Happy Birthday Hannah

On Friday the 19th my little girl turned 4! I can not believe that she is growing up so fast. I know I say that every year, but it's just going so quickly. We spent her big day at Disneyland.

She got some birthday money from her Aunt and she went to the Disney store and picked out her Ariel costume. It was so nice to go to the mall with her by myself to just spend some quality time. She even told me while she grabbed my hand, " Mom I love my sister but it's nice to get you all alone!" She is such a sweetheart. I don't get to do much one on one with her but when I do we have so much fun.
Of course we had to go see the Princesses while we were there. Leah was in heaven because Minnie is her favorite!

It was nice to see Ariel there while Hannah was in her costume and she even sang to her. She sang the part of the song when Ursula steals her voice. Way too cute.
She is telling her cousin Kendra, "Yes! I'm four!!!" hahahaha

So happy that her cousins could come and endure the jam packed park with us. It was crazy insane so we did a few rides and bailed. But it's ok since we are there at least twice a month.
After we left the park we went to the Rainforest Cafe, which is one of her favorite places, and had a great meal there. They all sang to her and made a big deal for her birthday. It was a great day.

These are some things that she has said lately that are just too cute....

She is a real artist and she drew a picture and said, "This is you and daddy and me and this is my heart. You guys are falling in love!" It melted my heart

I was sad that she was going to be another year older so we had a conversation about enjoying her last day as a three year old. I told her I was sad that she was going to be four and she grabs my face with both her hands and says, "But mommy, I'll always hold 3 in my heart forever!" where does she come up with this stuff? I am not sure but I really love it.

When she walks into a room she needs to be introduced. "Introducing, the beautiful Princess Hannah!" Cracks us up every time. And sometimes she changes a hundred times a day and every time she needs her introduction. :)

She is very into dressing herself nowadays and let me tell you, we have some interesting outfits going on here! And I am usually the type of person that won't leave the house without her hair being done and outfits matching and looking perfect! Now, my poor little girl looks like a raggel-muffin!!! But she is learning her independence and I guess that's a good thing, right?

She also salute's me when I ask her to do something and says "Yes maam!" very funny for the on-lookers they think I'm a drill sergeant! I kinda like it. hahahaha

She loves her cupcakes!

I have not decided if she was trying to be dainty and not get dirty or if using her hands took too much time to get to her mouth! Either way, too funny!!!

A Princess party

Hannah is all about anything Princess, so what better theme to have than a Princess party?! Well it was the perfect party for our little girl. I loved all the pink and all the little Princesses, we had at the party. It was great weather because it was the first day of spring and it was gorgeous!!!

This is Hannah's cousin Wendy and they had so much fun together all day. Hannah's really into Ariel right now so that's what she was.
You could not get this little dare devil off of this thing! From the second they dropped it off until they picked it up at night, she was on it! Up and down the slide, going down in all directions possible. She was so brave and cracking us up.
What would a Princess party be without Princess crown cookies? My friend gave me this secret yummy recipe and let me tell ya, amazing! I can not do as good a job as she does, but I was pretty happy with the results. They kinda look like they are flipping me off :)
And the glass slippers!
Leah had to join in on the fun. She loves to do what her big sister is doing and she had to be Snow white.

Hannah's bestie Paige.


Some of our Princesses and their Prince Charming's.

Um, what can I say? The girl loves her cupcakes! I'll have to post the video of her eating them!
Hannah pretty much has all the dolls so they all played with them, here are just a few.
And most of her cousins stayed late and played all day. I love having them over. I love that she can play and have a good time with her family. It was a really great day and we had a lot of fun. Lot's of sweets and treats! But the best part was at the end of the day Hannah comes up to me and tells me how grateful she was for her party and all that I did for her. That made my day! She is a very sweet girl who appreciates everything! She opened her Jasmine doll and it was a scream heard around the world! Just knowing that she is happy makes me happy. I love her so much and I am so amazed at what a sweet girl she is.

Christmas Fun for the Hardy's

Now that I am private I can share all the fun we had in December without crazies peeking in. So this may be late, and there may be just a few pictures but bare with me.

To start out our festivity's we had a pancake breakfast with Santa at my dad's work. We had so much fun and the girls loved it. Hannah won a prize and they had gifts for every child as well as crafts.

