Making Memories

Here in Susanville we do not have a ton of "activity" type things to do. There isn't even a swimming pool here in town. That made me sad.... I heard that they are in the process of making one, that will be great! At least there are parks that we can go too.  

Luckily where we live we have such a huge variety of outdoor activities that we can do. So we are making memories where we are planted.  Things are so close that we get to take Saturdays and just play.  We have been able to visit many places.

First we visited Lassen Volcanic National Forest. The little we saw was awesome. We got to see the stinky pots. That just about freaked Camilla out. She was afraid it was going to bubble up and get her, so she would not get near it!!! What a funny girl, gotta love her!
 

Labor day weekend we decided to visit one of the many lakes that are only 30 minutes away! This on is Eagle Lake...Mike loved it at first name. It was such a beautiful lake! It was very clear that the lake was very low, but we still had fun. We had the beach to ourselves and it was great. Well we did have one visitor that stayed close by, that little bird at the end of the pictures.  

Our little ones really seemed to love the lake. Brody went right on in and Camilla was a little leery about it but then start having fun in the shallow water and even started splashing around on her stomach. Deklin loved the dirt, mud and rocks. He was fine walking around the water. 

One of the following weekends one of Mike's coworkers showed us a great family friendly hike and it was great. It was one that Brody and Camilla both could hike the entire time and easy enough for Mike to carry Deklin on his back. It ended up at a helipad with gorgeous views!!! Here are some of the pictures. Please pay attention to Camilla and her amazing outfit, she was so excited about it.

We also visited Burney Falls which is gorgeous!!!

It ended up being a little chilly when we visited, but it was still beautiful and fun.  It was a paved path from the top down to the bottom and an easy walk. There are other hikes that go all around the falls, but the little ones were a little cold. It was probably good we left when we did, because it began down pouring soon after we left! We still had fun...

We are having so much fun exploring and making new memories. We really live in a beautiful world!! We are so grateful that we were able to move to a place with mountains and hiking!!!

New Adventures of the Harrison family!!!

Well, the Harrison's get to start a new adventure. We have moved to a small town, Susanville California. It is an old logging town and has a cute main street area. This is just a picture from the internet. I guess I will have to take a picture of main street. But we love new adventures and are grateful to be having this one! 

Mike was able to get a job as a practice manager for Banner Health.  It is a clinic that is part of the hospital out here, but also independent of the hospital. Just a little confusing how it works. But he has a job and he is enjoying it! We were really blessed with finding this job. Everything happened so fast and we could see the Lords hand in everything we did. I guess everything really happens for a reason. Mike lost his job and got this one in about a month and a half.  We had our house that we just bought on the market for 3 days and then were under contract. The buyer even put down more than what we were asking for.  We were able to find a house out here to rent really quickly in our price range and in a good neighborhood. I was able to finish my summer job and then move out with the kids. We are in walking distance to the church and are in a great ward. So everything just fell right into place and we know this is where we are supposed to be!!! We simply love it when we know and can recognize that the Lord is in charge.  

Color Me RAD

Well we did it.... We as a family walked, jogged and ran the Color Me RAD 5k. We started off walking together and quickly separated. Mike was pushing the double stroller with Camilla and Deklin and could walk much faster than Brody and I.
Brody absolutely loved being able to get covered in the color. He was singing and laughing and just simply enjoying be there. That is what took a lot of our time. The first half of the race was uphill and the second was coming back down that same hill. Mike was pretty far ahead of us. So I convinced Brody to run down the hill.  He was having fun until he realized that he was getting tired. So I kept trying to keep him running and he was not very happy with me. At one point I told him to be positive and to just keep saying that he can do it, and he is so strong. He made another negative comment like he can't do it and that he was not strong. I retold him he could do it. He then told me very matter of fact "I am not being negative I am just telling you the truth, I'm not strong". I just had to laugh at him.
We caught up with Mike and we were able to cross the finish line together and we loved it.  We might plan on doing a 5k again.

Camilla loved it and wanted to run, but we just didn't want her to get lost in the crowd. She loved being able to run around at the end of the race with her color pack...

They are so cute!

Our Journey

So Mike and I have decided to start our get healthy journey!!!! We have decided that the only way that it is going to work is if we actually have a goal that we are going to meet.  So we decided to run our first 5k ever. Well maybe I should clarify this... it was my idea and Mike was so nice to follow and say he would run with me! Truth be told Mike says he is not a runner and I found this saying and he agree this was him...

Guess we will change him by the end of our journey!!!

