Parker's Driveway Fun!

Last night Jon was out washing the car so Parker and I decided to go sit on the porch and watch. Well Parker decided that was boring and wanted in on the action.

It started off with innocently playing in the bark.

Then he turned around and found all the lovely water just waiting to be played in. Bubbles and everything. 

Doesn't taste too bad either.

Then his Dad decided that he wasn't quite wet enough so he sprayed him with the hose a bit.

Then he spotted the rocks, his favorite thing ever, across the driveway. So he left his snail trail across the driveway and went to play with them.

Then I packed his soggy, wet, little butt in the house and told him he had to have a bath and this is what happened..

Then he had a bath and a bottle and slept for 12 hours straight and we all lived happily ever after!!

Pictures for Daddy!!

Okay. So my plan of blogging alot while Jon was gone obviously didn't work out so well.  He's come home and gone back out on another TDY since the last time I updated.  So this isn't really much of an update either... Just pictures for Jon. It was easier just to put them on the blog than email them all. Maybe some day I'll do an actual update. 

Enjoy!!!

Apparently The Only Thing To Talk About: Parker!

Here are new pictures of the Little Man for Jon to see (and all of you I guess)

I feel like we're entering a whole new chapter of parenting, called "The Mobile Child". He's finally got the roll down and scoots all over on his back. Today I got in the shower and I usually just put Parker on the floor in our bedroom so I can peek my head out and still see him. Well I looked out once and saw he had moved a bit, but was still in sight. I peeked out a minute later and I couldn't see him or hear him growling. So I got out to see where he was and all I could see was one little foot sticking out from under the bed. The little stinker had somehow rolled and wiggled himself all the way under the bed. I couldn't believe he could do that. When I pulled him out he just looked at me like "Hey, I worked hard to get under here and I was having fun. Now put me back!!"

And his newest trick from just the last few days is standing up to furniture. He does good, but is still just in the beginning stages.

Here are a few video's. The first one is of him growling. He growls about 80% of the day. Its cute, but man is he loud. Its almost impossible to hear the TV or a movie when he growling.

The next two are of him standing, their really short and he crashes at the end, but you get the idea.

And the last one is the way he chews on his binky. He hardly ever sucks on it like normal. He just chomps away with his 3 new little teeth.

ENJOY!!

Splish Splash

This is Parker in his new bathtub thingy. He loved sitting up and splashing his hands in the water. By the time he was done most of the water had been splashed out. I didn't get any good still pictures because they all turned out blurry because of his crazy wiggling.

This video is also good becuase it shows him talking. He talks, well its usually more of a growl, 80% of the day. He's so funny and he gets SO LOUD. It make it very hard to try and watch a movie. Everytime I have tried to video him talking before, he stops as soon as he see's the camera.

Easter

For Easter we went to my Aunt's house for an Egg Hunt and then to Konie's for dinner and dessert and to watch part of General Conference.

Parker obviously didn't care a thing about finding the eggs but he just loved to be outside and watch all the other kids running around. It was a little chilly so he was bundled up real nice.

He did like the swing though.
Here he is with all his loot.
I think this picture is so funny. The boys playing with Parker. Daniel is doing whatever it takes to get Parker to laugh (which is basically about anything) and Jaxon thinks he's the perfect target to shoot.
Another new Easter toy.

Other than that, our Easter was pretty quiet.

Utah Time

So for those of you who don't know, Jon is at Sheppard AFB in Texas for 2 1/2 months for training. He has 3 different courses for Missile Munitions Officer Course -MMOC. So while he is gone Parker and I are spending most of our time at my parents house in Wellsville. We've been having a grand old time and having lots of fun playing.

We have webcams which we use to talk to other family members all the time. But of course now that we really want to use them, Jons internet connection is SOO SLOW that the webcams won't work. So I told him I would post lots of pictures on the blog so he could see what his Little Buddy is up to.

So consider yourselves lucky that now I a real reason to blog.

The night before Jon left we met up with some friends and Parker got to play with his little friend "H". Parker is 2 days older than H and I think it is so funny how totally different they are. Parker is probably a good 5lbs heavier than H, yet H can full-on crawl and get into everything. Parker is now just finally enjoying rolling, standing with help, and spending more than 5 minutes on his belly. (It is extremely hard to get a decent picture of two 6 1/2 month old boys)

Parker spends most of his days surrounded with all his toys.
This is Bella. She is my friend Dayna's dog. Pretty sure Parker could have sat and stared at Bella all night long. He was fascinated with her scratching at the kennel and trying to get out.
Can't tell if he is happy, scared, confused, desperate for some help, or worried that he is going to be Bella's dinner. I mean look at her, her tongue is longer that Parker's entire face.
Parker lost all his amazing baby hair (sigh) but its coming back and starting to get longer now. I decided to spike it all out tonight after his bath to show how long it is.
Every kids favorite place to play, the laundry basket.

Why We Love St. Patty's Day

Jon and I met on a cruise for Utah States Spring Break in 2007. We both were invited very last minute to buy tickets with our friends. Jon went with a group of his ROTC buddies and I went with a friend of mine, Kaeli, who was invited by her cousin Amanda, who was friends with Jon’s ROTC buddies. So, the big group of us, along with about 100 other USU students, ventured out on this cruise leaving from Long Beach to San Diego, Catalina Island, and Ensenada Mexico. The cruise was from 12 March through 16 March. The group of us did just about everything together on the cruise. Neither Jon nor I really stood out to each other at first. While we were in Ensenada, Jon and his buddy became my “body guard”, this was the day that we started spending more time together. That night we were at a piano play off. We couldn’t find room to sit by the rest of our group so we ended up on the other side of the room so we had some time to talk. We were talking about how we were getting home the next day. Kaeli and I were flying home and were scheduled to get to Salt Lake about 10:30 pm. Jon had driven with a few friends and he thought that he would beat me back to Logan. I told him no way and that I would bet him dinner that I would beat him home. IT WAS ON NOW

So the next day Kaeli and I were able to get an early flight and made it to Salt Lake early in the afternoon. By this time Jon was only in Vegas. I texted him and told him that I had won our little bet, and I wasn’t going to let him get out of paying up. (Because that is the only reason you date in college right? To get free food..) So Saturday the 17th, St. Patty’s Day, we went to dinner at Callaway’s in Smithfield. Going into it, neither of us even saw it as a real date, just Jon paying up on losing the bet. We had a great time, went back to my apartment and watched a movie and went to church together the next day. For the next 3 weeks we were inseparable and saw each other every day. Over Easter weekend Jon had to leave for 4 days to go to an Air Force Conference in Salt Lake. That was the longest 4 days for both of us. Really? 4 days? Now 4 days apart like the blink of an eye. While he was gone I decorated his room for Easter and gave him our “Love Duck”, which we still have to this day. That night we talked about getting married. It had only been 3 weeks so we were definitely not telling people how serious we were.

This is why we Love St. Patty’s Day. It’s always been pretty lucky for us.