Leah making her plate for Santa
Hannah and all her creativity!
The best Santa ever! He was so good to Hannah and even though Leah wanted nothing to do with him, he was so kind to her and he had a special place in his heart for Hannah, he actually emailed my dad to tell him what a great little girl she is. So sweet.
And this is how you can find Leah after showers. Seriously, she walks around in the buff with just her princess shoes on. I really love her, she cracks us up!
Santa at our ward Christmas party
Looking precious in their dresses
We made a gingerbread house and we had so much fun. Although, Scott thought that we were entering it into an art show or something so I had to remind him that this was for the girls. Hannah did a great job, but we did help a little ;)
Christmas eve we had fun with Family at my mom's house. Hannah and her cousins, Leah was M.I.A. for most of the pictures, she was busy with candy.
She is obsessed with Minnie Mouse
And this is our Christmas morning. Hannah is really into arts and crafts and colors better than most teenagers I know so we want to encourage her mad skills. So she is busy every day doing all kinds of fun things on her easel and she paints ceramics most days too.
We kept it small this year since my parents spoil them! We got Leah this cozy coupe and she loves it so much.
And here is the Tinker Bell baby that our little Princess asked for. She was so excited. I love that she keeps it simple. She asks for easy things and she is so grateful for everything she gets. She is so polite and sweet.
And finally the Hardy family get together. Some are missing but here are a few cousins and of course it was a hit! Now that this is all behind us we are so grateful for wonderful holiday season we had and are very excited about the great way our New Year has started!

Going Private!

Hello friends and the random people who read my blog that I have no idea who you are. I have decided after a recent event that we NEED to go private. So leave me your email address if you care enough to read the exciting events of our lives! I will erase your address as soon as I get them so they will be safe. Or if you have my personal email address then you can just email me there. If you no longer wish to read the crap I do in my life, then feel free to not respond and take a long walk off a short pier. Just kidding! It will probably happen in a week or so to keep the crazies out, so respond now or forever be interested in the Hardy's! hahaha

Letter to Santa

WARNING: Mommy bragging here....

A couple weeks ago Hannah wrote her very first letter to Santa. I'm such a proud momma! She is three and doing so well with learning her letters and their sounds. She has been writing all her letters for a while now and she wanted to do this by herself, so I agreed. It was so sweet to see her excitement and I will save this letter FOREVER!
Dear Santa,

Can you please bring me a Tinker Bell baby? Love Hannah

Family Night

I love Monday nights. I love it for many reasons, one is that it's Scott's day off, that is the day we have our date's since the other day off is Sunday, and the other is that it is our family night. It is our night to relax as a family and learn about the the gospel. The girls are very squimish and it is hard to make it through our short lessons, however, it is so special to hear what Hannah learned and to hear her repeat it days later. We know she listens, we know she learns and we love how excited they get to have this special time with us.

This was the FHE board I made a couple weeks ago and it is fun to use. I really like it!
Tonight it was Scott's turn. He discussed the birth of our Savior. And I thought it was so cute that he "recreated" the scene of His birth with the girls toys. We saw an amazing play at church the other day, Savior of the World, and Hannah watched most of it. She knows all about it and was answering all of Scott's questions correctly. She said that Jesse doesn't sing as well as Mary did in the play though. hahaha Mary was amazing, as were the rest of them. I am so grateful for Family nights and I look forward to them every week.

I love my beautiful family!

Just some family pictures taken by the wonderful Tonya Joy,http://www.tonyajoy.com/myjoy here is her website. And her very talented sister Gena has a beautiful and delicious website (www.genasusan.com), check them out if you want some gorgeous ladies to capture your beautiful families.

Halloween Parade

This is a fun clip of how many kids were there, and some where even missing from this video!

Halloween

This year my kids were costume snobs! hahaha No they just wore two different costumes and some people teased me about it so I tease back. ;) Anyway for our ward trunk or treat my mom made Hannah a Minnie Mouse costume and I think she wore it so well. She just gets more pretty with everyday and we always have fun watching her play dress up. My mom did a great job and Hannah can't wait to wear it again to Disneyland.
Leah was a flying monkey, no I think you can tell what she was and she was so flipping cute!
They had fun posing for the camera. Hannah thinks she is a model and she strikes poses all the time. She even has her runway walk down!

Then this was the next night, the actual day. We went to a friends house for their 2nd annual Halloween party and we had so much fun. They did crafts, a parade, had a slushy machine, jumped on the trampoline and so many more fun things. We all had a great time being with our peeps.
Ummmm, yeah she is cute! She was a flower this night and I think the sweetest darn flower I have ever seen. She left her whole costume on alllllll night. She can be so easy going at times. Although I feel bad because she was eating everyone's food. If they blinked their eye, food was gone! But she was happy and with all the candy no one seemed to mind that their veggies were missing.
They had a projection screen up and played a movie with popcorn and hot chocolate. So much fun! The kids actually stayed and watched 90% of the movie and I was able to have some serious chat time with my friends, which is always nice and so appreciated.
The girls were so excited to eat some candy from trick or treating.
As you can see, my little princess looks better than the real Belle. She is so sweet and sassy, but she sure made a gorgeous Princess!

(Just to clear things up. Only one costume was purchased during the making of this post.)