Parkers 2nd Birthday.

Ill write about it later. I just wanted to get the pictures up so Jon could see them.

Hogle Zoo

This past week my parents took Parker and I to the zoo. Parker really loved it and it took all 3 of us to keep up with him. He would point at every animal and "ooh and aahh and wow" at everyone.  Then he would hurry and run to the next one.  My dad wanted a picture of Parker with an animal, any animal, and it didn't happen he was impossible to get to hold still.  We also rode the Carousel and Train and he loved those, so Grandpa's seeing a trip to Lagoon in our future.

In all, we had a pretty good time and Parker was totally worn out.

Base Easter Egg Hunt

This last weekend the base had its Easter Egg Hunt. Before the hunt they had a carnival at the Youth Center with crafts and things like that. But Parker isn't quite up to that yet, and I didn't want to deal with other couple hundred kids there, so we skipped that part.  They set the Egg Hunt up on the soccer fields and seperated it off by ages. Parker didn't need any direction and went right out and started scooping up the eggs. He got 5 eggs, but considering that there were at least 250 kids there, he did pretty good. 

 This is about 1/4 of the field. There were seriously a ton of people there and it was over in about 45 seconds.

 These two boys are my friend Afton's kids. We spend alot of time with them and Parker is pretty attached to the younger boy. Although, im so sure Jaxon is as fond of Parker as Parker is to Jaxon... ;)

Parker Pics

These pictures are from our trip to Wellsville. 

Napping on the couch.

 New Giraffe Toy

 Cleaning up.

 This looks like a good little napping spot.

 Wheres Parker??

 There he is!

See Ya Later.

 So after a month and lots of begging from Jon, I guess I will update this blog. 

Jon had 2 giant duffle bags that he packed all his gear in. You could have fit about 4 Parkers in each bag.  Not surprisingly, Parker didn't take long to get in and play in the bags and mess everything up that Jon had packed. Maybe I should have packed him up so Jon could take his Little Buddy with him.

The day before Jon left we spent the day in Boise. Jon's parents flew in to send Jon off too. We went to a few stores then went to the hotel so Parker could take a nap while Jon went to pick up Scott and Linda.  Then we went to Build-A-Bear to get Parker a little Camo Monkey. Maybe Im crazy, but I thought Parker would be way more into it than he was. There were way to many people in there for Parker to pay attention to what we were doing. But in the end, he did love his Monkey.

We woke up bright and early the next morning and headed off to the airport. When you are deploying, your family members can get escort passes to go with you back to the gate.  So Jon got all checked in and Parker and I were able to go all the way back with him. 

Scott and Linda flew to SLC with Jon. After we said our emotional goodbyes (which by the way I felt like we were putting on a show for the whole airport) they loaded the plane and Parker and I waited by the window and watched the plane take off.

 Bye Daddy



Christmas 2010

This year we spent Christmas in Spokane with the Tolmans. There were 10 adults and 8 grandkids so it made for a very full house.  We were there for the entire week before Christmas so we were able to spend plenty of time hanging out with everyone and eating WAY too many treats.

One of the first few days there we went to the Mall to see Santa. 

Parker takes after me and was not to impressed with him.

Parker and his Best Bud Syd.

Watching Christmas Eve Cartoons

Santa delivered a ridiculous amount of presents.

Parker ready to rip into some presents.

Parker actually slept through most of the present opening time. But it was nice becuase when he woke up he was able to open all of his at the same time without any distractions.

Here's proof that I was actually at Christmas! Opening our stockings.

I found cute "Little Jon" on the Christmas Tree.

One of Parkers presents was a tool box filled with tools and a tool belt.  When we got home he had get them all out to help Jon build me my new bookshelf.  I think some of the tools might need to be hidden because he thinks its the funniest thing to just dump all the tools out over his head.  Oh well, I guess he's having fun.

Overall we had a fun filled week. Thanks for having us Tolmans.

Embrace the Mess

Parkers newest obsession is climbing on the chairs and then on to the table.  I try to always push the chairs away from the table, but he's not stupid, he just pushes them right back over to the table.   So for the umpteenth time today I found him on the table. This time he had dumped a baggy of Cheerios out and was having a great time pushing them around and finger painting with the dust.  So instead of getting annoyed again, I decided to embrace the mess. 

I love these pictures of his sweet little hands and feet.