I guess I just needed something that would help get me motivated so paying the money for the 5k will help me to not lose focus and waist the money we put into the run.  I'm glad Mike is running with me.  We signed up for the color me RAD 5k in May.  My thinking is this is supposed to be a fun run and I fill it would be less pressure for our first run.  We are excited that it is now finally warming up and we can get moving more outside. Our kids don't know it yet but they are also going on this journey with us.  And I know they will be excited too.  

I also thought this would be a great way to journal our progression, so I will be posting more on our journey mainly to keep track and see what we have done. It is all about keeping track and journaling.

SO HERE WE GOOOOOO.......  

We are Back!!! Hopefully!!

Well we are trying to keep up the blog again... This is a never ending cycle for us, we do really well then we stop and so on.  We are trying to keep up with everything, and we want to keep everyone up to date with our life.  And we feel this is probably one of the best ways.  So we are trying again!!!

We are not going to even try to catch up so we are just going to start with here and now....

Mike and I...  Or biggest news is we bought our first home!!!

We are so HAPPY it is ours.  The kids love it too.  They do every once and awhile ask why we are not living with grandma and grandpa. 

Mike is loving his job and enjoys all the hard work that he is putting into it.  It has been a struggle getting things organized and running better, but he is always up for a challenge.

I am still with the city in the Therapeutic Recreation Program. I get to teach an aqua rehab class on Wednesday, and it is a new year and will be starting to think of summer camp coming up.

Here is a little about our little adventure makers... Our beautiful kiddos are great at making fun adventures for us.  They love keeping us on our toes.
Brody... 

Loves kindergarten and is so creative.  He loves to write stories and loves to figure out how much he can really read now.  He is still as tall as can be and towers over much of his class.

He played soccer this last year and loved it, he keeps asking when he can play again. I'm glad he wanted to play and he was pretty good at it.  We did joke that he took the widest turns when he had to turnaround to get the ball.  We worked a lot on that.  He is very loving and is always willing to help with his siblings. 

Camilla...

She is our little DIVA!!! She loves to boss and laugh. What a great combination.  So she is bossing everyone and laugh at the same time so it does not always sound like she is telling her big brother what to do! But he  goes and does it.  She loves anything pink and purple and girly.  When Brody is at school she is my little shadow and wants to do anything that mom is doing.  She gets to bake and cook with me and do laundry with me.  But like I said she is a Diva and well she gets "tired" very easily.  So then she just sits and watches. She is great at observing.  She is getting so big! 

Funny little story about Camilla one of our adventure makers.  She decided to swallow a couple of pennies.  One Friday afternoon I heard Camilla yelling and crying went to her and she said she "swallowed a coiny".  Coiny is what she called pennies. So we informed her doctor and I knew she was going to have us just watch for it, they said to call on Monday to let them know if we had found it.  Well Monday came around and there was no sign of the penny.  So the doctor said to go in and have a chest x-ray. In the x-ray they did not think it was a penny because it was more oblong then round then, and it was still in the stomach and it needed to be moving by now.  So they sent us to the emergency room to have the doctor take it out.  He went in and pulled out 2 pennies.  He was pretty sure that because the pennies were stuck together that is why did not pass. He said it was good he went in, because the pennies had started to corowd and were giving her ulcers.  We still have the pennies in the little cup they gave them back to us as a reminder for her to not put things in her mouth.  We still randomly ask her if pennies go in her mouth, she always answers correctly.  

Deklin... 

He is so big! He is one now. He is all boy and really gives us a run for our money.  He is up and down and into everything.  I turn around and everything in one cupboard is out and I get that cleaned up and another cupboard is emptied.  He is so cute and funny, he loves to laugh and scream.
A story about this little adventure maker. We know that we have, in a way, made him the screamer that he is.  In November he started having seizures and we began to baby him again.  The poor boy has had more testing than I have in my entire life.  He had any test that would rule out any reason that would possibly be causing the seizures.  There was nothing causing them, so we just have a little one that has seizures. His neurologist said that he will most likely grow out of them by the time he is 2.  We are hopeful that he will!!! The medicine that he is on is controlling his seizures. He is slowly starting to get back to his good ole' self and we are loving it. We now have such fun with him and trying to give him nebulizer treatments.  He is one and we have to have him sit still for about 20 minutes.  He hates it.  Because he had RSV when he was just a wee one this time around when he got a cold his lungs did not like it and he is having asthma like symptoms.  He really is giving us a run for our money.  But he just gives you that smile and you cant help but just love him and cuddle with him....

We are working on making time to post more and keep our blog up and running.