Asheville

Last weekend we took a trip to Asheville. There was a CME conference there, so we decided to take advantage. We only had one major meltdown (Harlow, not me) where we had to rush back to the hotel room and of course...the maid was in the room at the time. Mark snuck in, grabbed a bottle, and fed me sushi in the hotel lobby while I gave her the bottle. We had intended to bring the sushi to the park that we got engaged. We did make it there though, this time with Urban Burrito in tow.

We ran into a family of ducks and started to get excited about when Harlow is old enough to feed and look at them.

On the way home we took the Blue Ridge Parkway part of the way home and stopped for a short hike. After that Harlow slept the WHOLE way home. Our next trip will be to Michigan, I hope the car ride there goes as well!

THREE MONTHS

Ok, it is not until tomorrow, but I have the day off today.

just her

Poor child had to endure another "photo shoot". This time I had this cute sun hat and I brought her outside in the evening. Turns out my favorite one of the day is one not even with the hat. It is just so HER. The hair, the way her arms and legs are, her perfect skin...that is what I want to remember about this age. She seems to have porked out over night and doesn't fit in her 3 month clothes anymore. Onto the next size! I love her chubby little thighs.

and the rest from the "shoot", collage made with Picasa:

guard dog

He's always making sure she's taken care of.

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Harlow rolled over when she was on the floor like this the other day. ahhh the little thrills of parenthood :-)

painting and kitchen planning

Grandpa Legend was here this week to work on the house. He wanted to get some painting done and it proved to be a BIG job. We went to Home Depot (with Harlow in tow) to pick out a paint color and while we were there did some kitchen planning. First, the paint color. My dad is going for a 'natural' materials look with different wood tones and such. So, to go with that theme we went with a color called "Gobi Desert" (Behr). It went well with the trim color my dad had already picked out "Navajo White". He was able to put up four gallons and covered the kitchen, dining room, living room and all the halls. There is still ALL the trim to go and the bedrooms. I am tired just thinking about it! For the kitchen, we looked at cork floors and quartz counter tops. Here is what we came up with: floor and counter top sample:

here it is with the kitchen cabinets (that are all in boxes in the basement). The wall color behind is pretty true to the new color.

I love spending my dad's $-)