Thanksgiving

Well I should be getting things ready right now to leave for Thanksgiving but instead I decided to write a quick blog! We are headed back to Tahoka/Lubbock this weekend to be with our families and we are going to be busy! Its always crazy for us to get everything in all in one day! I have such a large family and so that takes up half the day and then we have to got to Dax's parents too so its a busy day! This year is going to be especially (is that a word? haha) hard because of our deaths we had last year during the holidays. Dax's grandmother died the Saturday after Thanksgiving (Nov.22) and then my aunt died December 19th. So its going to be the first one with out the both of them and they were a HUGE part of our family. We love and miss them very much. Well I hope everyone has a save and happy Thanksgiving!

I'm Horrible at this!!

Gheez! I thought I would be better at this blogging thing! I always have things to write about I just never get around to doing it! I guess I just need to have a time each day that is my "blogging time.?" Its been a crazy few weeks. We had birthdays birthdays birthdays. Company here then we were gone and gone and gone! On the 25th of October we had Rilan's birthday party at my parents house and we had lots and lots of fun! He had a blast getting to play with our cousin Miller and my mom's friend who made his cake had 2 little kids that came over.

Okay now I'm frustrated because I can't get the picture in the order I want them in! UGH! Well anyway, we had a great time and he got tons of gifts! He is suck on a Thomas the Train kick, but its cute. He knows every trains name it awes me how he can remember all of them!

So after that we went to Austin for Halloween weekend to see some friends of our that used to live here and that Dax grew up with. They have a little girl named Jailee who is a year older than Rilan and they played so good together. I really wish they got to see each other more. We had a lot of fun just hanging out and watching the kiddos play. When we got there Friday night it was time for trick-or-treating, I wasn't so sure how it would go, and it went exactly how I imagined. He didn't want a thing to do with it, but he sure looked cute. He was a 50's rocker!

Okay well the picture are backwards but I can't figure out how to re-arrange them! Sorry!

Bridesmaid

My cousin Chelsey and her boyfriend Lex recently got engaged, and I have been asked to be a bridesmaid in the wedding! I am super excited for them but not super excited about how I am going to look in a dress! I started doing Weight Watchers last year and had lost 25lbs. well I gained quite a bit back due to stress and laziness. So I decided to start making weekly updates to my blog about my new progress on my weight loss goals. I plan to be at my ultimate goal by the wedding which is in 6 months. April 4th. I have a way to go but I know I can do it I lost the 25 lbs without working out ever, and I now have a gym membership, and I did that in 4 months. I have about 35-40 lbs I want to loose, but I know with a lot of hard work and dedication and encouragement from my friends and family I CAN DO IT! I WILL DO IT!

Mary Kay

Ok so I finally decided to do Mary Kay and I am so excited. Dax, Rilan, and I were eating at our favorite restaurant, Kobeya and the there was a woman in town for the Mary Kay convention, we started talking and I needed a few MK products, so I ordered them from her. The next week we got to talking and I decided to sign up. Its amazing how God has people enter your life at different times for different reasons. I love staying at home with Rilan but sometimes I start to feel like I don't do much on the helping end and feel bad that I don't have a job that brings in money. I just felt like this could be something I could do to help out here and there and get out and have more adult conversations. I have a personal web site you can order off of www.marykay.com/bhardage or you can just give me a call I would love to help you with all your beauty needs.

Hair

Well Natalie your blog make me think about my appt with you next week! Im getting so excited, but I have no clue what I want to do with my hair..so should I leave it the length it is...


or should I cut it off again to resemble this look....?


I always am trying to grow my hair out but I never make it very far! Dax likes my hair short, he says he doesn't remember what my hair was like long, its been like 5 years! I guess I should have never cut it off, I should have known I could never get it that way again! Well let me know what you think...

Potty Training

So here it goes. I have never done any blogs so lets see if I can get the hang of this! We just started potty training Rilan. Whew I am already already for it to be over with! We had him a really cute potty that sang to him when he went to the potty, and sang songs about flushing, toilet paper, the works! Well it was too much for him to play with, he never went to the potty on it it was play time, or so he though. So Sunday morning we went to Target to find on like on my new favorite show "John and Kate Plus 8" no potty, so on to Wal-Mart...again no potty. Dax decided that we should drive all the way to the nearest Babies "R" Us. We finally found the one we were looking for. YAY! Hopefully we catch on soon! This is going to wear me out!