Creative Kid :)

Earlier this month, Archer won a Character Counts award for "Imagination". Jeremiah and I were there for the assembly and when they announced what the theme for the month was, we both laughed. Archer was a shoe-in for this award. There is no kid quite as creative / imaginative as this little guy that we have ever met (and his teachers all agree)! He was SO excited to win. He said that when he saw us at the assembly, he knew it was either him or Tanion that had won something, so he crossed his fingers and toes and hair, hoping that it was him. ;) Cute little guy.


Speaking of using his imagination and creating things, Archer has wanted to build a robot for a while now. Grandma and Grandpa Hardman were aware of this and bought the coolest present for Christmas. It was a make-your-own Tin Can Robot. Archer had been begging to build the robot, so Jeremiah finally sat down and took an afternoon to build it with him. Jeremiah helped, but we made sure that Archer did a lot of the work himself.


This lovely little tin can robot (whom Archer named Gary) will walk around slowly, but surely on the kitchen table or floor. :) Archer is super proud of his "invention". :) Now, if only Fred (Archer's new imaginary friend who gets the blame for everything bad) will leave it alone!!!

Things from 2011 that I never posted...

I didn't do a lot of posting in 2011 and since my whole family is still asleep and I have the day off, let's start 2012 off right with looking back at 2011!!

Archer's SMOLDER face (from Tangled)... Not bad!

Robynson's first day of Preschool
She loves it and has a great teacher!
We love that school!

DarTanion is in Scouts and has already got his Bobcat :)

My parents gave us a trampoline. The boys can now do flips (yay, more broken bones to come!) and Robyn just loves to bounce. Everyone had fun when we spent the night outside on the trampoline on Labor Day weekend.

Halloween is one of our favorite Holidays. Robyn had 3 different costumes (a butterfly, Thomas the Train, and a sandbox - her idea). Archer was the cutest Harry Potter you ever will see. DarTanion was a guy from the movie TRON. Jeremiah helped to make Tanion's costume (out of an old costume and orange duct tape!)

Our family at our Ward Halloween Costume.

DarTanion went hunting with Grandpa Sherrill. This kid has never been so excited to be awake at 5am!

This is just a great picture of the kids playing together in the dirt circle (the lawn under where the tenants pool was this year). Robyn got covered and Miah was getting ready to put her in the shower to wash off some of the dirt. He had to take a picture because when he took off her shirt, you could see the line where the dirt ended (at her sleeves). She really WAS covered!

This is just because I LOVE the bottom of Robyn sticking out her tongue. SO HER and SO FUNNY!

The day before our first family Christmas party of 2011, we realized that we didn't have a typical "cute picture of all 3 kids" for the Christmas cards. So we ran out to the park near by (in 35° weather) and made the kids smile for pictures. These are a few of my favorites of all 3 together.

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Anyway, I just wanted to post a few so that there was some of 2011 documented for the world (and family) to see. Love you all!

New Idea for the New Year...

Since I have been REALLY great at NOT posting anything on the blog this last year, I've decided to try and be better. My new Bloggy Goals for 2012 are:
*Each blog post doesn't need to have a picture (though it probably will).
*Each blog post doesn't have to have a HUGE story (though some might).
*Each blog post doesn't have to have a story for each picture (though they might).

Instead, I'm just going to try to post things that I love. Like a little story from one of the kids that I don't want to forget. Or a picture that is just wonderful. That way, you still get to see a little snippet from our lives - exciting or not (and whether I have "time" or not!)

We'll see if that will help us end up more than our whole 20-ish posts from last year!

Loves!
~The Hardman Family