Daffodils 2010

Earlier this week we went to the daffdil field at Wye Mountain. It is so beautiful. This is our second year to take Parker and get some fun pictures! This year we went with some of Dennis' family. It was fun to see how much Parker had changed from last year! I have included a few pictures from last year (green shirt). Last year he was just starting to walk...crazy!!

One of my friends saw this picture and said "What a great place to be, little man"

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Granny and Pawpaw

This is what happened on the way home...I would say that was a successful trip!!

Friends

On Friday night it was beautiful outside!! We had a few friends over for a cookout. It is so nice to be able to have people over again!!! We love entertaining and it is so hard to do in the winter when it is cold and it gets dark so early. Parker had fun playing ball with all the boys. I didnt take many pictures but I did get one of Parker and Mallory!!

And of all the girls around the fire pit. Brie is about to have her baby...I am so glad we all got together before Mackenzie gets here.

I just love that we have friends with kids close in age to Parker. It is always so fun to get together and let the kids play. I cant wait for my other friends kids to get a little older so that Parker doesnt hurt them!! =) Sorry Mallory!!

On Saturday we went to a friends' daughters 5th birthday party. They had a clown and Parker LOVED her. He sat with his hands in his lap and watched her for like 30 minutes!!

After the party we went to the grocery store with Stephen, Sarah and Sydney to get items to grill out. Parker and Sydney had a blast riding around in the car cart.

When we got back to their house, the kids had so much fun together. Parker and Sydney are really into coloring!!!

Thanks, Stephen and Sarah for having us over!! Parker stayed up until 10:30!! I still cant believe he lasted that long without whining one bit! (it must have been that Barney that Sarah had on her DVR!!)

update

Time to catch up again! Not much has happened over the last week. Last Friday Parker and I met some friends for a playdate. I totally forgot to take any pictures until the very end. This is the best I could get (do you think Parker could be slumping anymore?)

We met Noah and Brody at a local church's indoor playground. It is always nice to let Parker play with boys his own age and hang out with fun moms =).

Saturday was the Rhea Lana sale!!! I love this sale. I pretty much get Parker's wardrobe for the upcoming season twice a year. THey have a sale for spring clothes (the one I just went to) and then for winter clothes. It is a consinement sale, but they have standards and most of the clothes are really nice and a lot of the times they still have the tags on them!! It is nice to get most of his clothes that he will ruin at school for cheap and then I can buy and add in a few cute things I see throughout the year. THey also have TONS of toys and anything baby or kid (beds, strollers, bouncy seats, EVERYTHING!!). WHile I went to Rhea Lana with my mom, Dennis and Parker went to the deer woods. It was a work day and Dennis took Parker to play. His favorite thing to do is ride 4-wheelers and Daddy's Ranger. Dennis said he played really hard. When he got home he took a 5 hour nap until I finally woke him up!

The rest of the weekend was pretty laid back.

We played outside

On Sunday, we went shopping and found the perfect life jacket for Parker.

We go to the lake a lot in the summer. I am so excited about this year!!!

Oh yeah, Parker has decided that he LOVES baseball hats. When he is at home, that is all he will wear.

On Tuesday, I took Parker to have Easter pictures made with live bunnies and lambs. It is a fundraiser for Arkansas Children's Hospital.

Here is Parker in his Easter outfit. Posing very awkwardly!

And here is a sneak peek of the lambs....they were kinda creepy!!

Tuesday was also my birthday. Thanks to everyone for all the birthday wishes. It was a really great day. Dennis took me to dinner and then we went to see a movie. We went to see Remember Me. Pretty good movie with an amazing ending!! Dont look it up....just see it!!

Also, another exciting thing that is happening....we have officially started potty training Parker. He is doing really good. It has only been 1 1/2 days!! We have a small obstacle...Parker takes Lasix every morning (a medication that is a diuretic..it makes him pee). He takes this so that fluid wont accumulate on his heart. We will just have to take him a lot more in the mornings. Parker can do this!! Say a little prayer =)

Tornado

Last night Parker and I went over to my parent's house for dinner. While I was driving there it started pouring down rain. We got inside and saw that there were thunderstorm warnings and tornado warnings in Little Rock. We usually dont worry about it when we are at my parent's house because tornados just dont go in that area. Well, as we were preparing to sit down and eat dinner the tornado sirens started going off and the weather man said that the tornado was going right through our area!! We were kinda scared, so we all went down into the basement. It was so funny!! I wish I had gotten a picture! Imagine 9 people (me, Parker, my mom, Cory and his girlfriend, Kelsey and her boyfriend, Justin and some friend that is a girl) in a basement with A TON of suitcases and Christmas decorations and of course Barney was playing!! It was a party!

When we got out of the basement, everything was fine. But then it started hailing. Some of the hail was 2 inches big. After it stopped Parker wanted to go play with the hail. It only lasts about 3 minutes before it melts.

and then he wanted to eat the hail. One tiny lick and he was over that!!

Dennis was out of town and HATED that he couldnt do anything or protect us! We made it through the storm and our houses are still standing. Please pray for the families that did have a lot of damage to their homes.

Growing up

It has been so warm and pretty outside this week. Last night we went on a walk. Parker wanted to hold Bentley's lease and walk him. Betley is pretty strong! It was so funny to see him "dragging" Parker around. Parker was running to keep up.

He did fall once, so Daddy held the lease and Parker helped.

He is just getting so big and grown up! I took a picture of Parker and Dennis the other night and thought it would be fun to compare it to a picture from almost two years ago!!

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He is becoming such a little boy. I hope everyone is having a great week!

Fun weekend!

