*photos from megan beals photography*
This year has been such a great year
for the Harrison family- we had a population growth of 33%. With our new and
expanded family, we’ve been able to travel quite a bit in 2014. In July we visited
Utah and had a Zobrist family reunion. We were able to finally visit Melissa’s
parent’s family compound in Deweyville. We also went to visit the Thanksgiving
Point farm, the Children’s Museum, Hogle Zoo, and aquarium. We visited again in
October to go to Justin’s 5-year mission reunion and were able to spend more
time at her parent’s farm. The real vacation this year was our visit to
Disneyland in November. Landon was so excited to go and continues to talk about
it non-stop! Some of his favorite things there were playing the Buzz Light-year
game, seeing the parade in CA Adventure, meeting Peter Pan and acquiring
another sword for his collection. In December we were able to do a quick visit
to Miami (or Mommyami as Landon calls it) as well. Highlights from this trip
include Justin & Landon riding a camel at the zoo, building sandcastles on
the beach and finding buried treasure in the sand. Justin was able to visit
Washington DC and New York City on his own as well. We are a family that likes
to travel!
Porter
David Harrison entered the world on January 16th and has been quite
a joy in our family. We had no idea that babies could be so pleasant and
joyful! Now he is almost one and is even more of a joy! Porter loves his big
brother but never more so then from afar. He also loves his food (chicken
nuggets & baby cheetos are his favorite, sadly), water bubbles, and
cuddling his mama. Porter is a very sweet little boy who most recently started
crawling & pulling himself up. But don’t even think about eating food in
front of him without sharing- no matter what it is! Despite being toothless,
Porter can eat almost anything!
Landon has
had an eventful year as well. He mastered potty training, took swimming
lessons, started preschool, started soccer with Coach Mommy, and upgraded his
status from ‘only child’ to ‘big brother’. He went to his first UNLV game and
first movie in the movie-gater this year. He loves playing legos and has a
great imagination. His favorite things to play are pirates, ninjas, and
firefighter. He loves apples in all forms (sauce, juice, whole), chicken
nuggets, and broccoli. Landon is a very social little boy and loves to play
with his friends at the park.
Melissa
keeps busy taking care of all the wonderful men in her life. She helped Justin
cultivate their garden’s bounty and learned how to can (a lost art!). She
joined weight watchers post- Porter and was able to drop 15 of those baby
pounds. She also moonlights as a teacher in Relief Society, visiting teaching
coordinator and enrichment committee chair. Melissa spends most of her time
wiping up boogers and butts, but occasionally finds time to write on her blog,
read books, workout, and save the world from pirates.
Justin has
been quite the busy bee- at home and at work. At home he’s been working up a
storm building things and fixing up our house. Some of our house projects
include: building a shed, creating a raised garden [and having quite the bounty
during the summer months!], tile throughout our house, baseboards & paint,
metal curtain rods, wall mounted bookshelf, and a gorgeous barn-style wood
table. Justin started taking classes at UNLV again for a Masters in Public
Administration. He works non-stop for the NV Republican Assembly Caucus as
their Executive Director and we look forward to moving to Carson City again
come January [our third time!]. Some of his favorite activities include
sword/gun/pillow fighting, going on trips to the man-store [Home Depot] with
his favorite buccaneer, and rubbing Melissa’s feet [not really, but a girl can
dream].
Merry
Christmas!
Love, King
Daddy, Princess Mommy, Knight Landon, & Squire Porter
3 comments:
Shouldn't mommy be the Queen? Who's the queen? I'm one of the lucky few who received a card but I'm glad to see all the pictures taken of your family. She did a great job capturing your family.
BTW, package is in the mail
Ah! So cute! I wish our family pictures turned out this well....then again, I wish we took family pictures....haha.
I also loved reading about your year, even though I knew most of it from blog-stalking you. :)
Your family, is the cutest family, of all the familes.
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