TOO SOON?!

A couple of weeks ago I made a real bad mistake... let me give you some background info on this story first...

 I use one of these to shape my eyebrows

It was a normal night in the Harper home and I was just about to get in the shower and decided it was time I trim my eyebrows because I was starting to look like chewy off of Star Wars..  I was in the bathroom when the unspeakable happened... I SLIPPED yep S L I P P E D!!!! I had just taken a big chunk out of the top of my eyebrow and there was nothing I could do about it. Jason came in to access the situation and told me oh babe it's not that bad... UMM thanks for your support dear! But what came next was just a little too soon for my liking.. As Jason was leaving the bathroom he busted out in his best rendition of Brittany Spears song.... 

oops I did it again I shaved off my brow
ohh baby baby baby!

At this point I am almost in tears while he was trying to be the next american idol! I could have killed him! 

Now it is funny and we can all get a good laugh out of it... BUT for the future we all need to learn when it is a little too soon to be singing Brittany in my face!

My eyebrow has now grown back and I no long have to use brown eye shadow to fill in the hole... NEVER a dull moment around here!

Here we go.. Merry Christmas Happy Anniversary New Years and Birthday!

It has been the best month! We left Orem December 19th to go to Disneyland with my whole extended family on the Harman side. Grandpa Bob takes us every 5 years and it is a total blast! From eating countless churros to riding space mountain until you want to throw up is part of the whole experience... Oh happy day it was... well days actually we went for 2!

 Star Wars is now 3D... Yep I almost threw up!

 Poor Alex was a bit scared to go on the ride and I think I made it a little more scary by screaming the whole time!

 Sadie and I... it was so good to see my best friend again!

 The whole HARMAN clan

Bugs life... one of my favorites!

 Jase after riding Screaming California... classy hair :)

Once we got home from Disneyland we took off to Idaho to Jason's parents to spend Christmas with them. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be to be away from my family. They made me feel right at home and made such an effort to make it a memorable Christmas! I am one lucky girl to have such great in-laws...

 He was a little jazzed about the presents to say the least!

 Christmas Morning...

Headbandz... actually a really fun game

After a couple days in Idaho we got in the car again and made our way to St. George to spend some time with my family. It was a riot! I love spending time with my nieces and nephews and with my siblings and parents. I am grateful for the chance that I got to spend so much time with all of them of the past month....

 Christmas cookies with a bunch of cuties!

 Family motorcycle/ truck ride...

New Years

 Poor Charlie hit her head over and over again and by the end of the week she had two black eyes...

 Going 4-wheeling.. I asked Jase to grab my coat and he didn't want to go upstairs so he grabbed my dad's puffy coat and I was glad he did! It was SOO warm...

 Taking down the Christmas tree... He wanted to look like the statue of liberty!

 Mom being mom.. climbing things to make her house look amazing as always!

I guess climbing up to the top of things runs in the family...

 On January 4th it was Jason's 22nd Birthday! I am so glad that he is in my life.. he is the best husband and best friend a girl could ask for... He is funny, loving, weird ( just like me), and  so much more. We have been together since we were 17 and each year gets better.. especially since I got to spend it with him this year and not just write him a letter saying happy birthday!

 J chose to golf in the morning

He chose to go to the Olive Garden for dinner with mom, dad, grandma and grandpa

All in all it was a fantastic Christmas break and once again we are over whelmed with gratitude for all of our blessings and how lucky we are to have such amazing families and friends. Being gone for 3 weeks was a thrill but we are so glad to be back home and getting back into the swing of things!

MERRY CHRISTMAS.... cookies!

Yesterday Jase and I decided we needed to start spreading more CHRISTMAS CHEER.. SO we made Christmas sugar cookies! It has always been a tradition in my family to make sugar cookies every holiday and take them to our neighbors... so I decided I wanted to carry that tradition over to our new family! It was quite fun watching Jason be so meticulous when he was rolling out the dough and making sure that it was the PERFECT thickness! We both had our special jobs and it made for a special Christmas evening... We then went to a couple of friends house and delivered them!  It has been finals week around the house and Jase has done FANTASTIC on all of his finals. He finished his last test today and I am so proud of him and am very excited for him to get a break for the holidays.

Also this week I got crafty and decided to recover some pillows in my room and living room...

LOVE....

I LOVE Christmas Decorations!

I LOVE eBay and Jason for winning me this CUTE coat from Anthropologie!

I LOVE Krave with all my heart... especially when the flavors are peppermint and eggnog!

I LOVE Jason for doing the laundry even though he doesn't love doing it...

I LOVE pretty sunsets...

AND.... 

I LOVE OPENING PRESENTS BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!!

Whirlwind Week...

So this week was crazy busy and went by super fast but at the same time it has drug on for forever! Tuesday afternoon I got in the car and drove to St. George to meet my mom so we could fly out the next morning from Vegas to San Francisco. My amazing mom came with me to go to an ankle specialist to see if I was a candidate for a new surgery that takes a cadaver ankle joint and puts it into my ankle. Long story short there are 3 surgeries I have to choose from to get rid of my cute limp that I know that everyone is secretly jealous of and the pain that walking causes me. My sister that is about to have a baby was texting me the other day and said "Cris you better get your ankle fixed before you get pregnant because a limp and a waddle is not cute sister!" I will keep that one in mind Mand! It will take some prayers and some time to decide which one to do but I know that whatever is supposed to happen will! Besides the whole doctors visit mom and I had THE BEST DAY EVER! We went to Union Square and it was like a little kids dream at Christmas time! It was honestly magical.... The giant tree in the middle of the square, seasonal music playing in every store, and even fake snow being blown off of Macy's 7 story building!

Yep! A wreath in EVERY window... These California folk are classy!

Then the most amazing thing happened we looked across the street and saw a 4 story William and Sonoma! For those of you who don't know what that is.. well to put it simply it is a chef's haven! As we walked in the door we were greeted by a sweet lady that handed us some delicious hot chocolate and gingerbread crisps. MAGICAL.... I had barely stepped into the store and I was already blown away! Mom and I walked around for a while and looked at all of the things we wished we could have. If I had unlimited amounts of money I swear to you I would have a kitchen aid in every color in my GINORMOUS kitchen! Just because I could... I would of course use them all but each kitchen aid would have its very own task! For example my light blue kitchen aid would ONLY be used for buttercream and then my mint green one would ONLY be used for making brownies! Oh how amazing would that be?! Sorry I got off task there! But back to the story... we were now on the top floor looking at some cookie cutters when I came across some gluten free mixes and I asked one of the sales associates if they had anything else gluten free and he proceeded to tell me that there was a gluten free class going on later that evening.. WHAT THE WHAT?! Could my luck get any better? Well ya it did.. I asked if there was any chance that there was room for 2 more people and BAM there was! It was the funnest thing I have done in a long time. I got to spend some one on one time with my mom and we were at a cooking class AND IT WAS ALL GLUTEN FREE! Oh December 7th you were so fun! By the end of the class we both were so tired from waking up at 5 that morning we caught a cab and went back to our hotel and both slept like babies.