Tuesday, March 31, 2009

March Madness

Oh, what a fun month March was. I am really going to do better at blogging though. I am a little behind. Okay, alot behind.
In the beginning of March, Chad and Kim moved into a new house. It is awesome! They now live .4 miles away. We can walk to thier house. We spent a day helping them move in. It was quite fun actually. But, I still can't figure out why any family of 4 needs 6 couches. I love having them so close to us. It was especially helpful when, a couple days after they moved in, Brock decided to see if he could do 30 back flips in a row on the tramp. He over rotated the 29th just a little and landed on the bar. So, I immediately called Kim and said "can you come and get Parker, Brock and I need to go to the hospital." Kim was here within 2 minutes. Very convenient. Brock got 6 staples in the back of his head and handled it like a champ. He had them for 10 days and is as good as new.
Parker is so big. He lost his first tooth. Wow, what a different experience from his big brother. Parker was letting me wiggle it and it was so loose that I just pulled it out. Just like that, no tears, no blood, just pure joy for Parker. He told us that he was so excited that he felt like he was dreaming. What a wierdo! Then the next day came the drama, Brock had a tooth hanging by a thread that needed to come out. We had to go to grandma's house (tears the whole way there) use the "numbing stuff", and let grandma baby him to death and take 20 minutes to pull it out. Needless to say the tooth fairy is going broke around our house.
The last week of March was great. CJ and Jennilyn went to the Temple. Cory and I had the honor of going with them to buy their new "jammies". What a bonding experience. They were the first people to receive their endowments in the Draper Temple. Then, just four days later, they were sealed. Cory was CJ's escort. They were asked 3 times in the temple if they were twins. How awesome for Cory. That makes him like 7 years younger. It was fun to be there with them. We are so proud of the things they have accomplished already in their marriage and we are so thankful to have them as our little brother and sister.
On the 29th, we had a bridal shower for my cute little cousin Amber in Price. Okay, she's 25, but I can't help but think of her as the little 6 year old who use to follow me around. I love her. She is an amazing girl. We are so excited for her. She is going to be a beautiful bride and we can't wait to welcome Kirk into the "cousin club".
Along with all of this, Baseball started. We have been having five practices a week, 3 for Brock and 2 for Parker. Cory is the Coach of Parker's team and the Assistant for Brock's. He is such a good dad. He's not playing softball this year. Even after the release from his doctor after his surgery. He said that he thinks this is the time for the kids. "it's their turn". I am so thankful to Cory for this. I am thankful for is selflessness. I hope our kids always realize how lucky they are to have him. I try to remind them everyday how amazing their dad is. Games start this week, and we have a big Moab trip planned for next week. I love this time of year.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Holy Cow! Six, Really??

Yikes! Parker turned six. Where has the time gone. Parker is a little boy after my own heart. He started asking "how many more days?" at 48. Yep, like mother like son. I LOVE it. He is so great. He loves his birthday, everything about it. He had really fun day. He woke up about 6:00 am because he was "too excited to sleep". He had french toast for breakfast. Then, at school he got kinderbear. This is a huge deal, because Parker loves kinderbear. His cute teacher knows how much he loves him and I think she may have had something to do with "randomly" drawing his name. It made his day all that much better though. Grandma Jen picked him up after school and took him to Build-a-bear. He got a dog named Coal. Grandma took him to lunch and brought him home. Parker got to go to Karate on his birthday. His teacher had all the kids sing to him and then played a game where the teacher got to hit him 6 times with the blocking thing and Parker stood there the whole time without flinching, so, he got 100 tickets. Lucky boy. As soon as we got home from karate, the party began. Parker had 16 friends and cousins come to his party. They played outside for a while, then we played games and opened presents and had cake. (as per Parker's request, half chocolate, half vanilla cake). Parker is lucky to have such fun friends. Then we went to Wingers for dinner. Grandmas and Grandpas and Aunts and Uncles and Cousins were all there. We are so glad to have everybody so close to spend special days with. We came back to our house and Parker opened more presents and once again was spoiled rotten.
I have said this before and I will say it again. I know we make a huge deal out of birthdays, but its not going to stop. If Parker thinks that March 3rd was put on the calendar just for him, GREAT! We love him so much and I can't wait to spend his next 60 birthdays with him. Happy Birthday "T"!