We had such a fun weekend! It was BEAUTIFUL outside. On Saturday morning I took Parker to get his hair cut and we saw one of our favorite blogger friends there, Noah and Mandy!! Parker and Noah had so much fun at the train table while they waited to get their hair cut. Parker hates getting his hair cut! It takes about 15 seconds to get it done because he is screaming the entire time and the hair cutter girl just wants it to be over!! This is the only thing he screams for!! I dont know!
After the traumatizing hair cut, we met Diane and Mallory at Chick fil a to play on the playground. I am so sad that I didnt get a picture of Mallory sitting in the middle of the table in her bumbo...what a cutie!!

After a quick nap, we went to a birthday party at a local park. It was so pretty outside, we even wore short sleeves! Parker was so excited to see Sydney ("LeeLee")!!

cupcakes and ice cream!!

Parker just loved these glasses!

His first time to play with sidewalk chalk! (yes, the first time!!)

This was their favorite thing to do....play in the dirt with sticks!

On Sunday night, I went to a baby shower for my parents and Tyler! Her friends wanted to welcome him into the family. They had such cute decorations...

That is Tyler's name on the table.

Me and my mom and the hostesses

My mom about to open presents!

The guest of honor (he slept the entire time!)

I hope everyone had a great weekend! I am on spring break this week!! It doesnt really mean that much when you are taking online classes and still have a job!!

Boxes!

I got home from work on Friday and this is what I saw in my garage!!!.....

Two weeks ago I hosted a Southen Living party at my house. I had a great turnout and lots of orders. There were 15 HUGE boxes delivered on Friday. Each one weighed over 30 pounds.

These pictures do not do them justice! I spend Saturday afternoon during Parker's naptime sorting all of these boxes. I am happy to say that all of the items have been delivered!!

I have lots of fun stuff to blog about. We had a great weekend! More to come....

My Son is Famous!

Yall know how much I LOVE Arkansas' Childrens Hospital!! Well, this love is shared by my entire family and most of my friends! My parents are long time supporters of ACH, my mom and I are both memebers of the Auxilary and we just love doing stuff for the hospital.
In the mail yesterday we got our quarterly ACHiever magazine from ACH. I always look through it to see the new things going on at the hospital and to see if I know anyone :) Well, I am looking through the magazine and I see this article!!!.....

I had totally forgotten that last summer my parents and Parker had a little photo shoot at the hospital for an article they were going to write about my parents. My parents are the chairs for the Miracle Ball this year. The article just talks about how their experiences with ACH have made them want to continue giving to such an amazing place.

It is so fun to see Parker in a magazine! To read the article and to see the picture more clearly, go HERE! My mom's picture is in the magazine a couple of times! We just love this hospital and I cant wait to see how much money we raise this year at Miracle Ball!

Swallow Study

Today was Parker's yearly swallow study. We have been thickening all of his liquids to nectar consistency since he was born. When he would swallow it would go into his lungs, but if we thickened it just a little bit it would go down the right "tube". Well, today he did great! The liquid only went towards his lungs one time and this was while he was crying. The therapist told us that we dont have to thicken his pediasure anymore. We only have to thicken water or juice to less than nectar consistency. We need to do this for 6 months and then she said we can stop thickening all together!! YAY!!! We dont even have to go back for anymore swallow studies (unless he shows signs of aspiration). I cant believe it!! This was our normal...doesnt everyone thicken their kids liquids???

Just wanted to share the great news!! The only things we have left to remind us that Parker is "sick" are his many medications twice a day! Those will never go away but they are part of his routine and I really think he would be sad if he didnt get to take his medications!! He is doing so awesome!!!

Hope everyone has a great week/weekend. It is going to be in the 60s and sunny. YAY for outside!!

Catching up....again!

It has been over a week since I last blogged. Not much has happened but midterms are over!!yay!! This past weekend was suppose to be a weekend without Dennis. He had a conference to go to for work. Parker and I didnt have much planned for the weekend. The only thing I had was taking part in a dodgeball tournament!! I had signed up for it a month or two ago. It was a fundraiser for Arkansas Childrens Hospital and I thought it would be something fun for me and Dennis to do together. Then, I found out that he was going to be out of town, but I still wanted to do it! (our work put three teams together). So, on Saturday Dennis calls me and the last part of the conference was cancelled!! He got back from Orlando about a hour before the tournament started.

Our team

We had a blast!!! We lost our first game, went to the losers bracket and won our second game but lost our third. I am SOOO sore today!! Actually only my right arm and the right side of my back hurts!!! I guess those are the only muscles I use when I throw a ball! I did come to the realization that I am way out of shape!! Already have a work out partner lined up!!

Parker took a nap at my parent's house during the dodgeball tournament. He was so happy to see Daddy!! (They are riding a little rocket ship!)

Here are a few pictures we took on Sunday morning. ......

Before church we went through a car wash. Parker loves the car wash except when the water hits his window....

...When it passes his window he cheers!

On Sunday after churhc we went to lunch with my family. Parker's shirt matched Tyler's outfit. We had to get a picture!!!

Parker LOVED holding him. He wanted the baby back when we took him away! He is going to be such a wonderful big brother (someday) :)

Sunday afternoon Parker helped Daddy rake. He played with this rake for a hour and a half!

Very interested in the fire but would not get any closer than this!! He would point at it and say "hot!". If I got close to it, he would say "no Momma!" and point at the fire.

We had a great weekend! Now we have a pretty busy week.

We have a few doctor's appointments. Parker is having a swallow study this week. Please pray that he passes! These studies are not fun! Parker doesnt like to eat or drink anyways, and when they force him to drink in that environment, he just doesnt like it!