Family Pictures

For my mom's birthday my sister and I went in on a gift for her. She has been wanting to get a big family picture professionally taken and Charyn and I decided that would make the perfect gift. It has taken us about 2 months to correlate all of our schedules so that we could all be there. Well we finally got something scheduled and the weather was looking pretty bad. It had snowed all morning and the Photographer called and cancelled. We decided that we would still get together and snap a few picture for the holidays for cards and stuff. After that the snow stopped and the photographer called back and said she could still do them. So we hurried over and met her and got some great shots I am hoping. The poor kids were freezing, but we managed to get the entire family. She will have the proofs ready to look at in about 1 week. I am excited and can hardly wait. In the meantime here is a little snapshot we took after the photo shoot. Oh and check out this blog: www.mysticmemories.blogspot.com She does a great job and is priced really well and Charyn also went to High School with her so it is supporting a friend as well. Thanks again Misty, we can't wait to see the pictures!!!

Sleeping Boy

Since my last post was about Paige and her crazy sleeping I had to post this picture and story about Parker. We were up late one evening and Parker was watching Transformers and was adamant about watching the entire movie before he went to bed. Well after about half of the movie I came into the living room and saw him asleep like this. It was so funny!! He was so tired that he just couldn't keep his eyes open anymore. I had to move him into his bed soon after because I didn't want him to fall off the couch. I sure have silly kids!!

Crazy Napper

A couple of weeks ago, Matt and I were exhausted, happens a lot with 2 kids. We thought it would be great if we could get both kids to sleep for a nap and then be able to take a Sunday nap as well. I fell asleep before anyone else and Matt and Parker fell asleep soon after, but Paige didn't think that sounded fun and must have been wandering around the house for a little while (Now I am a pretty light sleeper and wasn't completely out, so she wasn't in any danger!). I woke up after about 1 hour and noticed Matt and Parker sleeping and wondered where Paige was. I looked all around the house, and even in her room and didn't see her anywhere. As I was walking out of her room, this is what I saw. She must have decided that taking a nap wasn't such a bad idea after all. I just thought it was hilarious that she climbed up in this chair and got in this position and fell asleep. She sleeps in some of the strangest positions I have ever seen!!

Turning 4

Well my little boy is now 4 years old. My how the time has flown by!! I can hardly believe he is that old, that means I am getting old as well! I don't really feel like I am getting older, but I did find a grey hair the other day *sob, sob*! Anyways I can't dwell on that, but we did have a fun day, week, in celebration of Parker turning 4. The week before his actual birthday we had a celebration at Matt's dad's house and had a great time. Then we had a fun day on Halloween and I took the kids to McDonald's for lunch and we ate inside! They loved it, it isn't something we do often so to them, especially Parker, it was a real treat. We played outside in the leaves for a while and then we had pizza and a little party for him with my parents. We did it the day before because my parents were leaving the next day to go on a cruise to Mexico and weren't going to be around. How rude! I hope they are having a great time. We miss them and can't wait until they get home. Anyways we had pizza, opened presents, and had a Transformers cake. I was a little disappointed in the cake. Parker said he wanted a Sponge bob cake fore his birthday about 6 months ago. So I had found pictures and had figured out what I was going to do. Well he changed his mind a few weeks before to a Transformer cake and I wasn't about to attempt that. My cake decorating skills have improved, but not to that extent. So I went to the WalMart bakery and they told me they do have a Transformer cake, we looked at a picture and Parker was excited, he liked it and that made me happy. So that was the plan. I went to order the cake and in the middle of the store renovation they hadn't ordered the figures and cake toppers needed for the one we had looked at. Crappy huh!! So they had a few plastic pieces that represented the Autobots and the Decepticons so we said alright do that. Well When I saw the finished cake I was a little disappointed for various reasons, but it was soooooooo plain. I will definitely be making my own kids birthday cakes from now on. Then I have no one to be disappointed in by myself and will have saved some money. Anyways, the cake tasted good and Parker loved it. He was spoiled rotten and got a few new pairs of jammies, some transformers, a Book of Mormon, a movie, some clothes, and a new pair of shoes. So the birthday was a success after all. I think we as adults sometime think kids will be disappointed if we don't go all out on parties and stuff. He would have been perfectly fine with one toy and a cupcake. But he is worth the extra work and effort and we love him so much. He is a fun and rambunctious little boy, but we love having him in our family!! Happy Birthday Parker!!!

Halloween

So I am almost a week late in posting this but I figured it is better late than never. We had our ward Halloween party last Friday so the kids got to dress up in their costumes to go to the little carnival they had planned. Parker was Bumblebee Transformer and Paige was supposed to be a cute little lady bug, but she wouldn't keep her costume on for any length of time. Right after I put it on her she was having a fit trying to get it off. I didn't want to be fighting her about it the entire night so I took it off and improvised with what I had at home. I put on a little tutu, some makeup and some earrings and called it good. So she was a ballerina/princess/cute girl what ever you want to call it. Parker on the other hand loved loved loved his costume and had worn it several times and I am sure he will be wearing it until it wears out. We can't wear masks in the church building so I painted his face and was pretty pleased with how it turned out. I can't believe he was able to hold still for that long for me to do it. It was only about 10 minutes but to him it seemed like forever. Matt had to work that day and met us over there after he was finished and so was the party. So much for the family fun night! We had a good time anyways and the kids got plenty of candy. Enough for me to make the decision to NOT take the kids trick or treating on Halloween. Isn't that bad of me? I figured they are still small enough to not know the difference and I didn't want to have to dress them up again and carry them door to door just to get more junk food. And we had decided to celebrate a certain boys birthday so I didn't want to cram too much into one night. The kids will never know the difference. I just don't know how many more years I will be able to pull that off!



This is a little girl in our ward that Paige just loves, they are good friends and hug every time they see each other! It is so cute!