Thanksgiving

Phil and I have lots to be thankful for. We feel so blessed to have each other, our wonderful families, our jobs, and much more. We feel especially blessed that we were able to spend the week of Thanksgiving with lots of family around us.

We spent the first part of the week with my family. We saw a couple movies, spent lots of time together, and had an early Thanksgiving on Wednesday night.

Thanksgiving day we hung out at Grandma Harrison's. Phil's dad + kids and Heidi's family were in town as well. We had so much fun hanging out with these cute kids.

I flew back to TX Thanksgiving afternoon to get ready for Black Friday at work. Phil was a lucky boy and didn't come home until yesterday night (Monday night). He had Thanksgiving dinner with the Harrison side of the family and I had a nice dinner with his mom and bob.

He had a blast hanging out with his family and also had some more quality time with my parents. I wish I could include pictures from Phil's snowboarding trip but unfortunately he didn't take any pictures after I left.

My inventive husband and his obsession with Life Hacker

Phil enjoys figuring things out, trying new things, and knowing everything about it. He loves lifehacker.com a blog about tips and downloads for getting things done. He checks it every day and probably multiple times a day. Every once in a while he sends me links to tips he thinks I might like. Yesterday he sent me this link. We tried them out and they actually were pretty good. I think I still prefer them in the oven but if you are in a time crunch and have a cookie craving just put a ball of cookie dough in your waffle iron and you will get a waffle cookie in less than 90 seconds.

Notice what's on the TV? Yes we ate cookies while watching Biggest Loser... doesn't seem right does it.

Now that's a big bumble bee

Phil is such a good sport. I was so bummed about being out of town for Halloween this year because I got Rosie a costume (I'm weird I know). Sine he knew I was sad about not getting to hand out candy and get Rosie all dressed up he spent his Halloween night dressing Rosie up, taking tons of pictures for me and handing out candy to the cute trick or treaters. Too bad he ran out of candy in one hour (apparently there are lots of kids in the neighborhood)!

Meanwhile in Ocala, FL I was busy setting up this...

not an actual picture of the new store

This past week I spent long hours in Florida unpacking boxes, merchandising the store, and conducting lots and lots of training. It was such a great experience and I had lots of fun. I am exhausted though and am thankful for a thoughtful manager who gave me the weekend off! Yay that NEVER happens!

Happy Birthday Phil

Happy Birthday Phil! It's been a week of celebrations for Phil's 27th Bday. He got a little prize each day this week and we had his parent's over for dinner tonight. Tomorrow on his real birthday we are going to spend some quality time at the yummy Cheesecake Factory and on Friday we are going to see Where the Wild Things Are (he loved that book). I hope you have a great Birthday babe. I love you and being married to you is the best thing ever.

Phil loves cookies and ice cream so I made him a ice cream cake in the form of a cookie... It looks a little deformed but tasted amazing.


Sorry you all have to look at my nasty self... maybe I should've got ready for his bday celebration. Oh well there is always tomorrow :)

Missing them already

These cute kids (and their parents of course) came to visit a little over a week ago. We are already going through withdrawals without them. Even Rosie looks for them when we go over to Mom and Bob's. Thanks for coming in town Natalie and Tyler. We loved seeing you all.

Utah Trip

Phil's work sent him out to recruit at BYU so I tagged along.

Day 1:

Quick visit to Orem to see Heather and Kyle. Lunch and shopping with my Grandma. Later that night I hung out with my fun parents.
Day 2:
Fun day with Ashley. I need more days like these. That night I enjoyed some quality time with my mom.
Day 3: Craft time with my Mom and sistersLate night girls night with these fun ladies... I miss you girls so much, we need to see each other more often.
Day 4:

We spent the day 4-wheeling with the fam. We had so much fun and it was so relaxing. Too bad Britt couldn't make it. Dinner at Spaghetti Factory with the WHOLE family after 4-wheeling.
Day 5:
To start the day off right we went to church with Phil's Nana and Grampa. I am so mad at myself for not taking any pictures.
That night my Mom had a big family get together.
Me and my cute cousins. I wish you three could have come home with me, I miss you so much.
It's not a family get together without rock band :)

We had so much fun in Utah. There never seems to be enough time to see all the people we want to. Sorry to those we didn't see, we love you and hope to see you over Thanksgiving.

