Happy Harkers

Our winter activities in Pasco included some 4-wheeling snowboarding....






Fun times playing with cute-as-a-button Eliza...


New Christmas jammies....

Puzzles....

Food....

Fun hairdos....

New toys....

Walks in the snow....

Giant snowball fights....

Cccccold weather.....

Staying bundled up.....

Time together.....


And we just enjoyed being with everyone!!

Can you guess who took this picture? I'll give you a hint....it was someone who is not as tall as us....

It was Jayden! Second time's a charm!

Cole with baby Eliza

Ethan thrilled to death over his new slippers

Cute Cole with his new slippers from Grandma

Sabrina's new dress and baby doll wearing a matching outfit


What a wonderful Christmas we had! We are so grateful for all of our family and the fun times we spent with all of them! We love you all!

Christmas 2008 with the Harkers

Nick was very excited on Christmas morning....and if you know him well, you know the very first thing he was on the phone!


Deb is excited to open presents soon!


Posing in our Christmas PJ's (for those faithful blog readers, you may have noticed that these are the same as last year's pj's)




Christmas breakfast....what a spread!


Christmas morning before Bruce woke up, we took out all of the gifts that Santa left for him in his stocking. We replaced it with a little bag that said "You've been naughty" and had 2 lumps of coal in it. Hehe


Deb got Bruce a really nice picture of "The Amazing 7" cowboys (I think it's amazing...maybe fantastic?) to go in his western themed office. He loved it!

I need to explain the story behind this next picture. About a year ago we got serious about taking multi-vitamins every day. Nick started doing more research, and pretty soon we were taking about 5 different pills (fish oil, flaxseed oil, vitamin E....). Normally he would get them out each day for us to take, and so pretty soon he began begging me for a pill box. My first reaction was "NO WAY! We are NOT old enough to need a PILL BOX!!". However, more often than not we would forget to take them, and I realized what a pain it was to get all of the different bottles out. So when I got Nick a pill box for a Christmas gift, he was very excited. :)


Me checking out the awesome cook/craft book from Debbie. We recieved many other fun gifts from Bruce and Deb and each other including a pedicure kit, wheat grinder, clothes, jewelry, tools, martial arts classes, date night coupon, and other fun things! Thanks to Mom and Dad Harker for having us over for a fantastic Christmas 2008! :)

Winter 2008

Our winter in Spokane, WA was definitely an eventful one. After receiving a record-breaking snowfall in a 24 hour period (2 feet) we continued to get nearly 7 feet total in just the month of December. Memories include: fun times getting to work in the mornings, playing "Where's Waldo" with Nick's car, shoveling several times daily, and enjoying negative temperatures. I can't wait to move to Wisconsin for some REAL winters! (if only you could hear the sarcasm...)




When we weren't dealing with all of the snow, we baked 5 different kinds of goodies that I could share with everyone I work with. One of our fun creations included these "stained glass window" sugar cookies. They are fun to make, taste great and are so pretty! Once you have your sugar cookie shapes cut out, you use a knife to cut out another design in the middle of the cookie. After baking them like normal for a few minutes, you take them out when they have about 2 minutes left to bake. Sprinkle crushed up hard candy in the middle (we used jolly ranchers) and put back in the oven for the last 2 minutes. This will melt the candy, and then you just let them cool. So cute!