New House

We're finally moved in to our new house! We love it! A special thanks to our families for helping us remodel and move into our house. I've decided that it really is amazing what a new coat of paint, new trims, and new carpet can do for a house. I promised some before and after pictures...here they are!

The Bathroom

BEFORE

AFTER
The Living Room

BEFORE

AFTER

The Kitchen

BEFORE

AFTER

The Dining Room

BEFORE

AFTER

It's always nice to see all the work you have done come together. It really feels like a new house and we are loving it!

Parker as of Late...

Parker is getting SO BIG! I can't believe that time can go so fast! It's unbelieveable that so many new things can be achieved in so short a time. I wish that I could learn things as fast as Parker learns them. The learning curve sure slows down as I get older. However, I think that Parker is just as cute as ever! Here are some of my favorite pictures lately...

On Easter in his new church suit...

He wasn't sure what to think of the grass...actually he didn't like it at all.

He got really tired one day when I was painting, and so he just fell right asleep in his bouncer...he is such a good boy!

He likes to help...kind of.

He also loves dandelions.

Now he is pretty much fearless when it comes to try and walk...he hasn't gotten it all the way down yet, but he's getting closer all the time!

He is pretty much what our lives center around. He makes us so happy!

Getting so BIG!

We have been having so much fun with Parker lately! (Not that we didn't always have fun with him...) He started army crawling a couple of weeks ago and he is curious about everything. (While I was typing this he got in the garbage can...Parker as he's putting a wrapper in his mouth: "Look what I found Mom!" Me:"NO! That's gross. Get out of there." as I move him to another part of the room...now he's crawling back for it.) I guess that is what happens when they start to become mobile...


BUT for the most part it is so fun to see him learning new things and growing up so fast! I also took him to get his vaccines the other day and I let him have a sucker after he got his shot. I was so surprised at how well he did at putting it in his mouth. He would take a lick, take it back out, decide he liked it, and then put it back in his mouth. It was really cute. I didn't let him have all of it, but he enjoyed the part he did get!


As for other things happening here, we are coming along on our house...we hope to have the kitchen all finished by the beginning of February. (Let's keep our fingers crossed!) I'll post pictures as soon as it is all done.

I'm also thinking about starting a preschool next year in our home...we'll see if all the details come together and work out, but it should be really fun. I'm a little nervous about how it will all pan out, so wish me luck!

Holidays

We had a great Christmas and New Years. Unfortunately I'm not very good at taking pictures when there are a lot of people around...but I did get a few of Parker opening his presents at our house on Christmas. He really loved the wrapping paper, but he did seem somewhat interested in a few of his gifts...

Mostly, we just had a great time with both of our families over the holidays!

Recent Happenings

We had a great Thanksgiving. We had an early Thanksgiving with Curtis' family and then spent Thanksgiving day with my family. We feel really blessed to have such great families.

One Monday night before Thanksgiving it was Curtis' turn to give the lesson for Family Home Evening. So he suggested that we just try to list all of our blessings. I'm sure we didn't even get half of them listed, but we sat there for a good 20-30 minutes listing blessings that we had received. I guess it just made me EXTRA grateful for all that I have been given in my life. It was also a lesson that I will probably never forget. Now with Christmastime here, I am truly grateful for the gift that Jesus Christ gave all of us--that precious and priceless gift of the atonement.

I LOVE Christmastime. Mainly just because it is an extra time to celebrate the birth of the Savior and reflect on all the things that he did for us. However, I also love all the decorations and things--even though I'm not that great at decorating. (A couple neighbors, Alex and Cooper, helped us decorate our tree this year...thanks guys!)

So before Thanksgiving my Mom wanted to get pictures of her 3 grandchildren taken together. Here are a few that were taken. JC Penny did them, and I think they turned out so cute!

Also I bought Parker some church clothes for Christmas (12 months) thinking that they would fit about right in time for Christmas...and then I started to realize that they were probably just right for now. He is getting so big! I thought this picture was SO good.

Finally, Parker is getting to have such a cute little giggle...I hope this video works because to me it is priceless!



Isn't that what life is all about?