Merry Christmas....almost!

Merry Christmas to you! It is my very favorite time of year and am even more excited this year because I think Parker is going to love it too. Here are a few pictures from around the house and from picking out our tree. I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy 2011!!

Parker and Skeeter watching a little TV

My little reindeer!

Playing with blocks...she will not sit still for pictures

Picking out the tree

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree.....

Happy Halloween!

I'm a little late in posting Halloween pictures, but I'm trying to get caught up before Christmas :)

Skeeter and Parker in Skeeter's other "hotdog" outfit.

My first baby...

The back of the peacock outfit.

The full effect. She didn't like the head piece very much.

Happy October!

Happy October! Here are a few pictures from around the house and our trip to the Pumpkin Patch. We went to Honeysuckle Hill Farm in Springfield. It was fun but Parker was really still too small to do much. However, she did pick out her own pumpking.

At the house....and this is about as good of a picture as I can get now, b/c she wants to walk toward the camera now.

Again coming full speed ahead to touch the camera :)

Daddy and Parker at the corn maze

Trying to decide on the right pumpkin.

Happy 1st Birthday!

Happy 1st Birthday Parker!! We had a family party at the house and she had a blast! She ate her cupcake like she had eaten lots of cupcakes in the past! She loved all the attention and loved playing with the big kids. Thanks for everyone who came! We love you!

Enjoying the pink icing!

Playing with cousin Landon at the party

Family shot on her actual birthday.

Learning to climb on her new birthday toy!

How much weight can a baby bed hold???

This is how I found Stewart and Parker the other night when I was trying to fix dinner......you never know what happens when your not looking around here!!!

Needless to say, she thought this was the greatest thing that Daddy would get in her bed with her :)

Destin with the Bronson's

We went to Destin with Stewart's Dad and Pam. We had a great time and wish we could have stayed longer. We went to the beach and Parker had a great time, we rented a boat and went out on the ocean and swam a little bit and fished a little bit. We had great food and a great visit. Emily and Joe got there on our last night and the picture below is the only one of all of us. (This is the picture you get when the valet guy takes it :)

All of us

Stewart's big fish ;)

Swimming in the ocean

Pop and Parker

Ready for the beach!

1st day of Mother's Day Out

Parker started Mother's Day out two days a week at the end of August. I was a little sad the first couple of days but it has been great now that I'm am used to it. She is still adjusting to the sleeping at school part of it. However, she loves playing and is learning a ton. Here are a few pictures I took before we left.

Trying to smile but knowing the flash is coming and is going to make her blink. This is how most of our pictures look now days :)

Or just plain shutting her eyes in anticipation of the flast :O

Memphis to visit family

We went to Memphis for the weekend to visit Stewart's parents. We did lots of eating and swimming and hanging out. We had a great time and wished we could have stayed longer. Here are some pictures of the weekend.

Loving on Pam

Wearing Pop's hat

HI!

Making Eggs for breakfast

Not sure what she is thinking here....

Smiling pretty!

Pointing at who knows what :O

Swimming

Beach Part 2

We got to go to the beach again in July (for a long weekend) and we flew! We went to Destin but flew into PCB (also Parker's intials....classy I know) It was her first flight and she did great. We went with some friends, the Belville's and the Blankenships. All of the boys got left at home and only Parker and Everleigh got to go. It was a great time and very relaxing. We spent most of the

time at the pool becuase that was much easier with Parker than the sand :)

1st Flight

Attempt at a family shot

Michael and Heather

Parker and Stewart at dinner

Goof ball!


Everleigh (2 months, I think)and Parker (10 months)

At the airport waiting

Josh, Darci and Everleigh

Me and Parker
At dinner one night

Oh and we went to dinner two nights and by the time we got to dinner both nights Parker blew out her diaper on the way to dinner.....neither night did we realize this and got all over both Stewart and I :) Makes for some laughs and a super smelly dinner. I had a change of clothes for her...not us! I had just started her on Juice and had NO IDEA juice makes babies go to the bathroom more! Fun times!

Beach Part 1

We got to go to the beach with some friends earlier in July without Parker. This was my first trip away from her and we went for 3 nights. It was great. We went to Dalphin Island, AL and pretty much had the beach to ourselves. They also left their boys at home so it was a very relaxing weekend. Although it was a little crazy becuase they (I guess BP) is putting up these massive sand dunes. Dalphin Island is a barrier island to Mobile Bay where there is a lot of sealife they are trying to protect. So they were dregging (sp?) the bay side of the island and bringing it to the ocean side to protect the bay. So they were very busy with the dump trucks and the walkers on the beach looking for oil while we were hanging out at the beach and on the deck watching them :)

Below are some of the crazy pictures we took while there:

Robin relaxing and reading at the beach The sand road from the deck of the house--it was CRAZY how tall it was!
The dump truck at eye level to the deck that was like I think16 feet up from the actual beach

We were right in front of their house and this is all you could see because of the double sand dunes

This is right in front of their house and the blue tents were for the BP workers. By the time we left they put these dunes all the way in front of the house over to the sand road.

Stewart and Bebo hanging out