New Family Pictures

We had pictures with Bryce Mommy and Daddy taken on September 21st, 2009.

Starting to smile!

September 15th 2009: Sweet Bryce is starting to smile! He has the most adorable grin. What a blessing to our family!

Bryce's Blessing Day

Bryce Clark Harshbarger received his name and blessing September 13th, 2009. What an exciting day. President Carrie Penrod, Joel McGloughlin, Jim Roberson, Matt Rasmussen, and Bruce Jacobs stood in the circle. He was blessed to be healthy throught his life, told to follow the example of his parents and his siblings, and that he would grow in knowledge of the gospel throught his life and instructed to share it with every one he meets. He cried through almost the entire blessing!

Apple Picking

Sept 19th 2009: We went to pick apples at Conte's Farm in Tabernacle, NJ about a hour from our house. What a fun time! We rode a tractor to the apple orchard and the kids picked about 10 pounds of yummy apples. We have been enjoying the fresh apples with carmel dip for a couple of weeks since. We will be sure to go again.

Bryce Clark

I feel like a bad Mom, but I really wanted to get some good professional pics of Bryce to make nice announcements...so we ventured to the mall and had his pictures done. They turned out so well that we nearly went broke buying all the great ones that we loved. They really know how to get you to spend money. How can you not buy them when they are so darn cute?

New Pics of Dylan and Hailey

It is so hard to get pictures of Dylan that we almost never get any good ones. I was elated that he did so well when we went to get Bryce's pictures taken. I wanted to share the great pics of the big brother and big sister.

Bryce's Draumatic Arrival

Well we finally "coaxed" little Bryce in to the world. He was due on July 19th and since he still had not come on July 26th, so the doctor decided to induce me. I went into the hospital on the night of July 26th, and started the long induction process. The Cervadil was administered aout 7:00 pm and I started to have regular contractions. Earl had to be at home with the children, so my dear friend Michelle was with me at the hosptial. I called Earl late that night and told him that I was having regular contractions, and that he needed to be on alert to come fast if I called him. Bryce had other plans.

The night became morning, and still no baby. The doctor started a Pitocin IV, and I started to get uncomfortable really fast. I decided to get the epidural which I had hoped not to need, but I just was in too much pain. After being checked several times I still made no progress, so at about 6:30 pm the doctor came back and delivered the much dreaded news. We had to have a c-secion. Bryce's heart rate was dipping during the contractions, so we had no choice.

I was scared to death. I did not want a c-section at all since I had to start lifting Dylan as soon as possible since Earl had to get back to work. We'll have to work that out later.

Bryce came into the world at 6:59 pm and weighed 7lbs 10 oz and was 21 inches long. He was so perfect. He was so worth the wait!