arm on the left; and it is supposed to say "Merry Christmas" there on the bottom.

The next card was vetoed by me because I look like a 4 year old in PJ's.  Chris said he made me small because 

1- I am
and 

2. I wouldn't fit in the Christmas tree otherwise.

He said he kept telling himself (and me) it was just perspective and I was so high up that I appeared small.
 Neither of us believed it.

The next card was also vetoed by me because look at the giant box I'm standing on!  I'm even wearing heels, and yet, I'm still short!

Chris said no one would recognize me if he made me any taller.

There was another version that made me look like Francine from Arthur because my mouth was huge and wide.

NOT showing that one.

He compromised by turning the box into a gift and making it a little shorter.

Cute huh?

.

Well, the night he finished it, he tossed and turned and said he could never send it out because it was so terrible he'd be ashamed.
Whatever
(eye roll) Artists!

The final attempt was mailed yesterday at 4:47pm just before final mail pick-up.



And just for fun,
here's the Christmas card Elle worked long and hard on using Minecraft:

So cute! 

I know I'm impressed!

She even has little presents under the tree! 

Man, that girl is creative!

Thankful turkey 2015