Three Miles

Josiah and Grandpa At the awards after their
first 3 mile race together.

Boy was he tired...Dad and I wore those same
Jackets when we ran together...We both saved
them

Here they are running together...Obviously...I just
get so excited for him! It is such a feeling of
accomplishment when you finish a race!
Oh Did I mention Josiah got First Place in His age
Group! Good Job Buddy!

Christmas time

My little doll baby eating/making her first cookies


She did such a good job I can't believe it
I love Christmas time!
I love how my children are so excited to give to others at this time of year. I don't think they would care if they didn't get anything. They just love to give gifts to people. We actually had planned on waiting until January of February to give gifts this year. And not a single one of our children complained they seemed excited anyway. Our neighbors are so friendly and they have been bringing us goodies the last few days. The children are enjoying making goodies to give. We even made some bread for the garbage man. And tomorrow the mailman will get some too. I love teaching my children that giving is so important. Of course they are children and love to receive gifts we all do but I love to see the happy face they have after giving a special gift to some one. Marty and I are often looking for neat "traditions" around this time of year just to make things special and as I was in a checkout line the other day the lady in front of me said "we give our children 3 gifts to represent the wisemens gifts. One thing they need one thing they would like and one surprise thing." What a neat idea. I think we are definatly going to put that into practice. We are so thankful for what the Lord has done for us this year and we want to strive to be a blessing to others. Hope you all have a Merry Christmas.

Healthy moving

Hey everybody or nobody! I'm not sure who all reads this but I hope I get at least one person to!
Anyway, I just wanted to give an update on how everything is going here in the north which is getting colder each day.
We are planning on picking up our moving truck on the 30th tenatively. We will then load the truck and hop into our van so Marty can drive us down(to Florida:)) Why is Marty driving us down and not me. Well, its pretty simple I hate driving and He doesn't like me to drive since our van is pushing 200,000 miles. Then the day after we arrive in Florida he will fly out and come back to Michigan to pick up the truck. And drive it back down to unload it hopefully into a house if not into a storage unit. Please pray we can find a house before we come it would be alot easier that way. We have my parents looking for us and we are waiting to hear back on one.

Now, you say why call it healthy moving? Because since we have started packing I have been getting healthy! I have wanted to do this for about two years now and we just couldn't. I have been going to a Dr. who does NRT testing. NUTRITIONAL RESPONSE TESTING! They use muscle testing along with nutrition to make you healthy. You would not believe the difference I feel. I found out that I am sensitive to grains, and dyes and that my adrenal glands which are very important in every area including having babies are not working at all.! SCAREY! So that is why I have a hard time having babies (YES I Have a hard time getting pregnant, This girl has cried many a tear over that very thing). So the adrenals test from 0-10 0 being the worst 10 the best. My adrenals were at zero just last tuesday(my first day) and as of yesterdaymonday) my right one is at 10 and my left one is at 6 can you believe the difference in just one week? Some of you may be saying yeah right but you would not believe the differnce I feel! Normally I need a little snooze by after noon I have a hard time getting out of bed I sleep terrible (because my shoulders ache so bad) and I am falling asleep by 9pm. But the first night of supplements(vitamins) I slept like a baby and my shoulders didn't ache all night. I know it is amazing I can hardly believe it myself! Sugar and grains are inflamatories so that explains the joint pain being lessend since I haven't had a single grain or sugar in a week. I have been drinking three liters of water a day. You are supposed to drink half your body weight in ounces everyday(don't try to figure out how much I weigh cause I drink more than I have to):) I have been eating 15 almonds for breakfast or two eggs with veggies (yes almonds are VERY filling) a salad for lunch every day(which has turned out to be quite enjoyable with all kinds of yummy things in it and very filling) and whatever I want for dinner minus grains sugar and dye. I am hoping to lose weight and I know I will because Marty lost about 20 pounds doing this and was feeling great and Nicholas is 100% better since he started his NRT visits and my friend has gone from a 18 to a 14 with NRT.
Its not for weight loss though even though that is great but it is for a healthy life. I am so thankful God gave us The Dr. Saks team (Theresa is my doctor) They have changed my families life and not just my immediate family but about 6 others plus church family and friends. You may say that I will not be able to continue since I am moving but there is a doctor in Tallahassee that does NRT that I will going to once we get settled. I highly recommend trying to find one. You will be shocked at how well you feel and what really isn't a normal way to feel! Hope you have a wonderful day!

