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Here is a taste of the finale. You can BARELY hear the music in the background. This is for you Kate!

Happy 4th

I know there has been lots of pictures and videos lately just kind of all crammed together...but we had way too much fun and just wanted to share it with everyone! I still need to make a slide show of all the 4th festivities! We had the annual traditions with the parade, lunch at Uncle Kurts, boating and the last fireworks display at Harman Land Ranch. Any male relative in the Harman family was born with a pyro gene. Blowing stuff up comes automatically. We all love fireworks and a few of my uncles went to a special school to get certified to shoot the professional fireworks that really make our community's Fourth of July! We all gather together at Uncle Jacks and it gets bigger every year! Last year there were over 600 people! I haven't gotten the count for this year. There is always a patriotic program and the fireworks display is coregraphed to music. We get our fireworks from the same company that makes them for Disney World-if that tells you anything. The finale is always set to Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA". I LOVE the 4th of July-I think it's up there with Christmas and they went ALL out this year! We had a great time at the Harman Family Reunion. How can you not have a good time when you get us all together? There is bound to be food and laughing! Our family won the sandcastle contest this year! The prize: cream puffs....does that tell you anything about our priorities? We also had an extreme badmitton tourney at the Kent Harman home (complete with uniforms for Cris and Mand). All in all a week to remember!

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Here is a small video of Brian. Sorry it is shaky, the water was choppy and we were in the Valencia-which I have a correction to make, it is 32 years old, not 29....still runs like a champ! I added a little of Cole doing his new trick-splashing! He even does it in the bathtub now! So much for my relaxation trick :)

Love To Ski

 

Here are a few pics of Brian and Diane tearing it up. For some reason I don't have any of Grandpa Jim on our camera. I must only have video. Oh well, everyone had fun!

Lake Powell

Our time at Lake Powell was great! Cole did SO much better than expected!! He slept a lot because it was so hot, but that was okay with us :) Lots of ski time and reading makes a great vacation for us! We left bright and early on Sunday and came back late Tuesday night so that Cole and I could go to the Harman family reunion. Brian headed back to the lake with his brothers. Lake Powell will always be special for us because that is where Brian introduced me to his Dad and Diane, held my hand for the first time and where we had our first kiss-in the Valencia! Oh the memories! I give props to Mel and Brandon who kept their 10 month old twins there for the whole week!

Shout Out To Kate

 

Before I get started on catching up with all the fun festivities, I just want to send some love my sista's way. Katie knows that I miss her. She doesn't answer the phone anymore when I call because I think I just make her depressed! :) We had a ton of fun this last week and I thought of her the whole way through. Funny story, I woke up one morning and wandered out into the kitchen. My neice was sitting at the island just eating her cereal. I gave her a hug and told her good morning, she just kept on chewing and pointed behind her like there was something important. We have a big armchair by the fireplace in the kitchen and I saw my sister sitting in it with her hoodie up and a slight scowl on her face. I got so excited, I thought that Alexa was showing me we had a visitor! I screamed and ran towards her to jump on her and hug her.....wrong sister! I SO thought it was Katie just gotten in from a suprise flight! Nope, it was Mandy who now thinks I am certifiably crazy. You have to hand it to me, she had her hood on so the majority of her face was covered! That night I had a dream that Kate came home and was harassing me! So Kate, I miss you consciously and UNconsciously! I am so glad that you did not float away with the rest of Iowa City and that you are my sister. Things were not the same without your thick sarcasm and sense of humor and we totally could have used you on our badmitton team! I love you!