My Walgreen's experience

Have you ever talked to a lonely, kind elderly man wearing one of these?
Yes, if you cannot tell that is a clown wig. Today I stopped by Walgreen's on my way home to grab some milk and a prescription. While I waited in line an nice elderly man, wearing one of those colorful wigs and an eye patch, talked my ear off for about 15 minutes. I have a weakness for the elderly and I couldn't bring myself to cut the conversation off when I was finished at the pharmacy. He ended up following me to the cashier and then ran out to his truck and came back in to give me this.
Apparently he sells watermelons and wears his clown wig to attract buyers.

Moral of the story- if you run into an elderly man wearing a clown wig please talk to him because it will make his day. Also you might just leave with a huge watermelon and that will make your day. I felt kinda bad talking it for free but he insisted.

Some of my favorite things

Whipped Crème can be used to create sleek, shiny straight styles as well as soft waves and curls. Bursting with protein, this luxurious formula is not heavy, sticky or dry - leaving hair sculpted, yet light and lush to the touch.

This cleanser is my favorite. It leaves my skin clear, soft and smooth. The pomegranate is a great antioxidant as well. If only I could remember to wash my face before I go to sleep.

I LOVE this clarifying lotion, it is a great exfoliate.
I just got these shoes from work and I'm in love. Do I really need to say more?


What are some of your favorites? I'd love to know!

I survived and am going into hibernation

For those of you who don't live in Texas they have this weekend before school starts called Tax Free Weekend. Basically anything that can be used for school purposes (clothes, shoes, supplies, etc) is tax free. For those of you in retail it's like working Black Friday (day after Thanksgiving) but three days in a row (well that's what it felt like in my store). I have survived my first Tax Free weekend and am celebrating my first day off after 9 straight days of long hours sleeping in and being lazy. I think I deserve it right? I have tomorrow off too so I figure I'll get stuff done tomorrow but today is my do nothing day and it feels so good. So if you've been wondering what has happened to the Harrison's we are still alive but nothing much is new. I do have to give a special THANKS to Phil for being a sweet husband and keeping up with the house when I had no more energy to do it. Yep, he is awesome.

Mom and Dad in town pt 2

My parent's went back to Utah yesterday and it felt so weird to wake up this morning and not have them at my house. We had a blast having them in town and cannot wait to see them again. Thursday I drove to Galveston and picked my Mom, Dad, and their friends up from the cruise ship. I was pretty scared to make the drive by myself but it turned out to be pretty easy except for the few minutes of insane rain. After picking my parents up we went to Rudy's for lunch (my Dad loves Rudy's and made it a point to go there several times while in town).After spending much of the day Thursday in the car we went home and relaxed for a while and enjoy each others company. Phil was able to get Friday off and we packed the day with fun. My dad loves going to new sporting good stores so we ended up going Academy and Gander Mountain.

My Dad was in heaven at Gander Mountain. Dad with his new Tilley hat.. he was SOOO excited even though he doesn't look like it

A little exhausted from all the driving that day?

After exploring all the fun sporting good stores (I think my Dad and Phil enjoyed them the most lol) we got some good local food at the Rib tickler. Unfortunately we forgot to take pictures of our amazing meals. After running some more errands we watched a good movie, made a final visit to the Nordstrom sale and then made some home made pizza. My Dad is a baker and made an awesome formula (as he would call it) for pizza dough. Growing up I wouldn't eat any other pizza except my Mom's, she of course made the pizza even though my dad wrote the recipe ;). I have always wanted to make the pizza dough but have been too nervous to try it my own so my mom gave me an awesome pizza making lesson.

It was so much fun having them in town. We cannot wait to see them again. I think Rosie is missing them as well, she loved having the extra attention.

Thanks Dad and Mom for coming to visit!! It doesn't matter what we do, we always have fun.

Bliss pt 1

My parents came in town late Thursday night. We played all day Friday and then they left for their cruise Saturday afternoon. Our day was packed full of fun on Friday. My dad fixed our toilet, we went to Rudy's (our favorite BBQ place), shopping at the Nordstrom Sale, and went to the Astro's game. It was so much fun having them around and cannot wait until they get off their cruise (they'll stay with us a few more days!).

Our Rudy's spread

We went and bought matching shirts during the game and of course had to put them on
Me and my Dad = SOOO happyMy Dad cannot resist a good hot dog.. in fact he got two enjoying the gameSaturday at my favorite Mexican restaurant, Los Cucos.
As you can tell we enjoy going out to eat.

This was a much needed weekend. I've missed my parents so much and want Thanksgiving to come faster so I can visit them and the rest of the family in Utah.