Parker's 3 month pictures

There are so many cute pictures to choose from-they all turned out so cute! Thanks to Annaka for doing such a great job-thanks! We are so excited to share Parker's 3 month old pictures....there are a lot of them.....enjoy!

WE LOVE YOU PARKER!

October 21st 2009

I didn't even know what to call this post. Things have been busy around here as usual, but more like...I have to get all of these done around my house-busy. My poor kids haven't left the house other than to go for a walk w/ grandpa. I have accomplished quite a bit though-and feel good that I FINALLY got some of those things done. I went through all the girls clothes and pulled out all that didn't fit them. I then bagged the items, and then labeled the bags, and then put them away. I moved on to their shoes-same thing. Then I started with Parker's stuff and did the same thing too. It took me forever to get it all done-but it's done! I also went through the other bagged items in the closet and pulled out all the "winter" 2T clothes for whitney to wear soon. We are going up to Utah for a wedding in a few weeks, and I know we're all going to freeze! Here's hoping I can find some WARM clothes that actually fit me! I've got to get Hailey a few shirts to get her by while we're up there too. Usually the kids get some warmer clothes for X-mas....because it's really not too cold before then here in Az. Let's just say it's still in the mid-80's all week-so we're still wearing capri's and short-sleeves! I haven't taken any fun pictures lately either. Just forgot to. I'll have to take some Halloween one's here shortly-so I'll get around to it. Just moving along, looking forward to Halloween and all the fun festivities. Also looking forward to visiting family in Utah, it will be fun to get away for a minute. Many of them haven't seen Parker yet-so I'm really excited to show him off. That's about it here. I know this post was a little boring-no pictures-nothing, sorry....but at least I'll have something to look back on and read about years down the road. I guess that's all that matters.

Princess's Don't......

The kids and I were hanging out at my parents house playing dress-up. Hailey was dressed as a beautiful princess. She was dancing around and while she was dancing I thought I heard a little noise come out of her. I said, "Hailey...did you toot?" Hailey stopped dancing and turned around to face me. She said, "Mom, I'm a princess and princess's DON'T toot!" We all got a good laugh out of this. Apparently princess's don't toot.

I must be a Queen then.

My ewwwwwww story

Here's my story of the week.

I threw in a load of Parker's laundry the other night-forgot to switch them to the dryer...so that's the first thing I did when I got up that next morning. I was tossing the clothes from the washer to the dryer and noticed that they didn't smell clean. Parker's only 3 months old, so we still have the occasional diaper leak....so yes, his clothes get pee on them. That's what the clothes smelled like....pee. Maybe I forgot to put soap in? I DID run them...right? I stood there trying to figure out why they weren't clean. That's when I saw it. The over-sized, over-absorbed, wet, USED diaper. How the heck did that get in there?! Ewwww....gross! No wonder all the clothes smelled like pee. Yuck! Luckily it was only a WET diaper and nothing beyond that. I took the diaper out and re-washed all of Parker's clothes. They smelled clean when they came out this time.

My question to all of you: Has anyone ever washed a diaper? What DUMB thing have you done that have given you an "Ewwww Story". Let me know, I'm curious to find out-entertain me!

So that's my story of the week.

Mom's 52nd Birthday

We recently celebrated my mom's 52nd Birthday. Sorry mom...I DID mention your age. Can you believe that this young-looking, thin, pretty woman is really 52? I pray I get those genes from her! We all went over and had cake and ice cream and opened gifts. It wasn't much...but we all had a good time....then my parents and brothers left for Six Flags the next day. How fun...wish I could have gone-although my kids wouldn't have been able to go on ANYTHING there!! Hope you had a nice B-day mom. I love you!

This was the aftermath of the celebration.Mom sneaking a bite before blowing out her candle

Say CHeese!

We couldn't find a candle...plus the top of the cake was a hard chocolate shell....so we used a tea-lite candle-whatever works-right?!

Chocolate shell cake

My latest cake was for my moms B-day. Chocolate cake w/ whipped chocolate filling, iced in Peanut butter buttercream and then covered in a milk-chocolate shell. You know the dipped cones you can get at DQ....same idea-but it's a cake. I used a chocolate transfer sheet to get the design...purple's my mom's favorite color. Trying something new-it wasn't perfect, but it was something different and fun. It tasted really good too!

Chocolate fillingPeanut Butter Buttercream

Cake covered in buttercream

Chocolate Chocolate Transfer sheetFinished Product