Our Children are Growing Up!

The Cowboys- Josiah-9-4th grade
Alex-7-2nd grade Nicholas-6-k-5
Elijah-4

Isabella-15mos-A.K.A The Princess


The Beautiful Girls and Bella a little younger
Megan-15-9th grade great nobake cookie maker
Abigail-13-8th grade great bread maker



Our Beautiful Pooch Kylee-she's a great dog and we love her

I was looking at our children the other day and thinking about how big they all are getting and how different their personalities are so I thought I would do a post about them. God has blessed us with great children. And we love them very much! And we are very thankful for them!

Well, our little sweetie is 1 already. She was so tired when it was time to have her cake that she was totally uninterested until we gave her a little lick of frosting and then she giggled and giggled it was hilarious! She tried to touch her candle so Daddy had to blow it out. I still haven't gotten her anything for her Birthday so when she is older she will probably make me feel really bad about it. Grandma did make her three beautiful dresses that she has already worn and they are so cute on her! I am hoping to find a cute babydoll for her. She just loves baby's she carries the one from the nursery all around and pats it. She also has a little funny looking doggy that we call frazey that she loves to sleep with. I just can't believe that my little baby girl is already one. I have really been soaking all of her different stages in. She is definately a mama's girl. But she will settle for everyone else if she has to. She makes so many hilarious faces and she can charm you to no end. During Sunday school she will wave and wave at Pastor and she loves to clap and sing(yell) when we sing Joy, Joy. She is such a tiny little thing, tall and skinny she is only 20.5 lbs. She is pretty much only walking now which I am very happy about because her knees would get so dirty when she was crawling. We are waiting for her xray results to find out if anything is wrong with her hips since she walks with one leg way out. Little Isabella Jane has brought so much joy to our lives. She is surprisingly very obedient and tender hearted. And we love her ever soooo much. I am sure she would melt your heart too if she would let you get close enough.

Harwood Family Reunion

Well, we all survived our Family Reunion. We had a wonderful time with all of Marty's family even though we are all sleep deprived after staying up so late and getting up early every day so we could have enough visiting time. There were twenty-nine people in all which isn't even all of Marty's family we were missing one whole family(marty's sister's) of 7 and a son-in-law, eight grandchildren of which some have husbands,wives and children. Most of us except 9 stayed in our missions house with three bedrooms and one bathroom. Getting ready for church was quite the experience!:) I will post some pictures later. We only had one eventful evening which happened to be Sunday night while Marty's brother Mark who is a missionary to Canada was preaching at our church and fell down the steps blacked out and ripped his tendon off his knee and while the tendon was ripping off it broke his knee cap. It was scarey everyone thought he had a heart attack. So we shut the service down and took him to the E.R. which surprisingly only took about 45min. He will have to have surgery when he returns to Canada and several months of rehab. So his vacation was pretty much over after that. It was sooo nice to see everyone and we are all planning on going to Shady Acres in Houston, Texas in January for the camp meeting and having another reunion then hopefully this time all the Harwood's will be in attendance. God is has been good to the Harwood Family.

The Boys

I thought this picture of the boys was so funny because Elijah looks like he is getting into something he's not supposed to have and Nicholas has a longing look for a slice of that cake, actually for all of the cake. Nicholas can't have sugar except on special occasions so it is a real treat when he gets some. So Cute!:)